Never has there a better time to start looking at better metrics especially at a time when we are looking to compete with other projects for the hearts and minds of the community. This talk by Georg Link and Sriram Ramkrishna will talk about the work of the App Ecosystem Working Group at CHAOSS - a community driven metrics organization and how we can leverage their work to build a better sustainable ecosystem.

This talk is about GNOME's JavaScript platform. We'll talk about the latest developments in using TypeScript to write GNOME apps, new JavaScript language and GNOME platform features that you can use in your code, gjs.guide and community-led documentation updates, the power at your fingertips with a code sandbox like Workbench, and celebrate some of the past year's contributions. If you write GNOME apps or Shell extensions in JavaScript or TypeScript, don't miss it!

The GTK core team has been working on new GSK renderers for about a year before merging them at the beginning of this year. In this talk we'll present various angles of this effort, and go into some depth to present the technical underpinnings and tradeoffs of GTK's rendering infrastructure.

The presentation should be of particular interest to both app developers who want to get the most out of GTK's rendering capabilities and to prospective GTK contributors. Our goal is to make it enjoyable for anybody with a passing interest in rendering and graphics.

Data sovereignty is often touted as a key principle for ensuring user privacy in the age of always-connected Internet services: the ability to archive and export your information ensures that you cannot be held captive by a provider that falls short on ethics or security. The tricky bit comes when users attempt to unpack their data and put it to use. This talk examines the tools available to access common exported data sets with free software, with an emphasis on how the desktop Linux experience could provide a better and more integrated experience. Datasets examined include email, messaging, media, bookmarks and favorites from discussion forums, geolocation history, health records, contacts and calendars, and social media posts.

A new SDK has been created to improve the developer experience working on WebKitGTK. This talk is aimed at current and potential contributors covering the problems it solves and the workflow of using the SDK.

FOSS communities in Latam are taking an important role as drivers towards the use, adoption, development and contribution to technological solutions such as Linux, Gnome, LibreOffice, OpenStreetMaps, KDE and many more.

It is important to prioritize both the development of new technological innovation projects under a philosophy of open collaboration and to strengthen by contributing to the many that are being executed with a high scale of usability.

As part of the Model, the proposal is to take advantage of activities such as the following:

• Structure an agenda of Meetups among the community.

• Identify some Gnome projects that can be strengthened by the talent of our community in Latam.

• Consolidate specialized development teams around Gnome solutions.

• Maintain the effort of the Gnome Latam Local Team.

• The above allows the maturity of contributors and developers in FOSS projects and especially around Gnome projects.

Gameeky lets young learners and educators create and explore cooperative games and learning experiences.

More specifically:

• Play and explore games with friends.
• Create new games without writing any code.
• Tell stories through these games.
• Nurture artistic skills by designing game objects and creatures.
• Grasp the basics of programming using Python in a LOGO-like experience.
• Mature programming skills by extending games with Python plugins.

Gameeky is a learning tool in the shape of a game engine. Therefore, its primary goal is to provide a better learning experience for programming, arts and other STEAM-related skills. Read more about this project rationale here.

Gameeky is built completely on GNOME technologies.

State of the Union of GNOME OS and what it takes to keep the whole world building.

We will go through all the recent changes in GNOME OS land, what's yet to come and how it makes the lives of developers easier.

We have an internal pad with the contents we want to cover here:

https://hedgedoc.gnome.org/guadec-2024-gnomeos-state-of?both#

In the GNOME 47 cycle, there have been some updates and renewed work on parental controls features and integration across GNOME. This talk will give an overview of what’s changed, what it means for apps and users, and future plans.

Between long and tedious RFCs, web-based alternatives, and non-compliant proprietary apps, GNOME Calendar still stands as one of the best calendaring apps out there - even when considering expensive proprietary alternatives. There are many low and high level challenges in this problem space, but specially over the past two years, significant improvements were made. Let's learn about what are these challenges, what the milestones recently achieved, the tricky usability, accessibility, and compliance challenges that the calendaring domain has, and ideas for the future.

"If you build it, they will come." That's a nice sentiment; sometimes it works. Maybe that's how the charter members of your favorite open source project first came together. But not everybody has a magical sense of how to get involved with your project. And maybe it's time for fresh perspectives. How do you encourage new people to join your project?

Let's focus on one key element of success: accessibility. We will look at why accessibility matters in your open source project, common barriers encountered by users and contributors, and the impact improved accessibility can have on community growth. You will leave with some practical suggestions to improve accessibility in your project.

Humans are bad at writing secure code, and GNOME developers are no exception. GNOME is primarily written using unsafe programming languages where simple mistakes in our code lead to devastating consequences for our users, and we make these mistakes all the time. This talk will review several common programming errors in GNOME code and how to avoid them. But since we know we'll fail at that, we'll need the Flatpak sandbox to save users from the consequences of our mistakes. The Flatpak sandbox is incredible security technology, so why do we keep subverting it?

The GNOME and Flatpak communities must crack down on the widespread abuse of sandbox holes on Flathub and focus more on developing and improving our sandbox portals instead. Unsandboxed applications will never be safe, so it's time for GNOME distributors to move away from shipping traditionally-packaged applications and embrace Flatpak instead.

Jonathan and Federico will give an update on GNOME Crosswords. This app is both a stand-alone game as well as a crossword puzzle editor. Over the past year, we have explored writing it as a stateless application with commutative widgets. It has also been used as a test-bed for porting a complex API to rust.

This talk will cover lessons learned, as well cover some of the intricacies of writing and solving crosswords.

Immutable Linux distributions are talked about a lot. Ease of use and security by the operating system itself and also the applications in read-only file systems and isolated from each other, this an idea coming from smartphone operating systems.

Well before the immutable hype, a decade ago, Canonical, having given up on the smartphone operating system Ubuntu Touch, based on their experience with Touch, they created the immutable system Ubuntu Core, and Snap as packaging system for apps and components.

Later on, they established Snap as universal, distribution-independent packaging system for classic Linux distributions and the Snap Store started offering all kinds of applications, including desktop applications.

Out of that arose Canonical's approach of an immutable desktop distro, Ubuntu Core, with a desktop environment Snap added, Ubuntu Core Desktop.

This talk is about how all this works, the motivations, advantages, challenges, and state-of-the-art ...

In 2017, Ryan Sipes joined the Thunderbird project as its Community Manager. To many at the time, this would be considered a strange role to take on, because the perception was that Thunderbird was abandoned by Mozilla and left for dead. Thus began a journey of wrangling contributors with wildly different visions for the future, finding a model for sustainability and big defeats and victories along the way. Join Ryan to hear about Thunderbird's near-death experience and how the project got from barely surviving to thriving - and how some of the lessons the Thunderbird learned can be applied to your project.

Open source can be daunting for newcomers. Where do you start? What project is a good fit for your skills and interests? Mentorship has become an essential part of the formula for welcoming and retaining open source contributors.

As Google Summer of Code celebrates 20 years, it has become clear how open source communities thrive when they can welcome new contributors from diverse backgrounds more easily into their communities. The interest and need for developers skilled in open source technologies and methodology continues to grow, how can we keep bringing more skilled developers into open source?

Another year has passed, another reason to celebrate the achievements of dozens of contributors. Let's talk about what was achieved in GNOME Shell, Mutter, and related components since last talk, and cover the highlights and latest development plans.

In this two part talk, Behdad will talk about advances in the font format technology that are currently being standardized, which Matthias will talk about advances in GTK text rendering and what to do with Pango.

Building an Open Source Community dedicated to GNOME in a country adapting the open-source culture is full of challenges and opportunities. The talk will be focused on the formation of the GNOME Nepal community in Nepal. It will also focus on the grassroots initiatives taken for the establishment of the community and the activities it has been performing since its formation.

Open-source projects strive to build communities of contributors in geographic areas where they have little or no presence. The goal of this talk is to provide strategies for engaging contributors in underrepresented regions. Certain geographic locations within open-source projects may have limited contributor engagement, posing unique challenges. These areas offer diverse potential contributors, necessitating tailored approaches to effectively engage and integrate new contributors.

One of the major advantages of the GNOME application development platform lies in its ability to be consumed by multiple programming languages, reaching potential new contributors and developers where they feel more comfortable. GObject Introspection is
now used not just for programming languages, but also for documenting and validating API. We are now moving the introspection format directly into the core of our platform, GLib, so that we can rely on it to a greater degree. Maintainers of platform libraries now have to be even more aware of how their API can be described, documented, and used
through introspection. In this presentation, I'll outline what happened, what's coming, and how best to live with introspection.

In this talk I will go through the changes/improvements done in gnome-keyring, gcr and libsecret for the GNOME 46 release, introduce the new D-Bus "Secret Service" provider and latest development plans to improve the infrastructure to manage secrets used by desktop applications.

This talk will cover the roots a this new RAD tool for Gtk 4, the current status and the near future roadmap to version 1.0.
It will cover the basic architecture design and the recommended workflow for new application development.

In December 2022, Emmanuele Bassi wrote a blog post as a call to arms to fix the undermaintained state of PyGObject and make improvements in a few key areas like fundamental types, constructing and disposing objects, and documentation.

Since then, Arjan Molenaar and I joined Christoph Reiter as maintainers. Although there is still a lot of work to do, the state of Python in GNOME has improved. This talk will provide an overview of:

1. The challenges of building up a GNOME community around an undermaintained project.
2. The exciting recent improvements to GNOME Python.
3. Where things are headed next and how others can help get involved.

The Linux community is extremely creative with a wide range of experimental future looking projects. However, these projects often face a harsh reality of limited resources and support.

With flashy new technologies like VR headsets and LLMs to more practical improvements in tablets and cross-device ecosystems, there are a wide range of directions we could be exploring.

My UX research for Google (corporate) and Ink & Switch (Open Source), has shown me how similar this type of work actually is in practice: great ideas are independent of sponsorship. Our future doesn't have to be a copy of what the corporate world wants: we can build our own vision, free from myopic corporate constraints.

But how to we encourage this? How can we fund and build a range of explorations that find our own path? Let's call out what we want, then find out a way to make it happen.

Join us for the GNOME Foundation's Annual General Meeting (AGM). Hear updates from the Foundation Board, ask questions, and learn about the Foundation's proposed Strategic Plan.

Hear about what the design team has been up to for the past year.

Briefly introduce Phosh as a GNOME-based mobile platform. Highlight its unique features and advantages and its current development status.
Will also include:

• Recent Progress
• Community Highlight
• Looking ahead
• Call to action

Also will Encourage developers to try Phosh and contribute to its development. Invite users to test Phosh on their devices and provide feedback.
Highlight community channels and resources for getting involved.

systemd-homed allows individual home directories to be encrypted with unique keys. This brings obvious privacy benefits, such as making it impossible access a logged-out user's files even as an administrator. It can also throw away your encryption keys when you suspend your device, increasing the security of laptops in their most-common state.

Thanks to work made possible by the STF grant, GNOME now integrates with systemd-homed. This talk describes what it took to get here, what new features it gives us, and what still remains to be done

It's a hot new trend! So much hype but it's not something that is going to go away. As a project, we need to talk about about what's happening in this space and what we should do as a project from nothing to or to do some enabling. We'll talk about what is happening in AI space and what to watch out for.

Since the GTK4 port of WebKit was released, a major missing feature was the accessibility of the web contents. Accessibility technologies like Orca couldn't inspect what was the web content visible on screen. But as of GNOME 46, this is (mostly) fixed!

Let's deep dive into how WebKitGTK implements and exposes the accessible information of its web pages, how that conflicted with GTK4's expectations, and also discuss the current state, and potential future improvements.

Sharing on how Ubuntu-MY LoCo team and EndlessOS Communities members helping Malaysia Government agencies in planning and implementing OSS as an alternative to Proprietary Software and Cost Saving. As part of it, OSS communities educate and promote OSS.

Screen reader users have relied on speech synthesis for a long time. In recent years, speech interfaces have become ubiquitous. They are used in many of our daily applications, such as assistants on our phones, smart speakers, navigation apps, and even web sites. With the advent of neural speech engines this domain has a lot of potential.

In this talk I will introduce Spiel, a new framework and library the lowers the barrier for both consuming speech and distributing high quality speech synthesizers on free platforms. I will give an overview of current state of speech APIs, and the opportunities a new speech framework, like Spiel, offers.

In the GNOME 46 / GLib 2.80 cycle, large parts of gobject-introspection got merged into GLib. Why? What’s going on? How does this help anything? I will explain what this means for apps, bindings and documentation.

Last year summer, I participated as a Google Summer of Code contributor for the Pitivi organization. I worked on the project known as the "Closing Credits Clip Generator". This project enhances the Pitivi app by enabling users to create personalized closing credit clips.

Link to the project - .https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2023/projects/4LQURy8D

Join us for a compelling lightning talk on GNOME's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy, where we'll delve into the transformative journey of fostering a diverse and inclusive community. This session will provide an insightful overview of GNOME Foundation's DEI goals, including increasing representation, promoting inclusive practices, and ensuring equitable opportunities.

We'll explore the mission and vision of the GNOME Foundation, highlighting how DEI aligns with and enhances our commitment to empowering individuals through free software. Learn about key milestones and achievements, such as successful DEI programs and initiatives that have positively impacted our community.

Join Executive Director, Holly Million, in discussing the proposed Five-Year Strategic Plan for the Foundation. This is your chance to ask questions, provide feedback, and learn more about the future of the GNOME Foundation.

This workshop is a structured and guided path focused on bringing newcomers closer to GNOME and helping old and new community members to engage and interact actively with each other in a constructive way by organizing different sessions.
We are going to put in practice collaborative methods and games to encourage participants to engage actively and significantly with other community members. The aim is to create an offline platform for community members to share thoughts and ideas while being in a safe and friendly space. Through this workshop I would like to share my experience of working with many diverse people from a wide variety of FLOSS communities.

We are going to organize dedicated moments of open discussion on how the community is evolving and what can be done to make our community spaces even more accessible and welcoming to new contributors.

openQA is an end-to-end testing tool used by several Linux distributions, and since 2021 its been testing each new build of GNOME OS to detect regressions.

Module developers often ask how we can run use this for pre-merge testing in module CI systems, so we catch the regressions before they even land in the ‘main’ branch.

This workshop will show how you can set up openQA testing for your app and start testing your component in GNOME OS on every merge request. We’ll go over the basics of openQA and its test API, and we’ll spend most of the time making real test suites that you can start running in CI.

In this workshop I will focus on showing the intended workflow for application development using Cambalache.

How to create multiples composite templates for use within you project, integrate CSS files and integration with your build system.

You will also have the opportunity to ask any specific questions and get support to start using Cambalache in your application development.

A sign of a healthy and inclusive community is one that is filled with folks from different backgrounds and experiences who navigate these safe spaces, feeling a true sense of BELONGING. The ability to see each other in our whole selves and empathize builds meaningful conversations that can be applied to everything from software engineering, community management, design, and even fundraising.

This workshop will help build your sense of empathy, and give you powerful tools to engage with others in meaningful ways fostering powerful relationship building.

The Travel Committee wants to work together to improve its documentation and processes.

Join in for diverse mini-sessions and engaging activities throughout the workshop. Dive into the Ally Skills workshop, along with icebreaker games. We will break into smaller groups for some of the exercises. Bring your enthusiasm and energy – and join the virtual DEI workshop at GUADEC.

There are two types of workshops: activities and community & networking. These activities are designed to break down social barriers and get to know others in the community better. These kinds of activities and workshops are focused on building empathy skills and being compassionate towards others in the community.
Agenda:
• Icebreakers & Community Social
• Ally Skills workshop

Description

In this remote Hackathon you will learn to enhance the accessibility of the Linux desktop, by contributing with text-to-speech descriptions for GNOME apps. Anyone in the world is welcome to participate!

Pre-requisites

This activity is suitable for beginners, but some familiarity with open source development tools (git, GitLab, Github) is desirable.

Computer setup:

To participate in this workshop, you will need a computer that's running some Linux distribution (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu). Running Windows with WSL won't work for this activity, and won't be given any support.

In addition, you will also need to install flatpak and enable Flathub. For that, please follow the instructions listed for your distro on this page.

Let's discuss ongoing developments of Flatpak and surrounding technologies, like the XDG D-Bus Filter, XDG Portals, and more. There are a variety of topics that would benefit from a higher bandwidth discussion, like the D-Bus Containers1 API, D-Bus filtering rules, new portals, and releases.

Join us for GNOME's first in-person Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) meeting! This meeting is a unique opportunity to contribute to the shaping of GNOME's DEI roadmap, engage in meaningful discussions, and collaborate on actionable plans.