The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing
The GNOME Conference 2006 Booklet - GNOME Project Listing
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>GNOME</strong> <strong>Conference</strong><br />
After Hours Workshops<br />
Portland - <strong>The</strong> Linux Desktop untangled<br />
Application developers targeting the Linux Desktop are<br />
confronted with a wide range of different desktop<br />
configuration which makes it difficult to integrate their<br />
applications with the desktop environment of their user's<br />
choice. <strong>The</strong> Portland project set out to create a common set<br />
of high-level desktop integration APIs that application<br />
developers can depend on regardless of the environment<br />
that the user is running.<br />
Waldo Bastian<br />
Waldo Bastian is chairman of the OSDL DTL technical board. He works<br />
for Intel Corporation as a Linux Client Architect in the Channel Platform<br />
Solutions Group. Before joining Intel in 2005, he worked for SUSE/Novell<br />
where he led the Desktop team within SUSE Labs. As a long-time<br />
contributor to the KDE project, Waldo has been involved with desktop<br />
Linux for more than seven years. Currently, Waldo is involved in the<br />
OSDL/freedesktop.org Portland project, which is defining a set of highlevel<br />
APIs that allow applications to integrate more easily with the Linux<br />
desktop. Waldo is also a member of the OASIS OpenDocument TC.<br />
Gtk# and Mono Q&A Session<br />
This session will provide a Q&A session on Gtk# and Mono,<br />
as well as a place for Mono and Gtk# developers to meet<br />
and discuss their applications, challenges, and needs, and<br />
to share recipes of what has been successful in their Mono<br />
and Gtk# hacking.<br />
Miguel de Icaza<br />
Thu 29 11:00<br />
1. Carpa<br />
Tangle Talk<br />
Thu 29 12:00<br />
2. Sala d'Actes<br />
Catwalk BOF<br />
Miguel de Icaza is a free software programmer from Mexico, best known<br />
for starting the <strong>GNOME</strong> and Mono projects.<br />
In 1999, Miguel co-founded Helix Code, a <strong>GNOME</strong>-oriented free software<br />
company with Nat Friedman, and employed a large number of other<br />
<strong>GNOME</strong> hackers. In 2001, Helix Code, now renamed to Ximian,<br />
announced the Mono project, a project led by de Icaza, to implement<br />
Microsoft's new .NET development platform on Linux and Unix-like<br />
platforms. In August 2003, Ximian was acquired by Novell.<br />
Miguel has received the Free Software Foundation 1999 Free Software Award and the MIT<br />
Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999, and he was named one of Time Magazine's<br />
100 innovators for the new century in September 2000.<br />
June 24–30, <strong>2006</strong> • Vilanova (Catalonia – Spain) 55
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