GU4DEC 2003 Schedule

Monday, 16th June

GNOME Developer Conference, Day One

You can see the abstracts, photos and biographies of our Monday speakers online.

	Burke Theatre [400]	Walton Theatre [200]	Swift Theatre [100]	Ui Chadhain Theatre [100]
09:00-09:30	R E G I S T R A T I O N
09:30-10:30	W E L C O M E - GU4DEC Trinity College Dublin
10:30-11:30	freedesktop.org, Havoc Pennington	Dasher - Information Efficient Text Entry, Matthew Garrett	GNOME System Tools, Carlos Garnacho Parro	AbiWord 2.0 - The Next Step, Martin Sevior
11:30-12:00	B R E A K
12:00-13:00	Accessibility 2.4 And Beyond, Bill Haneman & Marc Mulcahy	gtkmm - C++ Bindings For GNOME, Murray Cumming	Internationalization - It's Not Just Translation, Roozbeh Pournader	Managing Printers In GNOME, Dave Camp
13:00-14:00	L U N C H
14:00-15:00	K E Y N O T E - Robin Rowe
15:00-16:00	Song And Dance And TWD Using GStreamer, Thomas Vander Stichele	GNOME & OpenOffice.org, Michael Meeks	The Mono Debugger, Martin Baulig	Implementing ATK For Custom Widgets, Marc Mulcahy & Padraig O'Briain
16:00-17:00	Profiling And Performance Optimizations, Soeren Sandmann	Using MAS Infrastructure And Sound Server, Leon Shiman & Mike Andrews	The XML Libraries And Advanced Schema Validation, Daniel Veillard	How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Python, Johan Dahlin
17:00-18:00	GNOME Documentation : The Past, The Present And The Future, Pat Costello, Irene Ryan & Eugene O'Connor	EggToolbar And EggMenu, James Henstridge	Configuration Based Programming, Jonathan Blandford	GStreamer Application Development, Ronald Bultje

Please note, that this schedule is not final, and very likely to change right up to the conference. We deeply apologise for the inconvenience this causes.

Tuesday, 17th June

GNOME Developer Conference, Day Two

You can see the abstracts, photos and biographies of our Tuesday speakers online.

	Burke Theatre [400]	Walton Theatre [200]	Swift Theatre [100]	Ui Chadhain Theatre [100]
09:00-10:00	K E Y N O T E - Alan Kay
10:00-11:00	Mono Project Update, Miguel de Icaza	Getting On D-BUS, Anders Carlsson	GPE - GPDA environment, Nils Faerber	The Way Of XML, Liam Quin
11:00-11:30	B R E A K
11:30-12:00	Desktop Integration With GNOME, Rodney Dawes	The Exchange IT Plugin For Evolution, Pierre Phaneuf	PyORBit - ORBit2 Bindings For Python, James Henstridge	Using And Managing GDM, George Lebl
12:00-13:00	Nautilus - Underneath The Shell, Alexander Larsson	Helix Community: Mobile Multimedia and Open Source/Free Software, Rob Lanphier	Talk To Me - Speech Services For GNOME, Marc Mulcahy	GNOME BOF: What Can We Learn From Windows, KDE and OSX?, Fernando Herrera
13:00-14:00	L U N C H & GNOME Foundation Annual Members Meeting
14:00-15:00	IDA Interchange of Data between Administrations, Bernhard Schnittger	CORBA/Bonobo - GNOME's IPC Framework, Michael Meeks	GNOME Community Marketing, Jeff Waugh	SVG And GNOME, Dom Lachowitz & Christian Schaller
15:00-16:00	GNOME Organization And Teams, Luis Villa	Integrating Bluetooth With GNOME, Edd Dumbill	Evaluations Of GNOME Usability: Expanding The Appeal Of GNOME, Calum Benson	Gnumeric - Why Do We Bother?, Jody Goldberg
16:00-16:30	B R E A K
16:30-17:00	Testing GNOME Accessibility, Hema Seetharamaiah, Muktha Narayan & Arvind Samptur	Flicker Free Scrolling In GTK+, Federico Mena Quintero	How To Nick And Share Code, Bastien Nocera	UniConf - The One True Configuration System, Avery Pennarun
17:00-18:00	GTK# Bindings, Miguel de Icaza	GNOME Sound Server BOF, Ronald Bultje	GNOME Network BOF, German Poo-Caamano & Rodrigo Moya	GNOME Internationalization BOF, Christian Rose

Please note, that this schedule is not final, and very likely to change right up to the conference. We deeply apologise for the inconvenience this causes.

Wednesday, 18th June

Linux@work

June 18th is GU4DEC/Linux@work User/Business Day. GU4DEC and Linux@work will bring developers, GNOME Foundation leaders and individual, business and government GNOME users together to discuss open source software advantages and issues. Technology luminaries like Curtis Saski VP of desktop solutions for Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Alan Cox, kernel hacker, and a host of IT leaders from around the globe are slated to speak at Linux@work /GU4DEC. The conference will feature a comprehensive tutorial program as well. Linux@work/GU4DEC User/Business Day is open for anyone and will be a can't-miss day for everyone.

	Burke Theatre [400]	Walton Theatre [200]	Swift Theatre [100]	Ui Chadhain Theatre [100]
09:00-09:05	W E L C O M E - Linux@work, Trinity College Dublin			Beginning GTK+ Programming, Owen Taylor
09:05-09:40	Enterprise Adoption of Linux, Michael Schulz, Technical Manager, Linux, HP EMEA - Germany
09:40-10:20	Practical Experiences In Public Sector Linux Deployment, Carlos Montero-Luque, Moderator, Jose Luis Redrejo, Marcos Vinicius Ferreira Mazoni & Antonio Ullan De Celis	Linux and Open Source Software from the ISV's Perspective, Oliver van Dijk, Oracle Corporation	Open Source Solutions, David D'Arcy, Moderator, Braun Brelin & Brian McGuire
10:20-10:40	B R E A K & Linux@Work Exhibits
10:40-11:20	K E Y N O T E - Curtis Sasaki, Sun Microsystems
11:20-12:00	Software Livre In Brazil, Marcos Vinicius Ferreira Mazoni	Deploying Linux In Beaumont Hospital, Tony Kenny	GNOME And India, Hema Seetharamaiah & Arvind Samptur
12:00-12:40	Snapshot Of Free/Open Source Software In Europe, Karlin Lillington - The Irish Times, Moderator, Arnold Reinders, Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties - The Netherlands, & Anne Ostergaard, Free Software Advocate - Denmark	Linux in Enterprise: Present & Future - A Roundtable Discussion, Danese Cooper, Moderator, Nat Friedman & Steve Hnizdur	How To Get Involved In GNOME, Michael Meeks, Jeff Waugh & Glynn Foster
12:40-13:20	NewMedia: Linuxmovies and Streaming, Timothy Ney, Moderator, Robin Rowe & Rob Lanphier
13:20-14:20	L U N C H & Linux@Work Exhibits
14:20-15:00	Software Patents In Europe, Francois Pellegrini	Migrating MS Office To OpenOffice.org And StarOffice, Kay Koll	GNOME For Business Appliances: A Case Study, Alejandro Garcia Castro & Jose Dapena Paz		Electronic Artistry With GIMP, Tuomas Kusmannen & Jakub Steiner
15:00-15:30	Open Standards and Open Source Software in the Netherlands Arnold Reinders, Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties - The Netherlands	Open Source Content Management, Henri Bergius OSCOM	Engineering & Open Source Case studies, Stormy Peters, Moderator, Antonio Jose Saenz Albanes, Ricardo Solis & Jesus Estrada
15:30-16:00	B R E A K & Linux@Work Exhibits
16:00-16:30	Building The New World Order, Alan Cox
16:30-17:30	The Landscape of Open Source Software - Past, Present and Future [A Panel Discussion], Leslie Proctor, Proctor Resources - United States, Moderator
17:30-17:45	Goodbye GU4DEC, It's Back To Work!

Please note, that this schedule is not final, and very likely to change right up to the conference. We deeply apologise for the inconvenience this causes.

Saturday & Sunday, 14-15th June

Pre-Conference Weekend

GU4DEC Hackfest!

No code is too special. No code is too precious. No code is too sacred. Yes, it's Hackfest time! We want to see the most gruesome, yet glorious, hacks. We will pay good money for them...well, we'll give a prize to the best hack of the weekend. We want to see innovation, exasperation and imagination! We want something that Jeff Waugh will say "PANTS OFF" to at the top of his voice.

The rules are simple -

The hack must be based on the current modules proposed for GNOME 2.4
The hack must be new - don't even try to fool us!
You won't be forced to put it back to cvs.gnome.org

So forget about stability, don't worry if your code leaks megabytes of memory and, most importantly, tread of that maintainers toe! So join us in the Beckett network room and let's create something special!.

Understanding Debian

Bdale Garbee, previous Debian project leader, will join us in Dublin! Bdale will talk to us about "Understanding Debian" on Sunday 15th June at 2pm in the network room. Come listen to Bdale, and then buy him a beer afterwards!

Bdale is the previous Debian Project Leader, and currently works at HP helping to make sure Linux will work well on future HP systems. His background includes many years of both UNIX internals and embedded systems work. He helped jump-start ports of Debian GNU/Linux to 5 architectures other than i386.
When Bdale isn't busy trying to keep his basement compute farm full of oddball systems running various flavors of Unix working, his other big hobby is amateur radio, specifically building amateur satellites.