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Development of software for enterprises with GNOME (by Juan José Sánchez Penas)
Language: English
Track: Topaz (future plans...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: BOF
Summary:
Several projects have been started in the last years with the common goal of providing the enterprises with free(dom) business management software built on top of GTK+ and other libraries from the core of GNOME. There are different approaches for developing that kind of vertical, data-oriented software, but all of them could share some kind of efforts, extending and adapting GNOME to the requirements they have. In this BoF, people involved or interested in the development of business software will meet and discuss how to share efforts and experiences and how to make GNOME better (also) for the enterprise.
Gnome.org Website Revamp (by John Hwang)
Language: English
Track: Topaz (future plans...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: BOF
Summary:
This session is designed to provide a forum where we can collectively discuss issues related to the upcoming gnome.org website revamp efforts.
Portland - The Linux Desktop untangled (by Waldo Bastian)
Language: English
Track: Tangle (complex issues...)
Point of view: Client
Type of session: Talk
Summary:
Application developers targeting the Linux Desktop are confronted with a wide range of different desktop configuration which makes it difficult to integrate their applications with the desktop environment of their user's choice. The Portland project set out to create a common set of high-level desktop integration APIs that application developers can depend on regardless of the environment that the user is running.
Gtk# and Mono Q&A Session (by Miguel de Icaza)
Language: English
Track: Catwalk (showcases...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: BOF
Summary:
This session will provide a Q&A session on Gtk# and Mono, as well as a place for Mono and Gtk# developers to meet and discuss their applications, challenges, and needs, and to share recipes of what has been successful in their Mono and Gtk# hacking.
Continuous integration for GNOME (by Juan José Sánchez Penas)
Language: English
Track: Topaz (future plans...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: BOF
Summary:
Having a continuous integration environment for all the GNOME modules would be very interesting for the developers and advanced users. In the project mailing lists there have recently been some discussions about how to set up that kind of server. Some people have shown interest and even volunteered for helping with the job. In this BOF, all the people interested will meet to discuss the best approach to take, which tools to use, and how a stable work group could be created to maintain the infrastructure.
The GUADEC Bug Day (by Vincent Untz)
Language: English
Track: Tangle (complex issues...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: Other (detailed below)
Summary:
We all love bug days. Let's do one at GUADEC. People will organize in small groups and triage bugs in a specific module. The goal is to close as many old bugs as possible, and organize remaining bugs so we have clearer roadmaps.
Power Management (by Patrick Mochel)
Language: English
Track: Tangle (complex issues...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: Talk
Summary:
Power Management is a feature that every user wants more of, but it's a tough problem, so it's hard to get right. However, there is a hope in the universe that we can get it right, so long as we get all of the pieces in the right place.
Sofia-SIP in Telepathy IM/VoIP Framework (by Kai Vehmanen)
Language: English
Track: Catwalk (showcases...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: Talk
Summary:
This talk covers design, development, and the current status of the Telepathy-SIP component, which adds SIP/SIMPLE protocol support to the Telepathy IM/VoIP framework. Telepathy-SIP is built on top of the Sofia-SIP library, and has been developed in cooperation with Telepathy and Sofia-SIP teams. The presentation will also provide a quick introduction to Sofia-SIP, and the steps taken to make the library more GNOME friendly.
Integrated VoIP and IM for Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and Maemo (by Yannick Pellet)
Language: English
Track: Topaz (future plans...)
Point of view: Client
Type of session: Talk
Summary:
This session will present open source development and a demonstration on the Nokia internet tablet of VoIP and IM applications for the 770 follow-up SW edition. This will provide a concrete example of how open source and corporate associations can lead up to quality open SW development for product and third party development.
OLPC ($100 Laptop) BoF (by Jim Gettys)
Language: English
Track: Tangle (complex issues...)
Type of session: BOF
Summary:
OLPC plans to ship 5-10 million Linux laptops for children's education (primarily into the developing world) during 2007. With lots of luck, maybe as many as 100 million systems in 2008.
Come talk about what's going on, how you can get involved and help us succeed, and all that....
Moving the Maemo Handheld Desktop closer to GNOME (Maemo/GNOME alignment BOF) (by Carlos Guerreiro)
Language: English
Point of view: Client
Type of session: BOF
Summary:
We will discuss what could be changed in the Maemo HandHeld Desktop to steer it closer to the GNOME Desktop while preserving good usability in handhelds, as well as what could be done in the GNOME Desktop to make that easier.
GNOME and the Distros: the Ubuntu Experience (by Sebastien Bacher and Daniel Holbach)
Language: English
Track: Catwalk (showcases...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: Talk
Summary:
Sebastien Bacher and Daniel Holbach will present their relationship to the GNOME project from an Ubuntu point of view. One part of the talk features efforts of the testing community, the workflow of bug communication and decisions in the release process. Apart from that, involvement in the distribution development is highlighted. The last part of the talk depicts plans at the horizon to make upstream development easier.
Beagle BOF/Hackfest (by Joe Shaw)
Language: English
Track: Topaz (future plans...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: BOF
Summary:
The purpose of this session is an informal get together for people interested in developing Beagle or integrating Beagle search in their applications. Joe will provide a quick tutorial of how to write a Beagle-enabled application and answer any questions about the project, code, or its direction.
Itching Your Local(ised) Scratch (by Danilo Segan and Behdad Esfahbod)
Language: English
Track: Topaz (future plans...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: Workshop
Summary:
This is an i18n-hackfest: hacking session dedicated to internationalization and localization issues we find interesting and want to showcase. It's directed at anyone wanting to see some hacking love in internationalization area.
The Emerging Handheld GNOME Ecosystem - and a Nokia Perspective (by Carlos Guerreiro)
Language: English
Track: Topaz (future plans...)
Point of view: Client
Type of session: Talk
Summary:
This session will discuss the emerging handheld GNOME ecosystem of developers, software projects, distributions, service and product companies, and ISVs. It will also provide a perspective from Nokia and our efforts with the Nokia 770 and Maemo.
Performance BOF (by Behdad Esfahbod)
Language: English
Track: Tangle (complex issues...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: BOF
Summary:
This BOF session will discuss remaining performance issues,how we want to address them, and how we want to approach fixing them when we get back home.
Python in Maemo (by Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri)
Language: English
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: Talk
Summary:
This session will present the status and future plans of Python in Maemo, as well as provide a demonstration. Maemo is a free software project for easy handheld development. Currently used by Nokia 770, it runs X and uses GTK, DBus, and other freedesktop standards. The demonstration will show how easy is to port and create PyGTK applications on Maemo.
Evolution User Interface (by Srinivasa Ragavan)
Language: English
Track: Catwalk (showcases...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: BOF
Summary:
Evolution provides integrated mail, address book, and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. This session showcases some of the recent developments in the Evolution UI and brings out the issues and challenges that are present in the User Interface.
Hackfest on PiTiVi, gst-python, GStreamer and GNonLin (by Edward Hervey)
Language: English
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: Workshop
Summary:
This session is a hackfest aimed at those wishing to get hacking on the PiTiVi video editor, and also the technologies involved : gst-python, GNonLin, writing plugins in Python, ...
Reviewing Screen Resize (by Keith Packard)
Language: English
Track: Tangle (complex issues...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: Talk
Summary:
This session will discuss an update to the X Resize and Rotate and Xinerama extension for dynamic multi-monitor environments.
Usability Tests: What Should We Test Next? (by Anna Dirks)
Language: English
Track: Tangle (complex issues...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: BOF
Summary:
The betterdesktop.org website features data from some 200 usability tests which my team and I conducted over the past year and a half. As the GNOME desktop has continued to evolve, the need for new usability tests to be conducted and analyzed has evolved in tandem. It's time to get started on a new generation of tests to be featured on betterdesktop.
This BOF is designed to collect ideas about the tasks and themes that current GNOME community members want to base future UI tests on.
Designing Applications so That the UI Can Be Changed for Different Devices (by Erik Karlsson)
Language: English
Track: Topaz (future plans...)
Point of view: Client
Type of session: Talk
Summary:
GNOME applications will in the future be used on many different kinds of devices. These devices' screen sizes and widget sets can vary and therefore the UI of the applications have to be ported from one device to another. To make this easier and to guarantee a broad audience for the applications we would like to encourage developers to create UIs that are easy to port.
One solution for this is using a UI builder to design different UIs for different devices and then run them using an interface constructing library. We have prototyped this by using Gazpacho and libglade in the Maemo platform.
Updating the GTK+ Input Method Compose Sequences from Upstream (Xorg) (by Simos Xenitellis)
Language: English
Track: Tangle (complex issues...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: Workshop
Summary:
The GTK+ Input Method has an old database of compose sequences that came from XFree86. The current database in Xorg is much more extensive and there is a need for an update. See bug #321896.
Opening GNOME to New Contributors (by Elijah Newren)
Language: English
Track: Tangle (complex issues...)
Point of view: Developer
Type of session: Debate
Summary:
The goal of this debate is to try to face one of our big problems: the apparent difficulty for new people to join the GNOME projet. We'll talk about all the problems seen from outside, and about the ideas to solve this.
Dear sysadmins, what do you need? (by Federico Mena)
Language: English
Track: Tangle (complex issues...)
Point of view: Client
Type of session: BOF
Summary:
The goal of this BOF is to gather all the needs of people deploying GNOME. What's working for them? What's not working? How could we make their work easier?
The new admin suite is good news for sysadmins: Pessulus makes it easy to lock down a desktop, and Sabayon enables everyone to create and deploy user profiles.
How can we improve this? What are the lockdown needs? Are there other tools that are needed to administer a GNOME desktop?