The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing

The GNOME Conference 

4 Foreword 

5 Schdule 

16 WarmUp Weekend 

24 GUADEC Core 

54 After Hours Workshops 

67 GUADEC-ES / GUADEC-CA 

77 Professional Participants 

79 Sudoku 

80 Dictionary 

82 Addresses and Phone Numbers


Foreword 

Welcome to GUADEC 2006! 

If you are reading these lines in Vilanova i la Geltrú, you are surely 

contributing to the success of the biggest GNOME Conference ever. Size 

is not all that matters, but seven days full of scheduled and free-form 

activities speak almost for themselves. We are expecting around 500 

participants, half of them staying in the GNOME Village overnight and 

making the most of this precious meeting time. And we are facing this 

event with solid corporate and institutional support brought by a colourful 

collection of sponsors, partners and co-organisers. 

Well, we just wanted to have a conference as good as GNOME, the free 

software project that motivates us to share so much time, ideas and 

energy together. A conference exciting, interesting and useful not only to 

the GNOME core developers, but also to the community at its widest 

scope. A week to cook actions and projects to excite, interest and serve 

our societies, the final target of our work. A target we are already hitting 

in many aspects, even when most of our neighbours are still not aware. 

We wanted to have a big conference to work better, but also to help get 

more noticed in our surroundings. 

We are experimenting a lot in GUADEC's 7th edition and we hope you 

bring your best inspiration to be creative as well. The staff and the 

dozens of volunteers involved in the organisation are doing their best to 

provide all the elements needed to have a good conference. But it is you 

who can turn the plans and processes into Community Magic. It is you 

who can make of this week a before and an after in the brief but intense 

history of GNOME and Free Software. It is you who can extend this magic 

to your everyday life back at home. 

GUADEC 2006 will close at some point in the eve of July 1st, but in fact it 

will last longer thanks to 500 trails departing from Vilanova to the five 

continents. Bring GUADEC with you, tell your friends, share your pictures, 

write your story, mail the press, wear the t-shirt, use the bag, invite new 

people, meet locally, seed a new conference to generate more actions 

and trails... 

Enjoy GUADEC and help make this World a better place. GNOME helps. 

4 June 24–30, 2006 • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain)


Schedule 

WarmUp Weekend 

Minor Languages L10n 

1. Carpa 3. Museu Balaguer 

09:00 Opening Doors 

10:00 

11:00 

12:00 

Local time! 

BoF Meetings 

by Region 

13:00 Lunch 

15:00 Kiwi: 

GUI Programming in Python 

Johan Dahlin 

16:00 Creating a Plugin System 

Using GTypeModule 

Michael Natterer 

17:00 Integrating Maemo 

Development Environment 

with Eclipse 

Pekka Reijula 

18:00 Automated Software 

Breaking and Repair: 

Culchie, LDTP, and DogTail 

Matthew Garrett 

19:00 Plugin Support in Mono: 

The Banshee Project 

Aaron Bockover 

20:00 Closing Doors 

RegCon Presentation 

Jesús Corrius 

OpenOffice.org l10n Status 

and Minor Languages 

Charles H. Schulz 

Minor Languages in FOSS 

Projects Initiatives 

5. Aula 

Saturday 24 

Localization 

Tools and Frameworks 

in OpenOffice.org 

OpenOffice.org 

Localization Experiences 

I18n for Everybody: 

Graphite, KMFL and Smart Fonts 

to Extend GNOME 

Daniel Glassey & Nicolas Spalinger 

Debate and Conclusions 

June 24–30, 2006 • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 5


Schedule 

GUADEC-ES 

Ponencias Tutoriales 

2. Sala d'Actes 4. Sala de Juntes 

09:00 Entrance Hall, Infodesk and Marquee Open 

10:00 Inaguración de III GUADEC HISPANA 

10:45 

DeTraS/TempusFugit: Herramientas para 

la investigación en la actividad de los 

desarrolladores 

Carlos García, Juan José Amor, Gregorio Robles 

11:30 Software Libre 

para un mundo libre 

12:15 

Quim Gil 

Accesibilidad y Software Libre, 

una visión desde GNOME 

David Cabrero Campos & Sergio Rodríguez Esquerra 

13:00 Lunch 

15:00 

15:45 

16:30 

D-BUS 

Carlos García Campos 

Accediendo a la configuración 

del sistemaa través de Liboobs 

Carlos Gamacho 

Fisterra: sharing efforts 

for developing business management 

softwarewith GNOME 

Javier Fernández García-Boente 

17:15 Descanso 

17:45 Apoyo de gnuLinex a la expansión de GNOME: 

Gambas y Futura 

Daniel Campos Fernández 

18:30 Mesa Redonda: 

Proyectos en el ámbito hispano 19:15 


6 June 24–30, 2006 • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 

Saturday 24 

Introducción básica a 

GNU/Linux, SWL y GNOME 

Rodrigo Moya 

Autotools: Automatización, 

construcción y portabilidad 

de proyectos 

Germán Poó Caamaño 

GLIB y GTK+ 

Claudio Saavedra 

GTK+ Avanzado: 

GtkTreeView,Portapapeles, 

Drag and Drop 

Rodrigo Moya 

GLADE/LibGlade 

Rodrigo Moya 

GNOME Avanzado: 

Gconf, GNOME-VFS 

Rodrigo Moya 

Python y PyGTK 

Germán Poó Caamaño


Schedule 

GUADEC-CA 

3. Museu Balaguer 

13:00 Lunch 

15:00 Introducció a GNOME 

Sergio Blanco, Jonathan Hernández 

16:00 Introducció al desenvolupament d'aplicacions per a GNOME 

Ramon Navarro, Lluis Sanchez 

17:00 GNOME en català. Traducció d'aplicacions al català 

Toni Hermoso, Jordi Mas, Jordi Mallach 

18:00 Experiències sobre l'ús de GNOME a l'empresa i l'administració 

Francesc Busquets, Josep Gubau 

19:00 



Saturday 24


Schedule 


Minor Languages L10n 

1. Carpa 3. Museu Balaguer 


10:00 

11:00 

Local time! 

BoF Meetings 

by Language 

12:00 The Futura Project 

and its relationship 

with GNOME 

Mike Emmel 

13:00 Lunch 

15:00 Gstreamer on 

Embedded Devices: 

Benefits and Challenges 

Andrea Ambrosioni 

16:00 Maemo Desktop Plugin Tutorial 

Karoliina Salminen 

17:00 Delivering 

Technical Presentations: 

A Beginners Guide 

John Laerum 

18:00 Recent Files and Bookmarks 

19:00 

Stadium 

Emmanuele Bassi 

FreeFA World Cup 



Sunday 25 

RegCon Presentation 

Toni Hermoso 

Mozilla l10n Status and 

Coordination 

Zbigniew Braniecki 

Web Multilingual Localization: 

Mozilla Europe Case 

Pascal Chevrel 

L10n 

Tools and Frameworks 

in Mozilla 

Mozilla Localization 

Experiences in 

Minor Languages 

Debate and Conclusions


Schedule 

GUADEC-ES 

Ponencias 

2. Sala d'Actes 


10:00 

Como perder la virginidad 

(o cómo escribir y mandar tu primer parche) 

Federico Mena 

10:45 Cómo involucarse en el GNOME extendiendo las aplicaciones 

11:30 


HACKFEST 

13:00 Lunch 

15:00 

Mono-Hispano Ponencias 

2. Sala d'Actes 4. Sala de Juntes 

Introducción a Mono. 

Ramon Navarro, Jordi Campos 

16:00 Introducción al desarrollo 

en GNOME con Mono 

17:00 

18:00 

19:00 

Stadium 

Ramon Navarro, Jordi Campos 

MonoDevelop, un IDE para GNOME 

Lluis Sanchez 

Presentación de proyectos 

basados en Mono 



Sunday 25 

Asamblea de socios 

de GNOME HISPANO 



Schedule 

GUADEC Core — User Day 

2. Sala d'Actes 3. Museu Balaguer 4. Sala de Juntes 


10:00 

1. Carpa 

11:00 

12:00 

1. Carpa 

Easy Databases 

with Glom 

Murray Cumming 

GUADEC Core Opening 

Jeff Waugh 

Gimmie: 

Panel Revisited 

Alex Graveley 

Keynote: 

Creating Passionate Users 

Kathy Sierra 

13:00 Lunch 

15:00 

F-Spot: 

A Life in Pictures 

Larry Ewing 

16:00 Riding by the Seat 

of Your Pants: 

The Jokosher Story 

17:00 

18:00 

1. Carpa 

Jono Bacon 

Ekiga: 

Use cases 

Damien Sandras 

Dreaming the Really 

User-Centered 

Desktop 

Quim Gil 

The GNOME Journal: 

The community 

online magazine 

Lucas Rocha 

Beagle: 

Free and Open 

Desktop Search 

Joe Shaw 

Keynote: 

Freedom: Reality and Illusion 

Norbert Bilbeny 


22:00 

Beach 

Fluendo Party (Bar El Tres) 


Monday 26 

GNOME and Bluetooth: 

past, present and 

future 


All Your Fonts 

Are Belong to Us 

Behdad Esfahbod 

NetworkManager: 

Managing networking 

since the summer of '04 

Robert Love 

Building Your Own 

Lab for Peanuts 

Anna Dirks


Schedule 

GUADEC Core — Developer Day 



10:00 Memory Efficient 

GNOME 

Architecture 

Tommi Komulainen 

11:00 The New GTK+ 

Printing API 

12:00 

1. Carpa 

Alexander Larsson 

Instant Messaging 

in GNOME 

Martyn Russell 

Feeds, syncing, mobility 

and desktop applications 

Tuomas Kuosmanen 

Henri Bergius 

Keynote: 

How Much Faster? 

Federico Mena Quintero 

13:00 Lunch 

14:00 

1. Carpa 

15:00 

1. Carpa 

16:00 Designing a library 

that's easy to use 

17:00 

18:00 

1. Carpa 

19:30 

1. Carpa 

Carl Worth 

Dtrace 

Glynn Foster 

Brian Nitz 

GNOME Foundation AGM 

Lightning Talks 

Telepathy Framework: 

Unifying IM, Voice and 

Video Communications 

Robert McQueen 

Threads, Time, 

and Transport: 

New Bling in GStreamer 

Andy Wingo, Wim Taymans 

Keynote: 

Taming The Beast: 

Porting EDS 

to Dbus 

Ross Burton 

Tiles: 

An Upgrade From 

A Linoleum Desktop 

Jim Krehl 

FLOSSPOLS Report on 

Women in 

Free Software 

Anne Østergaard 

The Future of Our 

VFS Layer 

Christian Kellner 

Big GNOME Deployments: the GnuLinEx and Guadalinex Use Cases 

Antonio José Sáenz, José Ángel Díaz 

Maemo One-Year-Old Party 


Tuesday 27 



Schedule 

GUADEC Core — Client Day 



10:00 Finding Oil 

with GNOME: 

A Case Study in 

3rd Party Development 

11:00 

12:00 

1. Carpa 

Davyd Madeley 

Highlights of 

GTK+ 2.10 

Kristian Rietveld 

Tim Janik 

UNIX Power 

for Desktop 

Rodrigo Moya 


Michael Meeks 

Keynote: 

One Laptop Per Child ($100 Laptop) 

Jim Gettys 

13:00 Lunch 

15:00 

16:00 

17:00 

1. Carpa 

18:00 

1. Carpa 

APOC: A Technology for 

Desktop Configuration 

in Large Deployments 

Jörg Barfurth 

GPLv3 

and 

Free Software 

Development 

System Integration 

and the 

GNOME Desktop 

David Zeuthen 

Blind Access 

using the 

Orca Screen Reader 

Willie Walker 

Keynote: 

Free Software at Sun Microsystems 

Simon Phipps 

GUADEC Core Closure 

Luis Villa 



Wednesday 28 

MonoDevelop: 

A Gnome IDE 

Lluis Sanchez 

Accessibility 

Requirements in Use: 

Voice Synthesis and 

Screen Magnification 

Daniel Guasch Murillo 

Javier Pérez Mayos 

Embeddifying 

Desktop Applications: 

Lessons from the 

AbiWord Experience 

Tomas Frydrych 

Building an 

E-mail Client for 

Mobile Devices 

Philip Van Hoof


Schedule 

After Hours Workshops 

2. Sala d'Actes 4. Sala de Juntes 3. Museu Balaguer 


10:00 Development of 

Software for Enterprises 

with GNOME 

11:00 

1. Carpa 

12:00 

Juan José Sánchez Penas 

Gnome.org 

Website Revamp 

John Hwang 

Portland: 

The Linux Desktop Untangled 

Gtk# and Mono 

Q&A Session 

Miguel de Icaza 

Waldo Bastian 

13:00 Lunch 

15:00 

16:00 

1. Carpa 

Power Management 

Patrick Mochel 

BoF Time 

17:00 OLPC 

($100 Laptop) 

BoF 

18:00 

1. Carpa 

19:00 

Jim Gettys 

Continuous 

Integration for 

GNOME 

Juan José Sánchez 

Penas 

Sofia-SIP in 

Telepathy 

IM/VoIP Framework 

Kai Vehmanen 

Integrated VoIP and IM for 

Nokia 770 Internet 

Tablet and Maemo 

Yannick Pellet 

Moving the Maemo 

Handheld Desktop 

closer to GNOME 

Carlos Guerreiro 

GNOME and the Distros: the Ubuntu Experience 

Sebastien Bacher, Daniel Holbach 


Thursday 29 

The GUADEC 

Bug Day 

The GUADEC 

Bug Day 



Schedule 


2. Sala d'Actes 4. Sala de Juntes 3. Museu Balaguer 


10:00 

11:00 

1. Carpa 

12:00 

Opening GNOME 

to New Contributors 

Elijah Newren 

Performance BOF 


Itching Your 

Local(ised) Scratch 

Danilo Segan 


The Emerging Handheld GNOME Ecosystem 

and a Nokia Perspective 


Evolution 

User Interface 

Srinivasa Ragavan 

13:00 Lunch 

15:00 

16:00 

1. Carpa 

Dear sysadmins, 

what do you need? 

Federico Mena 

BoF Time 

17:00 Designing Applications 

so That the UI Can 

be Changed for 

Different Devices 

18:00 

1. Carpa 

Erik Karlsson 

GUADEC Lessons 

to Event Organizers 

Quim Gil 

Usability Tests: 

What Should 

We Test Next? 

Anna Dirks 

Writing support 

( ΑΩŌĿÆДЖ☎) in 

GNOME, how to make 

✪*better* ✪ 

Simos Xenitellis 

GUADEC Closure 




Friday 30 

Beagle 

BOF/HACKFEST 

Joe Shaw 

Python 

in Maemo 

Gustavo Sverzut 

Barbieri 

HACKFEST: 

PiTiVi, gst-python, 

GStreamer & 

GNonLin 

Edward Hervey



Kiwi: 

GUI Programming in Python 

The Kiwi library provides a collection of high level utilities 

for developing large and complex graphical applications. 

This Tutorial will give the audience an introduction to the 

library and a demonstration of many of the features. A brief 

history and the background of some of the design decisions 

will also be included. 

Johan Johan Dahlin Dahlin 

Johan Dahlin is a 24-year-old Swede currently living in São Carlos, Brazil, 

where he works for Async Open Source. He has been a GNOME 

contributor and developer since 2001. He's been contributing to various 

parts of the desktop, mainly to the Python bindings, where he's been the 

maintainer of PyGTK since 2004. Lately he has been working on Stoq, a 

business retail system for the Brazilian market which is developed using 

Python, Gtk, Kiwi, and Gazpacho. 

Creating a Plugin System 

Using GTypeModule 

This tutorial will explain how to create a plugin system 

based on GTypeModule, using GModule as backend. It will 

cover both the plugins themselves and the infrastructure an 

application needs to load and use them. Code examples will 

be given. 


Mitch has been hacking on the GIMP for the last eight years and has 

been a maintainer for the project since 2001. He was working on GTKbased 

digital TV solutions before he joined Imendio AB, where he now 

works as a full-time hacker. 


Sat 24 15:00 

1. Carpa 

Catwalk Tutorial 

Sat 24 16:00 

1. Carpa 

Catwalk Tutorial



Integrating Maemo development environment with Eclipse 

The integration of Maemo development environment and 

Eclipse is our effort to create an easy-to-use development 

tool for developing Maemo-based applications on the Nokia 

770. 

Pekka Reijula Reijula 

Pekka is 24 years old and about to graduate from Tampere University of 

Technology as a Master of Science in software engineering, industrial 

management, and hypermedia. He comes from a land of a thousand 

lakes called Finland, where many great things have been born, such as 

Nokia and of course their Eurovision champion Lordi. 

Pekka has been involved with computers since the C-64, so it is no 

miracle that he has come into the field of computer science. He started 

his career as a software developer in 2005 working on a developer tool 

project for the Nokia 770. Since autumn, he has been working in TUT as a research assistant 

along with his studies, which has worked out surprisingly well. 

In his spare time, Pekka loves to do slalom all over Europe and keep himself in good condition with 

different sports. On rainy days, he spends time with his never-ending computer configuration 

projects and, of course, educational projects. 

Automated Software Breaking and Repair: 

Culchie, LDTP, and DogTail 

Culchie is a tool which allows developers to expose their 

application to the silicon equivalent of a demented monkey 

on crack. Using the accessibility layer, it interacts with 

software in all sorts of ways that the developer may not 

have expected. Information obtained from culchie can be 

reused in automated test frameworks such as ldtp and 

dogtail, allowing the developer to reproduce the failure and 

diagnose the bug. This tutorial will provide an overview of 

how to do so. 


Sat 24 17:00 

1. Carpa 

Catwalk Talk 

Sat 24 18:00 

1. Carpa 

Tutorial 

Matthew Garrett is a PhD student in genetics at Cambridge University. As 

head of the Ubuntu laptop team he has been involved in making laptops 

suck slightly less under Linux, and now seeks to tackle other problems 

such as poverty, hunger, war and Bluetooth support. Autographs are 

available for €20 or a beer. Laptop support comes at the same price. 




I18n for Everybody: 

Graphite, KMFL and Smart Fonts to Extend GNOME 

This session will provide an introduction to the complexities 

of i18n for non-Roman languages and the great job Pango 

does behind the scenes. This will be followed by a detailed 

presentation of the SIL software stack and how it 

complements the existing i18n GNOME/GTK+ framework for 

complex scripts support: 

Graphite: a complex script library integrated with Pango; 

KMFL: a smart input method; 

Charis SIL, Doulos SIL and Gentium: smart open fonts 

Daniel Glassey Glassey 

Daniel Glassey is a Christian and enthusiastic believer in Free software. 

He works part-time for a small software company and spends the rest of 

his time on free software projects, mostly for SIL International. He wants 

to see the free software desktop available to everyone in the world. 

He maintains SIL's Debian packages as well as working on Graphite 

integration with Pango. 

Nicolas Nicolas Spalinger Spalinger 

Nicolas Spalinger believes in freedom and sharing. He is a volunteer with 

SIL International (scripts.sil.org) a world-wide NGO doing languagebased 

development for minority language communities through 

linguistic research, translation and literacy. He has lots to learn but in 

the meantime he contributes to i18n projects especially in the area of 

free and open collaborative font design. He co-authored the communityapproved 

Open Font License with Victor Gaultney. He maintains some 

font packages for Debian/Ubuntu and dreams of the day where any 

language and script will work nicely on the free desktop allowing users to enjoy it in their mothertongue. 

He's an enthusiastic GNOME user and he's looking forward to meeting the i18n experts in 

the GNOME community. 

As a day-time job, he currently works as a systems and network administrator for Grid computing 

research projects focusing on health. 


Sat 24 17:00 

5. Aula 

Catwalk Talk



Plugin Support in Mono: 

The Banshee Project 

With just a little bit of thought and good design, applications 

developed under Mono can be extremely flexible and Sat 24 19:00 

extensible. Plugin frameworks have never been easier to 

implement. This tutorial will use Banshee as an example for 1. Carpa 

developing plugin frameworks in Mono. As this tutorial will 

show, a plugin framework is more than a technical milestone for 

an application: it is a social one as well. 

Aaron Bockover 


Aaron Bockover lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is the maintainer of the 

Banshee Music Player, a project he started in December 2004 with the ambition to 

raise the stakes for multimedia applications on GNOME by leveraging Mono, 

GStreamer, and GNOME technologies to deliver a full music management package 

in a short period of time. He also works on a number of other related projects 

including libipoddevice, ipod-sharp, Mono.Zeroconf, and .NET bindings for HAL, 

GStreamer, and libnjb — all used in Banshee. 

Aaron is active in and passionate about the GNOME, Mono, and GStreamer projects 

and does his best to help others hoping to get involved. He also enjoys occasional 

minor freelance design in Inkscape and Gimp, and tries to spend much of his 

weekends outdoors playing paintball, hiking, biking, and running. He can play a pretty mean game of pool too. 




The Futura Project 

and its relationship with GNOME 

The biggest innovation in computing to date has been the 

worldwide web. It's eclipsed, by several orders of 

magnitude, all previous technologies: mainframes, personal 

computers, and unix in all metrics. This includes financial, 

number of programmers, and number of applications 

written. Currently web technologies are written on top of 

existing platforms. 

Futura linux is about developing an OS that is actually 

designed for web-style computing while still maintaining compatibility with existing 

programming models. On the user interface side, Futura is based on introducing a new 

XML programming API using WebKit, DirectFB, and GDK which is still compatible with 

both GTK and X11. There have been many projects in the past to create innovative 

desktop solutions such as Berlin/Fresco, Openstep, and even Java; they failed to 

become mainstream since they did not integrate well with existing desktop 

technologies. 

This talk will introduce the new programming model and then show in detail how we 

are maintaining compatibility with the existing GNOME/X11 desktop, not replacing it. 

The talk also focuses on exposing the strengths of GDK as an abstraction layer that can 

handle multiple internal implementation approaches and multiple high level 

application APIs. 

Michael Emmel 

Born in 1968 in Little Rock Arkansas to two teachers, Michael started his 

adult life as a chemist and moved over to computing in graduate school 

while studying theoretical chemistry. While in graduate school, he had 

what was probably a unique introduction to real computing with a NeXT 

color station, which was the first computer he ever used to any great 

extent. He later moved into Linux. 

Michael spent over eight years doing Java programming and advocating for open source Java 

before finally converting over to XML based computing as the next big thing. His hobbies include 

open source programming and taking care of his two small children. 


Sun 25 12:00 

1. Carpa 

Topaz Talk



GStreamer on Embedded Devices: 

Benefits and Challenges 

Starting from the experience of Nokia 770 development, 

this tutorial will illustrate the advantages and the challenges 

of having GStreamer running on an embedded device. 


Andrea Ambrosioni got a Laurea (Master's) 

Degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of "Roma Tre" in Rome. 

He worked for two years in Italy as a researcher in multimedia 

technologies, before joining Nokia Finland in 2004. 

Andrea is part of the Open Source Software Operations group and 

participated in the development of the Nokia 770, Taking care of the 

multimedia framework architecture, which relies on Gstreamer. 

Currently, he is a project manager in the Multimedia Framework R&D line. 

Maemo Desktop Plugin Tutorial 

This talk presents Gimmie, a new application designed to 

shift the direction of the desktop beyond the standard WIMP 

model (Windows, Icons, Menu, Pointer) towards one directly 

representing the concepts that modern desktop users use 

every day. 

Karoliina Salminen Salminen 

Sun 25 15:00 

1. Carpa 


Sun 25 16:00 

1. Carpa 

Tangle Tutorial 

Karoliina started programming when she was young, with old 8-bit 

computers. Because she didn't have any programs or games for it, she 

had to do them by herself. So she started learning Basic. Then came 

Amiga 500, then Amiga 1200. In the meantime she started learning C. 

She then bought a PC, started studying software engineering, and went 

to work for Nokia, where she has been for nine years. 

Around 2001, she became a Linux user and started coding software for 

Linux at work. She is maintaining some open source Maemo packages., 

and she has some hobby projects that are related to GTK+/Gnome/Maemo. 

Besides software, Karoliina has her pilot's license and enjoys flying. She is also building a 

composite airplane from scratch. She composes electronic music that sounds a bit like the old 

music of Jean-Michel Jarre. The music is licensed under a Creative Commons license with few 

restrictions. 

She currently lives in southern Finland, Espoo, with Kate, three cats, and a dog. She drives a 

hybrid car. 




Delivering Technical Presentations - A Beginners Guide 

This session will address quality in technical presentations. 

We will cover aspects such as formatting, posture, 

interaction, fear of speaking, use of support material, tone 

of voice and crowd control. This session is ideal for other 

presenters, as well as developers or other people that might 

have an interest in communicating technical information to 

groups of people at the same time. 

John Laerum 

John Laerum is new to GNOME and Linux. He has a background as a 

technical trainer for one of the largest training centers for IT 

professionals in Scandinavia (Cornerstone Sweden AB). He has been 

delivering technical training and seminars for almost ten years, 

involving everything from telephony switching to PKI. 

John is 30 years old and has worked for Imendio for a year, where he is 

responsible for marketing and training. He is very passionate about 

training and pedagogy. Through his years as a teacher, he has 

accumulated valuable real-life experience from working with presentations and training. At 

GUADEC 2006, he will have the opportunity to share this experience. He hopes it will be a 

valuable asset for those who are planning to or will be involved in delivering, creating, or planning 

events involving educational efforts. 

Recent Files and Bookmarks 

This tutorial focuses on the architecture for accessing 

Bookmarks and Recently Used Documents that has been 

added to Gtk+ 2.10 as part of Project Ridley. 

It will cover the storage format, the parser and manager 

objects, and the widgets. 

Emmanuele Bassi 

Emmanuele has been a Linux user since 1997. Now he's trying to give 

back to the community all that he can. By day he works in London with 

the fine guys at OpenedHand, and by night he writes and maintains 

some of the Perl bindings for the GNOME platform and desktop libraries. 

He is also contributing to GLib and GTK for the libraries consolidation 

effort codenamed "Project Ridley", especially on the design and 

implementation of the "recently used documents" architecture. He comaintains 

the gnome-utils package. When he isn't using his computer, 

Emmanuele enjoys reading and taking walks with his wife-to-be Marta. 


Sun 25 17:00 

1. Carpa 

Talk 

Sun 25 18:00 

1. Carpa 

Catwalk Tutorial




Following the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, GUADEC will 

have its own Free Software Football Association World Cup 

with four teams and more than 40 players from around the 

world, fighting to show their magic with their feet, once they 

have shown their magic in the GNOME world! The games 

will take place at the GNOME village stadium. 

Four teams of seven players each will compete in a total of four games to determine 

the best football players in all of the GNOME world. Two concurrent semifinals games 

will be held. The winning teams of those matches will play each other for the 

championship, while the losing teams compete for third and fourth place. 

Sun 25 19:00 

Stadium 

Football 



GUADEC Core 

GUADEC Core Opening 

Jeff Jeff Waugh 

By day, Jeff Waugh works on Ubuntu 

business and community development for Mon 26 10:00 

Canonical. By night, he rides shotgun on 

the GNOME release juggernaut and plots 1. Carpa 

the Open Source blogging explosion with 

Planet. Waugh is an active member of the 

Free Software community, holding 

positions such as GNOME Release 

Manager (2001-2005), Director of the 

Opening 

GNOME Foundation Board (2003-2005), president of the Sydney Linux 

User's Group (2002-2004), and member of the linux.conf.au 2001 organising team. Jeff was 

awarded the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Evangelist Award for his contribution go Ubuntu and 

GNOME projects this last summer. He is a card-carrying member of Linux Australia, but does not 

say "mate". 

Easy Databases with Glom 

Learn how quickly you can build easy-to-use database 

systems with Glom. The tutorial will lead you through the 

creation of a small database system, creating tables, fields, 

relationships, layouts, and reports. We will quickly add real 

functionality without writing code or SQL. 


Murray Cumming is a freelance software developer from the UK who has 

settled in Munich, Germany. Murray maintains the GNOME C++ bindings 

(gtkmm) and the Glom database application, and is grateful that GNOME 

has made them possible. He has also been a GNOME Foundation board 

director and a member of the release team. He tries not to get in the 

way, and tries to keep learning. You can buy his time. 


Mon 26 11:00 


Catwalk Tutorial


GUADEC Core 

Gimmie: 

Panel Revisited 

This talk presents Gimmie, a new application designed to 

shift the direction of the desktop beyond the standard WIMP 

model (Windows, Icons, Menu, Pointer) towards one directly 

representing the concepts that modern desktop users use 

every day. 

Alex Graveley 

GNOME and Bluetooth: 

past, present and future 

Bluetooth offers a range of functionality applicable to a 

modern desktop, but Gnome support has traditionally been 

poor. This talk will discuss what functionality is currently 

available, how to integrate it and what still needs to be 

done. 

Matthew Garrett Garrett 

Mon 26 11:00 


Topaz Talk 

Mon 26 11:00 

4. Sala de Juntes 

Tangle Talk 

Matthew Garrett is a PhD student in genetics at Cambridge University. As 

head of the Ubuntu laptop team he has been involved in making laptops 

suck slightly less under Linux, and now seeks to tackle other problems 

such as poverty, hunger, war and Bluetooth support. Autographs are 

available for €20 or a beer. Laptop support comes at the same price. 



GUADEC Core 

Keynote: 

Creating Passionate Users 

Kathy Sierra 

Kathy Sierra is the author of the "Creating 

Passionate Users" weblog, and has been Mon 26 12:00 

interested in the brain and artificial 

intelligence since her days as a game 1. Carpa 

developer (Virgin, Amblin', MGM). She is 

the co-creator of the bestselling Head First 

series (finalist for a Jolt Software 

Development award in 2003, and named 

to the Amazon Top Ten Editors Choice 

Keynote 

Computer Books for 2003 and 2004). She is also the founder of one of 

the largest community web sites in the world, javaranch.com. Kathy's passions are skiing, 

running, her Icelandic horse, gravity, and her latest favorite thing—Dance Dance Revolution. 



GUADEC Core 

F-Spot: 

A Life in Pictures 

F-Spot is an application designed to help you organize and 

share digital photographs. This talk will include a 

demonstration of F-Spot and discuss its past and future. 

Larry Ewing 

Dreaming the Really User-centered Desktop 

It's not difficult to think of a near future with the semantic 

Web2.0 already unfolded, the distributed P2P networks Mon 26 15:00 

consolidated and growing exponentially, legal online 

identities used to certify and automate a wide range of web 


services, a diverse collection of mobile digital devices able 

to communicate and get synchronized in a personal 

sphere... GNOME is already present in these fields but it's 

still a system-centered tool, a graphical interface of a 

Topaz Talk 

system. Let's imagine our beloved desktop being a user-centered tool, the digital 

interface of ourselves. 

Quim Quim Gil Gil 

Mon 26 15:00 


Catwalk Talk 

Born in Barcelona in 1970, Quim Gil is a communications freelance 

specializing in free software and online networking. With a degree in 

Journalism and seven years working in a newspaper, he was the founder 

of the web agency putput.es in 1995. Based in London from 1999 to 

2001, he worked for the reconceptualization of metamute.com. Then he 

backpacked through America for over a year, interviewing people for 

desdeamericaconamor.org and winning the "Best News Story" prize in 

the European Online Journalism Awards. He was a founder of 

interactors.coop in 2002, coordinating software development (e.g., the UbuntuExpress installer 

for Guadalinex), and specializing in free web tools (Drupal, GForge) and social aspects 

(LaFarga.org, introduction of Ubuntu in Spain). He published the book "Iniciación al software libre 

con Guadalinex V3" in 2006, and he has been funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya to 

coordinate GUADEC 2006. 



GUADEC Core 

All Your Fonts Are Belong To Us 

This talk presents an insider's account of how Pango works 

hard to choose the best fonts and glyphs for rendering your 

text, in whatever language it is... 

Behdad Esfahbod Esfahbod 

Behdad is an Iranian who grew up loving 

programming and typography. In high school, he was introduced to data 

structures and algorithms, and after a couple years of studying these 

concepts, he ended up pursuing a computer engineering B.Sc. program at 

Sharif University, Tehran. It was around this time when he found the true way 

of Unix, as well as Free Software, GNU, and GNOME projects. 

Six years later, he's finishing his M.Sc. in computer science at the University 

of Toronto. He's become an expert in bidirectional scripts (like Arabic) and 

the Unicode standard, and would like to see Pango eventually used in a multilingual, internationalized, 

full-fledged print-quality desktop publishing system one day. He also dreams of a world where GNOME 

rocks on every desktop and laptop, and where he doesn't have to report bugs every other day. 

Riding by the Seat of Your Pants: The Jokosher Story 

In this presentation, Jono Bacon tells the story of Jokosher, 

an Open Source multi-track editor spawned from the 

frustration of existing over-complicated, difficult to use 

editors. The Jokosher story demonstrates how a unique idea, 

an enthusiastic and technically savvy community and the 

GNOME developer platform were combined to work on a 

multi-tracker you can use without a degree in rocket 

science. 

Jono Bacon Bacon 

Jono Bacon spends his days as a professional Open Source advocate and 

consultant at OpenAdvantage, a UK government-funded project to spread 

Open Source adoption. As part of his work, he encourages and advises on 

objective Open Source advocacy and community building with his talks at 

conferences around the world, Planet Advocacy, and consultation with 

businesses, government and individuals. He is also an established journalist 

with two books and over 400 articles published in over 12 publications. 

In addition to this, the bearded wonder is the co-founder of LUGRadio, the 

Howard Stern of Open Source podcasts; and he is a regular contributor to Open Source, formally working 

as a KDE developer and founding KDE::Enterprise, KDE Usability Study, Planet Advocacy, Linux UK, 

Wolverhampton Linux User Group, PHP West Midlands User Group, the Infopoint project, RaccoonShow, 

GNOME iRiver, XAMPP Control Center, and most recently the Jokosher Open Source multi-tracker: a 

project inspired by a design he concocted as a solution to the ills of Linux audio production. 

Jono lives in the UK with Sooz and two sausage dogs called Banger and Frankie. 


Mon 26 15:00 


Tangle Talk 

Mon 26 16:00 


Catwalk Talk


GUADEC Core 

The GNOME Journal: 

the Community Online Magazine 

This talk will give the audience an overview on the GNOME 

Journal origins, its main goals, the release process, and how 

to contribute to this awesome online magazine. 

Lucas Rocha 

Lucas Rocha has been contributing to GNOME since 2004. He maintains 

Eye Of GNOME (aka EOG), the GNOME image viewer; and zenity, a tool 

that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in command line and shell 

scripts. He also contributes to GNOME Journal by writing interviews with 

GNOME contributors as part of the Behind the Scenes series. Lucas 

graduated in computer science at Federal University of Bahia, and is 

now a Master's candidate on Contemporary Culture and Communication 

at the same university, where he studies the free software development 

communities' colaborative production model. Lucas is a drummer and percussionist in his free 

time. 

NetworkManager: 

Managing Networking Since the Summer of '04 

(Draft!) NetworkManager is a HAL-based and DBUS-powered 

ninja-like system for managing and controling your 

networking and connectivity options. This talk will address 

the design and implementation of NetworkManager, provide 

an overview of the API it exports to other applications on the 

system, and discuss the project's future directions and 

potential better integration into the GNOME desktop. 

Robert Robert Love Love 

Mon 26 16:00 


Catwalk Talk 

Mon 26 16:00 


Catwalk Talk 

Robert Love is the Claude Elwood Shannon Senior Engineer in the Linux 

Desktop Group at Novell. He is involved in both the GNOME and the 

kernel communities. Robert is the author of "Linux Kernel Development" 

and co-author of "Linux in a Nutshell." He graduated from the University 

of Florida with degrees in mathematics and computer science. Robert 

lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and loves cheetahs because they are 

fast. 



GUADEC Core 

Ekiga: Use Cases 

Most people think that Voice over IP is limited to chatting 

with friends over the Internet or giving phone calls at cheap 

rates worldwide. This tutorial will explain in details what 

Voice over IP and IP Telephony are, what you can achieve 

with them, and how Ekiga can be used as client in the 

different use cases. Ekiga is used in various companies, 

schools, and universities for its VoIP or its videoconferencing 

abilities. 

Damien Sandras 

Damien Sandras is the creator and developer of the Ekiga VoIP and 

videoconferencing software. Apart from this, he is part of the FOSDEM (Free 

and Open Source Developers' European Meeting) core team, and also a longtime 

Free Software proponent. He is a strong believer in standards and in VoIP 

technologies. Damien is currently working for Multitel, a research center 

specializing in Open Source, image processing, vocal technologies, and 

telecommunications. Damien holds a MSc in computer science engineering 

and a Diploma of Extended Studies from the Université Catholique de 

Louvain, where he started to work on Ekiga as a graduation thesis. 

Beagle: Free and Open Desktop Search 

Beagle is a search tool which ransacks your personal 

information space to help you find whatever you're looking 

for. This talk will give a brief history of Beagle, including its 

roots in the Dashboard project. It will contain an overview of 

the architecture, and where the project is today in terms of 

integration with the broader Linux desktop. Finally, we'll 

look at future steps for Beagle development and integration, 

coming full circle back to the rekindling of the Dashboard 

project. 

Joe Shaw 

Joe Shaw has been hacking on GNOME and GNOME-related program activities 

since 1998. In 2000, he joined Ximian and today works in the Linux Desktop 

Group at Novell. Joe has hacked on dozens of different GNOME modules and 

was an early contributor to freedesktop.org projects like D-BUS and HAL. 

Directly related to his work on HAL, with Robert Love he created Project 

Utopia: an initiative to make hardware integration with GNOME seamless, the 

fruits of which can be seen today with GNOME's excellent handling of 

removable media, autodetection of printers, and integration with power 

management. Joe was one of the developers of Dashboard, and today he is 

the maintainer of Beagle, a Linux desktop search infrastructure that will change your life. Joe enjoys 

writing about himself in the third person. 


Mon 26 17:00 



Mon 26 17:00 


Topaz Talk


GUADEC Core 

Building Your Own Lab for Peanuts 

Most of today's prepackaged usability testing labs are: 

(a) expensive, (b) designed explicitly for use with Windows, 

(c) difficult to operate, (d) unattractive, and (e) difficult to 

transport. Does it have to be this way? What is the 

independent software enthusiast to do if she wants to build 

her own usability testing lab, as cheaply as possible? Join 

me to discuss what has worked and what hasn't in my labs 

-- and witness the unveiling of our newest lab design! 

Anna Marie Dirks 

Anna is a graduate student in International Librarianship at Simmons 

College in Boston, Massachusetts, and she manages the desktop design 

and usability groups at Novell. Her primary research interest at work is 

in open source software usability testing; she created the 

betterdesktop.org website, and has conducted hundreds of usability 

tests which are featured on that site. Her primary academic interest is in 

Latin American information policies and their impact on e-government. 

Anna is delighted to find herself in Spain for another Guadec. She wants 

to work to empower our conference attendees to take active roles in the usability testing process. 


Mon 26 17:00 


Catwalk Talk


GUADEC Core 

Keynote: 

Freedom: Reality and Illusion 

An external view on the quest for freedom lead by software 

developers and online contributors mainly through the Internet. 

"Freedom" is a core motivation of the GNOME project and an 

essential part of its software and organization. However, 

beyond the words and the aims, there are many aspects that 

involve, promote, and constrain freedom. Freedom for who? 

Freedom for what? Are we as free as we think? Are we helping 

freedom as much as we perceive? 

Freedom is possibly the trickiest concept philosophers have tried to deal with since the 

origins of Humanity. This session tries to bring some theory concepts in order to put the 

GNOME project in the wider context of the Internet and the society. We will discuss primarily: 

• Freedom on the Internet • Two main limits of freedom 

• A sentiment of freedom • Technology as good for liberty 

Norbert Bilbeny Bilbeny 

Born in Barcelona in 1953, Norbert Bilbeny has been Full Professor of Moral 

Philosophy at the University of Barcelona since 1980. He was Director of the 

Intercultural Ethics Observatory at the Barcelona Scientific Park, the cofounder 

and president of Committee of Research Integrity in the Public Health 

Institute of Barcelona (IMAS), and the Director of Master on Immigration and 

Intercultural Education in the University of Barcelona. He is a former adviser 

in Bioethics and Ethics for the European Union Research Programs and has 

been Secretary of the Ateneu Barcelonès. 

Norbert did his Doctoral thesis cum laude in 1982 on the philosophy of 

"Noucentisme" (cultural-political movement of Catalonia, Spain, in the XXth century). His mainain 

research areas Intercultural Ethics, Ethics and the Professions, Ethical Foundations of Citizenship, and 

European and Worldwide Citizenship. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California in 

Berkeley, Harvard University, University of Toronto, and CNRS in Paris, as well as a Visiting Professor at 

the University of Chicago. He has lectured and taught in many universities abroad. In 1979 he was 

awarded the "Joan Estelrich" prize, in 1984 the "Josep Pla" prize, and in 1987 the "Anagrama" essay 

prize. He is a periodical collaborator of several newspapers: Avui, Diari de Barcelona, and currently La 

Vanguardia since 1985. 

He has published many books on Moral and Political Philosophy, and Catalan and Spanish 

thought, as well as non-academic essays. Some of his recent titles are: 

• “Ética para la vida” (Península, 2003), “Ethics for Living”; 

• "Por una causa común. Etica para la diversidad" (Gedisa, 2002), 

“For a Common Cause. Ethics for Diversity”; 

• "Per a una Ètica Intercultural" (Mediterrània, 2002), “For Intercultural Ethics”; 

• "Democracia para la diversidad" (Ariel, 1999), “Democracy for Diversity”; 

• "Política sin Estado. Introducción a la Filosofía Política" (Ariel, 1998), 

“Politics without State. Introduction to Political Philosophy”; 

• “La revolución en la ética. Hábitos y creencias en la sociedad digital” (Anagrama, 1997), 

“The Revolution in Ethics. Habits and Beliefs in the Digital Society”; 


Mon 26 11:00 

1. Carpa 

Keynote


GUADEC Core 

Fluendo Party 

Fluendo will be hosting a party for all GUADEC attendees 

this year at the beach bar El Tres in Vilanova. The bar is 

Mon 26 22:00 

beautifully located close to the university. The party will be Bar El Tres - Beach 

held on Monday the 26th of June starting at 22:00 in the 

evening, and the bar will be open until 2:30 in the morning. 

The Fluendo party will have an open bar for all GUADEC 

registrees, so make sure to bring your GUADEC registration 

card for identification. A top DJ from the popular Barcelona 

Party 

nightclub Pasha will be playing ambient Cafe del Mar style music. So come and hang 

out, chat and mingle with old and new friends in the true Mediterranean way. 



GUADEC Core 

Memory Efficient GNOME Architecture 

Based on experiences from developing the Nokia 770, there 

are problems in the GNOME desktop architecture that hinder 

its use on handheld devices. This talk presents how some of 

those issues are tackled in Maemo platform and solutions 

that could also be used to reduce memory consumption on 

the desktop. 


Komulainen 

Tommi became involved in Open Source while studying computer science at 

the Helsinki University of Technology. Student by day, hacking by night, and 

working part time somewhere in between, he successfully scratched a few 

itches through various projects. Tommi started contributing to GNOME by 

helping to port Galeon to GNOME2 and that lead to him becoming one of the 

maintainers. Before managing to finish the port, or graduating, Tommi joined 

the Nokia 770 team. Since then, working on the Maemo platform has been 

monopolizing his time. Currently Tommi is maintaining GTK+ and the widgets 

architecture for Maemo. 

Instant Messaging in GNOME 

Based on experiences from developing the Nokia 770, there 

are problems in the GNOME desktop architecture that hinder 

its use on handheld devices. This talk presents how some of 

those issues are tackled in Maemo platform and solutions 

that could also be used to reduce memory consumption on 

the desktop. 

Martyn Russell Russell 

Martyn Russell is the maintainer of the GNOME Instant Messaging client 

Gossip and has been involved in the project for the last four years. Martyn 

has a background in the Telecommunications industry and was working for 

British Telecom for seven years prior to becoming a software developer for 

Imendio AB. 


Tue 27 10:00 


Tangle Talk 

Tue 27 10:00 


Tangle Talk


GUADEC Core 

Taming The Beast: Porting EDS to Dbus 

Ross Burton talks about his experience, wisdom, and mental 

scars gained from porting Evolution Data Server to DBus. 

Ross Burton 

Ross Burton is a software engineer by trade, working for OpenedHand Ltd 

developing Linux/GTK+-based applications for handheld and embedded 

devices, such as the Nokia 770. He is also the maintainer of Sound Juicer and 

Devil's Pie, and isn't as angry as his blog suggests. 

The New GTK+ Printing API 

This talk will describe the new Gtk+ printing APIs and show 

you how to use them. It will also describe some of the 

internals. 

Alexander Larsson 

Tue 27 10:00 


Tangle Talk 

Tue 27 11:00 


Catwalk Talk 

Alexander Larsson works in the Desktop group at Red Hat, and is heavily 

involved in the Gnome project. He maintains Nautilus (the Gnome file 

manager), gnome-vfs, and various other gnome modules. Over the years he 

has also worked on various other free software project such as Mozilla and 

Dia. 



GUADEC Core 

Feeds, Syncing, Mobility and Desktop Applications 

This talk will discuss web applications, collaboration, and 

information accessible from different devices. How could we 

integrate web-based tools better with our desktop? 


Kuosmanen 

Tuomas has been involved in GNOME development from the beginning. 

His main interest and involvement has been in usability and graphic 

design, icons, and themes. He is currently working for Nokia on the 

Maemo development platform, helping the developer community with 

their user interface issues and questions. 

Henri Henri Bergius Bergius 

Henri Bergius is a former viking and a current free software 

entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Midgard Project, a web content 

management toolkit built on top of the GNOME libraries. Being a 

motorcycle adventurer and private pilot, Henri is interested in bringing 

location-based services into the free software desktop. 

Tiles: An Upgrade From A Linoleum Desktop 

Tiles are GtkWidgets which provide extensive system 

integration in the desktop and facilitate greater desktopwide 

UI consistency. They are currently used by the Beagle 

search utility, as well a number of other common desktop 

applications in the SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. This talk 

will focus on how to use and extend them, as well as the 

usability concerns they address. 

Jim Krehl 

Jim comes from the frozen north of the Unites States, though he was formally 

schooled in the sunny southwest and has now landed in the fast-paced 

northeast. He is a trained musician and physicist, and a certified SCUBA 

diver. A photo he took has been plastered on trash cans all around Toronto, 

Canada. His earliest memory is of a cross country train trip, and since then 

he's been around the world twice and visited five continents. 

Jim has programmed in dozens of languages; the first was either BASIC or 

LOGO, and the last was C#. The coolest thing he's done with any of them was 

to make a program which can identify beats in music. He's had countless jobs; the most enjoyable was 

stocking grocery store shelves overnight, and the most rewarding has been any job that allowed him to 

work in open source. He's never been married, but has met many people who have been. 


Tue 27 11:00 


Topaz BOF 

Tue 27 11:00 


Tangle Talk


GUADEC Core 

Keynote: 

How Much Faster? 

Since GUADEC 2005 and the Boston GNOME Summit 2005, 

the performance project within GNOME has produced 

interesting results. We describe the status of the project, the 

tools we have constructed, and the things that remain to be 

done. 

In the quest to make GNOME faster and smaller, we have 

learned many things and fixed some important problems. This session will recapitulate 

the most interesting fixes so far, and point to places in GNOME where we still need to 

improve performance. 


Federico Mena-Quintero is one of the founders of the GNOME project, 

and a long-time contributor to GTK+. He works for Novell, Inc. in the 

Novell Linux Desktop team. 

After starting his free software career as a core developer and release 

manager of the GIMP, Federico went on to be one of the driving forces 

behind GTK+ and GNOME. 

Recently, he has been putting his brain and brawn to work figuring out 

why GNOME uses more memory and does things more slowly than we all remember. He is the 

author of a series of weblog entries which have gone into minute detail on the GNOME start-up 

process and on the memory usage of some core GNOME applications and GTK+ components. The 

results have been impressive, but there is more to be done. 

Designing a Library That's Easy to Use 

Carl will present a few feeble ideas on how to design a 

library API that will be less likely to torture programmers 

that use it. Examples (good and bad) will be taken from the 

cairo library design process of the last few years. 

Carl Worth 

Tue 27 12:00 

1. Carpa 

Keynote 

Tue 27 16:00 


Tangle Talk 

Carl Worth is the maintainer of the cairo graphics library and works for 

Red Hat. He has previous experience with embedded Linux systems, 

primarily handheld computers with X servers. 

Carl has recently become enamored with git, the stupid content tracker, 

and has been known to submit patches of varied quality quality to that 

project. 

When not at a keyboard, Carl will be found enjoying time with his wife 

and four sons. His favorite activities include hiking and geocaching, Lego, and games and puzzles 

of many kinds. 



GUADEC Core 

Telepathy Framework: 

Unifying IM, Voice & Video Communications 

The aim of the Telepathy project is to provide a D-Bus-based 

framework that unifies all forms of real-time conversations, 

including, but not limited to, instant messaging, IRC, and voice and 

video over IP. It intends to provide a simple interface to client 

applications, allowing them to quickly implement code to make use 

of real time communication over any supported protocol. 

Robert Robert McQueen McQueen 

Robert McQueen is a long-term GNOME user & Debian developer, and did a 

spell as a "crazy patch writer" in the Gaim project. After graduating from 

university, he joined forces in the pub with Rob Taylor from the Farsight 

project, and formed modest plans to revolutionise the approach taken to 

integrating IM and VOIP on the Linux desktop and embedded devices. 

They went on to found Collabora Limited to work on the Telepathy 

specification and implementations of the framework's components, which 

form the basis of the Google Talk and Jabber support in the updated version 

of the Nokia 770, and hopefully soon on the GNOME desktop as well. In his spare time (when not in the 

pub), Rob hacks on the Python and Glib bindings for D-Bus, comes up with bizzare concepts like GObject 

mixins, and refactors code to use GInterfaces where appropriate. 

FLOSSPOLS Report on Women in Free Software 

Every conference has this subject on the agenda but the GNOME 

community might take some action.Are women in FLOSS considered 

as bugs, groupies, or equal partners in their field of skills? 

"Most discrimination of all kinds is utterly unintentional, and that 

kind of discrimination is harder to tackle because there is no evil 

intent and no-one to directly blame. It still needs tackling and that 

is in part about making people understand when their culture and 

actions put off or exclude others." — Alan Cox. 

Anne Østergaard 

Anne Østergaard holds a Law Degree from The University of Copenhagen. 

After a decade in government service, international organizations, and 

private enterprise, she is presently a Libre Software entrepreneur, 

http://www.easterbridge.dk/. In her spare time, Anne Østergaard serves as 

Vice Chairman of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors and as Vice 

Chairman of Danish IT-Political Association, and as member of the 

standardization committee of www.dkuug.dk. 

As a member of the Eurolinux Alliance (http://petition.eurolinux.org/), Anne 

Østergaard is working against the legalisation of software patents in Europe. 

Anne Østergaard is also working for free and open standards and file formats, Libre Software in 

education (The MoLOS or Master Libre Project), the health sector and FLOSS as development aide, 

privacy on the Internet and more women in the ICT sector. 


Tue 27 16:00 


Topaz Talk 

Tue 27 16:00 


Tangle Talk


GUADEC Core 

Dtrace 

This talk will show how to use DTrace to improve GNOME, as 

well as explain the dynamic tracing system in Solaris, 

DTrace, and how you can use it to find out more information 

about your application. 

Glynn Foster 

Glynn has been working on the GNOME and JDS projects with Sun 

Microsystems for the past 5 years. Glynn is currently living in Christchurch, 

New Zealand working remotely for the desktop group, as he likes to stay a 

day ahead of most people. Glynn has been a GNOME Foundation Board 

Director, and organized GUADEC in Dublin, Ireland. 

Brian Brian Nitz Nitz 

Brian has worked for Sun Microsystems in Ireland for 5 years, supporting 

users of GNOME desktops from GNOME 1.4 onwards. Brian also helps with 

testing and investigates issues which arise when thousands of Sun engineers 

use GNOME on ultrathin clients. Brian is currently working on the second 

revision of a desktop deployment which successfully puts GNOME on several 

thousand enterprise desktops. When Brian isn't pulling his hair out over 

desktop issues, he enjoys sailing, photography, astronomy, and seeing the 

world with his wife and daughter. 

Threads, Time, and Transport: New Bling in GStreamer 

GStreamer hackers Andy Wingo and Wim Taymans take you 

on a guided meander through the new territories recently 

explored by the GStreamer multimedia framework. Topics 

covered include the problems of time, communication, and 

control. Vague enough for you? We'll keep it interesting. 

Andy Wingo 

Wim Taymans 

Wim, one of the GStreamer project co-founders, was the primary 

architect of the GStreamer 0.10 release series. He has extensive 

experience in how not to write threaded libraries, and some 

experience in how to do so correctly. A Belgian now living in Barcelona, 

Wim has been hacking GStreamer for more than 6 years now. 

Andy designed and implemented the network clocking algorithms 

in GStreamer 0.10. He tries to focus more on applications these 

days, however, hacking a GStreamer-based streaming server, Flumotion, during the day. Andy is 

from North Carolina and uses the word "y'all". 

Wim and Andy both work for Fluendo, a Barcelona-based GStreamer company. 

Tue 27 17:00 


Catwalk Workshop 

Tue 27 17:00 


Catwalk Talk 



GUADEC Core 

The Future of Our VFS Layer 

This debate will focus on GNOME application developers and 

especially their feedback! It will start with the existing Tue 27 17:00 

problems of the architecture of our beloved VFS layer. The 4. Sala de Juntes 

main focus will then be a presentation of existing ideas 

about a possible future architecture and its API followed by Topaz Debate 

a discussion about it. 

Christian Kellner Kellner 

Christian Kellner is a 24-year-old Magister Philosophy student in the nice 

German city of Passau. When he is not getting headaches from thinking 

about some random philosophical problem, like understanding Hegel, he is 

also a passionate GNOME Hacker. Starting as a member of the famous 

bugsquad, he got involved heavily in GNOME by rewriting the webdav module 

for GnomeVFS, which lead to co-maintaining the whole thing shortly after. 

Already into DAV, he wrote the CalDAV backend for Evolution, even before the 

server, i.e. Hula, was out. Because writing backends for Evolution turned out 

to be fun and winter is cold in Germany he started contracting at Scalix to 

write yet another Evolution Connector for them. He is therefore allowed to jet 

over to Silicon Valley from time to time to enjoy the sun of northern California and act as a Code Monkey. 



GUADEC Core 

Keynote: 

Big GNOME Deployments: 

the GnuLinEx and Guadalinex Use Cases 

Extremadura's Information Society strategic project is 

founded on the fundamental principles of connectivity and 

technological literacy. Its aim is to improve Extremadura 

citizens' quality of life, from a perspective of equality and 

freedom. Thus, some actions have been carried out in 

Extremadura that have lead to the development of a 

powerful communications network (the Regional Intranet), 

capable of interconnecting as many as 1,400 nodes, 

scattered all over the 383 municipalities of Extremadura. 

In addition, several projects are currently working to achieve both educational and 

socio-economic goals. This has lead to the design and implementation of the following 

networks and centers: an Educational Technological Network, a Digital Literacy Plan, 

New Centres of Knowledge, Vivernet or the breeding ground for IT-related business, 

and a Centre for the Promotion of New Initiatives. These form the background for the 

GNU/LinEx project (Programas Libres - Free Software), which was born as a way to 

satisfy our region's IT-related needs without having to depend on outside factors that 

are out of the reach of the public sector (such as proprietary software). 

This year we have reached GNU/LinEx 2006, a Debian Derivative distribution based on 

GNOME and installed on more than 70,000 PCs in the region. 

In this talk we are going to talk about problems and innovations in this big installation 

with the GNOME project and Free Softwar 

José Ángel Díaz 

Tue 27 18:00 

1. Carpa 

Keynote 

José Ángel Díaz has been the chief manager of the Digital Literacy Plan 

since 2000 in the Junta of Extremadura and AUPEX. His work in the team 

of gnu/LinEx started with the launch of the first version of gnu/LinEx in 

January 2002. He was the mantainer of the gnu/LinEx live. He currently 

presides at the association GNOME Hispano and is part of the gnu/LinEx 

team. 

José had his first computer at the age of eight. He is an addict of 

computer science and a user of the Slackware's first versions. He now 

resides in a beautiful city called Almendralejo in the south of 

Extremadura and is a lover of Debian, gnu/LinEx, and GNOME, where he 

has a lot of good friends. 



GUADEC Core 

Keynote: 

Large-scale GNOME Deployment 

at Schools in Andalusia 

In Andalusia we are deploying at schools approximately 

200,000 GNOME desktops for everyday use. We have one of 

the biggest educational networks based on free software. 

From the CGA (Advanced Management Centre) we deploy, 

test, manage issues, manage the network, and so on. We 

also customize the base Guadalinex to meet the special, 

unique, and BIG requirements of this network. We want to 

spread our knowledge and explain our needs to the GNOME 

community. 

We want to talk about: 

• Roles in the deployment 

• GNOME desktop / Guadalinex customization 

• GNOME desktop large-scale management 

• Bullet-proof desktop for children 

• Network of desktops management 

• Linux/GNOME integration from the point of view of the users (children and 

teachers) 

• Helper applications 

• Deployment management (towards professional ITIL management) 

Antonio Jose Saenz Albanes 

Since 1993, Antonio has been the CTO of Isotrol SA, a software consulting and engineering firm in 

Sevilla, Spain, focusing on strategic technology management, strategic planning for free software, 

and support for training and human resources departments. He teaches object-oriented design 

and analysis for telecommunications networks. 

In 2003 and 2004, Antonio also served as CTO of CASSFA, an advanced center for the support of 

open source software. There he promoted open source initiatives through workshops, 

conferences, and agreements with other firms. He also provided Free Software consulting for the 

regional government. 

Since 2003, Antonio has been the project manager for the support and monitoring of the TiC/DiG 

Centers for the Andalusian Government (a GuadaLinux-related project). They have deployed 

185,000 computers in 951 educational centers. 


Tue 27 18:00 

1. Carpa 

Keynote


GUADEC Core 

Maemo One-Year-Old Party 

We invite everyone at GUADEC to celebrate with us the first 

year of Maemo and the Nokia 770. Find out how the twins 

are doing, see the new tricks they have learned, and hear 

about their plans for the future. Have dinner with us and 

find out who wins the hack contest. 


Tue 27 19:30 

1. Carpa 

Tangle Talk


GUADEC Core 

Finding Oil With GNOME: 

A Case Study in 3rd Party Development 

There are numerous third parties developing software on 

top of the GNOME Platform. One of these is Fugro Seismic 

Imaging (http://www.fugro-fsi.com), who develops several 

software applications using GNOME technology. This talk will 

present the pieces of GNOME that are in use today within 

Fugro SI: what is good, what is bad, what could be a whole 

lot better, and what actually works really well. 

Davyd Davyd Madeley 

Davyd is the maintainer of GNOME Applets, those little thingies that run 

on your panel. He's now been doing it for two and a half years. By day, 

he works as a software engineer for Fugro Seismic Imaging in Perth, 

Western Australia, writing GNOME software to help find oil. He is also 

trying to complete his Bachelors of Electronic Engineering and Computer 

Science at the University of Western Australia. 

Davyd has spoken at two GNOME.conf.aus and last year at GUADEC 6. 

He writes regularly for GNOME Journal and produces the popular "sneak 

peeks" into the GNOME release. In no particular order, Davyd is: blue eyed, a jazz saxophonist, 

not English, a Sagittarius, a collector of penguins, good with an oscilloscope, known on LugRadio 

as Mr. Sneakpeak, secretary of the University Computer Club, and less attractive than Danilo. He 

has prettier desktop wallpapers than you. 

UNIX Power for Desktop 

While keeping the simplicity and ease of use that is 

characteristic of GNOME, we still need to support power 

users and allow them access to the UNIX power in the 

system. This debate will try to create a common plan for 

doing so. 

Rodrigo Moya 

Rodrigo started on free software in 1998, when he joined Michael Lausch 

in the GNOME-DB project (www.gnome-db.org). Months later, he became 

the maintainer of the project, and has been since then. After GNOME-DB, 

he started helping in other projects, like Gnumeric, Bonobo, Abiword, 

etc. In 2001, he was hired by Ximian, where he joined the Evolution 

team and worked for 4 years, being one of the maintainers of the 

calendar part of Evolution. In 2005, then in Novell, he changed from the 

Evolution team to the desktop team, where he works on several GNOME 

projects, like gnome-screensaver, gnome-power-manager, control-center (a module he maintains 

in GNOME CVS), gnome-nettool (a module he co-maintains), and others. 


Wed 28 10:00 


Catwalk Talk 

Wed 28 10:00 


Topaz Debate


GUADEC Core 

MonoDevelop: A Gnome IDE 

MonoDevelop is a free GNOME IDE primarily designed for 

C# and other .NET languages. This talk will give an 

overview of the IDE features, and a brief explanation of the 

architecture and the add-in system, and how all this can be 

used to develop GNOME applications. 

Lluís Sánchez 

Lluis Sanchez is a software engineer working for Novell on the Mono and 

MonoDevelop projects. He has eleven years of experience in software 

engineering. He started working as a consultant on Microsoft and Java 

technologies. In 2002 he started contributing to the Mono project, and in 

2003 he joined Ximian to work full-time on Mono. 

Lluis has been in charge of the serialization, Remoting, and Web 

Services Mono libraries. In 2004, he started contributing to the 

MonoDevelop project, a free GNOME development environment, and 

these days he's the project lead. 

Lluis is from Spain, and is currently based in Barcelona. 

Highlights of GTK+ 2.10 

The upcoming GTK+ 2.10 release is one of the biggest on 

the 2.x branch and packed with exciting new features and 

improvements. In this talk we will highlight the new features 

and improvements, look at them in depth, and explain 

them; so you can take advantage of them right away. 


Kristian Rietveld has been contributing to GTK+ since 2001. These days 

he is primarly busy with maintaining GtkTreeView and improving other 

parts of GTK+ as he goes along. He originally wrote GtkTreeModelFilter, 

GtkComboBox, and completion support for GtkEntry. Kris studies 

computer science at Leiden University, but he also works as a developer 

for Imendio AB. 

Tim Janik 

Wed 28 10:00 


Catwalk Talk 

Wed 28 11:00 


Catwalk Talk 

Tim Janik has been developing Free Software since 1996. He studied computer science at the 

Universität Hamburg in Germany and works as a software developer at Imendio. He has designed 

and implemented the GObject library and made several other significant core contributions to 

free software projects like BEAST, Gtk+, GNOME, and ALSA. 



GUADEC Core 


OpenOffice.org (OO.o) has come a long way with respect to GNOME 

desktop integration, but we've still a good way to go. Come and see 

the fruits of our labour, hear a bit about the project, and see some 

of the cool new features. 

Michael Meeks 

Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic believer 

in Free software. He very much enjoys working for Novell where, as a member of 

the Desktop research team, he has worked on desktop infrastructure and 

applications, particularly the CORBA, Bonobo, Nautilus, and accessibility, amongst 

other interesting things. He now works full time developing OpenOffice.org. Prior to 

this he worked for Quantel, gaining expertise in real-time AV editing and playback 

achieved with high performance focused hardware/software solutions. 

Accessibility Requirements to Integrate 

People With Disabilities in Free Software Use: 

Voice Synthesis And Screen Magnification 

The aim of project Linkat is the development of speech synthesis in 

Catalan and a screen magnifier, to make free software accessible to 

low-vision or blind people, and also those with speech disabilities. 

This talk will describe the requirements that people with disabilities 

have in order to be able to use the computer. A demonstration of 

these tools will be provided. 

Javier Perez Mayos 

Javier Pérez Mayos received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Royal 

Technical University (Stockholm, Sweden) in 2001, and from the Technical University 

of Catalonia (UPC) in May 2002. Since May 2002, he has been a PhD student at UPC. 

His research topic is voice source analysis and characterization. The objective is to be 

able to use this information in voice generation algorithms, so applications like 

emotional and expressive synthesis, and voice conversion, can benefit from his 

research. He has participated in several international speech-to-speech translation 

projects (LC-STAR, TC-STAR) and has released Gaia, a research-oriented speech-tospeech 

translation architecture. He is the administrator of the speech synthesis group 

software repositories. 

Daniel Daniel Guasch Murillo Murillo 

Daniel Guasch Murillo Murillo received his MS degree in Electronics from the Technical 

University of Catalonia (Barcelona) in 1999 and a PhD in Electronic Engineering in 

2003 at the same university. At the present time he is teacher in the Department of 

Telematics and Director of the Accessibility Chair: architecture, design, and 

technology for all. The mission of the Chair is to ensure that people, irrespective of 

their abilities, are able to access, on their own, any facility and use any technology. 

Therefore, it promotes the development, led by UPC researchers, of R+D+I projects 

and activities which solve real needs of people with disabilities. 

Daniel has taken part in many related research projects, either with his personal 

research area, wide band networks, or with accessibility or assistive technologies. 


Wed 28 11:00 


Tangle Talk 

Wed 28 11:00 


Topaz Talk


GUADEC Core 

Keynote: 

The One Laptop Per Child Project 

($100 Laptop) 

The One Laptop Per Child project aspires to enable the 

deployment of hundreds of millions of laptop computers for 

children's learning, primarily in the developing world. Many 

of these machines, by necessity, will be powered by 

generators, car batteries, or whatever power source comes 

to hand. 

This presents challenges to the Gnome community. There is a direct correlation 

between accessing memory, and performance and power consumption. Coming at 

performance from the view of power is often a very productive way to understand 

overall system performance. The OLPC system has a number of novel features to 

minimize power use, but your help in the software you develop will make a major 

impact in the usability of the OLPC system (and your own desktops). 

Similarly, the OLPC machine has a screen which can be used in bright sunlight, 

necessary for children in many parts of the world. In one mode, it is a 1200x900 grayscale 

display, in the other, a lower resolution color display. This will present challenges 

to our user interfaces, which will need to be able to adapt dynamically. 

Finally, I argue most of the work needed in Gnome to support the OLPC will be of 

benefit to everyone, not just in the OLPC machine. 

Jim Gettys 

Wed 28 12:00 

1. Carpa 

Keynote 

Jim Gettys is interested in open-source systems for education on very 

inexpensive computers. He was previously at HP's Cambridge Research 

Lab working on the X Window System with Keith Packard, both on 

desktops and embedded systems such as the HP iPAQ. He helped to 

start the handhelds.org project and has also contributed to 

freedesktop.org efforts. Gettys continues to serve on the X.org 

Foundation board of directors and served until 2004 on the Gnome 

Foundation board of directors. Gettys worked at W3C from 1995-1999; 

he is the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification (now an IETF Draft Standard). He is one of the 

principle authors of the X Window System, edited the HTTP/1.1 specification for the IETF, and one 

of the authors of AF, a network transparent audio server system. 



GUADEC Core 

APOC: 

A Technology for Desktop Configuration 

in Large Deployments 

APOC (A Point Of Control) is a framework for centralized 

management of configuration settings for Gnome and 

beyond. This talk will explain the architecture of APOC, 

demonstrate the capabilities APOC offers for managing 

desktop configuration settings for large user and system 

populations, and provide an overview how developers can 

extend this framework with additional capabilities and tools. 

Jörg Jörg Barfurth 

Based in Hamburg, Germany, Jörg has been working for Sun Microsystems for 

six years, mostly on configuration systems in the desktop environment. Until 

recently, he was the maintainer of the configuration subsystem in 

OpenOffice.org. He also worked on JDS, but now his focus has shifted to thin 

client computing. 

System Integration 

and the GNOME Desktop 








David Zeuthen 

David's contributions to free software include the HAL and PolicyKit projects 

as well as patches to GNOME and the Project Utopia effort. In an earlier life, 

David worked in broadcasting, writing digital TV applications for set-top boxes 

and deploying pay TV systems. David now works for Red Hat and is currently 

based in Massachusetts, USA. In his spare time he enjoys photography, 

traveling, and Guinness. 


Wed 28 15:00 


Catwalk Talk 

Wed 28 15:00 


Tangle Talk


GUADEC Core 

Embeddifying Desktop Applications: 

Lessons from the AbiWord Experience 

What does it take to take a sizable desktop GUI application 

from the desktop to an embedded device? More than you 

might think, as the AbiWord team found out in spite of years 

of experience in cross-platform development. 

Tomas Frydrych 

Tomas is one of the core developers of the AbiWord project, with which 

he has been involved since the spring of 2000; his main contributions 

include ongoing work on AbiWord's layout engine, in particular complex 

script support (*nix and win32), and AbiWord's revisioning system. In his 

day job at OpenedHand Ltd. he tackles various aspects of the X system 

on embedded platforms, and is involved in development of software for 

the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. 

Tomas lives in Scotland with his wife Linda; his hobbies include running, 

rock-climbing, and mountain-biking, as well as keen interest in 

philosophy of language. 

GPLv3 and Free Software Development 








Ciaran O'Riordan O'Riordan 

Wed 28 15:00 


Tangle Talk 

Wed 28 16:00 


Catwalk Talk 

Ciaran O'Riordan is a software freedom lobbyist working full-time for 

Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) in Brussels. A user of GNU/Linux 

and other free software since 1998, he became active in the legislative 

and legal aspects of software freedom in early 2003 during the 

campaign against software patents in the EU. He was a founder of Irish 

Free Software Organisation in January 2004, and moved to Brussels in 

August 2004 to increase his political work. There, he was hired by FSFE 

and, as well as working on the software patents directive, he has been 

involved in the EU and national legislative process on the topics of copyright and enforcement of 

software-related laws. In 2006, he has taken a lead in spreading information and raising 

awareness on the public consultation for the drafting of version three of the GNU General Public 

License. 



GUADEC Core 

Blind Access Using the Orca Screen Reader 

Orca, currently under development, is a scriptable screen 

reader to help provide low vision and blind access to the 

GNOME desktop. In this talk, the lead of the Orca project will 

provide a demonstration of Orca in action as well as an 

overview of the Orca architecture, describing how one can 

contribute custom application scripts to the Orca project. 

Willie Walker Walker 

Willie Walker is the lead of the Orca screen reader project and has been 

working on accessibility for a little over a decade and a half. He spent his 

earlier years on accessibility developing the AccessX/XKB functionality 

for X Windows, and went on to develop the ICE X Rendezvous 

Mechanism and Remote Access Protocol (RAP). RAP never really got off 

the ground, but it helped lay the foundation for the service-based 

accessibility models in use today. Willie then joined Sun Microsystems to 

help create the Java Accessibility API, and then led a small team in Sun 

Labs to create open source speech synthesis and recognition systems (FreeTTS, and Sphinx-4). 

Building an E-mail Client for Mobile Devices 

This talk presents programming techniques used while 

building an e-mail client for mobile devices. 

Philip Van Van Hoof 

Philip is a Belgian consultant software engineer employed at Cronos/X- 

Tend. Now he is doing a project at Newtec Cy, which involves the 

development of satellite communication infrastructure. He also did a 

project on developing and designing a scientific embedded 

microscopy/robotic product. This he did at Maia Scientific. 

He is the author of the tinymail E-mail framework. This framework is 

used by Nokia, who is developing a new E-mail client for their N770 

device. He also is the maintainer of a few other free software projects, 

and he contributes to some free software projects as well. 

He is fond of using modern development techniques, such as design patterns and agile 

development models. He used these techniques to design the tinymail framework. 


Wed 28 16:00 


Catwalk Talk 

Wed 28 16:00 


Tangle Talk


GUADEC Core 

Keynote: 

Free Software at Sun Microsystems 

With companies like Sun, Novell, and IBM switching to open 

source, it's clearly about more than just "free stuff". Hear 

about "social production", how software gets written, where 

the money comes from, and why this is just the first wave of 

a series of revolutions that will change society profoundly 

and permanently. 

Free and Open Source software is the expression of a 

phenomenon that Yochai Benkler calls "Social Production". This keynote considers the 

models Sun Microsystems uses to understand F/OSS and explores their implications for 

the future. 

Simon Phipps 

Simon Phipps is the Chief Open Source Officer for Sun Microsystems, with 

global responsibility for Sun's Free/Open Source software strategy including 

OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris, and more. He has a deep interest in the nature 

and impact of networks and the social change they produce. Prior to his 

current role, he helped create blogs.sun.com, helped get Sun's President 

blogging, and worked at IBM Hursley where he helped introduce Java and 

XML He has worked on video conferencing, X.25, run a Windows software 

business, and programmed everything from PDAs to mainframes. 

GUADEC Core Closure 

Luis Villa Villa 

Wed 28 17:00 

1. Carpa 

Keynote 

Luis just wrapped up a year as the 'geek in 

residence' at the Berkman Center for Internet 

and Society, working on a variety of software 

Wed 28 18:00 

projects, including StopBadware.org, the 

Digital Music Exchange, and the H2O 

1. Carpa 

educational tools project. Prior to that, he 

was at Ximian and Novell, working on Linuxbased 

desktop projects with global teams of 

Closure 

hackers. His projects included the Evolution PIM, the GNOME 2.0 release (in 

collaboration with Sun), and the Ximian and Novell Linux Desktops. 

In the fall, Luis will start work on a law degree at Columbia Law School in New 

York. 

Luis's undergraduate education was at Duke University, where he majored in political science and 

computer science (neither of which are a science, of course.) While at Duke, Luis attended over one 

hundred basketball games while wearing a devil mask, and co-authored Extreme Mindstorms: An 

Advanced Guide To Lego Mindstorms. 




Development of software for enterprises with GNOME 

Several projects have been started in the last years with the 

common goal of providing the enterprises with free(dom) 

business management software built on top of GTK+ and 

other libraries from the core of GNOME. There are different 

approaches for developing that kind of vertical, dataoriented 

software, but all of them could share some kind of 

efforts, extending and adapting GNOME to the requirements 

they have. In this BoF, people involved or interested in the 

development of business software will meet and discuss 

how to share efforts and experiences and how to make 

GNOME better (also) for the enterprise. 


Juan was born in 1976 in A Corunha, Galiza (Spain). He graduated in 

software engineering at UDC (Universidade da Corunha) in 1999. 

As a co-founder and member of Igalia, a company started in 2001 and 

devoted to free software development and research, he coordinates and 

participates in different free software projects, including Fisterra, started 

in 2003, which provides a framework for developing business 

management software with GNOME technologies. Juan also teaches 

operating systems and programming technologies at UDC, and is just 

finishing his PhD with research in the area of formal verification of 

distributed software. 

Juan has been a GNOME user and member of the community since 2001. 

In 2005 he was responsible for organizing the II Guadec Hispana. During 

the last few years has given talks and published articles in several 

international conferences, some of them doing GNOME and free software 

advocacy. 

Gnome.org Website Revamp 

John Hwang 

This session is designed to provide a forum where we can 

collectively discuss issues related to the upcoming 

gnome.org website revamp efforts. 


Thu 29 10:00 


Topaz BOF 

Thu 29 10:00 


Topaz BOF



Portland - The Linux Desktop untangled 

Application developers targeting the Linux Desktop are 

confronted with a wide range of different desktop 

configuration which makes it difficult to integrate their 

applications with the desktop environment of their user's 

choice. The Portland project set out to create a common set 

of high-level desktop integration APIs that application 

developers can depend on regardless of the environment 

that the user is running. 

Waldo Bastian 

Waldo Bastian is chairman of the OSDL DTL technical board. He works 

for Intel Corporation as a Linux Client Architect in the Channel Platform 

Solutions Group. Before joining Intel in 2005, he worked for SUSE/Novell 

where he led the Desktop team within SUSE Labs. As a long-time 

contributor to the KDE project, Waldo has been involved with desktop 

Linux for more than seven years. Currently, Waldo is involved in the 

OSDL/freedesktop.org Portland project, which is defining a set of highlevel 

APIs that allow applications to integrate more easily with the Linux 

desktop. Waldo is also a member of the OASIS OpenDocument TC. 

Gtk# and Mono Q&A Session 

This session will provide a Q&A session on Gtk# and Mono, 

as well as a place for Mono and Gtk# developers to meet 

and discuss their applications, challenges, and needs, and 

to share recipes of what has been successful in their Mono 

and Gtk# hacking. 

Miguel de Icaza 

Thu 29 11:00 

1. Carpa 

Tangle Talk 

Thu 29 12:00 


Catwalk BOF 

Miguel de Icaza is a free software programmer from Mexico, best known 

for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. 

In 1999, Miguel co-founded Helix Code, a GNOME-oriented free software 

company with Nat Friedman, and employed a large number of other 

GNOME hackers. In 2001, Helix Code, now renamed to Ximian, 

announced the Mono project, a project led by de Icaza, to implement 

Microsoft's new .NET development platform on Linux and Unix-like 

platforms. In August 2003, Ximian was acquired by Novell. 

Miguel has received the Free Software Foundation 1999 Free Software Award and the MIT 

Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999, and he was named one of Time Magazine's 

100 innovators for the new century in September 2000. 




Continuous integration for GNOME 

Having a continuous integration environment for all the 

GNOME modules would be very interesting for the 

developers and advanced users. In the project mailing lists 

there have recently been some discussions about how to set 

up that kind of server. Some people have shown interest 

and even volunteered for helping with the job. In this BOF, 

all the people interested will meet to discuss the best 

approach to take, which tools to use, and how a stable work 

group could be created to maintain the infrastructure. 


Power Management 

Several projects have been started in the last years with the 

common goal of providing the enterprises with free(dom) 

business management software built on top of GTK+ and 

other libraries from the core of GNOME. There are different 

approaches for developing that kind of vertical, dataoriented 

software, but all of them coul... 

Patrick Mochel 


Thu 29 12:00 


Topaz BOF 

Thu 29 15:00 


Tangle Talk



Sofia-SIP in Telepathy IM/VoIP Framework 

This talk covers design, development, and the current status of 

the Telepathy-SIP component, which adds SIP/SIMPLE protocol 

support to the Telepathy IM/VoIP framework. Telepathy-SIP is 

built on top of the Sofia-SIP library, and has been developed in 

cooperation with Telepathy and Sofia-SIP teams. The 

presentation will also provide a quick introduction to Sofia-SIP, 

and the steps taken to make the library more GNOME friendly. 

Kai Vehmanen 

Kai Vehmanen works as a research engineer at the Networking Technologies 

laboratory at the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki, Finland. His current main 

focus is the open-source Sofia-SIP project and SIP in the Telepathy framework. 

Outside work at Nokia, Kai has been an active member of the Linux audio 

development community, and especially the Ecasound and JACK projects. 

Integrated VoIP and IM for 

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and Maemo 

This session will present open source development and a 

demonstration on the Nokia internet tablet of VoIP and IM 

applications for the 770 follow-up SW edition. This will provide a 

concrete example of how open source and corporate 

associations can lead up to quality open SW development for 

product and third party development. 


Thu 29 15:00 


Catwalk Talk 

Thu 29 16:00 


Topaz Talk 

Yannick Pellet is currently heading Application Development inside Nokia’s 

OSSO (Open source Software Operations). His team developed the complete 

application set for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, and maemo. Early on in his 

career, Yannick participated in the first experimental development of a lowbitrate 

video telephony protocol on embedded mobile terminals. 

In 2002, Yannick was part of a team of specialists inside Nokia whose aim was 

to analyze the usage of open source and Linux on embedded devices in a 

corporate environment; he has been involved in open source activities 

around embedded Multimedia and GStreamer such as the DSPGateway. 

Recently, Yannick has been concentrating on growing the OSSO open source activity in application 

development and working on the new editions of the 770 and maemo, particularly promoting the 

development around VoIP and IM and the Telepathy real-time communication framework. 

Yannick holds a MSc in Aeronautic and Electronic engineering from the Ecole Nationale de L’ Aviation 

Civile, in France. 




OLPC ($100 Laptop) BoF 

OLPC plans to ship 5-10 million Linux laptops for children's 

education (primarily into the developing world) during 2007. 

With lots of luck, maybe as many as 100 million systems in 

2008. 

Come talk about what's going on, how you can get involved 

and help us succeed, and all that.... 

Jim Gettys 

Moving the Maemo Handheld Desktop closer to GNOME 

(Maemo/GNOME alignment BOF) 

We will discuss what could be changed in the Maemo 

HandHeld Desktop to steer it closer to the GNOME Desktop 

while preserving good usability in handhelds, as well as 

what could be done in the GNOME Desktop to make that 

easier. 


Carlos Guerreiro leads a software R&D team at Nokia Multimedia 

responsible for the GNOME-based Hildon Application Framework used by 

both Maemo and in turn the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. He holds an MSc 

in Computer Science from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal. 

Before relocating to Helsinki to join Nokia in 2001, he worked as a 

freelance developer in Portugal on various computer graphics and GIS 

software projects. His current interests are in the use and development 

of Linux and free software in handheld devices. He is also keen on using 

GUADEC as an opportunity to make up for lost time by getting stuffed on 

Spanish delicacies. 


Thu 29 17:00 


Tangle BOF 

Thu 29 17:00 


BOF



GNOME and the Distros: 

the Ubuntu Experience 

Sebastien Bacher and Daniel Holbach will present their 

relationship to the GNOME project from an Ubuntu point of 

view. One part of the talk features efforts of the testing 

community, the workflow of bug communication and 

decisions in the release process. Apart from that, 

involvement in the distribution development is highlighted. 

The last part of the talk depicts plans at the horizon to make 

upstream development easier. 

Sébastien Bacher 

Having felt the GNOME love early, Sébastien Bacher contributed to the 

GNOME project in various ways. As a Debian maintainer, he attracted 

attention with his work on GNOME packaging. Furthermore, he triaged 

bugs in the Debian world and for various GNOME modules. 

Today he works on GNOME for Ubuntu, still packaging whole releases in 

a day or two and getting Ubuntu bugs into shape as well. He's one of the 

gnome-control-center module maintainers in GNOME and is as 

passionate as Vincent Untz about French as the primary Ubuntu and 

GNOME language. 

Daniel Holbach 

Daniel Holbach started working on Ubuntu about two years ago, when 

he should have focussed on his thesis instead. Having been a GNOME 

user for ages, he suddenly found himself next to Sébastien "seb128" 

Bacher and tried very hard to live up to Séb's example; managing 

GNOME in Ubuntu and working through huge piles of bug reports. 

Apart from that, Daniel is involved in a lot of Ubuntu's teams and tries to 

make it as easy as possible for teams and their members to achieve 

whatever they're planning to do. 

He lives in Berlin, enjoys Drum'n'Bass music, has a dog named Murphy, 

and started to read Harry Potter in the fourth language. 

Thu 29 18:00 

1. Carpa 

Catwalk Talk 




Opening GNOME to New Contributors 

The goal of this debate is to try to face one of our big 

problems: the apparent difficulty for new people to join the 

GNOME projet. We'll talk about all the problems seen from 

outside, and about the ideas to solve this. 

Elijah Elijah Newren 

Elijah Newren is a doctoral student in mathematics (studying 

computational biofluid dynamics) with an unhealthy addiction to Gnome. 

He got sucked in by one of Luis Villa's Bug Days many years ago, and 

has been trying to draw others into this amazing Gnome community 

with him ever since. He serves as a bugmaster, a co-maintainer for 

libwnck and metacity, and as a release team member; he has also 

dabbled in a bunch of other Gnome projects. 

Beagle BOF/Hackfest 

The purpose of this session is an informal get together for 

people interested in developing Beagle or integrating 

Beagle search in their applications. Joe will provide a quick 

tutorial of how to write a Beagle-enabled application and 

answer any questions about the project, code, or its 

direction. 

Joe Shaw 

Joe Shaw has been hacking on GNOME and GNOME-related program 

activities since 1998. In 2000, he joined Ximian and today works in the 

Linux Desktop Group at Novell. Joe has hacked on dozens of different 

GNOME modules and was an early contributor to freedesktop.org 

projects like D-BUS and HAL. Directly related to his work on HAL, with 

Robert Love he created Project Utopia: an initiative to make hardware 

integration with GNOME seamless, the fruits of which can be seen today 

with GNOME's excellent handling of removable media, autodetection of 

printers, and integration with power management. Joe was one of the 

developers of Dashboard, and today he is the maintainer of Beagle, a 

Linux desktop search infrastructure that will change your life. Joe enjoys 

writing about himself in the third person. 


Fri 30 10:00 


Tangle Debate 

Fri 30 10:00 


Topaz BOF



Itching Your Local(ised) Scratch 

This is an i18n-hackfest: hacking session dedicated to 

internationalization and localization issues we find 

interesting and want to showcase. It's directed at anyone 

wanting to see some hacking love in internationalization 

area. 

Danilo Šegan 

Danilo is one of GTP (Gnome Translation Project) spokespersons, and also a 

comaintainer of intltool and author of xml2po part of gnome-doc-utils: two core 

pieces of i18n infrastructure in Gnome. He has also recently developed the new 

status pages for Gnome docs and l10n, and many simpler l10n-related tools. 

In his time away from computers, he's a student of Mathematical Faculty in 

Belgrade (major in computer science, so not really away from computers), and 

enjoys a lot of beach volleyball whenever it's sunny in Belgrade. He prefers 

homemade apricot brandy over any kind of beer, and doesn't drink coffee, so 

nobody knows what keeps him awake at nights. 


The Emerging Handheld GNOME Ecosystem 

and a Nokia Perspective 

This session will discuss the emerging handheld GNOME 

ecosystem of developers, software projects, distributions, 

service and product companies, and ISVs. It will also provide 

a perspective from Nokia and our efforts with the Nokia 770 

and Maemo. 


Fri 30 10:00 


Topaz Workshop 

Fri 30 11:00 

1. Carpa 

Topaz Talk 




Performance BOF 

This BOF session will discuss remaining performance 

issues,how we want to address them, and how we want to 

approach fixing them when we get back home. 


Python in Maemo 

This session will present the status and future plans of 

Python in Maemo, as well as provide a demonstration. 

Maemo is a free software project for easy handheld 

development. Currently used by Nokia 770, it runs X and 

uses GTK, DBus, and other freedesktop standards. The 

demonstration will show how easy is to port and create 

PyGTK applications on Maemo. 

Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri 

Gustavo Barbieri graduated in computer engineering at UNICAMP/Brazil 

in December 2005. He is now working for Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia 

(INdT, Recife, Brazil), focused on Free and Open Source technologies. 

Gustavo has been a member of the free software community since 1999, 

with patches accepted by a string of projects, among them MPlayer, 

FFMpeg, KDE, Freevo, and PyGTK/Kiwi. 

Gustavo is now working with Python and GTK to improve Eagle, his 

library atop GTK, to make things a bit easier. 


Fri 30 12:00 


Tangle BOF 

Fri 30 12:00 


Talk



Evolution User Interface 

Evolution provides integrated mail, address book, and 

calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. 

This session showcases some of the recent developments in 

the Evolution UI and brings out the issues and challenges 

that are present in the User Interface. 


Evolution provides integrated mail, address book, and calendaring 

functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. This session showcases 

some of the recent developments in the Evolution UI and brings out the 

issues and challenges that are present in the User Interface. 

Dear sysadmins, what do you need? 

The goal of this BOF is to gather all the needs of people 

deploying GNOME. What's working for them? What's not 

working? How could we make their work easier? 

The new admin suite is good news for sysadmins: Pessulus 

makes it easy to lock down a desktop, and Sabayon enables 

everyone to create and deploy user profiles. 

How can we improve this? What are the lockdown needs? Are there other tools that are 

needed to administer a GNOME desktop? 


Fri 30 12:00 


Catwalk BOF 

Fri 30 15:00 


Tangle BOF 




Hackfest on PiTiVi, gst-python, GStreamer and GNonLin 

This session is a hackfest aimed at those wishing to get 

hacking on the PiTiVi video editor, and also the technologies 

involved : gst-python, GNonLin, writing plugins in Python, 

etc. 

Edward Hervey Hervey 

Edward Hervey is the main developer of the PiTIVi video editing software 

based on the GStreamer multimedia framework. Involved in GStreamer 

development since 2003, he is also the maintainer of the Python 

bindings and the GNonLin non-linear editing plugins for GStreamer. 

Apart from slicing videos with a Python knife during the day as a 

developer at Barcelona-based Fluendo, french-born Edward enjoys 

slicing cheese on bread the rest of the time. 

Usability Tests: What Should We Test Next? 

This session will present the status and future plans of 

Python in Maemo, as well as provide a demonstration. 

Maemo is a free software project for easy handheld 

development. Currently used by Nokia 770, it runs X and 

uses GTK, DBus, and other freedesktop standards. The 

demonstration will show how easy is to port and create 

PyGTK applications on Maemo. 

Anna Dirks Dirks 


Fri 30 15:00 


Workshop 

Fri 30 16:00 


Tangle BOF



Designing Applications so That 

the UI Can Be Changed for Different Devices 

GNOME applications will in the future be used on many different 

kinds of devices. These devices' screen sizes and widget sets 

can vary and therefore the UI of the applications have to be 

ported from one device to another. To make this easier and to 

guarantee a broad audience for the applications we would like 

to encourage developers to create UIs that are easy to port. 

One solution for this is using a UI builder to design different UIs 

for different devices and then run them using an interface constructing library. We have 

prototyped this by using Gazpacho and libglade in the Maemo platform. 

Erik Karlsson 

Erik Karlsson has been using GNOME as a development environment 

since version 1.0. After working some years on Symbian and Windows 

platforms, he realized that there are also companies that actually pay for 

working with GNOME. Currently he is working at Nokia with the Maemo 

platform. 

Writing support ( ΑΑΩŌĿÆДЖ ΩŌĿÆДЖ☎) 

) in GNOME, 

how to make *better* * better* 

The GTK+ Input Method has an old database of compose 

sequences that came from XFree86. The current database in 

Xorg is much more extensive and there is a need for an update. 

See bug #321896. 

Simos Xenitellis 

Fri 30 17:00 


Topaz Talk 

Fri 30 17:00 


Tangle Workshop 

When he should be working on his thesis, Simos Xenitellis is instead 

involved in the GNOME Translation Project and the translation of GNOME 

to the Greek language (since 1999). He is a free software advocate, an 

Ubuntero, and a Fedora Ambassador. Simos helps out in the update of 

the multilanguage writing support in GNOME and advocates for the 

DejaVu fonts as the default ones in as many distributions as possible. He 

also assists in mentoring new translation teams for GNOME. 

Having achieved good out-of-the-box Greek support in Ubuntu, Simos, 

along with a bunch of other Greek hackers, have set their sight on Fedora. In addition to this there 

is work on the Greek OLPC. 

Simos Xenitellis holds a MSc in Information Security from the University of London and his PhD is 

on the same subject. 




GUADEC Closure 


Murray Cumming is a freelance software 

developer from the UK who has settled in 

Munich, Germany. Murray maintains the 

GNOME C++ bindings (gtkmm) and the 

Glom database application, and is grateful 

that GNOME has made them possible. He 

has also been a GNOME Foundation board 

director and a member of the release 

team. He tries not to get in the way, and 

tries to keep learning. You can buy his time. 


Fri 30 18:00 

1. Carpa 

Closure


GUADEC-ES / GUADEC-CA 

DeTraS/TempusFugit: Herramientas para la 

investigación en la actividad de los desarrolladores 

La medición de la actividad de los desarrolladores es útil por 

varios motivos. Los jefes de proyecto utilizan técnicas y Sat 24 10:45 

modelos para poder gestionar el proyecto en todas sus fases 

(desde la especificación de requisitos hasta todas las fases de 

pruebas). Uno de los campos más importantes en la gestión de 

un proyecto es la estimación del esfuerzo que nos va a llevar 


realizar todo ese trabajo. Nuestro grupo de investigación, formado por investigadores en 

ingeniería del software y desarrolladores de software libre, está interesado entre otras 

cosas, en las estimaciones de esfuerzo para el software libre. 

En este trabajo se presentará un sistema que nuestro grupo está desarrollando, usando 

tecnología GNOME, destinado a poder realizar mediciones de actividad de los 

desarrolladores con el fin de ayudar a la estimación de costes en el software libre. Este 

sistema está inspirado en una herramienta no finalizada y disponible en el CVS de GNOME 

(timeline), aunque incluye numerosas mejoras. 

En este artículo presentaremos el sistema así como un resumen de las motivaciones que 

nos llevan a su implementación y a su divulgación entre los desarrolladores de GNOME. Ya 

que, más que nunca, será necesaria la colaboración de la comunidad de desarrolladores 

para conseguir que el sistema dé resultados útiles. 


Carlos started developing on GNOME as a contributor to GNOME System 

Tools in 2002. Since then, he has been involved in GNOME, hacking on 

other modules like gnome-applets, gnome-nettool, evince, etc. He is 

currently studying computer science at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 

where he also works for the Libre Software Engineering group 

GsyC/Libresoft. 

Juan José Amor 

Juan José Amor has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from 

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and works on his PhD at the 

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain. Since 1995, he has 

collaborated in several free software related organizations: he has cofounded 

LuCAS, the most known free documentation portal in spanish 

for several years; and Hispalinux, the nation-wide organisation of free 

software users in Spain. Also, he has worked in the preparation GNOME- 

Hispano, the Spanish GNOME User and Developers Group. He is now 

very interested in several open source software related research areas. 

His main interest is effort estimations on open source. 

Gregorio Robles 




Software Libre para un mundo libre 

Quim Gil Gil 

El software libre está técnicamente a punto de caramelo para 

ser utilizado y adoptado mundialmente, pero sin embargo és Sat 24 11:30 

sigue siendo conocido y utilizado por un fragmento 2. Sala d'Actes 

extremamente reducido de la sociedad. Nos preguntamos con 

frecuencia qué estrategias de comunicación y marketing 

debemos adoptar para su difusión mundial pero de momento no hay conclusiones claras. En 

esta presentación proponemos incidir no en ,los aspectos técnicos (el software) sino en su 

capacidad liberadora (lo libre) para conseguir esta conversión mundial. Eso sí, el camino es 

bravo e incómodo, como todo proceso de liberación que se precie. Proponemos 10 acciones 

concretas recogidas de Hechos de los Apóstoles, la narración de otro proceso histórico de 

liberación del que podemos encontrar algunas claves de inspiración leyendo entre lineas. 

¡No es un discurso cristiano! Ni anti-cristiano. Tan sólo un enfoque provocativo a un asunto 

de completa actualidad y relevancia. 

Autotools: 

Automatización, construcción y 

portabilidad de proyectos 


Las herramientas como autoconf y automake son ampliamente 

utilizadas en los proyectos de Software Libre, dentro de los Sat 24 11:30 

cuales se encuentra GNOME. Esta herramientas contribuyen a 

garantizar en forma automatizada el diagnóstico y 

disponibilidad de los requisitos necesario para poder construir 


una aplicación, a la vez que permiten que dicho trabajo se pueda llevar a cabo en sistemas 

distintos a los que dispone el desarrollador, permitiendo que su software esté disponible a 

una mayor audiencia. 

Aunque son muy utilizadas, no todos los desarrolladores tienen suficiente claridad de su 

funcionamiento y, en ocasiones, puede constituir una barrera de entrada a nuevos 

desarrolladores. 

Este tutorial presenta la creación de un proyecto básico, en el cual se explica, en forma 

general, el uso de make y los archivos makefile, para luego introducir en la filosofía de las 

autotools, su funcionamiento y como se integra en el proyecto GNOME. 




Accesibilidad y Software Libre, 

una visión desde GNOME 

En este artículo expondremos los problemas de accesibilidad 

que se les presentan a las personas con discapacidad, 

especialmente a la hora de usar un entorno de escritorio, y las 

soluciones existentes a día de hoy. 

A continuación revisaremos la situación actual de dichas 

soluciones en el contexto del software libre, haciendo especial 

hincapie en el entorno de Gnome. 

David David Cabrero Souto 

Born in 1972, David has been a Linux user since 1993. He earned his 

PhD in computer science at the end of 2002. He is currently working as 

an assistant teacher at the University of A Coruña, Spain. His research 

interests include accesibility to information systems and distributed 

programming. 

Sergio Rodríguez Esquerra 

GLIB y GTK+ 

Se presentan los elementos básicos necesarios para el 

desarrollo de interfaces de usuario en el lenguaje C mediante el 

uso de la biblioteca GTK+. Se introducen los conceptos de 

Widgets, Contenedores, Señales, Callbacks. 

Claudio Saavedra 

Sat 24 12:15 


Sat 24 12:15 


Claudio is a student of Computer Engineering at Universidad de Talca in 

Chile. Currently, as a scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service, 

he is at Technische Universität Dresden, in Germany, attending lectures 

on Computer Science as part of an exchange program (similar to 

Erasmus, but with less parties). 

He began his free software involvement in 2003, as a contributor to 

gyrus, a small tool for administration of IMAP/cyrus servers. During the 

time he maintained the project, he started slowly contributing with 

testing and bug fixing to GNOME modules, gave several talks on GTK+ programming at GNOME 

Chile events, and is currently disturbing Lucas Rochas' work on the Eye of the GNOME. 

Claudio also likes to play guitar, speak German, and play with his new Rubik cube (although he is 

not really proficient at those tasks). 




D-BUS 


La integración entre las distintas aplicaciones que forman el 

escritorio es fundamental para cualquier sistema de escritorio 

profesional como GNOME. Para conseguir esta meta de 

integración es necesario disponer de la tecnología que permita 

a dichas aplicaciones comunicarse unas con otras. Si además 

ésta tecnología es un estándar para todos los sistemas de 

escritorio el resultado es aún mas interesante. D-BUS es la 

tecnología que cumple con todos estos requisitos. 

Accediendo a la configuración 

del sistema a través de Liboobs 

Carlos Gamacho 

Liboobs (Object Oriented Backends System) es una biblioteca 

que sacará partido de la próxima generación de system-toolsbackends. 

ofrecerá una API sencilla de usar, notificación de 

cambios, medidas de seguridad... para poder integrar de forma 

sencilla la configuración del sistema a nivel de escritorio. En 

esta charla se ofrecerá una visión técnica de la biblioteca y de 

la estructura del proyecto, asi como ejemplos de código. 

Sat 24 15:00 


Sat 24 15:45 





Fisterra: 

sharing efforts for developing 

business management software with GNOME 

The Fisterra project defines a common architecture for 

developing business management applications using Gnome 

technologies. The project tries to create a software repository, 

focused on business management software, which includes 

architecture patterns, software componentes and even 

business widgets that can be reused by the community in order 

to create new vertical applications. 

GNOME provides a lot of small and independent tools to manage the daily business 

operations. We are putting our effort in the integration of all these tools trying to provide a 

business management software framework to Gnome. 

The Fisterra project has a three-tier client/server architecture, and supports a lot of 

development technologies, web (Mono) and desktop (GTK), multiplatform features (Gtk#), 

... The communication layer supports both, SOAP and CORBA protocols. The database 

access is designed to support connection providers of the most relevant database 

technologies (GDA). 

This architecture was designed for being modular, trying to ensure an easy integration with 

specific business modules, or new technological approaches, increasing the level of reuse of 

all the implemented code. Authentication, session manager, user authorisation and other 

services or modules can be easily added to this architecture. 

We believe the future of Fisterra could have a place in GNOME plans in order to provide a 

complete and efficient tools suit for supporting the daily operations on the enterprise 

desktop environment. 

In the presentation we will talk about the project history, its main motivations and goals, 

and will try to explain how developers or companies can get involved and help us to make it 

a better solution for developing this kind of software with Gnome. 

Javier Fernández García-Boente 

Sat 24 16:30 


Born in La Coruña on 1977, Javier graduated from the University of A 

Coruña in 2000 with a degree in computer science. Since then, he has 

been working for Igalia SL on the Fisterra project. He worked first as a 

developer, but is now the main coordinator of the project. After the first 

two years, he became associate of Igalia assembly, specializing in 

project management. 

Javier's hobbies are wild parties and all kind of sports, especially roller 

hockey in which he is semi-professional. His new addiction is extreme 

sports. 




Apoyo de gnuLinex a la expansión de GNOME: 

Gambas y Futura 

La propuesta consiste en un taller donde se mostrarán los 

proyectos más novedosos relacionados con GNOME donde 

gnuLinex está aportando apoyo técnico y económico: 

• GAMBAS: un entorno de programación BASIC, donde 

gnuLinex está o añadiendo los componentes necesarios para su compatibilización 

con el entorno GNOME. Se mostrará el uso de esta herramienta, así como su 

capacidad para crear programas compatibles con las bibliotecas o librerías GTK+ y 

QT. 

• Futura: proyecto a largo plazo recién iniciado que plantea la sustitución de o las 

piezas más pesadas de los entornos GNU/Linux por un conjunto de aplicaciones 

que aprovechen de forma más racional los recursos hardware del sistema. Al 

respecto, se hablará de los planes para adaptar GNOME al nuevo entorno, y su 

relación con los dispositivos embebidos. 

Daniel Campos Fernández 

Born in 1974, Daniel began to program in BASIC at 10 years old using a 

Sinclair ZX-81. He continued learning with a MSX Sony computer, and in 

1990 his parents bought him his first PC computer, an Amstrad PC-1512, 

allowing him to work with C and C++. 

Daniel had his first contact with GNU/Linux during his studies in 

informatics. After his studies he began to work as a system 

administrator, teacher, and programmer. He had contact with both 

Windows and GNU/Linux systems, suffering a lot due to the Visual Basic programs he was in 

charge of. However, he saw the potential of rapid developement included in the VB tool, and 

wanted to have something similar but well-done in a GNU/Linux system. 

Daniel decided to collaborate in the GNU/Linux community. After a brief period of involvement 

with the VB.Net clone of Mono, he found the Gambas project made by Benoit Minisini. That was 

just what he wanted: a RAD tool, using BASIC, and led by a genius. 

Daneil began to write the network and compression component for Gambas. A year after that, the 

gnuLinEx project in Extremadura asked him to extend the capabilities of Gambas, to spread the 

usage of this tool in educational systems, and to be in charge of various different projects. 

Currently, Daniel is in charge of both the Futura and Gambas project collaborations from 

gnuLinEx. He collaborates in the gnuLinEx distribution developement, teaches about free software 

in Extremadura, and acts as technical consultant in technology. 


Sat 24 17:45 

2. Sala d'Actes



Python y PyGTK 


Python es un lenguaje bastante común para muchos desarrolladores 

que llevan varios años ligados al Software Libre. Sin embargo, para 

quienes se inician o desean comenzar a contribuir, les resulta poco 

familiar. 

Este tutorial tiene como objetivo mostrar, en un principio, una visión 

general del lenguaje, su simplicidad y elegancia; las convenciones, sintáxis y estructura del lenguaje, de 

tal forma de poder comprender fácilmente el desarrollo de aplicaciones gráficas para el entorno GNOM E 

usando PyGTK. 

A través de PyGTK, y en conjunto con herramientas como Glade o Gazpacho, se pueden construir 

aplicaciones gráficas de manera rápida, sencilla y robusta; y en este tutorial se explicarán los conceptos 

básicos y los controles gráficos de uso general mediante el desarrollo de una mini aplicación 

Mesa Redonda: 

Proyectos en el ámbito hispano 

GNOME GNOME Hispano Hispano 

En esta mesa redonda se debatirá la situación de los proyectos 

de software libre que se desarrollan en el ámbito hispano. La 

temática se centrará sobre el proyecto GNOME. 

Sat 24 17:45 


Sat 24 18:30 





Introducció a GNOME 

Sergio Blanco i Jonathan Hernández 

Hernández 

Aquesta sessió vol ser una introducció a la gent amb pocs o cap 

coneixement de GNU/Linux, i per tant es començarà desde zero 

amb un taller d'instal·lació de la distribució Ubuntu Dapper. Un 

cop instal·lada, es farà una introducció al GNOME 2.14, on es 

veuran les seves possibilitat com a entorn de treball i a nivell 

d'usuari. Finalment, es farà una demostració de les possibilitats 

de l'escriptori 3D del futur GNOME. 

Introducció al desenvolupament d'aplicacions 

per a GNOME 

Ramon Ramon Navarro Navarro i Lluis Sanchez 

En aquesta sessió es donarà una visió global de les diferents 

eines, llenguatges i metodologies disponibles per a 

desenvolupar aplicacions per al GNOME. S'entrarà amb més 

detall en les possibilitats que ofereix la plataforma Mono i 

l'entorn integrat MonoDevelop per a construir aplicacions per al 

GNOME. 

GNOME en català 

Toni Hermoso, Jordi Mas, Jordi Mallach 

Aquesta presentació la faran traductors del projecte GNOME al 

català, i es parlarà de la presència del català al GNOME i les 

aplicacions que incorpora, de plans de futur, de metodologia de 

traducció, així com també es mostraran les eines que s'usen 

habitualment. 

Experiències sobre l'ús del GNOME a l'empresa i 

l'administració 

Francesc Busquets i Josep Gubau 

Aquesta sessió constarà de diverses presentacions realitzades 

per empreses o entitats que utilitzen o han realitzat projectes 

sobre GNOME: 

• Linkat: una distribució educativa de GNU/Linux amb 

GNOME (Francesc Busquets, Generalitat de 

Catalunya - Departament d'Educació i Universitats); 

• Migracions massives a programari lluire en entorn 

GNOME (Josep Gubau, Gnuine) 


Sat 24 15:00 


Sat 24 16:00 


Sat 24 17:00 


Sat 24 18:00 

3. Museu Balaguer



Como perder la virginidad 

(o cómo escribir y mandar tu primer parche) 

Federico Mena 

¿Instalaste software libre en tu máquina, sabes programar y 

quieres aprender cómo contribuir? En este tutorial te 

enseñaremos cómo hacerle cambios al código fuente de un 

programa, cómo documentar esos cambios, y cómo crear un 

"parche" que puedes enviar al autor del programa. 

En este tutorial vamos a ver cómo se le hacen cambios al código fuente de un programa ya 

existente: cómo encontrar el lugar en el que queremos hacer un cambio o arreglar un bug y 

cómo asegurarnos de que nuestro código respeta las reglas del programa. También vamos a 

ver cómo producir un "parche" a partir de nuestros cambios. Veremos cómo documentar 

nuestros cambios, para que la gente sepa qué es lo que hicimos. Este parche se lo podemos 

mandar al autor del programa y así obtener fama y gloria. 

Cómo involucarse en el GNOME extendiendo 

las aplicaciones 


Normalmente los tutoriales enseñan como iniciarse en GNOME 

construyendo aplicaciones desde cero. No obstante, es posible 

comenzar a contribuir en base a las aplicaciones existentes y 

que permiten añadir nuevas funcionalidades a través de 

extensiones. Así, es posible obtener resultados de una forma 

mucho más visible para el iniciado. 

Sun 25 10:00 


Sun 25 10:45 


Este tutorial comprenderá la automatización de tareas a través de la construcción de scripts 

con la herramienta zenity y su integración nautilus. Posteriormente, se explicará la creación 

de extensiones para algunos programas populares, tales como Nautilus, Gimp, Gedit, entre 

otros. En donde se mostrrá el proceso completo, desde el inicio y búsqueda de 

documentación de las interfaces de comunicación con el programa, hasta su construcción y 

prueba. 




Introducción a Mono 

Ramon Navarro y Jordi Campos 

Desde tornatmico.org, una comunidad catalana de Mono, 

mostraremos una visión general de las tecnologías de 

desarrollo sobre Mono que estamos utilizando. 

• Características básicas de C#: tipos genéricos, 

colecciones, eventos, delegates; 

• Desarrollo básico de web y bases de datos utilizando protocolos estándar. Por 

ejemplo, como desarrollar una aplicación web REST utilizando tecnología XML; 

• Desarrollo distribuido con Ice. Información básica sobre Ice. 

Introducción al desarrollo en GNOME con Mono 

Ramon Navarro y Jordi Campos 

Hemos escrito un libro sobre Mono y GTK# en español, y 

queremos introducirlo y hablar sobre como desarrollar una 

aplicación utilizando GTK#. 

MonoDevelop, un IDE para GNOME 

Lluis Sanchez 

MonoDevelop es un entorno integrado de desarrollo (IDE) libre 

para GNOME, principalmente diseñado para trabajar con C# u 

otros lenguajes .NET. Esta sesión dará una visión general de las 

funcionalidades del IDE, y sobre como se puede utilizar para el 

desarrollo de aplicaciones para GNOME. También se hará una 

breve descripción de la arquitectura y del sistema de add-ins. 

Presentación de proyectos basados en Mono 

Sesión abierta para la presentación de proyectos basados en 

Mono. 


Sun 25 15:00 


Sun 25 16:00 


Sun 25 17:00 


Sun 25 18:00 

2. Sala d'Actes

Alexander Bezprozvanny 


Andrei Laperie 

Andrey Kochanov 


Daniel Stone 

Devesh Kothari 

Dirk-Jan Binnema 

Erik Karlsson 

Erkko Anttila 

Ismo Laitinen 

Jakub Pavelek 

Jukka-Pekka Iivonen 

Kai Vehmanen 

Kalle Saarinen 

Karoliina Salmine 

Luc Pionchon 

Makoto Sugano 

Onne Gorter 




Alejandro García 

Iago Toral 

Javier Fernández 

Javier Vázquez 

José Dapena 

José María Casanova 


Sergio Villar 

Xavier Castanho García 


Professional Participants 

Alex Larsson 

Andrew Overholt 

Bastien Nocera 


Carl Worth 

Chris Montgomery 

Christopher Blizzard 

David Zeuthen 

John Palmieri 

Jonathan Blandford 

Matt Barnes 

Matthias Clasen 

Maureen Duffy 

Ray Strode 

Søren Sandmann 

Stan Cox 

Anna Marie Dirks 

Dan Winship 

David Reveman 


Gary Ekker 

Jim Krehl 

Joe Shaw 

JP Rosevear 

Larry Ewing 

Parag Goel 

Robert Love 

Rodrigo Moya 

Scott Reeves 


Ted Haeger 

Alvaro Lopez Ortega 

Brian Nitz 

Calum Benson 

Darren Kenny 

Ghee Teo 

Ginn Chen 

Glynn Foster 

Joerg Barfurth 

Joseph Kowalsk 

Matt Keenan 

Patrick Callahan 

Patrick Gu 

Simon Phipps 

Willie Walker 

Andy Wingo 

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 

Edward Hervey 

Jammie Schmidt 

Jan Schmidt 

Julien Moutte 

Lionel Martin 

Loïc Molinari 

Matthieu Garcia 

Michael Smith 

Pascal Pegaz 

Philippe Normand 

Thomas Vander Stichele 

Wim Taymans 

Zaheer Merali 


John Laerum 


Martyn Russell 


Mikael Hallendal 

Pia Lindström 

Richard Hult 

Tim Janik 

Daniel Campos 

José Angel Díaz Díaz 

Mike Emmel 

Yolanda Sánchez 

Daniel Holbach 

Jeff Waugh 

Sébastien Bacher 

Garmin International 

Kent Bolton 

Sean V. Kelley 


Professional Participants 

Chris Lord 

Emannuelle Bassi 

Iain Holmes 

Jorn Baayen 

Matthew Allun 

Ross Burtom 

Richard Purdie 

Tomas Frydych 

Jon Trowbridge 

Leila Pettersson 

Leslie Hawthorn 

Sean Egan 

Ishu Verma 

Keith Packard 

Pat Mochel 

Sriram Ramkrishna 

Waldo Bastian 

OpenAdvantage 

Jono Bacon 

Paul Cooper 


Dafydd Harries 

Ole Andre Vadla Ravnaas 

Philippe Kalaf 

Robert McQueen 

Rob Taylor 

Others 

Alberto Caso (Adaptia) 

Davyd Madeley 

(Fugro Seismic Imaging) 

Frederic Crozat (Mandriva) 

Ilkka Tuohela (Nixu) 

Ismael Olea 

Jim Gettys (OLPC) 

Philip Van Hoof 

(Cronos, X-tend) 

Sunday John 

(Integrated Software Services) 

Thomas Uhl (Topalis AG) 

William Jon McCann 

(The Johns Hopkins University)


Sudoku 


Basic Words and sentences 

Yes Sí Sí 

No No No 

Thank you Gràcies/Merci Gracias 

Thank you very much 

Moltes gràcies Muchas gracias 

You're welcome De res De nada 

Please Si us plau Por favor 

Excuse me 

(getting attention) Perdoneu Disculpe 

(begging pardon) Perdoneu Perdón 

I'm sorry Em sap greu Lo siento 

Hello Hola Hola 

Hi! Ep/Ei! ¡Hola! 

Goodbye 

(informal) Adéu Adiós 

(formal) A reveure Hasta luego 

So long Fins ara Hasta luego 

Good morning Bon dia Buenos días 

Good afternoon Bona tarda Buenas tardes 

Good evening Bon vespre Buenas noches 

Good night Bona nit Buenas noches 

What's your name? 

Com et dius? ¿Cómo te llamas? 

My name is... Em dic... Me llamo... 

How are you? 

(informal) Com estàs? ¿Cómo estás? (formal) 

Cómo esteu? ¿Cómo estás? 

Fine, thank you Bé, gràcies Bien, gracias 

I'm fine (and you?) 

Bé (i tu?) Bien (¿y tú?) 

What's up? Què tal?/Què hi ha? ¿Qué tal? 

Who is Quim? Qui és en Quim? ¿Quién es Quim? 

How old are you? 

Quants anys tens? ¿Cuantos años tienes? 

What time is it? Quina hora és? ¿Qué hora és? 

Nice to meet you 

Encantat de conèixer-te 

Encantado de conocerte 

I can't speak LANG [well] 

No parlo [gaire bé] el català 

No hablo [bien] español 

Do you speak English? 

Parleu anglès? ¿Hablas inglés? 

Is there someone [here] who speaks English? 

Hi ha algú que parli anglès? 

¿Hay alguien [aquí] que hable inglés? 

I don't understand 

No ho entenct No entiendo 


Dictionary 

English / Catalan / Spanish 

Help! Ajuda!/Socors! ¡Ayuda!/¡Socorro! 

Sun Sol Sol 

Sea Mar Mar 

Beach Platja Playa 

Where is the beach? 

On és la platja? 

¿Dónde está la playa? 

Sun protection Protecció solar Protección solar 

Numbers 

0 Zero Cero 

1 U (the number, ordinal) Uno (number) 

Un (masculine) Uno (masculine) 

Una (femenine) Una (femenine) 

2 Dos (number, masculine) Dos 

Dues (femenine) 

3 Tres Tres 

4 Quatre Cuatro 

5 Cinc Cinco 

6 Sis Seis 

7 Set Siete 

8 Vuit Ocho 

9 Nou Nueve 

10 Deu Diez 

20 Vint Veinte 

50 Cinquanta Cincuenta 

100 Cent Cien 

1000 Mil Mil 

1,000,000 Un milió Un millón 

Half Meitat Mitad 

Less Menys Menos 

More Més Más 

Time 

now ara ahora 

later després después 

before abans antes 

morning matí mañana 

noon migdia mediodía 

afternoon tarda tarde 

night nit noche 

midnight mitjanit medianoche 

one o'clock AM la una (en punt) de la matinada 

una de la mañana 

two o'clock AM les dues (en punt) de la matinada 

dos de la mañana 

ten o'clock AM les deu (en punt) del matí 

diez de la mañana 

one o'clock PM la una una de la tarde 

two o'clock PM la una (en punt) de la tarda 

dos de la tarde 


Personal Pronouns 

I Jo Yo 

You (singular) Tu Tú 

He Ell Él 

She Ella Ella 

It Això (here) Esto (here) 

Allò (there) Eso (there) 

We Nosaltres Nosotros (masculine) 

Nosotras (femenine) 

You (plural) Vosaltres Vosotros (masculine) 

Vosotras (femenine) 

They Ells (masculine) Ellos (masculine) 

Elles (femenine) Ellas (femenine) 

WH Questions 

What... Què... ¿Qué...? 

When... Quan... ¿Cuándo...? 

Where... On... ¿Dónde...? 

Who... Qui... ¿Quién...? 

Whose... De qui... ¿De quién...? 

Which... Quin... (masculine) ¿Cuál...? 

Quina... (femenine) 

How... Com... ¿Cómo...? 

How much... Quant... ¿Cuanto...? 

How much does this cost? 

Quant val això? ¿Cuanto vale esto? 

Verbs 

Come Venir Venir 

Drink Beure Beber 

Eat Menjar Comer 

Go Anar Ir 

Sleep Dormir Dormir 

Talk Parlar Hablar 

Want Voler Querer 

Walk Caminar Andar 

Colors 

black negre negro 

white blanc blanco 

gray gris gris 

red vermell (roig) rojo 

blue blau azul 

yellow groc amarillo 

green verd verde 

orange taronja (carbassa) naranja 

Are there any vacancies for tonight? 

Teniu alguna habitació lliure per a aquesta nit? 

¿Tiene habitaciones [[libres]] para esta noche? 

Where is... On és... ¿Dónde está... 

How much is the ticket? 

Quant val el bitllet? 

¿Cuánto cuesta el billete? 


Dictionary 

One ticket to..., please. 

Un bitllet per a..., si us plau. 

Un billete para..., por favor. 

Where are you going? 

On vas? (you, singular) 

On aneu? (polite (thy), or 'you' plural) 

¿Dónde vas? (you, singular) 

¿Dónde vais? (polite, or 'you' plural) 

Where do you live? 

On vius? (you, singular) 

On viviu? (polite or plural) 

¿Dónde vives? (singular) 

¿Dónde vive usted? (singular and polite) 

¿Dónde viven [ustedes]? (plural and polite) 

How can I get to...? 

Com put anar a...? 

¿Cómo puedo ir a...? 

Where can I find...? 

On put trobar...? 

¿Dónde puedo encontrar...? 

I'm looking for... 

Estic buscant... Estoy buscando...Where is the 

toilet? 

On és el lavabo? 

¿Dónde está /el cuarto de baño/el aseo/el lavabo? 

Problems 

Leave me alone. 

Déixa'm en pau! ¡Déjame en paz! 

Don't touch me! 

No em toquis! ¡No me toques! 

I'll call the police. 

Trucaré a la policia Voy a llamar a la policia 

Police! Policia! ¡Policía! 

Stop! Thief! Atureu el lladre! ¡ Alto, ladrón ! 

I need help. Necessito ajuda Necesito ayuda 

It's an emergency. 

És una urgència Es una emergencia 

I'm lost. Estic perdut/a Estoy perdido/a 

I lost my purse/handbag. 

He perdut la meva bossa 

He perdido mi bolso 

I lost my wallet. 

He perdut la meva cartera 

He perdido mi cartera 

purple 

brown 

porpra 

marró 

púrpura/morado/violeta I'm sick. Estic malalt / No em trobo bé 

marrón 

Me encuentro mal/Estoy enfermo/a 

I've been injured. 

Getting Around 

M'he ferit/fet mal 

I need a doctor. 

Me he herido 

Necessito un metge Necesito un médico 

Can I use your phone? 

Puc fer servir el telèfon? 

¿Podría usar su teléfono? 

Can I borrow your cell phone? 

Puc fer servir el teu mòbil? 

¿Me podría prestar su móvil? 


GUADEC 

GUADEC Hotline 

[English] 646 382 654 

[Spanish, Catalan] 696 737 721 

UPC 938 967 701 

Avinguda Víctor Balaguer s/n 

Museu Víctor Balaguer 938 154 202 

Avinguda Víctor Balaguer s/n 

Museu del Ferrocarril 938 158 491 

Plaça Eduard Maristany s/n 

Vilanova Park 938 933 402 

Carretera Arboç, Km 2,5 


Addresses and Phone Numbers 

General 

Taxi 938 933 241 

933 222 222 

609 384 437 

Vilanova Tourist Office 938 154 517 

Passeig del Carme, s/n 

(Parc de Ribes Roges) 

Vilanova Local Police 092 

Carrer del Pare Garí, s/n 

Emergencies 112 

International code for Spain +34

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