Session Proposals for Boston Summit 2007

Suggest your own Boston Summit 2007 session, or nominate someone else!

I will run a session about...

• FreeOpenServicesDefinition (LuisVilla4, assuming I can make it)

• Least privilege and multi user in GNOME and how to do this with PolicyKit and ConsoleKit (DavidZeuthen)

• liblicense - Integration of Creative Commons and other license metadata into apps on the Free Desktop (AsheeshLaroia)

• OnlineDesktop (ColinWalters)

• Hotwire (ColinWalters)

• Making JHBuild more useful (OwenTaylor)

• The new intl-clock (DavidZeuthen, MatthiasClasen, BryanClark) { see mockups, patches, and discussion }

• UnderTheHood - Know How exchange of performance analysis, tools and tips. (StefanKost)

  • What makes my binaries so big? Getting nice stats from objdump/nm and co.
  • Seeing memory allocation pattern. Developing a visualization tool for memory allocations.

• Telepathy on the GNOME desktop (RobertMcQueen)

• Power Management on Desktop and Mobile: Is OHM useful on the desktop? (RobTaylor)

  • OHM site

• Tomboy Hackfest (BoydTimothy)

  • Addins - Mono.Addins, create a new adding for drawing support (JeffTickle has something started for this)

  • Tagging support - re-enable the commented-out UI code and hack it up to be sweet!
  • Tasks brainstorm

  • GtkTextView/GtkTextBuffer hacking

    • Get an API for adding a GtkWidget directly from GtkTextBuffer

    • BoydTimothy and JeffTickle got this far.

• PulseAudio and GNOME (LennartPoettering)

I'd love to join a session about...

• (Your session proposal here!)

• Getting involved with GNOME / GNOME Love (for all the folks who come because they're local and curious). (TomHinkle)

• Optimising HAL and udev (RobTaylor)

• Finding a way to make gnome-screensaver (or perhaps some individual screensavers) pay attention to the current playing music... I'm thinking visualizations here (JeffTickle)