Re: FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2017 CfP
Hi everyone, We haven't received a lot of submissions so far, the deadline is next Monday, don't wait too much for submitting a proposal :) Cheers, Christophe On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 08:16:33PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > Hello, > > Here is the Call for Participation for the Desktops DevRoom 2017 > > -8<-- > > FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/2017/> is one of the largest (5,000+ hackers!) > gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each > February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). Once again, 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: > >- Open Desktops: Gnome, KDE, Unity, Enlightenment, XFCE, Razor, MATE, >Cinnamon, ReactOS, CDE etc >- Closed desktops: Windows, Mac OS X, MorphOS, etc (when talking about a >FLOSS topic) >- Software development for the desktop >- Development tools >- Applications that enhance desktops >- General desktop matters >- Cross-platform software development >- Web >- Thin clients, desktop virtualiation, etc > > Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of > distributing a desktop application with snap vs flatpak, or as general as > using HTML5 technologies to develop native applications. > > Topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop > environments are especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2016 schedule > <https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/desktops/> might give you > some inspiration. > > > Submissions > > 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 400 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. >- > > How to submit > > All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: > https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17 > > To submit your talk, click on "Create Event", then make sure to select the > “Desktops” devroom as the “Track”. Otherwise your talk will not be even > considered for any devroom at all. > > If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your > talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, > you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with > Pentabarf, please contact desktops-devroom AT lists DOT fosdem DOT org. > > > Deadline > > The deadline for submissions is December 5th 2016. > > FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of 4 & 5 February 2017 and the Desktops > DevRoom will take place on Sunday, February 5th 2017. > > We will contact every submitter with a “yes” or “no” before December 11th > 2016. > > Recording permission > > The talks in the Desktops DevRoom will be audio and video recorded, and > possibly streamed live too. > > In the "Submission notes" field, please indicate that you agree that your > presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license > and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example: > > "If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all > recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative > Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, > ." > > If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have > one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part. > > More information > > The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its mailing > list desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org. > > Use this page to manage your subscription: > https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom > > > <https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom> > Organization > > The Desktops DevRoom 2017 is managed by a team representing the most > notable open desktops: > >- Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE >- Christophe Fergeau, Gnome >- Micha
FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2017 CfP
Hello, Here is the Call for Participation for the Desktops DevRoom 2017 -8<-- FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/2017/> is one of the largest (5,000+ hackers!) gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). Once again, 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: - Open Desktops: Gnome, KDE, Unity, Enlightenment, XFCE, Razor, MATE, Cinnamon, ReactOS, CDE etc - Closed desktops: Windows, Mac OS X, MorphOS, etc (when talking about a FLOSS topic) - Software development for the desktop - Development tools - Applications that enhance desktops - General desktop matters - Cross-platform software development - Web - Thin clients, desktop virtualiation, etc Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of distributing a desktop application with snap vs flatpak, or as general as using HTML5 technologies to develop native applications. Topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2016 schedule <https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/desktops/> might give you some inspiration. Submissions 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 400 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. - How to submit All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17 To submit your talk, click on "Create Event", then make sure to select the “Desktops” devroom as the “Track”. Otherwise your talk will not be even considered for any devroom at all. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, please contact desktops-devroom AT lists DOT fosdem DOT org. Deadline The deadline for submissions is December 5th 2016. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of 4 & 5 February 2017 and the Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, February 5th 2017. We will contact every submitter with a “yes” or “no” before December 11th 2016. Recording permission The talks in the Desktops DevRoom will be audio and video recorded, and possibly streamed live too. In the "Submission notes" field, please indicate that you agree that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example: "If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, ." If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part. More information The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its mailing list desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org. Use this page to manage your subscription: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom <https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom> Organization The Desktops DevRoom 2017 is managed by a team representing the most notable open desktops: - Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE - Christophe Fergeau, Gnome - Michael Zanetti, Unity - Philippe Caseiro, Enlightenment - Jérome Leclanche, Razor If you want to join the team, please contact desktops-devroom AT lists DOT fosdem DOT org. signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 06:55:39PM +, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Christophe Fergeau <t...@gnome.org> wrote: > > Given the amount of projects asking for devrooms, I suspect this is > > going to be hard. The FOSDEM organizers asked us to merge the devrooms > > for a reason. We already only have this shared devroom only for a day. > > Yeah I understand that but I'm wondering if they could be persuaded > not to treat all applying projects equally and give more room and time > to projects that are more popular/bigger. GNOME does get more room than most projects in the sense that the desktops devroom is in a 100+ room (and there are only a few such rooms). Many projects do get rooms with far less seats. > I didn't want to say bad of any projects in particular here but I feel > I have to give an example, to make my point so I'll mention one that I > actually love: Guile. Given that there is a handful of people who use > Guile (or even Scheme in general), I really don't see why it should be > given the same amount of room/time as GNOME and KDE. It's their first time at FOSDEM, so it's nice that they get a devroom :) I expect they'll get a small room. A 40 seats devroom would probably not very useful to GNOME. I expect it's the same for most smaller projects, the devrooms they get would be too small for us. I did not look who got 100+ rooms last year, but I'd expect they all are fairly popular projects (Mozilla, virtualization, maybe embedded, ...) Christophe signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation
Hi, On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 01:45:59PM +, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > Hi Christophe, > > While I greatly appreciate your (and of everyone involved) voluntary > work on organising the devroom, I really wish we did not put all these > big projects into one devroom for just one day. Is there any way we > could get GNOME its own devroom (even for a day) in FOSDEM 2017? Given the amount of projects asking for devrooms, I suspect this is going to be hard. The FOSDEM organizers asked us to merge the devrooms for a reason. We already only have this shared devroom only for a day. Christophe signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation
Just a few more days to go, deadline is on December 6th. If you haven't submitted your proposal yet, now is the time! Christophe On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 02:25:50PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation > > FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in > the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). 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: > >- Open Desktops: Gnome, KDE, Unity, Enlightenment, XFCE, Razor, MATE, >Cinnamon, ReactOS, etc > >- Closed desktops: Windows, Mac OS X, CDE, MorphOS, etc (when talking >about a FLOSS topic) > >- Software development for the desktop > >- Development tools > >- Applications that enhance desktops > >- General desktop matters > >- Cross-platform software development > >- Web > > > Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of > development with Qt on Wayland over X11/Mir; 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 2015 schedule[1] might give you some > inspiration. > > > Submissions > > 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 400 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. > > > How to submit > > All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: > > https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16 > > When submitting your talk, make sure to select the "Desktops" devroom as > the "Track". Otherwise your talk will not be even considered for any > devroom. > > If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your > talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, > you don't have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with > Pentabarf, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org. > > > Deadline > > The deadline for submissions is December 6th 2015. > > FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 30th and 31st 2015 and the > Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, January 31st 2015. > > We will contact every submitter with a "yes" or "no" before December 18th > 2015. > > > Recording permission > > The talks in the Desktops devroom will be audio and video recorded, and > possibly streamed live too. > > By submitting a proposal you consent to be recorded and agree to license > the content of your talk under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. > > If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have > one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part. > > > More information > > The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its mailing > list desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org. > > Use this page to manage your subscription: > > https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom > > > Organization > > The Desktops DevRoom 2016 is managed by a team representing the most > notable open desktops: > > >- Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE > >- Christophe Fergeau, Gnome > >- Michael Zanetti, Unity > >- Philippe Caseiro, Enlightenment > >- Jérome Leclanche, Razor > > > If you want to join the team, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org > ___ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-l...@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation
FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). 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: - Open Desktops: Gnome, KDE, Unity, Enlightenment, XFCE, Razor, MATE, Cinnamon, ReactOS, etc - Closed desktops: Windows, Mac OS X, CDE, MorphOS, etc (when talking about a FLOSS topic) - Software development for the desktop - Development tools - Applications that enhance desktops - General desktop matters - Cross-platform software development - Web Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of development with Qt on Wayland over X11/Mir; 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 2015 schedule[1] might give you some inspiration. Submissions 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 400 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. How to submit All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16 When submitting your talk, make sure to select the "Desktops" devroom as the "Track". Otherwise your talk will not be even considered for any devroom. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you don't have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org. Deadline The deadline for submissions is December 6th 2015. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 30th and 31st 2015 and the Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, January 31st 2015. We will contact every submitter with a "yes" or "no" before December 18th 2015. Recording permission The talks in the Desktops devroom will be audio and video recorded, and possibly streamed live too. By submitting a proposal you consent to be recorded and agree to license the content of your talk under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part. More information The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its mailing list desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org. Use this page to manage your subscription: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom Organization The Desktops DevRoom 2016 is managed by a team representing the most notable open desktops: - Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE - Christophe Fergeau, Gnome - Michael Zanetti, Unity - Philippe Caseiro, Enlightenment - Jérome Leclanche, Razor If you want to join the team, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
FOSDEM 2015 Desktops DevRoom Call for Talks
Hello, --8--- FOSDEM http://www.fosdem.org 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, LXQt, Windows, Mac OS X, software development for the desktop, general desktop matters, applications that enhance desktops and web (when related to desktop). Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of development with Qt on Wayland over X11/Mir; 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 2014 schedule https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/desktops/ might give you some inspiration. 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 7th 2014. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 31st-February 1st 2015 and the Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, February 1st 2015. Please use the following website to submit your proposals: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 (you do not need to create a new Pentabarf account if you already have one from past years). You can also join the devroom's mailing list, which is the official communication channel for the DevRoom: desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org https://lists.fosdem.org/private/desktops-devroom/ (subscription page https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom for the mailing list) The Desktops DevRoom 2015 Organization Team --8--- Christophe pgpKHyiLG2jUa.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?
Hey, On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 05:40:16PM +0200, Andres G. Aragoneses wrote: On 16/09/14 17:48, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 10:22 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: So it's better to only have 15 students working on important things, rather than having these 15 students, plus 10 others working on less important things? Nope! But maybe with a better selection process we could instead end up with 20 students working on important things, with 5 working on less important things, and hopefully 0 on projects that don't match GNOME's priorities at all. Maybe in the years that Google doesn't give many slots, you're right, a better selection process would help. But for example, this year's summer, Google gave enough slots to cover all the students that had good ratings from the mentors. So in cases like this, if more less important things have been selected by the students, you cannot really do anything. We don't tell the students to cancel their proposal and make another proposal for a different module. The ratings are based both on the quality of the proposal and the quality of the background of the students (the likelihood that the student is going to do a good job). So in this case, the only way for the overall numbers to have more people working on important modules than on non-important ones, would be to reject the proposals for the non-important modules, leaving the slots empty. And slots empty doesn't mean that they get reserved for next years or that the stipend comes to the Foundation or anything, so it doesn't make much sense to do this. Something which would help to focus student proposals on 'important' modules would be to have many more ideas for these modules on the idea page https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2014/Ideas as early as possible. I'd say that at least half of the students make a proposal based on an idea from this page. However, if we try to do that, I suspect we'll quickly hit a limit on mentoring resources for said projects. We generally don't recommend that a mentor has more than 2 students to take care of during summer. Christophe pgpMVhtJouRKk.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?
Hey Michael, On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:15:42PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: It would also be good to actually consider the value of student projects before funding them. With GSoC we just picked which students seemed most likely to successfully complete the projects they proposed, rather than actually evaluating which projects were most important to GNOME. Most of the GSoC projects we get proposals for are ideas which were suggested by mentors/members of the GNOME projects on https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2014/Ideas Students are also encouraged to come up with their own project ideas, but in this case we insist that this must be discussed with the project maintainers first to make sure that this is something that is useful to the project. Then there are indeed some (a few!) more experimental projects that we pick because the student seems good, and this could have an interesting outcome, but we don't pick a lot of such projects each year. I think we got a good set of students, but I'd rather select a promising student while rejecting the student's project proposal if the proposal is only tangential to our interests. You seem to imply we should reorient good students on more important projects if what they propose does not seem very useful? One thing to keep in mind about GSoC is that we don't know in advance whether the student will manage to complete their project during summer or not. This means it's generally preferrable not to push students to work on features which _must_ be in the next GNOME release, as we may then realize very close to code freeze that this very important feature is not going to be completed by the student in time for the release. Christophe pgpF5F2y1aQJ1.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:15:42PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: In the past you mentioned that you think we should fund any GNOME-related project. I disagree. I'm not sure if it would be beneficial to mention specific projects, but to be blunt, I think some of our GSoC projects were a waste of money. NB: This is not foundation money (not a good reason to waste it, but still better than wasting GNOME's money directly ;). For what it's worth, it seesm that Google intent for this money is more to be spent for outreach (attract and train new GNOME developers) more than something than needs to be spent ultra efficiently on the parts of the code base more in needs of improvements. As a project, we could decide we want to spent the money this way, but that would be our decision, not Google's. Christophe pgpC1Ufb9Xe7D.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 08:43:29AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: Most of the GSoC projects we get proposals for are ideas which were suggested by mentors/members of the GNOME projects on https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2014/Ideas Students are also encouraged to come up with their own project ideas, but in this case we insist that this must be discussed with the project maintainers first to make sure that this is something that is useful to the project. Then there are indeed some (a few!) more experimental projects that we pick because the student seems good, and this could have an interesting outcome, but we don't pick a lot of such projects each year. Yes, but I don't think that process is sufficient. Some of the projects that get accepted seem to be of significantly higher value to GNOME than others. Others are important, but not really enough to merit the entire stipend. So it's better to only have 15 students working on important things, rather than having these 15 students, plus 10 others working on less important things? I think we got a good set of students, but I'd rather select a promising student while rejecting the student's project proposal if the proposal is only tangential to our interests. You seem to imply we should reorient good students on more important projects if what they propose does not seem very useful? Yes! Within reason; we don't want to push students to work on projects they're not interested in, but we also don't want to fund them to work on something that's largely tangential to our interests. Why not? If it's the preferred student project, if the maintainers of the associated module is ok with the project, isn't it good to have students learn about our platform in general (gtk+, ...) even though they are not working on a core GNOME module? We try to find some kind of balance between the various projects, we sometimes try to push students to work on core projects rather than the alternatives, but sometimes students are just not interested, or the core projects maintainers/contributors cannot mentor any/more students. Christophe pgpDI1YbBjSHh.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Help wanted - FOSDEM desktop devroom
Hello, The FOSDEM organization wants every presentation recorded this year. They will provide equipment and training, we need to provide the manpower. The schedule for the devroom can be found at https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/desktops/ Please get in touch with me if you are willing to help! (should not be much more complicated than sitting in the room next to the camera and making sure everything is running well). Thanks, Christophe ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: FOSDEM 2014 Desktops DevRoom Call for Talks
Hey everyone, just a reminder that this Call for talks is still open, don't wait until the last minute to send your proposal! Christophe 2013/11/6 Christophe Fergeau cferg...@gmail.com: 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: desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org (subscription page for the mailing list: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom ) – The Desktops DevRoom 2014 Organization Team --8--- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: plans for FOSDEM 2014?
Hey, 2013/8/15 Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com: I know that the FOSDEM organisers haven't sent out the email for booths and/rooms yet, but I just wanted to ask well in advance if we had volunteers for either. The call for devrooms has actually already been sent: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2013-August/001834.html , deadline is in 1 month. The devroom will probably be a crossdesktop devroom this year again, I'll get in touch with the people from other DEs who helped the other years. Thanks, Christophe ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror
2013/8/15 Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org: Why did I choose github? Because that's where everybody is these days. Because we have nothing to lose by mirroring our repos there and we have a lot to gain. Promoting the non-free github while a free alternative exists (gitorious) is a big loss in my opinion. Christophe ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Fwd: [crossdesktop-devroom] deadline extension for the cross-desktop devroom
The deadline for the crossdesktop devroom has been extended by just a few days, you now have until this Friday to submit talk proposals! Christophe -- Forwarded message -- From: Lydia Pintscher ly...@kde.org Date: 2012/12/15 Subject: [crossdesktop-devroom] deadline extension for the cross-desktop devroom To: fos...@lists.fosdem.org, crossdesktop-devr...@lists.fosdem.org Cc: fosdem-crossdesktop-organizat...@googlegroups.com Hi! We are extending the deadline for the cross-desktop devroom to the 21st of December. You can find the original call for participation at https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2012-October/001643.html If you have a relevant topic to talk about please consider submitting a proposal now. There will not be another extension. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher KDE Community Working Group / KDE e.V. board member http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org ___ crossdesktop-devroom mailing list crossdesktop-devr...@lists.fosdem.org https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/crossdesktop-devroom ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Fwd: Reminder: FOSDEM CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 - Call for Talks
-- Forwarded message -- From: Pau Garcia i Quiles pgqui...@elpauer.org Date: 2012/11/29 Subject: Reminder: FOSDEM CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 - Call for Talks To: x...@lists.freedesktop.org Hello, The Call for Talks for the CrossDesktop DevRoom at FOSDEM 2013 is officially open and will close in two weeks (Dec 14th). FreeDesktop.org is THE place for cross-desktop entente, sure there is a lot of things to talk about. Please submit your talk proposals ASAP! --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 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 interoperativity 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, 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 2012 schedule might give you some inspiration: https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/crossdesktop_devroom.html https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/crossdesktop_devroom.html 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 - Requested time: from 15 to 45 minutes. Normal duration is 30 minutes. Longer duration requests must be properly justified. The deadline for submissions is December 14th 2012. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of 2-3 February 2013. Please submit your proposals to crossdesktop-devr...@lists.fosdem.org (subscribtion page for the mailing list: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/crossdesktop-devroom ) -- The CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 Organization Team* --8--- -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ xdg mailing list x...@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Fwd: Reminder: FOSDEM CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 - Call for Talks
Hi Brian, 2012/12/4 Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com Christophe: If CrossDesktop DevRoom is THE place for cross-desktop entente, then why have I seen no discussion about this event on any FreeDesktop mail forum? I only notice GNOME mailing lists in the current cc:list, or am I missing something? I only cc'ed GNOME lists because I'm acting as the GNOME representative. Pau has sent emails to xdg-list http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2012-November/012581.html , and is also taking care of the KDE community. Unity, XFCE, e17, ... mailing lists should have received a similar Call for talks from other people helping with the devroom. Christophe ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Fwd: Reminder: FOSDEM CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 - Call for Talks
Hey Brian, 2012/12/5 Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com That said, how do we really expect to make much progress when efforts to meet in person are not matched with efforts to organize planning on appropriate cross-desktop forums, like mailing lists on FreeDesktop.org? In other words, I just expect more planning and discussion about events like this at FreeDesktop directly. It would be more likely that other appropriate forums would not be overlooked if there were more central discussion and planning. In my opinion, our efforts to rejuvinate collaborate activitiy also should focus on helping to revive and energize discussion on forums like these. The FOSDEM devroom has always been organized like that, ie with me taking care of the organization for GNOME, and doing it on GNOME mailing list. Over the years we evolved from a GNOME-only devroom to a joint devroom with KDE, to a devroom where we try to gather as many DEs as possible. I'm not sure doing part of the devroom organization on a freedesktop mailing list would help a lot as we need to make sure the call for talks goes to the right communities rather than expecting people to watch freedesktop mailing lists. What kind of planning would you have expected to see on freedesktop MLs? Would you have liked to be involved in the organization and feel you cannot do it the way it has been done? Christophe ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Suggestions for format of AGM next year
Hi karen, 2012/8/3 Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org: Perhaps this should have been appended to the lightning talk session for the outreach participants, which actually ended 15 minutes early this time. The lightning session ending early wasn't planned, we had budgeted 3 minutes per student + 1 minute to switch from one student to the next, which would have made the session last until 17:01. It turned out that student switching/some talks were shorter than expected, which made us finish early. But we couldn't know in advance that we could have given the prizes during this session. Christophe ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2012
Hey everyone! GNOME has been officially accepted by Google as a mentoring organization for GSoC 2012, which means some students will be paid by Google during the summer to help us improve GNOME :) The student applications will start coming in on March 26th and the deadline for applications is on April 6th (a bit less than 3 weeks from now). In the mean time, here are a few things you should do if you want to mentor some students during the summer: * add yourself as a potential mentor for GNOME on the GSoC website ( http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 ) * add GSoC ideas for students to https://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2012/Ideas * build a list of simple bug/features the applying students can try to fix (we require students to contribute a bugfix or a small feature to the project they are applying for) * guide students who would like to work with you during the summer For this last part, I generally tell students that the first steps toward an application are to try to think about what they want to work on (the idea list can be helpful here), and that the first steps toward a successful application is to manage to build the project they want to hack on, and that they should start looking into fixing simple bugs. Then interacting with the student, and telling him/her to start thinking about what they will put in their application (especially the project schedule) is always a good thing :) If you have more questions about all of this, feel free to follow up on soc-mentors-list, or to ask on IRC. You can find us on #soc. Cheers, Christophe 2012/2/26 Christophe Fergeau cferg...@gmail.com: Hiya GNOME lovers! It's that time of the year again: Google's Summer of Code is approaching. We are in the midst of preparing it all [1] but we need your help by submitting great project ideas. Student proposals will start to roll in on March 26, but we'd like to make sure there are plenty of projects from them to choose from and have mentors ready to volunteer their time. Bonus point if you add ideas this week as it makes it easier for us to write the Summer of Code application for GNOME. So what should you do? Please visit [2] and enter your project ideas under the Ideas section. A committee will be formed up later to triage the ideas prior to the opening of the proposal period. If you would like to volunteer your time to mentor but don't have a project idea, surf over and claim one. Mentoring is an awesome way to get more involved with the community and introduce someone to it. If you would like to throw your hat in the ring for the triaging or selection committees and other GSoC related tasks, pop on over to #soc-admin, join the soc-mentors-list and let one of the administrators for the program know you want to be involved in making GNOME rock. This year's administrators team hasn't been formed yet, so if you want to be part of it, by all means, volunteer! Cheers, The GNOME Google Summer of Code Administrators [1] http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2012 [2] http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2012/Ideas ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2012
Hiya GNOME lovers! It's that time of the year again: Google's Summer of Code is approaching. We are in the midst of preparing it all [1] but we need your help by submitting great project ideas. Student proposals will start to roll in on March 26, but we'd like to make sure there are plenty of projects from them to choose from and have mentors ready to volunteer their time. Bonus point if you add ideas this week as it makes it easier for us to write the Summer of Code application for GNOME. So what should you do? Please visit [2] and enter your project ideas under the Ideas section. A committee will be formed up later to triage the ideas prior to the opening of the proposal period. If you would like to volunteer your time to mentor but don't have a project idea, surf over and claim one. Mentoring is an awesome way to get more involved with the community and introduce someone to it. If you would like to throw your hat in the ring for the triaging or selection committees and other GSoC related tasks, pop on over to #soc-admin, join the soc-mentors-list and let one of the administrators for the program know you want to be involved in making GNOME rock. This year's administrators team hasn't been formed yet, so if you want to be part of it, by all means, volunteer! Cheers, The GNOME Google Summer of Code Administrators [1] http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2012 [2] http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2012/Ideas ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: FOSDEM stand
Hey, 2011/12/21 Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de: Bonus points if we can manage to check that we've got the following items ready at the FOSDEM booth: * Posters and Flyers for the GUADEC * Looong power extension cords A few of these could be helpful in the devroom too (along with a few multiplugs(?)). Dunno if someone living in Brussels can provide these? I'll try to bring a few otherwise I've also ordered and received 100 GNOME nametag stickers so that we can identify our fellow gnomies. Christophe ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
FOSDEM 2012 - Crossdesktop Devroom Call for Talks
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 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 interoperativity 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, XFCE, 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 2011 schedule might give you some inspiration: http://archive.fosdem.org/2011/schedule/track/crossdesktop_devroom 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) and a short abstract of one or two paragraphs. The deadline for submissions is December 20th 2011. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of 4-5 February 2012. Please submit your proposals to: crossdesktop-devr...@lists.fosdem.org ( https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/crossdesktop-devroom ) ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Call for Summer of Code ideas
Hi Emily, On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 07:16:37PM +0800, Emily Chen wrote: I click on below link, but see a message below: *We have temporarily disabled the creation of new requests and invites in preparation of the launch of the new UI for Melange later this week.* So, we will wait for the new UI ? The error you get is expected, here is an excerpt from the email that was sent to google soc mailing list: We have temporarily disabled the creation of new requests and invites in preparation of the launch of the new UI for Melange later this week. This means that no new mentors can be invited until then. The new UI will be deployed before the student application period starts though, so hopefully this will not be too much of a problem. So we have to wait :( Christophe pgpEFzyINzmgM.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Call for Summer of Code ideas
Hiya GNOME lovers! It's that time of the year again: Google's Summer of Code is approaching. We are in the midst of preparing it all [1] but we need your help by submitting great project ideas. Student proposals will start to roll in on March 28, but we'd like to make sure there are plenty of projects from them to choose from and have mentors ready to volunteer their time. So what should you do? Please visit [2] and enter your project ideas under the Other Ideas section. A committee will be formed up later to triage the ideas prior to the opening of the proposal period. If you would like to volunteer your time to mentor but don't have a project idea, surf over and claim one. Mentoring is an awesome way to get more involved with the community and introduce someone to it. If you would like to throw your hat in the ring for the triaging or selection committees and other GSoC related tasks, pop on over to #soc-admin, join the soc-mentors-list and let one of the administrators for the program know you want to be involved in making GNOME rock. This year's administrators are Vincent Untz, Ruben Vermeersch, Christophe Fergeau and Daniel Siegel. Cheers, The GNOME Google Summer of Code Administrators [1] http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2011 [2] http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2011/Ideas ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Crossdesktop at FOSDEM: call for papers
Hi everyone, Just a reminder that the deadline is coming in less than 10 days (22nd of December). This year, GNOME won't have its own devroom for a day as the previous years, but the crossdesktop devroom will run for two days. So if you were planning to give a talk in the GNOME devroom, you'll have to apply for one in the crossdesktop devroom instead. Cheers, Christophe (call for paper email below) 2010/11/16 Christophe Fergeau t...@gnome.org: [Forwarding this email on Bart's behalf, I'll be the gnome contact for the fosdem devroom] FOSDEM is one of the biggest Free and Open Source events. It is held annually in Brussels, Belgium, and attended by around 4000 people. This year we will have a devroom for 2 days dedicated to Cross-Desktop talks and topics. As opposed to previous years, there will be no KDE, or Gnome, or XFCE specific devrooms this year. The cross-desktop devroom will have talks on all topics that are interesting to the users and developers of all desktop environments. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of 5 and 6th February 2011, and the deadline for submissions for papers is Wednesday 22nd December 2010. We're looking for developers, users and contributors to submit talks for inclusion on the program. We are specifically looking for topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments. Please submit your proposals to: crossdesk...@lists.fosdem.org 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 ~250 from other projects) * A short abstract of one to two paragraphs The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 22nd December 2010. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of 5 and 6th February 2011. Kind regards, Bart Coppens ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Crossdesktop at FOSDEM: call for papers
[Forwarding this email on Bart's behalf, I'll be the gnome contact for the fosdem devroom] FOSDEM is one of the biggest Free and Open Source events. It is held annually in Brussels, Belgium, and attended by around 4000 people. This year we will have a devroom for 2 days dedicated to Cross-Desktop talks and topics. As opposed to previous years, there will be no KDE, or Gnome, or XFCE specific devrooms this year. The cross-desktop devroom will have talks on all topics that are interesting to the users and developers of all desktop environments. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of 5 and 6th February 2011, and the deadline for submissions for papers is Wednesday 22nd December 2010. We're looking for developers, users and contributors to submit talks for inclusion on the program. We are specifically looking for topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments. Please submit your proposals to: crossdesk...@lists.fosdem.org 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 ~250 from other projects) * A short abstract of one to two paragraphs The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 22nd December 2010. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of 5 and 6th February 2011. Kind regards, Bart Coppens ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GUADEC 2010, call for papers
Hi everyone, The GUADEC Call for Participation has the following time line: * Friday, March 19th: Deadline for submission of abstracts * Friday, April 10th: Notification of speakers Please submit your proposal before March 20th through [1]the online paper submission system. Papers will be reviewed by the program committee between March 20th and April 10th. Just a reminder that the deadline for GUADEC paper submission is in 10 days from now so it's time to apply if you want to be sure not to be too late! You can find the original call for papers email below. Cheers, Christophe 2010/1/21 Koen Martens g...@sonologic.nl: GUADEC call for participation = (please circulate) GUADEC (pronounced GWAH-DECK) is an acronym for the GNOME Users' And Developers' European Conference. Held annually in cities around Europe, GUADEC is the largest get-together of GNOME users, developers, foundation leaders, individuals, governments and businesses in the world. Gnome is the Free and open source software stack that drives the user interface of many Linux-based devices, from smartphones to your home PC. This year's GUADEC in The Hague, the Netherlands, deals with several interesting themes. First and foremost we will of course turn the spotlights on: * the upcoming GNOME 3.0 release. Other hot topics include: * GNOME and the mobile platform; * distributions and platforms. Further topics of special interest: * Search, meta data and the semantic desktop; * Performance - optimizing processor, memory and disk i/o usage; * User experience - designing and writing great applications; * Growing Community - involving the non-technical and recruiting new people. At the same time, This year's venue, the HHS in The Hague, an educational setting in the political heart of the Netherlands, provides a grand opportunity to focus special attention on two other subjects that are of major importance to GNOME: * government desktops based on free and open source software; * free and open source software and citizen empowerment; * attention for free and open source software in education and the participation of students; Of course, you are free to submit anything that does not fit in those categories, provided that it is relevant for the GNOME community at large. The GUADEC Call for Participation has the following time line: * Friday, March 20th: Deadline for submission of abstracts * Friday, April 10th: Notification of speakers Please submit your proposal before March 20th through [1]the online paper submission system. Papers will be reviewed by the program committee between March 20th and April 10th. The program committee is looking forward to your suggestions for participating in this year's exciting edition of GUADEC. Feel free to contact us, either on [2]the general GUADEC mailing list or [3]privately. References: 1. http://2010.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/schedConf/cfp 2. mailto:guadec-l...@gnome.org 3. mailto:guadec-pap...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Call for Talks - FOSDEM 2010 (GNOME devroom)
Hi, best wishes for 2010! 2009/12/13 Christophe Fergeau cferg...@gmail.com Hi everyone, As for the last few years, we'll have a GNOME devroom next year at FOSDEM (6/7 feb in Brussels), and as always, we want *YOU* to give a talk about the cool project you are hacking on in this devroom ... Please send your talk proposals before Friday 8th January. With the end of year holidays, this deadline will come *really* quickly, so the sooner you send a proposal, the better (before the holidays is great ;). Just a reminder, the deadline is coming in quickly :) Thanks to all of those who already sent talk proposals, if you want to talk in the devroom, don't wait any longer :) Thanks, Christophe ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Call for Talks - FOSDEM 2010 (GNOME devroom)
Hi everyone, As for the last few years, we'll have a GNOME devroom next year at FOSDEM (6/7 feb in Brussels), and as always, we want *YOU* to give a talk about the cool project you are hacking on in this devroom During this week-end, we'll have half a day dedicated to GNOME specific talks, and on Sunday, we'll share the devroom with people hacking on other desktop environments and have talks about crossdesktop topics or talks about some GNOME specific topics, but which can be of interest to the other communities. Devroom talks are 30/35 minute long talks presenting one aspect of the GNOME community you care about. This can be a technical talk about a library you're hacking on, but you can also give a talk about how to market GNOME at big events, or about how to get involved in the translation project, ... In short, you can talk about whatever you want as long as it's about GNOME! Like last year, you'll find all the information about the even on http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2010. However,if you want to give a talk, please don't add yourself to the schedule. Send me an email instead describing your talk and the slot(s) you'd like to have, and add that information to the Presenters and their presentation on the wiki. If you aren't giving a talk but are coming, please let us now at http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2010/Attendees ! This is helpful in case we print shirts or name tags. Please send your talk proposals before Friday 8th January. With the end of year holidays, this deadline will come *really* quickly, so the sooner you send a proposal, the better (before the holidays is great ;). Hope to see you all in Brussels, enjoy the last days of 2009, Christophe ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Wake Up World! Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
Hi everyone, 2009/1/22 Christophe Fergeau t...@gnome.org: If you want to know who the real establishment is in America and around the world As I already said in a few mailing lists, I'd like to make it clear that this email didn't originate from me. Some spammer forged emails using my @gnome.org address and spammed most GNOME mailing lists to my great shame :-/ Sorry for the inconvenience, Christophe ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
[eugnome] Wake Up World! Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
If you want to know who the real establishment is in America and around the world, the real power behind the so-called ''military-industrial complex'', the real maleficent power that has led this world to inexorable conflict, war, hatreds, destruction of real human values, morality, conscience it is the global media establishment. This same media witnessed the Zionist slaughter of 1,300 people in Gaza, and the maiming of 6,000 more, half of them women and children. More than 20,000 homes and buildings were destroyed or damaged and thousands became homeless. This horrendous mass slaughter of Palestinians is compared to the loss of 3 Israeli civilians. Yet, the media never dare to call this slaughter exactly what it is: terrorism on a horrendous scale! This same American and global media has not informed the American people or the people of the world of the damning truth about Barack Obama. In truth, Obama is a complete creation of extremist Jewish Zionists and he has already begun to serve Israel by his top appointments. The Jewish-dominated media in America is promoting the Obama inauguration as akin to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. (If you question Jewish control of the media read Who Runs the Media? and you will find documentation proving the Jewish control being far greater than you might suspect) The rest of the worlds powerful media (Which also has a powerful Jewish presence in the UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Russia, and the rest of Europe) takes its cues from the NY/Hollywood media axis, and presents Obama as kind of a superhuman agent of real change. In fact, it is a Huge Lie! Obama is completely controlled by the same forces that have controlled George Bush, so much so that The Chicago Tribune quotes leading Jews bragging that Obama is so in the hands of the Zionists that he is ''the first Jewish President.'' Obama received about 80 percent of the Jewish vote in the United States! The Three critical things that made Obama President: 1)Jewish political influence Obamas chief handler is David Axelrod, a radical Jewish Zionist whose previous claim to fame was the fact that he was the Zionist political hit man against Illinois Senator Charles Percy, who was not deemed to be pro-Israel enough. (He was only 99.9 percent Israels lackey, not the required 100 percent) Obama went to Israel and made sure he pronounced himself even more radically pro-Zionist than Bush or McCain. 2) Massive amounts of Jewish money Obamas campaign was kicked in high gear by Jewish Hollywood and financial moguls. In just one of the early fundraising parties in Hollywood by Spielberg, Geffen and Katzenburg it raised over a million dollars for Obama. Obama raised more money than any political candidate in American history and his biggest contributors were overwhelmingly Jewish activists, Jewish international finance and banking firms and Jewish globalists. His largest single contributor was the international Jewish Banking firm of Goldman Sachs. He received more money from the same international bankers that ripped off trillions of dollars in the recent economic scandals than even John McCain. Is a man totally under the power of the most powerful financial organizations in the entire world, really an agent of ''change?'' 3) Overwhelming positive support in the Jewish-dominated media By a large margin, Jewish-owned media officially endorsed Obama, and that is not counting tens of thousands of positive articles by Jewish; owned publications and pundits. Obamas first act as President-elect was to appoint a Jewish extremist, dual citizen, Rahm Emmanuel, as his chief of staff. As the people of Gaza were slaughtered, Obama would not make a single statement to stop this murder and maiming of thousands of innocents! Israel, very carefully timed its terrorist attack on Gaza to be in the remaining days of the Bush Administration. The day before Obamas inauguration Israel announced that it would be completely out of Gaza by the time Obama took his oath of office. Why? Before Obama took office, Israel could make this terrorist slaughter against Palestinians and Obama would still be perceived as having clean hands. Because Obama is completely under their control, they want him to have an image of fairness, honor and peacefulness, and as representing a new direction of American policy, as he begins to deal with the Mideast turmoil. Since he is Israels boy in the White House, what better scenario could they have than a President perceived as practically the Second Coming, of high moral conviction, and dedicated to fairness, but who is actually bound hand-and-foot to the Zionist agenda, just as the last presidents have been. Talk about a perfect shill. And the game is working, for even many Palestinians are filled with hope that the new President will work to end their long suffering. With an almost godlike positive image around the world, a
Wake Up World! Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
If you want to know who the real establishment is in America and around the world, the real power behind the so-called ''military-industrial complex'', the real maleficent power that has led this world to inexorable conflict, war, hatreds, destruction of real human values, morality, conscience it is the global media establishment. This same media witnessed the Zionist slaughter of 1,300 people in Gaza, and the maiming of 6,000 more, half of them women and children. More than 20,000 homes and buildings were destroyed or damaged and thousands became homeless. This horrendous mass slaughter of Palestinians is compared to the loss of 3 Israeli civilians. Yet, the media never dare to call this slaughter exactly what it is: terrorism on a horrendous scale! This same American and global media has not informed the American people or the people of the world of the damning truth about Barack Obama. In truth, Obama is a complete creation of extremist Jewish Zionists and he has already begun to serve Israel by his top appointments. The Jewish-dominated media in America is promoting the Obama inauguration as akin to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. (If you question Jewish control of the media read Who Runs the Media? and you will find documentation proving the Jewish control being far greater than you might suspect) The rest of the worlds powerful media (Which also has a powerful Jewish presence in the UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Russia, and the rest of Europe) takes its cues from the NY/Hollywood media axis, and presents Obama as kind of a superhuman agent of real change. In fact, it is a Huge Lie! Obama is completely controlled by the same forces that have controlled George Bush, so much so that The Chicago Tribune quotes leading Jews bragging that Obama is so in the hands of the Zionists that he is ''the first Jewish President.'' Obama received about 80 percent of the Jewish vote in the United States! The Three critical things that made Obama President: 1)Jewish political influence Obamas chief handler is David Axelrod, a radical Jewish Zionist whose previous claim to fame was the fact that he was the Zionist political hit man against Illinois Senator Charles Percy, who was not deemed to be pro-Israel enough. (He was only 99.9 percent Israels lackey, not the required 100 percent) Obama went to Israel and made sure he pronounced himself even more radically pro-Zionist than Bush or McCain. 2) Massive amounts of Jewish money Obamas campaign was kicked in high gear by Jewish Hollywood and financial moguls. In just one of the early fundraising parties in Hollywood by Spielberg, Geffen and Katzenburg it raised over a million dollars for Obama. Obama raised more money than any political candidate in American history and his biggest contributors were overwhelmingly Jewish activists, Jewish international finance and banking firms and Jewish globalists. His largest single contributor was the international Jewish Banking firm of Goldman Sachs. He received more money from the same international bankers that ripped off trillions of dollars in the recent economic scandals than even John McCain. Is a man totally under the power of the most powerful financial organizations in the entire world, really an agent of ''change?'' 3) Overwhelming positive support in the Jewish-dominated media By a large margin, Jewish-owned media officially endorsed Obama, and that is not counting tens of thousands of positive articles by Jewish; owned publications and pundits. Obamas first act as President-elect was to appoint a Jewish extremist, dual citizen, Rahm Emmanuel, as his chief of staff. As the people of Gaza were slaughtered, Obama would not make a single statement to stop this murder and maiming of thousands of innocents! Israel, very carefully timed its terrorist attack on Gaza to be in the remaining days of the Bush Administration. The day before Obamas inauguration Israel announced that it would be completely out of Gaza by the time Obama took his oath of office. Why? Before Obama took office, Israel could make this terrorist slaughter against Palestinians and Obama would still be perceived as having clean hands. Because Obama is completely under their control, they want him to have an image of fairness, honor and peacefulness, and as representing a new direction of American policy, as he begins to deal with the Mideast turmoil. Since he is Israels boy in the White House, what better scenario could they have than a President perceived as practically the Second Coming, of high moral conviction, and dedicated to fairness, but who is actually bound hand-and-foot to the Zionist agenda, just as the last presidents have been. Talk about a perfect shill. And the game is working, for even many Palestinians are filled with hope that the new President will work to end their long suffering. With an almost godlike positive image around the world, a
Fosdem 2007 - Call for talks
Hi everyone, and happy new year ;) This year again we'll have a GNOME devroom at FOSDEM, and we need *you* to give a talk in that room to make it rock even more than the one we had in 2006. Devroom talks are 30/35 minute long talks presenting one aspect of the GNOME community you care about. This can be a technical talk about a library you're hacking on, but you can also give a talk about how to market GNOME at big events, or about how to get involved in the translation project, ... In short, you can talk about whatever you want as long as it's about GNOME! Like last year, you'll find all the information you want about our devroom on http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2007 , and you can add yourself to one of the slots if you are planninng to give a talk (alternatively, you can also mail me if you want to give a talk). And if you are coming, please let us now! http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2007#attendees One difference with last year is that we might have half a day of shared conferences with the KDE people about interoperability/common technology/issues between both environments. I said might because I'm not sure at all yet that we'll set that up, but I mention it so that people aren't surprised if we have to modify the schedule on the wiki because of that. And if you want to give a talk on that specific subject, don't hesitate to add yourself *now*! :) Hope to see you all in Brussels, Christophe PS: if you think I should have mailed more mailing lists, or if this mail is inappropriate on some of the lists I cc'ed, feel free to tell me :) signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
FOSDEM: Call for Talks for the Gnome Dev Room
Want to have fun in Brussels? Here is a reminder, we are still looking for people to give talks in the gnome devroom during FOSDEM. You are a hacker and you are going to FOSDEM ? So you surely want to present the project you are hacking on to the world, to convince fellow hackers that your stuff is really cool, and that they should help you. You are not a hacker, but a translator, a bug triager, ... who is coming? Then you sure want to give a talk about what you are doing, and to describe how other people can help you, the more hands, the better, right ? So don't be shy, anyone can give a talk, it's easy, and it's a very rewarding experience. Now, all you have to do is to send me an email, and to tell me what you are talking about. And you have to do it quickly, otherwise you may not be able to get a timeslot because of a fully booked schedule. Don't miss this opportunity of giving a talk in our devroom, but don't forget that I must have your proposition before Sunday, January 29th. Cheers, Christophe signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
FOSDEM Gnome Dev Room: Call for Talks
Hi, During the week-end of February 25 and 26th, the FOSDEM 2006 will be held in Brussels. FOSDEM is a 2 days event to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Gnome has a dedicated Developers Room, where we can give talks about the project. That's why we are looking for volunteers for giving talks. Talks can be about specific aspects of the project as a whole, or they can be a way to present to fellow developers the latest cool technology you are hacking on. Some possible topics are the GNOME 2.14 release (it will be right around the corner by that time), something about gnome-love, but feel free to propose anything gnome-related that you want to talk about. If you are interested about giving a talk, please send me an email telling me what you want to give a talk about. Thanks everyone :) Christophe ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
