Schedule overview for 2008-07-09

Core days opening by GUADEC organizers

To be confirmed

Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast, visually rich and animated graphical user interfaces on top of OpenGL and OpenGL ES with a GObject based API.

Leisa will take us for a tour through the weird and wonderful world of user interface design, with its undecipherable acronyms, perpetually quarrelling experts and the difficulties of design.

As mobile and social aspects of computing have become more popular, the need for collecting, sharing and utilizing geoinformation has become more important. The presentation sheds light on what location awareness is all about. We will explain the design and motivation behind GeoClue and Gypsy and give some hands on examples of using them in applications.

GEGL graph based image processing framework.

Chris will talk about how Firefox and Mozilla are helping to define the future of the web and what we're doing to bring the world of rich media and complex application support to what was formerly only the domain of desktop applications. And at the same time doing it under a non-profit, open source organization with a product-based strategy and a strong consumer brand.

Soylent is a people browser (think: Nautilus for people) which pulls together email addresses, IM names, and more from various sources to give you one-click access to chat, email, voice and video chat with anyone in your address book. This talk will detail Soylent past, present, and future, as well as how you can get involved with this exciting project!

People is a personal contact management framework that aims at unifying the contacts management by exposing its interfaces to the various applications willing to access and manipulate contacts. In this talk we will discuss the contact management problem, and why it is interesting to solve it, before demonstrating the People Framework and its use in the GNOME desktop.

Documentation is one of the key areas in any software project. GNOME is always trying to improve it's documentation infrastructure and provide the best possible documentation. This talk will review what the GNOME Documentation Project has worked on in the previous 12 months, and look at what is to come in the year ahead.

"KDE vs GNOME" is the headline, with conflict being the underlying sentiment. Yet, behind the scenes, collaboration is quietly going on in a number of areas. In fact, inter-project collaboration is everywhere in the free software world, and many developers are not even aware of it. This presentation will outline some of the places where unlikely collaboration is happening.

GNOME is people. But for people to be productive they need tools, we already have a great collection of productivity tools for our users on the desktop. What we now need to consider is tools for our developers so that they can carry on improving, innovating and empowering. This talk will consider what we've got and where we want to go.

To be confirmed

Elisa Media Center is now going further by not only being an easy to use media center well integrated with the GNOME desktop but also a platform for writing multimedia services with beautiful and highly dynamic user interfaces.

A session to discuss rich internet applications and how these could be used to maximize the impact of free software development. We will discuss Moonlight, Flash, Adobe's efforts and how these help the Linux Desktop and which kind of applications we should be building. There will be a short presentation, followed by discussion by attendees.