Boston Summit 2012

The GNOME Boston Summit 2012 will be held at MIT, Cambridge, MA on Columbus Day Weekend, 2012 (the 6th/7th/8th October), at the MIT Tang Center.

The Boston Summit is a three-day hackfest for GNOME developers and contributors. It is not primarily aimed at users or new contributors, but if you want to jump right into the deep end, it's a fantastic way to meet everyone and get involved. Unlike traditional conferences, the Boston Summit is all about getting developers together and getting things done. While there are some non-hacking sessions, they are geared heavily towards many-to-many, interactive discussion and planning, rather than one-to-many presentations.

This year we will also have a set of sessions to introduce people new to GNOME and GNOME contributing to GNOME 3, GNOME technologies, community, and contributing.

• Tell us you're coming to the Boston Summit

• RSVP to attend the Friday event for newcomers

• Sign up to help out with the newcomers events

• Help spread the word about the newcomers events

Venue

The summit will be in the MIT Tang Center, Building E51, in rooms E51-315, E51-325, E51-335, and E51-345.

Schedule

10AM on Saturday: we'll open the event, and assign time slots for talks and breakout sessions.

Saturday:

Sunday:

Monday:

See also /Newcomers for a pre-event on Friday night (note: different location).

The /BeerSummit is Sunday at 8pm.

Travel

See the generic ../Boston/LocalHotels page for local hotels, and ../Boston/PublicTransportation for getting around.

If you need assistance, the Travel Committee will be accepting sponsorship requests until August 22nd, 15:00 UTC.

Schedule

(Feel free to add proposals here!)

Hacking/developer track:

• ThreePointSeven/Features

• GnomeOS

• Projects/GObjectIntrospection

• /EnterpriseReady

• Notifications/Search/Privacy/Sharing settings
• GTK+ in the next cycle: actors, animations, etc

• GNOME Website & Marketing track

Newcomers track:

• Try out GNOME 3 and learn how to contribute

• Learn how to develop for GNOME in C (the GNOME University project)

• Fix your first bug

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