Starting from December 28th 2010, Phnom Penh LUG will meet at the newly opened hackerspace. So no more Freebird, and full sped towards hacking and fiddling with interesting new projects!

On a side note, Thursday December 30th, the Phnom Penh hackerspace is having a movie night at 7pm sharp: "The Scoial Network". Great way to meet new people who share similar interests!

While the Phnom Penh LUG meets every week almost, we don't have much news to talk about. Even if most of our discussions happen off-line, we're happy to inform you that the GNOME Foundation is launching a T-shirt design competition to prepare for the launch of GNOME 3.0. If you have some imagination or great ideas, then it's probably the time to fire up Inkscape (or you preferred design application) and  give it a try. First prize entitles you for U$100 and 2 T-shirts of your own design, though we all know no one does it for the money!

On a side note, GNOME is also updating its Friends of GNOME program with new benefits, so even if you don't code you can always help to make GNOME better. The money collected is used for different causes such as providing travel subsidies to speakers at conferences and hackfests, which some of our Phnom Penh LUG members have benefited to get to GNOME.Asia last year, or outreach programs giving some marketing and coding tasks to students. Should you want to know more about the various GNOME Foundation efforts, the Foundation reports is a good start.