Jul 16 – 21, 2026
Europe/Madrid timezone

AI code and Open Source: How to GNOME adapt to changing times

Jul 16, 2026, 1:35 PM
25m
25 Minute Presentation - In Person Application Development and Deployment

Description

Artificial Intelligence tools like Claude Code, Google Gemini and OpenAI Codex are quickly evolving and their capabilities are taking great steps forward on a Monthly basis. Already high profile maintainers are looking of making use of AI for their development and maintainer role while others are pushing back. The GNOME community can not be caught flatfooted in this changing environment, but find ways to embrace AI where it can help us accelerate without dissolving our community glue. We also need to find ways to co-exist amicably in a community where people will want to take different personal decisions about AI adoption for the projects they maintain.

Author(s) Bio

Christian F.K. Schaller is a Director of Engineering at Red Hat managing the Display Systems team which among other things maintains and contributes to GNOME on behalf of Red Hat and its products. He has been an active contributor to projects like GNOME, GStreamer and PipeWire for over 20 years.

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Author

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller (Red Hat)

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