Community Engagement Challenge Overview and Update

• Melissa Wu

Room: Track 1 The GNOME Foundation, in partnership with Endless, launched the inaugural Community Education Challenge earlier in 2020. This is an exciting new opportunity to engage beginning coders with the free and open-source software (FOSS) community. Our goal is to encourage individuals or teams to submit stimulating ideas that will connect the next generation of coders to the FOSS community and keep them involved for years to come. Join this talk to learn more about how the Challenge was created, where it is going and how you can support it now and in the future!

GNOME Boxes: Virtualization made simple

• Felipe Borges (Red Hat)

Room: Track 1 This talk will introduce the main features of GNOME Boxes and describe how developers can benefit from it in their development workflow.

Building a career in open source : Lessons and Learnings

• Umang Jain

Room: Track 2 Through this talk, I will share my journey in building my career in free and open source software communities. I will talk about how to filter various open source domains and selecting the projects that align with one's interest. I will talk about how to leverage community's knowledge/experience and get started with first contributions. I will talk about how to start contributions and work on your visibility in the community. I will then proceed to unveil the strategy of how to take bigger roles in the community and start to develop a full time career in that domain, preferably interacting with folks working with corporate backers those have immense support to the community, which will ensure a sustainable way to keep contributing to the community. The reason to do this talk, is primarily that, I have seen people struggling to make a full time dedicated career in open source, especially recent graduates out of university. Participartion and growth of open source is organic, which means recent graduates mostly do not have much idea on how to start a career. Hence, I will try to address these problems specifically, associating with my learnings and experience.

Developing native desktop applications with GTK

• Felipe Borges

Room: Track 1 Learn the basics for creating native desktop applications using GTK, GNOME Builder, and Flatpak.

Maintaining Inkscape Community in Campus during Pandemic

• Bayu Aji

Room: Track 2 One of the most important things in an open source community is how we try to keep activities and communication going well. Under normal conditions, we can simply arrange some physical meetings, eat & share, or tutorial sessions. However, the Covid-19 pandemic makes us have to adapt in everything. There are no physical gatherings of large numbers, time limit on physical meetings, and everything is online. This is certainly a challenge for a local community which usually hold physical meetings or offline events. like it or not, we have to adapt too. In this presentation I will share about my experience when starting the Inkscape community on campus, what activities we do, and what strategies we have tried to maintain community activities during the pandemic.

Designing UX for CLI Application

• Adityo Pratomo

Room: Track 1 CLI application is one of the powerful tools known to developers. It exposes a lot of core functionalities required to operate a system, acquire data, investigates logs, and many more. It has been a ubiquitous component of a system since the personal computer's early days. Fast forward to modern days, the advent of various programming language and tools that enables the development of CLI application and normalizes its usage for any level of developers, has brought the thinking to improve the overall experience. When we think of Developer Experience, improving UX of CLI application can be a huge factor that helps to achieve the epic goal. In this talk, I will share several points of thinking, that goes when trying to improve the UX of a CLI application. We will look at some of the prime examples as well as giving a quick tour of how to achieve this using Rust.

Flathub – app store and build service for Linux

• Bartłomiej Piotrowski

Room: Track 1 Imagine you wrote a new text editor which will completely disrupt the market of Linux desktop. You've just pushed the first stable release to GitHub and… nothing happened. Turns out there are at least 8 Linux distributions; each ships different, incompatible versions of dependencies used by your application; only 3 share similar, but not the same packaging systems and two require donating your kidney to take your package into the review process. Congratulations! You are no longer a developer, you are a package maintainer now. Just as Docker simplified deployments for servers, Flatpak lets you package your application once and run it almost everywhere. Flathub is a build and distribution service for Linux desktop applications created with Flatpak. Let's talk about how Flathub works, how to submit a new application and what you can do to help the project.

GNU/Linux applications in Education

• Joydeep Sen Gupta

Room: Track 2 The purpose of my talk is to make people, especially in academia, aware that GNU/Linux and free/libre open source software can be easily used at universities and schools, and the benefits in doing so! I’m going to touch upon the following topics: - A brief introduction to GNU/Linux. - Reasons to use GNU/Linux instead of Windows. - Reasons to not spend tons of money in proprietary software licenses for every single student and just use free/libre software. - Getting started with insert distro (for most of the presentation I will use Fedora since this is what I personally use, but what I am going to demonstrate is distro agnostic). - Introduction to Moodle and NextCloud implementation at university/schools. - Open source tools for remote classes/conferences.

Front End Developer Weapons in GNOME

• Yudhi Satrio

Room: Track 1 GNOME is a crazy rich desktop (quote from Ahmad Haris). But not many Front End Developer using Linux. I'm a unique one, I'm using Linux and I'm Front End Developer. The tools under GNOME environment is powerful actually. So I want to share the weapons I'm using everyday coding under Linux.