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GUADEC 2016: BoFs

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The Birds of a feather sessions at GUADEC was a great opportunity to sit down and get work done. I participated in the engagement team’s BoF which involved lots of brainstorming for GNOME’s 20th birthday. Over the two days we delegated all the different tasks to do and planned what should be done up to and doing the event. Together with Sri I’ll be working on merchandise for the event which among other things could involve beer mugs.

28795698090_35a9a8ea74_kThe engagement team brainstorm in the form of sticky notes and whiteboard doodles. Picture by Jakub Steiner (CC-BY 2.0).

The BoF days were also spent on Polari work. Florian has had lots of code restructuring patches waiting for review. Hopefully they will enable us to land exciting features such as automatic nickserv authentication support soon. A couple of fixes has also landed which might make bouncer users happy.

I spoke with Philip Chimento about GJS and what could be interesting stuff to work on there. There are patches for having GJS snippets in Builder. I’m also hoping to someday see GJS documentation integrated with developer.gnome.org. I couldn’t attend the GJS BoF itself but heard there was lots of interest in it so I’m looking forward to follow any developments here!

On the last BoF day there was an Ambassadors BoF. We are a lot of open source groups around the world and several also have people from the GNOME community involved in them. We discussed how we could distribute marketing materials and how the engagement team could help the GNOME groups around the world. Personally I’d love to see free and open source groups connect more and share their experiences and knowledge. Another suggestion which came up was to make easily transportable newcomer packages which could contain things like stickers, pin buttons and balloons.

I met both old and new faces and GUADEC this year. Now I’m home, batteries once again loaded over the top with energy. Thanks to GNOME Foundation for sponsoring my travel and stay!
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GUADEC 2016: Core Days

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I’m having the opportunity to once again go to GUADEC. I’ve had many great discussions, There’s so many great people to meet here.

Core Day 1: Friday
On the first core day I held a talk with Carlos about the newcomer initiative. Carlos has been involved for three years while I myself have been involved since around fall last year. Newcomers is a rebrand of GNOME Love and aims to be a clear step-by-step guide aiming to get developers introduced to GNOME development. Currently building relies on Jhbuild but im hoping for an even brighter future. Flatpak and GNOME Nightly SDK have the potential to make building gnome applications completely distribution agnostic. Should Nightly not build one day, we can also in large amount of cases fall back to an older version of nightly from a day or two before without this being a problem for the newcomer. If I made you curious you can watch the talk here.

28342074124_2bab4cfd9d_o-binliMe and Carlos giving the newcomers talk. Picture by Bin Li (CC-NC-SA 2.0)

During the evening there was a nice picnic in the evening with GNOME Games, good watermelon and great fun.

Core Day 2 Saturday
Saturday went with attending talks. To mention a few I attended there is Emmanuelle’s GTK: Are we in the future yet? and GNOME Music: State of the union. In the afternoon I also participated in the AGM where me and Carlos gave a brief review of the year working on the newcomer intiative.

Core Day 3 Sunday
On the third day I held a lighting talk about GUADEC’s streaming artwork. I spoke about the difference between SVG and HTML coordinate systems when applying transformations and how you can script and animate transformations using python and CCC’s intro-outro generator.

During the conference I had the opportunity to talk with many contributors. One of the items which I had on my list of interst was the GNOME developer center and what is going to happen there. I was also approached on the topic of which applications could be suitable for the newcomer guide once they get a nice wiki page and newcomer bugs filed against them.

As volunteer for GUADEC I had the chance to work on a lot of artwork. I made streaming artwork for the talk recordings. I also got requested to make artwork for the unconference slots.

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For this year’s GUADEC T-shirts I created a conference-specific design and a generic design like last year. The conference-specific design was opted for and can be seen below:

28331201703_5188f8b064_zThe red edition of the GUADEC 2016 T-shirt worn by one Benjamin Berg from the local GUADEC team. Picture by Bin Li (CC-NC-SA 2.0)

Big hugs to GNOME Foundation for sponsoring my travel and accomodation. This thanks also goes out to all you donors who enable GNOME Foundation to sponsor contributors like me and events like GUADEC. Stay tuned for a blog post on the BoF days.
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GUADEC in Karlsruhe Awaits

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On Thursday I’m taking a plane to Germany. I’m also accompanied by a friend who’d like to know more about GNOME and get involved in GNOME. Again this year I’m also volunteering – so far I have worked on t-shirts and streaming artwork for GUADEC.

On Friday at 15 in the afternoon I’m going to speak together with Carlos Soriano about the newcomer initiative we have worked on over the past year. Even if you can’t make it to GUADEC, I hear that all talks will be livestreamed, recorded and put on the web. Here’s a pitch:

Since last year GNOME has sported a revamped newcomer experience for developers with the move from GNOME Love to Newcomers (https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers/). The talk is a joint talk by Bastian Ilso and Carlos Soriano explaining what’s new and what lies in the future for GNOME’s newcomers guide.

There is also plenty of exciting changes landing in Polari these days. The Polari team has really expanded since last year and I’m looking much forward to meet together at GUADEC to discuss, design and review code.

I plan to be in Karlsruhe from tomorrow evening and will stay in Karlsruhe until Thursday next week. I’d really like to thank GNOME Foundation for sponsoring my trip, I’m sure it is going to be an enjoyable experience.

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