The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing

The GNOME Conference
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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
Catwalk Tutorial
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.
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