GUADEC Schedule

Here is the list of sessions which were proposed for GUADEC 2006, sorted into 6 categories:

1. Keynotes
2. Accepted core sessions

3. ../LightningTalks

4. Sessions which were proposed for the warm-up weekend (or which we decided werre better placed there)
5. Sessions which were proposed for after hours (or which we decided were better placed there)
6. Rejected core sessions (some of these will become BOFs or tutorials, we hope)

The official status of the schedule can be found at http://guadec.org/GUADEC2006/schedule

More information at Content selection process and First rough pre-schedule

Keynotes

Monday 26th

• Kathy Sierra (we need a web page)

• Linex + Guadalinex (Large scale gnome deployment at schools in Andalusia's speakers wil be one of this keynote speakers)

Tuesday 27th

• Catalan speaker to be defined - qgil is chasing.

• How much faster? - Slides

Wednesday 28th

• Challenges and Opportunities of the $100 Laptop

• Simon Phipps (we need a web page)

GUADEC Core: Monday June 26th, Tuesday June 27th, Wednesday June 28th

With category and day for which they were considered afterwards (this will need work to fit into the schedule):

Lightning talks

Lightning talks are a strange beast, and can be split out. There will be more of these closer to the time. The following belong to the lightning talks proposed, but an updated list can be found at ../LightningTalks

WarmUp Weekend: Saturday June 24th and Sunday June 25th

Locale/regional specific

• GNOME Bangalore

• GNOME Local Groups & GNOME

• GNOME Localisation in Greek

• I18n for everybody: Graphite, KMFL and smart fonts to extend GNOME

Introductory

• Automated software breaking and repair - culchie, LDTP and dogtail

• Creating a plugin system using GTypeModule

• Delivering technical presentations - A beginners guide

• Developing Desktop Applications with Mono

• Kiwi - GUI Programming in Python made easy

• Maemo desktop plugin tutorial

• Plugin Support in Mono: The Banshee Project

• Python in Maemo

• Recent Files and Bookmarks slides

• Safe C++ programming

GUADEC-ES (in Spanish) is organized by GNOME Hispano during these days. Talks submitted that belong to GUADEC-ES are:

• Cómo perder la virginidad (o cómo escribir y mandar tu primer parche) - Slides

• Educanix: a Linux live educational distribution in kiosks

• GTK/GNOME Programming tutorial for beginners

• How to get involved in GNOME

• Start your GNOME involvement by extending applications

• Yet Another Python and PyGTK tutorial

There are also Local Workshops in Catalan:

• GNOME localisation into Catalan

• Introduction to GNOME development with Mono

• Introduction to mono

Other languages:

• Gnome in Education (Português)

After Hours Workshops: Thursday June 29th and Friday June 30th

• Beagle BOF/hackfest

• Continuous integration for GNOME

• Dear sysadmins, what do you need?

• Evolution User Interface

• Gnome.org Website Revamp

• Gtk# and Mono Q&A session

• Itching your local(ised) scratch

• Marketing GNOME

• OLPC ($100 Laptop)

• Opening GNOME to new contributors

• Performance BOF

• Performance hackfest

• The GNOME Love Wall

• The GUADEC bug day

• Updating the GTK+ Input Method compose sequences from upstream (Xorg)

• Usability Tests: What should we test next?

Rejected core sessions

Contents suggested

These were the sessions suggested back in Winter 2005. They might be useful to doublecheck if we are missing something relevant.

We want ideas.

• One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC)

• C# - Mono - Java - Python... this debate or these debates.

• Showcase http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC2006_2fContents?action=edit (avoiding just propaganda) of the big Spanish GNOME-based projects: Linex, Guadalinex, Molinux, Max, Lliurex, SUSE Linux OSS in the Catalan schools + round table / debate of all the responsible on what do they need from GNOME and how could they contribute to GNOME

• GParts

• Website improvements: [GnomeWeb]

• MarketingPersonas

• Discussion with the main GNOME based distros to see how we can help each other better, and how could they help us in our marketing without harming their marketing, in a useful way for all of us.

• XFCE or other notable projects using Gtk

• A debate on going beyond just API documentation and spare tutorial

• Updating, or just removing outdated parts of the content of developer.gnome.org. Newbies go there to learn things that are sometimes *really* outdated. We need to find an easy way to improve documentation to start hacking on the GNOME Desktop and centralize it. Less wording and more informative content... A step by step guide on live.gnome.org, or changing developper.gnome.org into a wiki, to allow easy update of its content, an splitting all those messy and sometimes redundant tutorials...

• HumanInterfaceGuidelines (HIG) review and eventual split

• GNOME portability; it is currently too focused on Linux. Some modules fail badly under the BSDs, losing important functionality of the core desktop. It'd be nice if developers were told about common portability pitfalls and how to solve them.

• Meet the competition: inviting Microsoft, Mac and KDE developers to show their mid terms visions - in the context of GNOME's ProjectTopaz .

• Tablet PCs, Smart devices and input device such as tablets support. (There are 8 GTK programms supporting tablets and only 1 KDE/qt program)
  • Maemo platform for Nokia 770 and similar projects.

• GnomePerformance. Sum up what has been done and what's more could be done.

• The (possible) use of peer-to-peer technologies for collaborative goals
  • Plans for (and current) support of Zeroconf in GNOME desktop apps
• The "Web-aware" GNOME debate (started on the planet)
• Epiphany in the distros (a litle forgotten debate)
• New functionality in GTK+ and how to use it (instead of e.g. libgnome, libegg)

  • What is ProjectRidley and what new stuff will bring inside GTK+

• Cairo, what is so cool about it an future plans
• It would be nice to do some usability testing and "user interface love" hackfests for some applets, programs etc.

• RealMarketing (not sure about this, feel free to remove this item)

• Migrating all user files (preferences etc.) from a Windows or Mac systems to Gnome (similar to what OSX and Firefox have done). The average computer users will NOT switch to Gnome without a clear and easy migration path (or help from a geeky friend).

• Make GnomeOffice complete, polished, and bug-free. Just as Epiphany is like Firefox but simplified and gnomeified, Gnome Office could be like Open Office but simplified and gnomeified. Gnome Office will need significant attention from the community to squash bugs and improve/simplify UIs.

• OK. All techies know and use GNOME. And they think that it satifies all their needs. OK. Let's do applications for real people. For my mom, my dad, my sister or my girlfriend. What do we need to approach them?

• Workshops for newbies are always welcome. (see also LocalWorkshops)

• What happened to the "GNU Network Object Model Environment"? What was? What is? Do we have it? Do we need it? How this relates to Topaz and Web 2.0?

• Project Portland - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/PortlandIntegrationTasks

• Media on the desktop: What brings new GStreamer? Which apps are ported? What are pending issues for full desktop integration (GStreamer/esd)?

• Better support for enterprise deployment, things like the Sabayon project, better LDAP integration, etc.

• A keynote of Joel Spolsky could be very interesting indeed. Or have a short documentary of our community.

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