Schedule overview for 2008-07-12

We've just released version 1.0 of Banshee, a music and video management app for GNOME. With fast importing, powerful searching, smart playlists, podcast support (including video and streaming), a play queue, last.fm radio streaming, and device support, Banshee balances a powerful, integrated media management feature set with an elegant interface.

Autotools for Dummies - GNOME uses the autotools (autoconf, automake and libtool) for years, yet many people are complaining, that it's too complex to use. This talk will show the opposite.

Linux is increasingly being used in portable devices with unusual hardware features. This presentation describes how ACCESS has achieved a variety of "eye-candy" features, such as GTK widgets that float translucently over an actively playing video, by modifying the kernel, X11, and the GDK/GTK rendering stack to take advantage of the three-overlay architecture in current XScale CPUs.

This session pretends to be an overview on how can we make Gtk+ a more appealing toolkit and platform for developers. Support on non X11 platforms, documentation and the role of bindings are some of the topics covered by the presentation.

I'm going to discuss on, what were the focuses of Evolution in GNOME 2.20/2.22 and what is it we are focusing for GNOME 2.22. Im gonna discuss about some of the goal the team had and some initiatives that we had during the development cycle.

GVariant is a new datatype in glib that stores complex values of many types (any type that can traditionally be sent over D-Bus). GVariant is allowing development of many exciting projects (present and future) including GSettings, the GConf replacement. This talk will give a highlevel introduction to GVariant, talk about which projects are using it, and talk about what remains to be done.

This presentation aims to deliver a in-depth insight into the design and implementation of the new Input/Output infrastructure in GNOME 2.22. GIO is part of glib and consists of a general purpose streaming API and the virtual filesystem layer (vfs). The standalone GVfs module provides the backends for the virtual filesystem, i.e. the implementation of not only but foremost remote file access.

Novell is carrying a new project related to accessibility (technology needed to open or improve the use of software for people with disablities, or just improve the usability experience). This session will present what's going on there...

The Easy Publish and Consume library can be used as key/value store published to the network, using encryption, authentication and service discovery. This lightning talk demonstrates its use in Glom and Totem.

APOC is an infrastructure for central storage of desktop settings. It has recently been released as a freedesktop.org project. We describe the steps necessary to bring APOC to another GNOME platform (Ubuntu) and demonstrate its capabilities to manage desktop settings.

To be confirmed

The idea behind this proposal is to improve the Desktop integration in a computer network. HTTP is the most popular Internet protocol nowadays, so it is specially interesting to provide the best possible Web support in GNOME. Cherokee is a really fast, light and embeddable web framework that could help GNOME to integrate with Web 2.0 resources and to export information from its applications.

Foundation board meeting