Schedule overview for 2008-07-11

Since last year, we have completed a rewrite of the GNOME Display Manager (GDM). We will discuss some aspects of the new design and demonstrate how they facilitate a better user experience. We will also discuss some plans for how to further enhance the multi-user desktop.

To be confirmed

The presentation will give a complete overview of PackageKit along with background material.

Lightning talks are short 5-min presentations...

The GTK+ library has been updated so that it supports writing in even more scripts out-of-the-box. Such scripts include all precomposed Latin letters with combining marks (accents), Greek Polytonic (Ancient Greek), special symbols and many more. We describe what's new and how to actually use it.

During Google Summer of Code 2007 I've implemented extended layout management capabilities for GTK+. This lightning talk will present the current state of this work.

The Gnome Buildbot is a continuous integration service providing build status information for Gnome modules. It has been working for around a year now at the disposal of any Gnome developer. In this talk I will show how developers can use it to track project builds and tests on several OSs/archs as well as how it could be used to build other software stacks, like Gnome Mobile.

This lightning talk will have a brief look into the possibilities of using a DVCS like mercurial integrated in Nautilus. I will show how developers can manage their source code repositories and visualize their information using Nautilus and how to extend it.

Exempi, XMP metadata handling.

libopenraw, a library to deal with Digital Camera RAW files.

The GNOME Foundation is running an accessibility outreach program, offering US$50,000 to be split among individuals. This program will promote software accessibility awareness among the GNOME and broader Free Software communities, as well as harden and improve the overall quality of the GNOME accessibility offering.

Descrition of features effecting gnome usability based on several surveys.

Banshee has wowed people with some great new features over the last months; We will demo one or more features that you haven't seen but is sure to excite you!

Along with Podcasting, the increase of the bandwidth on domestic internet lines and the appearance of projects like giss.tv has made video and audio streaming a possibility open to almost everybody. This talk covers the basics of multimedia streaming using a console, and will explain what are requisites of a continuity program used to manage an Internet bassed TV or radio station.

To be confirmed

Mango Lassi Input Sharing allows users to share mice, keyboards, and the clipboard transparently and automatically on the network. As a reimplementation of software like Synergy and X2X it tries to "do things right" by using all the newest, fanciest GNOME and freedesktop.org technologies.

PPM, OHM, Shackleton/MarcoPolo, GSmartMix and dozen of rule based daemon exist to make your devices smart, and to assist you at any time: - pause your media player when you receive a call - change the screen brightness under some condition - prevent certain task running when out of battery - set your presence status in IM/micro-blog - mute your device - ...

Are you a developer trying to create a useful application and moreover you want it looks great? Now it is possible and you have not got to worry to deal with complex routines to add characteristics like transparency, canvas support, easy layout, easy to write and maintain. All this and more is what the gdesklets project is for and I am going to show you how to do it and how you can help too.

gtranslator has been for a long time the standard translation tool for GNOME. After some years with a slowdown in its development, as new maintainers we are heavily working in recovering it as a modern translation tool for GNOME. In this talk, we will explain and demo the work we have done, the tasks in progress, and the future plans, and will discuss the roadmap with the community.

In this lightning talk I'll present the next generation digital photography software for Gnome.

This is a lightning talk about the development of Vagalume, its features and some ideas for the future. Vagalume is a lightweight Last.fm client. It is based on Gnome and works in any standard PC, but it's specially designed for the Maemo platform, the one used by the Nokia 770/N800/N810 Internet Tablets. Vagalume was finalist in the 2008 edition of the Mobile Rules! competition.

Presenting tidy, a library provides higher level widgets and GUI building blocks on top of the clutter basics.

Various Ideas regarding user interface changes for the Desktop on the way to GNOME3. The main focus is on intelligent behaviour and act more lifelike.

A brief introduction to the current state and possibilities of PaperBox, a Tracker-based document browser, and its' usefulness on the desktop.

The GNOME Foundation Annual General Meeting where membership and the board meet.

We have been talking forever about document-centric interfaces and "what should be next" for GNOME. Here is some code to make it happen.

GUADEC'09 host announcement, Thank You Pants Award ceremony, and closing of core days

What is Flash? Is it useful? Should Gnome support it? How Free and open is Flash? What is Swfdec? How well does it work? Where is it going? Answering these questions and other related ones is the goal of this talk.

Frysk is an object-oriented event-driven model of an operation system, and set of tools targetted at enabling users to debug large scale multi-threaded applications. This talk will discuss the Frysk model and tools.

How much memory does a GNOME desktop really consume? How many CPU cycles? How much I/O bandwidth? How many happy GNOME users can I deploy on my hardware? Which applications consume which resources? Is there anything we can do to shrink the GNOME footprint? This talk looks at these questions especially as they relate to large multiuser thin client GNOME deployments.

SystemTap is a tool for gathering and investigating system-wide information about a running Linux system. SystemTap eliminates the tedious instrument, compile, reinstall, reboot sequence involved in data collection.

We will present the Dynamic Tracing Framework for Mozilla that has been added to Firefox 3.0 beta to help identify performance issues across the heterogenous client side stacks of todays Web 2.0 applications.

Evolution MAPI provider for Exchange connectivity. A foray into the proposed support for Exchange 2007 and beyond. And what the new provider, using Openchange's libmapi, offers over the present WebDAV based Evolution Exchange connector.

A fun look at the state of Bluetooth integration for our favourite desktop. Fun demos of things you didn't know were possible included! The Daily Mail calls it "goofy and painfully immature".

I will share my experience being a new GNOME developer, how easy is to contribute to GNOME.

Sound effects are an important part of the interactivity of modern desktops. Unfortunately in GNOME event sounds have been neglected for too long. The set of defined sound events is minimal, theming is not supported, integration into applications is lacking. In this talk I will introduce libcanberra, an event sound library that will provide the infrastructure for a better sound experience.

UPnP is slowly becoming a part of everyday life, especially when it comes to home entertainment systems. GUPnP is an implementation of UPnP that intends to be simple yet powerful and is specifically targeted for GNOME and embedded environments like Nokia internet tablets.