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Karlsruhe is the perfect place to host GUADEC 2016.   \section{Concept and dates}  The traditional concept of two core days with keynotes and other presentation, followed by a two-day hackfest was proven to be a winning formula. We intend to keep those basics and add a little twist.   We plan to run a pre-event on the Friday, especially designed for students in computer sciences degrees from the various universities in Karlsruhe. The pre-event includes a general introduction to free and open source software and a more specific overview over the GNOME project and is followed by a few hands-on sessions.  As two of the members of the organizing team are teaching at DHBW, one of the universities, we will be able to seamlessly integrate some particular aspects of the GNOME projects with topics taught at university. Ideally, we would like to involve our GSoC students as much as possible, especially during the hands-on sessions, in order to lower the initial barriers by creating a stimulating environment where the students will feel that they are working with peers.   Furthermore, we plan to host the Sunday lecture session at ZKM, where the end of the day can then be spent discovering the incredible variety of art exhibitions and challenging each other at various games.  In summary, the event will be scheduled as follows:  Friday 05.08.2016:   • Pre-event for students  • Registration  • Social event at PKK   Saturday 06.08.2016:  • Core day I  • Social event at XXX followed by a discovery of Karlsruhe's night life  Sunday 07.08.2016:  • Core day II at ZKM  • AGM  • GSoC Student Talks  Monday 08.08.2016:  • Hackfest day I  • Visit of the Hoepfner Brewery   Tuesday 09.08.2016:  • Hackfest day II  • Picnic in the "Schlossgarten"   \section{Team}  \subsection{Local team}  The local core team is composed of three people.  Benjamin Berg from the GNOME community is joined by Markus Mohardt, from the Collabora community, and by Manuel Loesch from the FZI to ensure that the overall concept is put into place, that the technical content of the conference is appealing and challenging and that social events will contribute to create a unique experience.  \subsection{Support team}  The core team is supported by Tobias Mueller (Frankfurt), Steff Walters (Ettlingen) and Alexandre Frank (Strasbourg), as well as by Moira Schuler and Joykie Walters. Sponsoring, communication, finance, staff management and contribution to content will be ensured by the support team which is living in reachable distance from the actual venue.   \subsection{Local support}  Further support is provided by Benni Fury and Dominik Hufnagel who will ensure close connections to university students and PhD students at the SAP Research Institute or the FZI. The plan is to tap into the student pool for to reach for volunteers and participants to create a diversity of backgrounds during the conference.   \subsubsection{GNOME community}  XXXX  \subsubsection{Other groups and communities}  Three subsection of KALUG, the Linux User Group in Karlsruhe, will be contacted to ensure close collaboration and favor attendance of participants from other communities.   \subsubsection{ Government and industry}  Karlsruhe is not only a student city; it is also a hub for IT companies. Every year, events such as XXX and XYX are hosted in Karlsruhe, bringing together professionals from the area of ZZX, ZXY and ZZY. The committee is already working on fostering connections to these companies to ensure contributions and sponsoring. We believe that hosting GUADEC 2016 in Karlsruhe can contribute to anchoring GNOME sustainably in the wider network of a growing IT industry in Germany which has its central point in Baden-Würthemberg. We further commit to closely interact with the local government, administration and tourism board to ensure that as many entities as possible are aware of the unique opportunity that an event such as GUADEC is providing to members of the GNOME community, but also to the wider public.   \section{Venue}