User:Cgaisford/GUADEC2007

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Collaboration

• Online Desktop
  • Keynote: Havoc Pennington and Bryan Clark
  • People Centric Collaboration Meeting
  • Ongoing discussion on desktop-devel-list@gnome.org
• Telepathy
• Banter/Giver
  • Lightning Talks
  • Banter & Giver in "Collaboration within GNOME"
    • Michael Meeks introduced us to presenter
  • Giver users appeared after lightning talk

Desktop

• Online Desktop
  • Keynote: Havoc Pennington and Bryan Clark
  • Leverage existing Web solutions, integrate them into desktop
  • Similar to what we discussed in Cambridge with Nat
• Pyro Desktop
  • Keynote: Alex Gravely
  • I personally disagree with this approach
• Lowfat
  • Presentation on OpenGL desktop
• Federico recognition
  • Commented on the future of the desktop
  • Focus on the apps, let the desktop adapt

Distributions

• Opensuse: Novell Employees
• Fedora: RedHat Employees
• Ubuntu: Everyone else

Presenting

• Many first time presenters
• Subjects about broad technologies and gnome not individual projects
• Mono development
  • Student, first time presenting in English