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... with the Meson build system on Linux, and ~15x faster on Windows. Last year, Jussi Pakkanen (the maintainer of Meson) gave a talk about improving the way GNOME apps are built by replacing Autotools with the Meson build system. This year, I'll be talking about how we at Centricular worked along exactly those lines and ported GStreamer, GLib, and its core dependencies from Autotools to Meson. Be...

GTK is an old tool kit; it turns 20 in 2017. While its history is a long, unbroken chain of progress, GTK is, at its heart, heavily based on how we used to do things in GUI tool kits two decades ago. Over the past 5 years, since the 3.0 release, the GTK team has been hard at work into bringing the tool kit internals kicking and screaming into the XXI century. This has inevitably caused some fricti...

While most of the developed world has decent internet access, this is not universally distributed. In much of the developing world, people have very incomplete and spotty access to the internet. At Endless, we are shipping GNOME into that environment. We've had a number of challenges in modifying the desktop to work within these constraints. The end result is a version of GNOME that is useful and...

The annual general meeting of the GNOME Foundation: Q&A with the board. about this event: https://c3voc.de

The annual general meeting of the GNOME Foundation: reports about this event: https://c3voc.de

An extension of gnome-continuous. A graph based application to be able to check the health of the GNOME Games built using Python and neo4j. -*- Check which gnome modules builds are failing/passing/timing out/missing from gnome-continuous builds -*- Find their dependencies -*- Run queries on a graph to find out what possibly broke a module; for example, find out which dependencies are used exclusiv...

Despite what tablet- and phone-loving pundits say, the laptop is here to stay. When a user wants to watch a movie on a train, they reach for the tablet first. But if they want to do actual, real work, they still prefer the laptop. Meanwhile, software freedom should always be for everyone, not just technical users and software developers. The GNOME project was one of the first in this history of Fr...

Flatpak (previously xdg-app) is a new system for desktop application bundling and deployment. It allows you to build an application once and then deploy on all Linux distributions, running in a sandboxed environment. This talk will give a status update on where Flatpak is as a project, and how GNOME is using it. Then it will talk about future plans, focusing on what is needed going forward to make...

GNOME Software is an project that started life as an application installer, and over time picked up features such as updating system firmware, distribution upgrades, installation of fonts, codecs, language packs, and handling RPM files and Flatpak bundles. With screenshots, long descriptions and now user-submitted ratings and reviews we're on parity with several other appstores like the Google pla...

Since last year, GNOME has sported a revamped newcomer experience for developers with the move from GNOME Love to Newcomers (https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers/). The talk is a joint talk by Bastian Ilso and Carlos Soriano explaining what's new and what lies in the future for GNOME's newcomers guide. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Major Linux distributions have a problem with WebKit security. Whereas major desktop browsers push automatic security updates directly to users on a regular basis so that users don’t have to worry about updates, Linux users are dependent on their distributions to release updates. Well over 100 vulnerabilities that could allow remote code execution were fixed in WebKit last year, so getting updates...

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Many new terms have entered the GTK vocabulary the last year, like gadgets, CSS nodes or box models. This talk will explain and showcase these new developments in GTK's rendering pipeline and attempt an outlook into the future. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Flow graphs are awesome. Like no other widget, they feel intuitive and are straightforward to use. In this talk, you will be taken on a short tour that shows you where to find flow graphs in common Free software. Then, we will look at libgtkflow, a library built upon the GNOME stack that makes it easy for you to use flow graphs in your own Gtk-based applications. After this we will discuss the fut...

Open source projects are always understaffed. In this talk methods to increase the public visibility of your project as well as gain, keeping and grow newcomers to maintainers will be presented. All methods are shown on the practical example and how they have - or not have - proven to be useful for the coala community. They focus on lowering the entry barrier as much as possible as well as rewardi...

Endless OS is an operating system based on GNOME, and is one of the first real world deployments to make use of innovative distribution technologies such as OSTree, xdg-app and gnome-software. During this presentation, I will walk through the architecture of the operating system and the infrastructure that we use at Endless to maintain it and deploy it, including the challenges we faced and what l...

Carry your GNOME experience everywhere. about this event: https://c3voc.de

GNOME provides a complete free software desktop. If you run it yourself you have all the benefits of free software, the freedoms to use, study, share, and improve the software. You are in control of what you do with your computer. The situation is different when using software which is run by others as a service, even if these others run free software. There you don't have control about what softw...

Sh!t just got real! about this event: https://c3voc.de

Structured logging is a handy feature of modern log systems, like journald. GLib is growing functionality to allow applications to export log messages in structured form, which allows developers and sysadmins to more easily search and sort log messages to find what they're looking for. This talk will introduce the new APIs and give an overview of how applications and libraries should log in the ne...

There are around 285 million visually impaired people in the world, out of which around 38-39 million are completely blind. One interesting fact is that over 15 million of blind people are from India, and similarly a large number is from different developing or undeveloped countries, and poor socioeconomic status. There is a lot of software available for accessibility, and most of it is extremely...

Lightning talks of Google Summer of Code and Outreachy interns about this event: https://c3voc.de

The end of EMF 2016 :( about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

We've all seen lockpicking explained on several security venues. You might even have tried it yourself. But what if you need to open a lock a number of times? Wouldn't it be great to have an opening technique that would supply you with a working key in the process? A method to do this has existed for quite some time, but until recently it has remained quite unknown. Some time ago impressioning loc...

"Come and hack our dinosaurs" – how could I resist a request like this? How I tamed dinosaurs and can train anyone to keep them under control. This 30 minute talk takes you from the time of the dinosaurs to the oldest Theme Park in the world. It explains how I used a Raspberry Pi computer and an open source visual flow programming language called Node-RED to hack some animatronic dinosaurs at the...