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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
3. Museu Balaguer
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
2. Sala d'Actes
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.
June 24–30, 2006 • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 27