GNOME.conf.au 2007

Who What Where When Why

GNOME.conf.au is a casual get together for GNOME lovers in Australia to meet with their favourite hackers and discuss all things GNOMEy.

It will be held at the University of New South Wales in co-operation with Australia's premier Free Software and Open Source developer's conference, linux.conf.au... It's going to be a blast! Note that you must be attending the full conference to be part of the GNOME.conf.au fun (not that you'd seriously consider missing the main event).

If you're in Australia (or New Zealand), and love GNOME, join gnome-au-list today!

For more information on other miniconfs at linux.conf.au 2007, see their Miniconfs page.

Programme

The programme this year is designed to allow people to easily attend multiple miniconfs, so time has been allocated to move between venues, hack, chat or whatever. The programme is subject to change without any notice depending on how we feel!

Day 1 - Monday 15th Jan

Day 2 - Tuesday 16th Jan

Talks

• JeffWaugh: Connecting the Dots

• PeteRyland: EGG, a very simple GNOME API for Python.

• NigelTao: superswitcher and other wnckery.

• AndrewCowie: A love-hate relationship: lessons learned while re-engineering the Java bindings for GTK and GNOME [will build on the presentation I gave at foss.in titled "Opening GTK to Java programmers: the past, present and future of the java-gnome bindings project" There's a full abstract there you care to read it]

• TrentLloyd / LennartPoeterring: Using Avahi the "Right Way" for service discovery in your applications

• JamesAndrewartha: The new WeatherApplet (warning: smell of an oily rag-ware)

• AndyFitzsimon : Its a fact, Gnome gets re-branded everywhere, (what can we do for a smart sexy gnome)

• JonoBacon: Jokosher: The GNOME approach to audio production

• DavidZeuthen: fast-user-switching, multi-seat and other hard problems

• JohnStowers: Synchronization and GNOME - How can all apps just get along?

• GNOME Love Session - help fix those annoying GNOME bugs (bring your laptop) with your favourite GNOME hackers on call to lend a hand (this will run for a couple of hours one of the afternoons, helpers wanted)

  • We're still looking for some small presentations (10-20 minutes), if there is anything you want to present, on anything GNOME, let us know!

Attendees

Tell Us You're Coming (try and keep it in alphabetical order, by first name):
Put your shirt size in brackets if you want a rocking gnome.conf.au T-shirt
Put a next to your name if you're able to help out with the GNOME Love session

• there are only a limited number of shirts left, and we've actually run out of mediums already, so it's first in, best dressed. We've got plenty of larges and extra-larges left though (plus, you can always try to swap sizes on the day).

• AdrianWoodley (M)

• AndrewCowie

• AndrewRuthven (XL, split between the GNOME and Debian miniconfs)

• AndyFitzsimon

• BernardBlackham (L, jumping in and out)

• CameronPatrick (probably flitting between GNOME and Debian miniconfs)

• ChrisScobell

• DanielPatton

• DavidZeuthen

• DavydMadeley

• EugeneTeo (XL, but attending Kernel miniconf on the second day)

• GlynnFoster (M)

• JamesAndrewartha (M)

• JamesHenstridge (XL)

• JamesLivingston (M)

• JeffWaugh (XL, but probably mostly in spirit, as I'll be busy with the main conference)

• PiaWaugh (F-S)

• PascalKlein (M-M)

• JohnStowers

• JonoBacon

• LeslieHawthorn (F-XL, another flitter) (sorry, we don't have any T-shirts in that size, you'll have to try a straight cut)

• ManishSingh (XL)

• MartinVisser (L)

• MiguelRuiz (M)

• NigelTao

• PeterHutterer

• PeteRyland

• StephenCook (M)

• StevenAshley (M)

• TedPercival (M)

• TimMayberry (L)

• TonyTsui

• TrentLloyd

• WadeMealing

• MichaelDavies (XL - won't be at conference, but JamesCormack will pay/pick up T-Shirt for me - I'll be watching my baby being born instead

• DafyddHarries (S - apologies, we haven't ordered any smalls)

• DanielStone (XL)

Previous Years

• Dunedin2006

• Canberra2005

• Adelaide2004