Returned from GUADEC and again it was a wonderful time.
Big kudos to the organizing team putting together a great
conference! For me to meet everyone is such a adrenaline
rush, and I always feel so pumped when I come back.
Speaking of conferences, I spent a lot of time
volunteering to understand the mechanics of running a local
conference since you know, I have one of my own that is
coming up in a few short weeks. Libre Application Summit
presented by GNOME or LAS GNOME conference.
To say that starting a new conference with a new purpose
is hard is an understatement. It is incredibly difficult to
put a formal conference together. We did West Coast Summit
for two years to make sure that this conference idea works.
Huge kudos to openSUSE for giving the initial funding for
this conference and taking a chance on my idea and vision of
where I wanted to take this conference. I will say the same
for the board as well for enthusiastically embracing LAS
GNOME and the concepts behind it.
We live in a world of changing demographics and as a
project we need to adapt to them. LAS GNOME is an attempt
to show the world that desktops matter in this new world of
containers, cloud, and consumer devices. No longer will we
placidly write software and release them, but instead we are
going to lead. With nearly 20 years of experience writing
desktop software and plumbing, we are at parity with Windows
and OSX.
LAS GNOME has two main goals - 1) Outreach to companies,
government, and organizations and build relationships with
them and have them guide our efforts in building an
application market based on the Linux kernel. 2) Outreach
internally to the kernel, userspace maintainers, and
existing application organizations like Mozilla and Open
Document Foundation and help improve the application story
by improving the OS and creating the kind of conditions that
would create a measurable application market for devices
running the Linux kernel.
Here is the thing - people, companies and organizations
should know about desktop projects. We are the user space
engineers of the Linux operating system. KDE created khtml
which turned into WebKit and is now Blink and now one of the
most popular webapp framework today. GNOME's influence can
be seen in dbus, systemd, logind, gstreamer, pulseaudio and
various other core pieces of userspace. See
http://www.gnome.org/technologies.
Moving forward, flatpak is here and that too will have
influence on how we think of applications today. The fact
of the matter is, anything that gets put forth on a desktop
project is going to be in every Linux based operating system
out there. Nobody has more clout than we (desktop projects)
do in what goes into a distribution. Do not underestimate
our worth.
LAS GNOME will be in Portland, Oregon - Sept 19-23rd at
the Eliot Center. The schedule is finalized except some
tweaks here and there and now working on some great BoFs on
open source marketing, linux graphics drivers, OpenQA/OBS,
flatpak enabling/workshop, and hopefully a string of others
on in the plans. Companies and individuals can expect a
week of being able to talk with everyone across the Linux
eco-system and understand how to get started in a single
place.
I also want to thank everyone who have been working so
hard on this conference. We've overcome so many obstacles
and continue to overcome them as they arrive.
Finally, I want to thank the Foundation for sponsoring me
to GUADEC and allowing me to network with my community about
LAS GNOME.
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