Schedule: Tangle 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. Read more.

Free-form discussion about http://maemo.org and the open source operations at Nokia: current status, collaboration with the GNOME project, ideas for improvement... You define the agenda. Read more.

Discussion session to further talk about how the foundation can perform better. Read more.

I'm gonna discuss about what is disk summary. What are the advantages of doing Camel Disk Summary. I did solution for this using sqlite and I was able to achieve low memory with Evolution/vFolders. Read more.

The GTK+ Printing efforts started 2.5 years ago have finally brought unified print dialog on GNOME as in GNOME 2.22.0. Printing tools are still rather sparse and each distro comes up with own solutions. This BOF proposes to solicit inputs from various distros in creating an integrated printing tools for Desktop users. Read more.

Discussion session about what has been happening in Cairo recently, and what we plan to do in the coming year. Read more.

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. Read more.

GNOME Mobile meeting Read more.

Discussion session about what I've been doing in Pango recently, and what we can do in the future. Read more.

Every development cycle, we have difficulties to work on the release notes of the new release. For GNOME 2.24, we'll try something new: we want some kind of release notes mini-hackfest, that would result in the start of the 2.24 release notes. Read more.

Annual GTK+ developers' meeting at GUADEC... Read more.

How can we improve the world? Well, maybe we can start with improving the translations! The GNOME translation teams are doing a good job at this, but their life could be made easier. How? Well, let's talk about this :-) Read more.

Everything you wanted to know to develop Gnome applications in C++ with Gtkmm, without being afraid to ask. Read more.

This is a BoF/workshop for people interesting in helping by triaging incoming bug reports in GNOME's bug tracking system. Everybody is welcome, from zero knowledge to old triaging veterans. Read more.

A brief introduction to distributed version control with Bazaar, followed by a tutorial on using Bazaar to work with GNOME modules. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

GEGL graph based image processing framework. Read more.

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! Read more.

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. Read more.

‘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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

Lightning talks are short 5-min presentations... Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

Descrition of features effecting gnome usability based on several surveys. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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... Read more.