J5’s Blog

Thinking Outside The Box: Bringing the Network back into G(N)OME

Thanks to Paul Cutler’s excellent work on GNOME Journal we have a great stream of articles to keep us up to date on the happening of GNOME. Please consider helping him out if you have time on your hands. It is a great way for those who don’t program but still love GNOME to become a producer instead of just a consumer in the GNOME ecosystem. The potential for making an impact with contributions such as these is just as important as those who contribute with code.

On the heels of Paul’s interview with myself I thought I should post the slides of my talk. Unfortunately the video of my talk did not seem to make it with the numerous other published videos. I’m not sure why that is but it is something we should improve on next year. Being able to reach those who could not attend the conference is just as important as presenting to those in the conference hall.

Dear Foundation Members,

In the past, by this time, the Board would have already sent around the GUADEC call for hosts. In largely closed door meetings it would have been decided where next year’s GUADEC would be held, announcing it at the current year’s conference. Since this has been a year of significant change (this is the first year GUADEC is being co-located with Akademy) we would like to get more input into the process and find out what our members want to see come next summer, as well as how to best pick the winning location.

We have decided to postpone the call for proposals until after this year’s GUADEC has concluded. We fully expect to discuss the topic during GUADEC at the foundation AGM, as well as on the foundation list to find out what you, the members, would like to see happen next year. Please feel free to talk about your likes and dislikes about this year’s conference and if you don’t get a chance to attend, what would make you more likely to attend next year.

As for those who wish to make a proposal, a formal call for hosts is not a prerequisite for starting the process. If you can, we encourage you to meet with us and other attendees at this year’s conference and get a head start by starting the drafting process sooner than later. You may also contact us with questions you may have.

On behalf of the board,
John (J5) Palmieri

View Gran Canaria Desktop Summit 2009 locations in a larger map

I’ve started a publicly editable Google map for this years GUADEC/Akademy Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. I’ve added a few of the recommended hotels and the conference venue so attendees can get an idea of the distances and locations between each place. Please add any information that would be useful to attendees including the rest of the hotel list, event locations and gathering spots. I hope to see a lot of new and old faces at the conference in July.

UPDATE: Behdad pointed me to a more complete map.

On the heals of having my talk accepted I’ve booked my flight to this years GUADEC/Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. Much thanks goes out to my manager Tom “spot” Callaway for finding funds for my airfare. I think it shows a lot of support and commitment from Fedora/Redhat even though I am not in the Desktop group anymore.

My talk is happening sometime during the core days and I will be talking about Open Web Services, open data exchange between projects and melding server side and client side to build an open community of applications. After working on d-bus and seeing the success a standard IPC platform has brought the richness of our desktop I believe it is time we expand that meme to include standard application interaction across the physical barriers of the Desktop. It is time to bring the (N)etwork back into G(N)OME while keeping true to our Free and Open Source roots.