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The GNOME Conference After-Hours Workshops Development of software for enterprises with GNOME Several projects have been started in the last years with the common goal of providing the enterprises with free(dom) Thu 29 10:00 business management software built on top of GTK+ and 2. Sala d'Actes other libraries from the core of GNOME. There are different approaches for developing that kind of vertical, data- Topaz BOF oriented software, but all of them could share some kind of efforts, extending and adapting GNOME to the requirements they have. In this BoF, people involved or interested in the development of business software will meet and discuss how to share efforts and experiences and how to make GNOME better (also) for the enterprise. Juan José Sánchez Penas Juan was born in 1976 in A Corunha, Galiza (Spain). He graduated in software engineering at UDC (Universidade da Corunha) in 1999. As a co-founder and member of Igalia, a company started in 2001 and devoted to free software development and research, he coordinates and participates in different free software projects, including Fisterra, started in 2003, which provides a framework for developing business management software with GNOME technologies. Juan also teaches operating systems and programming technologies at UDC, and is just finishing his PhD with research in the area of formal verification of distributed software. Juan has been a GNOME user and member of the community since 2001. In 2005 he was responsible for organizing the II Guadec Hispana. During the last few years has given talks and published articles in several international conferences, some of them doing GNOME and free software advocacy. Gnome.org Website Revamp This session is designed to provide a forum where we can collectively discuss issues related to the upcoming Thu 29 10:00 gnome.org website revamp efforts. 4. Sala de Juntes John Hwang Topaz BOF June 24–30, 2006 • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 32 The GNOME Conference After-Hours Workshops Portland - The Linux Desktop untangled Application developers targeting the Linux Desktop are confronted with a wide range of different desktop Thu 29 11:00 configuration which makes it difficult to integrate their 1. Carpa applications with the desktop environment of their user's choice. The Portland project set out to create a common set Tangle Talk of high-level desktop integration APIs that application developers can depend on regardless of the environment that the user is running. Waldo Bastian Waldo Bastian is chairman of the OSDL DTL technical board. He works for Intel Corporation as a Linux Client Architect in the Channel Platform Solutions Group. Before joining Intel in 2005, he worked for SUSE/Novell where he led the Desktop team within SUSE Labs. As a long-time contributor to the KDE project, Waldo has been involved with desktop Linux for more than seven years. Currently, Waldo is involved in the OSDL/freedesktop.org Portland project, which is defining a set of high- level APIs that allow applications to integrate more easily with the Linux desktop. Waldo is also a member of the OASIS ?OpenDocument TC. Gtk# and Mono Q&A Session This session will provide a Q&A session on Gtk# and Mono, as well as a place for Mono and Gtk# developers to meet Thu 29 12:00 and discuss their applications, challenges, and needs, and 2. Sala d'Actes to share recipes of what has been successful in their Mono and Gtk# hacking. Catwalk BOF Miguel de Icaza Miguel de Icaza is a free software programmer from Mexico, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. In 1999, Miguel co-founded Helix Code, a GNOME-oriented free software company with Nat Friedman, and employed a large number of other GNOME hackers. In 2001, Helix Code, now renamed to Ximian, announced the Mono project, a project led by de Icaza, to implement Microsoft's new .NET development platform on Linux and Unix-like platforms. In August 2003, Ximian was acquired by Novell. Miguel has received the Free Software Foundation 1999 Free Software Award and the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999, and he was named one of Time Magazine's 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000. June 24–30, 2006 • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 32 The GNOME Conference After-Hours Workshops Continuous integration for GNOME Having a continuous integration environment for all the GNOME modules would be very interesting for the Thu 29 12:00 developers and advanced users. In the project mailing lists 4. Sala de Juntes there have recently been some discussions about how to set up that kind of server. Some people have shown interest Topaz BOF and even volunteered for helping with the job. In this BOF, all the people interested will meet to discuss the best approach to take, which tools to use, and how a stable work group could be created to maintain the infrastructure. Juan José Sánchez Penas Power Management Several projects have been started in the last years with the common goal of providing the enterprises with free(dom) Thu 29 15:00 business management software built on top of GTK+ and 2. Sala d'Actes other libraries from the core of GNOME. There are different approaches for developing that kind of vertical, data- Tangle Talk oriented software, but all of them coul... Patrick Mochel June 24–30, 2006 • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 32 The GNOME Conference After-Hours Workshops Sofia-SIP in Telepathy IM/VoIP Framework This talk covers design, development, and the current status of the Telepathy-SIP component, which adds SIP/SIMPLE protocol Thu 29 15:00 support to the Telepathy IM/VoIP framework. Telepathy-SIP is built on top of the Sofia-SIP library, and has been developed in 4. Sala de Juntes cooperation with Telepathy and Sofia-SIP teams. The Catwalk Talk presentation will also provide a quick introduction to Sofia-SIP, and the steps taken to make the library more GNOME friendly. Kai Vehmanen Kai Vehmanen works as a research engineer at the Networking Technologies laboratory at the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki, Finland. His current main focus is the open-source Sofia-SIP project and SIP in the Telepathy framework. Outside work at Nokia, Kai has been an active member of the Linux audio development community, and especially the Ecasound and JACK projects. Integrated VoIP and IM for Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and Maemo This session will present open source development and a demonstration on the Nokia internet tablet of VoIP and IM Thu 29 16:00 applications for the 770 follow-up SW edition. This will provide a concrete example of how open source and corporate 4. Sala de Juntes associations can lead up to quality open SW development for Topaz Talk product and third party development. Yannick Pellet Yannick Pellet is currently heading Application Development inside Nokia’s OSSO (Open source Software Operations). His team developed the complete application set for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, and maemo. Early on in his career, Yannick participated in the first experimental development of a low- bitrate video telephony protocol on embedded mobile terminals. In 2002, Yannick was part of a team of specialists inside Nokia whose aim was to analyze the usage of open source and Linux on embedded devices in a corporate environment; he has been involved in open source activities around embedded Multimedia and GStreamer such as the DSPGateway. Recently, Yannick has been concentrating on growing the OSSO open source activity in application development and working on the new editions of the 770 and maemo, particularly promoting the development around VoIP and IM and the Telepathy real-time communication framework. Yannick holds a MSc in Aeronautic and Electronic engineering from the Ecole Nationale de L’ Aviation Civile, in France. June 24–30, 2006 • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 32 The GNOME Conference After-Hours Workshops OLPC ($100 Laptop) BoF OLPC plans to ship 5-10 million Linux laptops for children's education (primarily into the developing world) during 2007. Thu 29 17:00 With lots of luck, maybe as many as 100 million systems in 2. Sala d'Actes 2008. Come talk about what's going on, how you can get involved Tangle BOF and help us succeed, and all that.... Jim Gettys Moving the Maemo Handheld Desktop closer to GNOME (Maemo/GNOME alignment BOF) We will discuss what could be changed in the Maemo HandHeld Desktop to steer it closer to the GNOME Desktop Thu 29 17:00 while preserving good usability in handhelds, as well as 4. Sala de Juntes what could be done in the GNOME Desktop to make that easier. BOF Carlos Guerreiro Carlos Guerreiro leads a software R&D team at Nokia Multimedia responsible for the GNOME-based Hildon Application Framework used by both Maemo and in turn the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal. Before relocating to Helsinki to join Nokia in 2001, he worked as a freelance developer in Portugal on various computer graphics and GIS software projects. His current interests are in the use and development of Linux and free software in handheld devices. He is also keen on using GUADEC as an opportunity to make up for lost time by getting stuffed on Spanish delicacies. June 24–30, 2006 • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 32 The GNOME Conference After-Hours Workshops GNOME and the Distros: the Ubuntu Experience Sebastien Bacher and Daniel Holbach will present their relationship to the GNOME project from an Ubuntu point of Thu 29 18:00 view. One part of the talk features efforts of the testing 1. Carpa community, the workflow of bug communication and decisions in the release process.