Schedule overview for 2008-07-10

Matt has worked on physical radios with plug-ins that share what you're listening to, and USB puppets that represent your IM friends. In 'App after app,' Matt applies the design ideas that led to these prototypes, some basic psychology and - with a little crude trend-watching - looks for hints about the future of desktop software and the user experience, and what that means to creators.

Join shape, colour, balance and the gang in an entertaining adventure through GNOME's visual composition. Witness our new-found friends playing in all sorts of friendly or unsual places. Can you help them find their favorite spot? Visit this talk and see!

Wanted: modern, animated user-interfaces that are fun to use and pleasing to look at. Limitations: gtk toolkit design, maintaining backwards-compatibility. Solution: Moonlight.

Kris will do his annual GUADEC GTK+ State of the Union talk.

One of the major ideas behind the GNOME Online Desktop is that the traditional desktop can be enhanced with specific server-side components. Learn about the background, goals, and APIs available to interact with the Online Desktop server hosted at online.gnome.org.

The GNOME Online Desktop Data Model provides a flexible way for applications to retrieve data from online services. Learn why the desktop data model is ideally suited to the needs of an internet-connected desktop and how to use it from your applications.

Find out how GNOME is becoming a leading player in web desktop integration as the platform gains powerful new web content capabilities with WebKit. This talk explores some of the current technologies and future directions for GTK+, GNOME and the web.

The Telepathy real-time communications framework (http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/) is a rapidly developing project to integrate messaging, presence, voice, video and collaborative functionality into your favourite device or desktop environment. This talk will focus on how to use Telepathy to make collaborative applications which can talk to each other between users' desktops.

A walkthrough of how to seamlessly integrate instant messaging and VoIP features into GNOME desktop applications in a few lines of Python code using the Telepathy framework, and some points on why this might be a good idea in the first place.

Farsight 2 is a collection is GStreamer elements to build VoIP enabled applications. It handles all of the streaming side, which leaving the application free to do the signalling. It implements advanced features such as dynamic codec negotiation, multi-party conferences, full lip synchronization.

The talk will focus on the next generation of Ekiga and present its features in terms of VoIP, and IP Telephony features. A sexy demonstration will be organised and show the full power of Ekiga with software like Asterisk.

Conduit is a Synchronization application for the GNOME desktop. This talk will describe the current capabilities of Conduit, focusing on its support for mobile devices (such as cellular phones), online web services (online photo galleries as an example), and GNOME desktop applications. A short introduction on using Conduit from your application will also be given.

This talk will introduce Wizbit, a GVFS-based distributed revisioning file system for the masses.

‘Printing that just works.’ This is the vision of the openPrinting project. The printing dialog is an important part of that. This talk shows in this talk the complexities involved, why ‘printing does not exist,’ what is wrong with printing dialogs today and the innovation to overcome that. The latest designs and first implementation of the dialog for GNOME is shown.

Multimodal interfaces are a very popular area of research. Recent advances allow you to use speech and other methods in your everyday work increasing the productivity of the computer interaction. Free software also made a great progress in this domain last years. This talk will discuss speech-related desktop issues, demonstrate use cases for natural and very promising interaction method.