1. GNOME Performance Hackfest

Cambridge, 14th-16th of May

Primary contact: Alberto Ruiz aruiz at redhat dot com Secondary contact: Peter Robinson pbrobinson at redhat dot com

1.1. Venue

The Bentley Room
The Pitt Building
Cambridge University
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1RP
United Kingdom

Map ©OpenStreetMap and contributors

1.2. Relevant GNOME team

GNOME Shell

1.3. Description

This is a hackfest that aims at getting together people interested in reducing resource usage (RAM, CPU, GPU, power) of a typical GNOME session. The initiative is jointly pushed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the GNOME Foundation as they have an interest in getting better.

1.3.1. Agenda, goals

Tentative agenda

Look for and implement strategies to reduce RAM usage of a typical GNOME session
Improve GNOME Shell's FPS/latency/overall footprint
Look at potential problems on slow I/O platforms

1.3.2. Sponsors

RaspberryPi Foundation is sponsoring the venue and attendance for Eric Anholt

1.4. Attendees

Name	Relevant contribution/aim	Affiliation (if any)	Arrives on	Departs on	Staying at
AlbertoRuiz	Memory footprint in the session	Red Hat	2018-05-14	2018-05-16
DanielStone	Graphics stack, display timing	Collabora	2018-05-14	2018-05-16
MarioSanchez	Memory consumption, animations, apps grid	Endless	2018-05-14	2018-05-16
HansdeGoede	Memory footprint in the session	Red Hat	2018-05-13	2018-05-16
JonasAdahl	GNOME graphics stack	Red Hat	2018-05-13	2018-05-16
MarcoTrevisan	Can run htop	Canonical	2018-05-13	2018-05-17
CarlosGarnacho	Ponies and rainbows	Red Hat	2018-05-13	2018-05-16	The Castle Cambridge
ChristianHergert	Sysprof, profiling, etc	Red Hat	2018-05-13	2018-05-19
MatthiasClasen	Toolkit	Red Hat	not sure yet	not sure yet
ChristianKellner	Memory, Ponies, Carlos in the Rainbow	Red Hat
EmmanueleBassi	Scapegoat for Clutter issues	Endless	-	-	-
PeterRobinson	Ponies and rainbows too, and Fedora, and IoT	Red Hat
RichardHughes	improve GNOME Software resource hunger	Red Hat
EricAnholt	DRM profiling, VC4	Broadcom

1.5. Costs

1.6. How to get there

The best way to get there from outside of the UK is to land at Stansted Airport and take a train or bus from the airport to Cambridge. Luton is second closest and the rest of the London Airports will probably mean you will have to commute from central London to Cambridge through King's Cross. Contact aruiz or pbrobinson if you need further details.

1.7. Accommodation and food

1.8. Reports

GNOME Performance Hackfest by Alberto Ruiz

Performance hackfest by Carlos Garnacho