The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing

The GNOME Conference
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
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
2. Sala d'Actes
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.
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