CHAOSS and GNOME - leveraging the power of community driven metrics (Project Organisation and Governance)

• Sriram Ramkrishna
• Georg Link (CHAOSS Community)

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.

GTK's new renderers - a deep dive (Application Development and Deployment)

• Matthias Clasen
• Benjamin Otte

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.

Developing WebKitGTK Made Easy - wkdev-sdk (Application Development and Deployment)

• Patrick Griffis (Igalia)

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.

Gameeky: A new learning tool built on GNOME to develop STEAM skills (GNOME Open Day)

• Martin Abente Lahaye

[Gameeky][1] 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][2]. Gameeky is [built][3] completely on GNOME technologies. [1]: https://flathub.org/apps/dev.tchx84.Gameeky [2]: https://blogs.gnome.org/tchx84/2023/12/15/gameeky-a-new-learning-tool-to-develop-steam-skills/ [3]: https://github.com/tchx84/gameeky

An update on parental controls for GNOME 47 (Application Development and Deployment)

• Philip Withnall (Endless)

Room: Remote 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.

Before they can come, you have to build it: Making your project accessible to new contributors (Community Building and Diversity)

• Krista Burdine (Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF))

"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.

GNOME Crosswords, Year Three (Application Development and Deployment)

• Federico Mena Quintero
• Jonathan Blandford

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.

Advances in Font Technology (GNOME Open Day)

• Behdad Esfahbod
• Matthias Clasen

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.

Empowering Open-Source Communities: Strategies for Building Contributor Engagement in Underrepresented Geographic Regions (Community Building and Diversity)

• Regina Nkenchor (GNOME)

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.

How can GNOME explore bigger concepts? (Design of User and Developer Experiences)

• Scott Jenson (Self)

Room: Remote 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.

Cambalache: road to version 1.0 (Application Development and Deployment)

• Juan Pablo Ugarte

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.

A phosh status update (Use of GNOME Technologies Outside of the Desktop)

• Arun Mani
• Gotam Gorabh (GNOME Member)

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.

AI - Navigating the chaos (Use of GNOME by Users)

• Sriram Ramkrishna

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.

Open Source Enthusiast and Educator supporting Malaysia Government Open Source Initiative (Community Building and Diversity)

• Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman

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.