Second day at GUADEC
Par Stéphane le jeudi 29 juillet 2010, 18:42 - GNOME - Lien permanent
Some more awesomeness, live from GUADEC! Today was the second day of the main track, and we have some more cool news about the future of GNOME!
I started my day by the "Cairo <3 GStreamer = awesome video" presented by Benjamin Otte, which basically explained us that video under Linux could benefit of great improvements, but because of the lack of trust between the communities that the patches are affecting (GStreamer, Cairo, Mesa, browsers), they're still not merged, and poor Benjamin is spending more time talking to one or another community to agree on code and push them upstream. He insisted about the importance of a "bridge" between developer communities so that patches can flow both ways.
Then came the Summer of Code students lightning talks, which I was part of! It went very well for all of us, we've showed off our cool projects, and everybody looked please with them. Make sure to check them at : http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010/Projects. Above is the awesome Alex Launi teaching us how to be even cooler with Banshee, and below is me pretending I prepared something for my talk (did my slides at 4am, after winning the GUADEC dance contest, yay, ahaha).
Right after jumped into the "Furture is Javascript" by John Palmieri, who demonstrated, again, how Javascript combined with GObject-introspection allow any developer to run the app on both the desktop and a web browser. Showed us the web interface of the Palm OS development center, which is close to an online WYSIWYG IDE : you just drag buttons around, click a lot, and there you go, a web app (very few memories of the talk, sorry).
Got lunch with the nice crew of Yorba, had a very nice time with them and a free computer history class. Went back in for the "GNOME 3 and your application" talk by Colin Walters et Dan Winship, who described the new concepts introduced with GNOME 3, such as the Application Menu of the Shell, the GtkApplication API, the cleaner system tray, which will contains _only_ system icons, the message tray, and a few changes to edit in the .desktop files of applications.
Heading into the Seville room, I listened to the talk "GNOME, linux mobile stacks, and you!" by Andrew Savory, who pointed out the importance of Linux in the mobile market, and how there's an increasing number of companies involved in handheld software development. Reminded us of the alliance between LiMo (The Linux Mobile foundation) and GNOME, and insisted on the fact that we need to enable more developers to dive into GNOME development, and allow faster deployment, demonstrating Canonical's Quickly framework along, which turned out to be pretty effective. He ended with a fair comparison of the GNOME vs KDE toolkit from a newbie developer point of view, typing into Google "GNOME sdk" and "GNOME developer" then doing the same with Qt. Definitive win for the KDE camp. Let's unify our developer doc very soon.
Finished with the GNOME Foundation talk, I didn't attented all of it, and it would be too long to recap everything, in one sentence :
We're doing great.
Commentaires
Hi,
When it comes to helping different projects, I meant to setup a site to do this a couple of years ago (and have registered the name convergenceproject.org for this).
It would probably be a wiki with pages like
/CairoClutter
Which would then have info like:
Contacts on each project
Advantages of linking them
How it might be done.
I think it would be really useful, in the medium term I'd like it to get good enough so that somebody else could run it :) ...the reason I didn't start was because I was too slack.
If it would be helpful I can put a wiki there on the weekend. It would be good to hammer out stuff like what info would be on the pages first; as a start I've got some emails knocking about from when I was thinking about this before, let me know if you think it would be useful and I can email any interested parties.