Good to give a summary of the day! It's nice to have this, especially because it makes it easier for news blogs/sites to link and cite us.
I did replace 'Java coding' with 'JavaScript' as Java is not a webstandard, but a complete programming language with its own virtual machines and interfaces. Luis was referring to JavaScript. The photos are a nice addition. Who made them? They look really good! Regards, On 28 July 2010 19:23, William from Texas <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have posted a short recap of GUADEC Day 1 to our Announcements. Full text > below! > See you tomorrow ~~ > > http://guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/announcement/view/23 > > --- > > GUADEC Day 1 > > July 28, The Hague - GUADEC 2010, the annual GNOME User and Developer > European Conference, kicked off with a keynote speech by Mozilla lawyer Luis > Villa. Mr Villa encouraged GNOME to embrace the web, saying that in the > struggle between web and desktop, the web has come out on top. Why? Because > the web is a powerful, reliable, cheap, available and a constantly improving > application platform. This should be a wake-up call for developers of the > GNOME desktop suite to design their applications to web standards, including > using HTML 5, CSS-like and Java coding when building or rewriting code. > > Mr Villa said that GNOME's cultural values are winning while GNOME code > needs to focus on integration with the Internet. He emphasized that > community, problem solving abilities and freedom are clear strengths of > GNOME, while the development culture should adapt to the new challenges of a > web-centric computing model. > > Another important presentation was given by Vincent Untz, member of the > GNOME 3 release team. Mr Untz announced that the target release for GNOME 3 > has been set for March 2011, with a beta release in September 2010. Concern > was raised by some developers in the audience that work would be difficult > leading up to both the v3.0-beta and simultaneous v2.32 September release. > There has been much advancement in the 8 years since the release of GNOME 2, > and v3.0 has been highly anticipated for some time already. "Isn't it a bit > late?" was another concern that he addressed, saying that as a full platform > revamp there was no reason to rush the release. > > One significant feature of the conference this year is the webstreaming of > all 3 session rooms. GUADEC sponsor Flumotion implemented the setup using > WebM, and GUADEC 2010 marks the first major event in the world to use this > technology. The streams can be viewed directly from the GUADEC homepage, or > by pasting the below links into your WebM-compatible media player. See this > compatibility chart for more information. (gnome.org) > * Room 1 (Paris): > http://live1.guadec.stream.flumotion.com/guadec/live1.webm.m3u > * Room 2 (Copenhagen): > http://live2.guadec.stream.flumotion.com/guadec/live2.webm.m3u > * Room 3 (Seville): > http://live3.guadec.stream.flumotion.com/guadec/live3.webm.m3u > > > All in all, the day was busy with a flood of information and large numbers > of excited hackers. Day 2 promises to be even better! Check the schedule to > see what talks you will want to attend. > > Don't forget about the Canonical Party at 20:00 at Le Paris tonight. Map is > here. > Tomorrow will be the Collabora Beach BBQ Party at 19:00 at the Beach > Company. You can find more information at the registration desk! > > Send GUADEC an email at [email protected] > Join GUADEC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/GUADEC > Follow the GUADEC Twitter channel: http://twitter.com/#search?q=guadec > GUADEC 2010 Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/guadec2010 > > --- > -- Sense Hofstede http://sensehofstede.nl/ _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
