The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>GNOME</strong> <strong>Conference</strong><br />
GUADEC Core<br />
Embeddifying Desktop Applications:<br />
Lessons from the AbiWord Experience<br />
What does it take to take a sizable desktop GUI application<br />
from the desktop to an embedded device? More than you<br />
might think, as the AbiWord team found out in spite of years<br />
of experience in cross-platform development.<br />
Tomas Frydrych<br />
Tomas is one of the core developers of the AbiWord project, with which<br />
he has been involved since the spring of 2000; his main contributions<br />
include ongoing work on AbiWord's layout engine, in particular complex<br />
script support (*nix and win32), and AbiWord's revisioning system. In his<br />
day job at OpenedHand Ltd. he tackles various aspects of the X system<br />
on embedded platforms, and is involved in development of software for<br />
the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet.<br />
Tomas lives in Scotland with his wife Linda; his hobbies include running,<br />
rock-climbing, and mountain-biking, as well as keen interest in<br />
philosophy of language.<br />
GPLv3 and Free Software Development<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are numerous third parties developing software on<br />
top of the <strong>GNOME</strong> Platform. One of these is Fugro Seismic<br />
Imaging (http://www.fugro-fsi.com), who develops several<br />
software applications using <strong>GNOME</strong> technology. This talk will<br />
present the pieces of <strong>GNOME</strong> that are in use today within<br />
Fugro SI: what is good, what is bad, what could be a whole<br />
lot better, and what actually works really well.<br />
Ciaran O'Riordan O'Riordan<br />
Wed 28 15:00<br />
4. Sala de Juntes<br />
Tangle Talk<br />
Wed 28 16:00<br />
2. Sala d'Actes<br />
Catwalk Talk<br />
Ciaran O'Riordan is a software freedom lobbyist working full-time for<br />
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) in Brussels. A user of GNU/Linux<br />
and other free software since 1998, he became active in the legislative<br />
and legal aspects of software freedom in early 2003 during the<br />
campaign against software patents in the EU. He was a founder of Irish<br />
Free Software Organisation in January 2004, and moved to Brussels in<br />
August 2004 to increase his political work. <strong>The</strong>re, he was hired by FSFE<br />
and, as well as working on the software patents directive, he has been<br />
involved in the EU and national legislative process on the topics of copyright and enforcement of<br />
software-related laws. In <strong>2006</strong>, he has taken a lead in spreading information and raising<br />
awareness on the public consultation for the drafting of version three of the GNU General Public<br />
License.<br />
June 24–30, <strong>2006</strong> • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 51
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