@lndn Stock AOSP? Or #eOS or #iode on there?
Lots of options- when I used a friend's at the #GUADEC conference it seemed pretty snappy, but maybe the rom was optimized.

I will be presenting remotely at GUADEC 2025 in Brescia, Italy! 🇮🇹

I'll be talking about my journey with the Drum Machine app, how it became part of GNOME Circle, and how the GNOME community supports developers in bringing their ideas to life.

@gnome @gnomeapps
#GUADEC2025 #GUADEC #GNOME #GNOMECircle #OpenSource #GTK #Linux

Apparently, both of my #GUADEC talk proposals got accepted? Whaaat?

So y'all are not only going to hear about how widget layout works (or doesn't) in GTK (and other toolkits), but also what modern C++ bindings for GObject libraries look like.

Thinking of doing a nostalgia trip in the land of icon design for GUADEC. Too bad I barely remember any of it. Might need some help from a certain Italian individual.

#gnome #guadec #icon #design #talk #nostalgia

As you can see, there are so many excellent talks given by the people building the actual software you're using! Hopefully this goes to show how important conferences such as LAS, #Akademy and #GUADEC are for our projects and shared ecosystem.

It's official! Registrations for #GUADEC2025 are now open!
🌐 https://events.gnome.org/event/259/
📅 24-29 July
📍 Università degli Studi di Brescia

Psst! We're still looking for sponsors 👀

@gnome
@vanillaos
@usebottles

#GNOME #GUADEC #Linux #OpenSource #UniBS

New on // foss.events: GUADEC by GNOME Foundation on 24-29 July 2025 in Università degli Studi di Brescia in #Brescia, #Italy

Find out more on https://foss.events/2025/07-24-guadec.html

Official account: @gnome
Official hashtag(s): #GUADEC

Call for participation is running until 16.03.2025

#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe

I just submitted two talks for GUADEC before this weekend’s deadline; have you submitted yours? You are running out of time!

Seriously, go do it now! A slightly rushed abstract is better than not submitting it at all.

https://events.gnome.org/event/259/abstracts/

#GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2025

Are you doing something cool with GTK or the GNOME application development platform? Do you want to talk about it in front of the GNOME community? Then you have until March 16 to submit a talk proposal for GUADEC 2025!

https://events.gnome.org/event/259/

#gnome #GUADEC #GUADEC2025

I just submitted a talk proposal for #GUADEC 2025 in Brescia, Italy, from July 24-29.

I'm looking forward to seeing my @gnome people there!

If you plan to present, don't forget that the call for abstracts ends this weekend! Hurry up! https://events.gnome.org/event/259/abstracts/#submit-abstract

#GNOME

L'edizione 2025 del #GUADEC, la conferenza europea degli sviluppatori e degli utenti di #GNOME, si terrà in Italia: a Brescia dal 24 al 29 luglio

https://events.gnome.org/event/259/overview

@KekunPlazas @garrett @cassidy @federicomena @ebassi
If there is no foot in the logo, and if we're leaning into the pointy hats aesthetic instead, I believe we will need to uphold the brand through this specific dress code at conferences:

#GUADEC #GNOME

I hope to attend this year's #GUADEC, especially that it will be in the country where I live :blobfox:

watching the #gnome #guadec agm from the summer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOOlNvkggFI

lots of names i don't recognize! ... and not that easy to search for such a list. if you know of #gnome personalities (are are one) that i should follow, please poke me with a reply. ^_^

@ezyang sorry just saw this, but you should watch #GUADEC keynote with Ryan Sipes about telemetry.

In fact because of that, i and others are looking into telemetry on #GNOME OS.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/08/thunderbird-goes-to-guadec-2024/

@gnome I am visible in this video, when I have been on #GUADEC in Denver, for 9 frames, so less than a second, around 0.19 min into the video.

I'm not very good at the geography of Italy but this new Brussels–Venice sleeper has a stop in Verona, which is apparently 45 minutes by train from Brescia. Relevant for northern Europeans travelling to #GUADEC next summer. https://mas.to/@seatsixtyone/112993897254976750

@morph @pinjontall @adrianyyy @elly

you had to be at Berlin #GUADEC xD

@tbernard maybe we should make a webshop xD

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Reflections on GUADEC 2024

I was lucky enough to attend GNOME’s 2024 conference in Denver. I had a great time, saw many people I haven’t seen this decade, and it was also my first trip into the USA beyond the easternmost parts of the east coast.

It was a unique edition of the conference, we were about 50 people as you can see in the group photo, with another 30-40 people in Berlin. I posted a thread already on what we learned about hybrid conferences.

I have a more thoughts about this year’s event which are complex and contradictory and better discussed face to face. Sometimes you have to hold multiple conflicting thoughts in your head at once. I’ve written some of these thoughts down below.

The world is huge … like really big. Denver is a full EIGHT timezones away from Berlin, right? If you get up at 9AM in Denver then it’s already 5PM in Berlin, and it’ll be 6PM by the time you’ve brushed your teeth. How can you unite two groups of people across such a big time gap?

Having tried it, my feeling that a “federated” event split across different locations at the same time is not a replacement for a single, global in-person event. The community splits according to the geographical distribution of its members, roughly following Conway’s Law.

Travelling back from Denver to Santiago de Compostela took me about 50 hours in the end. It was supposed to be less but there was a 5 hour delay in Denver due to a shortage of air traffic controllers in Newark, which led to missing a connection to Madrid, the next day some bad weather added two more hours of delay, and then the trains from Madrid were largely full so I couldn’t get back home until early evening.

I kind of enjoy travel chaos (and my feeling is that as a society, we’ll only reduce our dependence on air travel if and when it becomes frustratingly inconvenient to use).

I feel lucky that I don’t have to do this kind of trip very frequently. I have more appreciation now for the significant effort people go through to get to events in Europe.

Multiple people in Denver told me they share the feeling I mentioned last month, that many Free Software communities are Euro-centric.

Some benefits to holding a GUADEC in the USA. Inspirational keynotes by local speakers, both Ryan Sipes’ story of Thunderbird, and Stephanie Taylor who is the force behind Google Summer of Code. Meeting contributors who don’t travel to Europe. Media coverage of the GNOME Foundation AGM, in a good way.

I think we missed an opportunity to make more of the event. Involving “the local community” in a summer event is always tricky, as during the summer holidays, “casual” attendees such as students and hobbyists are mostly on holiday. They aren’t usually looking for new software conferences they might attend. That said, GNOME would definitely would benefit from more hands focused on communication outside the project, what we often call “marketing” and “engagement”. It’s a difficult and often thankless task and we have to pay someone to do it. (With all the endless money we have, of course).

I did mention the thing about multiple conflicting ideas at once, right?

Let’s not pretend that a video conference or a hybrid BOF is the same as an in-person meetup. Once you’ve sung karaoke with someone, or explored Meow Wolf, or camped in the desert in Utah together, your relationship is richer than when you only interacted via Gitlab pull requests and BigBlueButton. You have more empathy and you can resolve conflicts better.

Let’s keep exploring new ways to collaborate. Regional events and hybrid events. And accept that these will form bubbles. If you live near members of the GNOME design team and meet in-person with them, you’re going to be able to influence GNOME’s design, more easily than if you live on a continent such as Africa where (to my knowledge) you can’t meet any existing design team members without leaving your continent. If you have a friend who maintains Nautilus it’s going to be easier to get up to speed with Nautilus development yourself, compared to if you’re starting from scratch and you live in a timezone that’s 10 hours offset from Europe.

We want to rethink technical governance in GNOME, which currently somewhat resembles the 15th century Feudal system. (See also, Tobi’s less flippant explanation of how decisions are made). Let’s keep geography in mind when we discuss this. And let’s also think how we can balance out the implicit advantage you get for being based in a certain place, and how we can grow local communities in places that don’t currently have them. I suspect this effort will need to be larger than just the GNOME project, and we can’t be the only community thinking about this stuff.

The USA is just as crazy as you imagine from its TV output. I was ready for beautiful scenery, long car journeys, no pavements, icy air conditioning, unhealthy food and franchises inside of franchises inside of franchises. I was genuinely surprised how hot it gets everywhere — even during my unwanted stopover in Newark the weather was 35° humid heat. And I wasn’t ready for disposable plates, cups and cutlery at every hotel breakfast. I’ve stayed in very cheap and very expensive hotels in many places, and all of them manage to wash and reuse the plates.

I want to see the single location, in-person GUADEC continuing while it’s still possible to do it. Count how many plane tickets were bought this year to attend GNOME events, and compare it to the number of flights taken just by Elon Musk’s private jet. It’s great that we avoided a few dozen plane tickets compared to last year but I’m yet to see a noticeable impact on the airline industry; while the impact on the GNOME project of splitting the community into two physical locations was very noticeable indeed.

We should alternate in-person GUADEC with more radically decentralized events, under a different name. We need to continue developing those as well. Like it or not there are big changes coming in society as the world gets increasingly hot. Tobi outlined all this very well in 2022. Nobody knows exactly what will happen of course, but you can expect that building resilience to change will be worthwhile, to put it very mildly. The key is for this to be something positive rather than a negative. The creation of something new rather than the loss of something we fondly remember. I mean, you can’t claim “GUADEC” is a particularly great name 🙂

It’s easy to write about this stuff in a blog post of course, harder to put into practice, and actually it wasn’t even easy to write…. this has taken me three hours.

Fairphone 5

I was going to write more stuff here but it turns out I had a lot to say about GNOME this month. At FOSDEM 2024, which I could easily attend in-person because I’m European, I saw a great talk by Luca from Fairphone, and decided my next phone would be a Fairphone 5. And I just got one. More on that next month, I guess.

https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2024/08/15/status-update-15-08-2024/

#gnome #guadec

🎙️ talked to @gnome Shell on Mobile main developer @verdre, who told us some crazy stories:

* How GNOME Shell on Mobile got started as @PrototypeFund project
* Relation to Phosh
* Enabling USB host mode on OP6 while hanging out in a bar in Berlin
* Running SailfishOS Aliendalvik on other Linux Mobile distros
* Finding an important security vulnerability in Apple's AirPods
* Mini GUADEC in Berlin

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/42-Interview-verdre-GNOME-Shell-on-Mobile/

#linuxmobile #gnome #gnomemobile #sailfishos #aliendalvik #airpods #guadec