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The GNOME.Asia Summit 2013 was held in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, from May 23 to May 24. Many people passionate about GNOME came to Seoul from China , Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, USA, Canada, France, UK, Germany, India, and elsewhere around the world.

The local team and the GNOME.Asia Summit committee spent more than 6 months preparing for the conference. Many thanks go to the Korean government's National IT Industry Promotional Agency (NIPA) who offered the use of their venue and assisted with organization.

Karen Sandler and Allan Day keynoted the conference. Karen talked about her pacemaker which runs proprietary software, and inspired us by reminding us of the need for Free Software in our everyday lives. Allan Day talked about the history and future of GNOME 3, and stressed the progress GNOME has made over the past year and the new features which are coming.

There were talks on a wide range of topics including GNOME technologies such as Rygel and GStreamer. There were also talks about input methods, as well as a session for translating GNOME. The audience awarded the best session with a prize generously sponsored by Lemote.