GNOME 45 Hackfest & Release Party

Berlin, September 15-16-17

Primary contact: Tobias Bernard
Secondary contact: Sonny Piers

Description

An event to celebrate the release of GNOME 45 and work on various new and ongoing initiatives, including mobile, GNOME OS, local-first, Vala, developer experience...

The event will follow the unconference format. We make the agenda in the morning together. Anyone can propose a topic to work on and whoever is interested can join. It's also possible to ask the room if someone with expertise can join for a topic. We try to organize the timetable so that nobody miss on anything they're interested about.

Topics can be anything “hack on XXX”, “talk about XXX”, “tea time”, …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

Agenda

GNOME OS (primarily Friday 15)

• Testing GNOME OS sysext https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/merge_requests/2220

• What's next for GNOME OS?

Local-first (primarily Saturday 16)

Discuss different technical approaches and UX challenges, and make a plan for first prototypes.

Special guest: Adam Wiggins from Muse will join us roughly 10:00 - 13:00 and tell us about the experience of shipping local-first sync in a production app

Hedgedoc for discussion notes

Relevant background:

• Local first paper (2019) https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first

• Local First in Muse by Adam Wiggins (June 2023) Talk on Youtube

• Bonsai by Christian Hergert

• Codename Emergence by Carlos Garnacho (GUADEC 2023) Talk on Youtube, Gitlab Issue

Other topics

Feel free to add more

• Vala: Work on and discuss new features for Vala 0.60
• Workbench future brainstorming, demo scene, interactive tutorial, core dev app?
• GNOME Developer experience (DX) related topics
• GTK on Android
• system wake up / clock
• pipewire/wireplumber race on the pinephone
• GNOME OS on Librem 5 and Oneplus 6

• GNOME Shell transparent panel

• GTK UI file linter (a11y issues but also https://github.com/sonnyp/Workbench/issues/218)

Timeline

Friday 15/09 - Meet at 9:30, make the schedule, then sessions/hacking until around 19:00

• DieBahn / EU open APIs?

• Portal dialogs as bottom sheets on mobile?
• Set an avatar (from the pre-installed set of avatars) for new users, to avoid needing a placeholder

Friday 15/09 (evening) - Dinner & social event

Saturday 16/09 - Meet at 9:30, make the schedule, then sessions/hacking until around 19:00

• Local first https://hedgedoc.gnome.org/lSJIxSSISHStGIfbjrDSdQ

• Transparent Panel: https://hedgedoc.gnome.org/2wu-F40QRxySXv6X3mTJog

Saturday 16/09 (evening) - Release party

Sunday 17/09 - Meet at 9:30, make the schedule, then sessions/hacking until late

Attendees

Venue

Cultivation Space

Ex Rotaprint, Gottschedstrasse 4, 13357 Berlin

Enter the courtyard through the gate, go all the way to the end of the yard, last door on the right in the back. The space is on the first floor.

Public transport:

• 10min walk from S Wedding (Ringbahn S41 and S42)
• 5min walk from U Nauener Platz (U9)

Accommodation and food

ExRotaprint Kantine https://goo.gl/maps/QgynY2RM7WuYDB1a9

DAR 4 (Falafel) https://goo.gl/maps/wGNhZEJJNVQbpt7X8

Code of Conduct

As for all GNOME-related events, the GNOME Events Code of Conduct and CodeOfConduct/PhotographyPolicy apply.

Any violations of either should be submitted to the event organizers (see above) or the GNOME Code of Conduct Committee

Reports

• https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/09/26/gnome-45-release-party-hackfest