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Behdad Esfahbod
Red Hat
Behdad is an Iranian who grew up loving programming and typography. In high-school he was introduced to data-structures and algorithms and after a couple years of studying these concepts, he ended up pursuing a Computer Engineering BSc program at Sharif University, Tehran. It was around this time when he found the true way of Unix, as well as Free Software, GNU, and GNOME projects.
Eight years later, he has finished his MSc in Computer Science at the University of Toronto and working in Red Hat’s Toronto office in Canada. He’s become an expert in bidirectional scripts (like Arabic) and the Unicode standard, and would like to see Pango eventually be used in a multilingual internationalized full-fledged print-quality desktop publishing system one day. He also dreams of a world that GNOME rocks on every desktop and laptop, and he doesn’t have to report bugs every other day…
Sessions
People have been talking about moving away from Subversion (svn) and into one of the fancy new distributed version control systems like Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, etc. Here we'll discuss how to accomplish this as painlessly as possible.
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Discussion session about what has been happening in Cairo recently, and what we plan to do in the coming year.
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We decided to go with expectnation.com for guadec.org this year but promised to look into Free Software options for next year. We should start thinking about it now.
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Discussion session about what I've been doing in Pango recently, and what we can do in the future.
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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.
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