Re: Mobile BOF at GUADEC

[Rob Taylor <rob taylor codethink co uk>]

Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It's what you've all been waiting for - the GNOME Mobile BOF at GUADEC
> will be held from 10am until 12 noon on Tuesday, the 8th of July, in the
> appropriately names Meeting Room.
>
> I'm looking forward to seeing you all there! I've created a page in the
> wiki for the mobile BOF at http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2008/MobileBof,
> where I invite you all to sign up and let me know you'll be there, to
> give me an idea of how many people will be there (we can get a bigger
> room if necessary). If anyone has any particular subjects that they'd
> like to see discussed, that's a good place to propose them too.
>
>
> This GUADEC will be one long Mobile festival, from what I can see. I've
> singled out the most interesting sessions for those of us working in
> embedding GNOME, and here's a quick summary of the most attractive sessions:

<snip>

> Thursday the 10th:
> 11:00: Breaking the Silence: Making Applications Talk with Telepathy
> 11:00: Synchronization and the GNOME desktop
> 12:00: IM-up your app! (integrating IM with Telepathy)

I'd also recommend taking at look at:

12:00: Wizbit, a distributed revisioning file system 
(http://guadec.expectnation.com/guadec08/public/schedule/detail/87)

for a different take on the problem for those interested in 
synchronisation..

Thanks,
Rob

> 15:30: Farsight 2: Video-conferencing for the Free Desktop
> 17:30: "Future visions for web content in GNOME" (Webkit keynote)
>
> Friday 11th:
> 11:00: GTK+: The State of the Union
> 11:00: GNOME and Bluetooth, part deux
> 15:30: GUPnP: UPnP made simple
>
> Also recommended, the lightning talks on Friday, which will include a
> presentation on OHM and tidy/clutter
>
> Saturday 12th (tutorials):
> GIO/gvfs Illustrated 2: The Implementation
>
> Add to all that the other fantastic keynotes, and the social events. The
> GUADEC planners have put together a pretty insanely good schedule.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.


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