Hi there, I work at Mozilla on the graphics team, and in particular on the compositing part of Gecko. There could be some interesting discussions about how the graphics stack in desktop environments is evolving, versus how the graphics in web rendering engines are evolving, so I am thinking of giving a talk showing an overview of how current web rendering engines work, from the DOM to pixels on the screen (at the high levels, Gecko and WebKit are pretty similar, I could talk a bit about Servo too). The area where I am most comfortable going into details is the compositing, which may be interesting since there is a lot of stuff going on around Wayland on the Gnome/KDE side. If you guys are interested in this topic I'd love to do that in the desktop devroom, since it's probably the place where it could initiate the most interesting discussions. The web platform is probably not (yet) something that belongs to the desktop environment family but it's going in this direction and has very similar technical challenges.
Please let me know what you think, and do let me know if you think this is not appropriate for the DE devroom. Cheers, Nicolas Silva On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Christophe Fergeau <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey, > > As usual, it's time to submit your talk proposal for FOSDEM > > --8<--- > > FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors > in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium). One of > the tracks will be the Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as > "CrossDesktop DevRoom"), which will host Desktop-related talks. > > We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source > Software on the topics of Desktop development, Desktop applications > and interoperability amongst Desktop Environments. This is a unique > opportunity to show novel ideas and developments to a wide technical > audience. > > Topics accepted include, but are not limited to: Enlightenment, Gnome, > KDE, Unity, XFCE/Razor, Windows, Mac OS X, general desktop matters, > applications that enhance desktops and web (when related to desktop). > > Talks can be very specific, such as developing mobile applications > with Qt Quick; or as general as predictions for the fusion of Desktop > and web in 5 years time. Topics that are of interest to the users and > developers of all desktop environments are especially welcome. The > FOSDEM 2013 schedule might give you some inspiration: > https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cross_desktop/ > > Please include the following information when submitting a proposal: > > Your name > The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be > listed with around 250 from other projects) > Short abstract of one or two paragraphs > Short bio (with photo) > Requested time: from 15 to 45 minutes. Normal duration is 30 minutes. > Longer duration requests must be properly justified. You may be > assigned LESS time than you request. > > > The deadline for submissions is December 14th 2013. FOSDEM will be > held on the weekend of 1-2 February 2014. Please use the following > website to submit your proposals: > https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM14 > > You can also join the devroom's mailing list, which is the official > communication channel for the DevRoom: > [email protected] (subscription page for the mailing > list: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom ) > > – The Desktops DevRoom 2014 Organization Team > > --8<--- > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
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