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Release 0-5-20091121

Student Name:	Kalpana Roy
Mentor Name:	Luis Rodriguez
Title:	Integrate Geoclue with Gnome-desktop and to help with regulatory compliance
Abstract:	The current project aims to incorporate the location-awareness in the Gnome-desktop and utilise the same to automatically update the linux kernel to set the country for the current regulatory domain. It will comprise of 2 parts: 1.Integrating Clock & weather applet, Tracker, Evolution, Empathy and Gwibber with automatic location sensitivity. 2.Extending Network Manager to seed to wpa_supplicant, the country which should be set for the regulatory implementation, which in turn passes it to the kernel.