State of the Shell

• Carlos Garnacho (Red Hat)
• Georges Basile Stavracas Neto (Endless OS Foundation)
• Jonas Ådahl (Red Hat)
• Florian Müllner
• Jonas Dreßler

This session will cover the highlights and latest development plans in Mutter and GNOME Shell.

Mentoring Framework for onboarding underrepresented into FOSS

• Bruna Nayara (pyladiesDF/Big Open source sibling)
• Carla Silva Rocha Aguiar (University of Brasilia (UnB))

The FOSS community does not reflect the people who use technology. Only 2.3% of open-source core developers are women (Of all FOSS contributors, 5.35% are women). In a recent study in FOSS contributors, from the 105,862 developers, 0.20% were perceptible as Black, 4.14% as Hispanic, 84.26% as White. FOSS contributors from countries with lower Human Development have their Pull Requests more often rejected. We will present the Big Open Source Sibling (BOSS), a mentorship framework to onboard underrepresented groups into FOSS, focusing on both technical aspects and nontechnical aspects. The initiative, finalist on the Gnome Engagement Challenge, arises in a Brazilian context, with the understanding that there is a different context in the southern hemisphere, such as language barrier, and social/economic struggles. We introduce the mentorship program, how we address the confidence gap and impostor syndrome, two oppression collateral effects that could prevent underrepresented groups from contributing to FOSS.

From Key to Char - the journey of a key event

• Carlos Garnacho (Red Hat)
• Matthias Clasen

In this presentation, we will take a deep dive into input, following a key event on its journey from it birth in the depths of the kernel, through libinput, the compositor, all the way to the client-side, where it has to brave a few more adventures before it finds its destination and turns into a visible glyph in your text entry. Along the way, we'll pass some strange and wonderful sights, from input threads and ibusses to dead keys and modifiers. This will hopefully be entertaining and educational, and give you some idea of what happens when you type something on your keyboard.

The state of GNOME OS on RISC-V

• Valentin David (Codethink)

GNOME OS is bootable GNOME system built as part of continuous integration for the GNOME releases. So far, GNOME OS has been built for x86 and ARM architectures. RISC-V is a new open standard processor architecture. Some work has been done to bring GNOME OS to RISC-V. However, desktop-ready hardware is still scarce and software support only just there. Thanksfully it is possible to emulate RISC-V hardware to prepare development of GNOME OS for RISC-V. This talk will cover the effort done, show the current state of GNOME OS on RISC-V and detail the future work required.

Writing applications using GTK 4 & Rust

• Bilal Elmoussaoui

With the release of GTK 4 this year, a ton of work has been put into ensuring that the Rust bindings are in a usable state. In this talk, we will see what is the status of the Rust bindings of GTK and other libraries that are part of the platform and why you should consider using Rust in your next GTK application.

Revitalizing GNOME Software

• Philip Withnall (Endless)
• Phaedrus Leeds

GNOME Software is the standard application for managing software on your GNOME desktop. This includes finding applications to install, updating installed applications, keeping your Operating System up-to-date, and installing firmware updates. In recent years the project has been under-resourced and suffered as a consequence. In October 2020 a multi-developer cross-company effort began to invest in maintaining GNOME Software going forward, led primarily by Endless OS Foundation and Red Hat. The goals of this effort are to improve robustness, performance, and user experience. Tobias Bernard and the GNOME Design Team have created a set of mock-ups for refreshing the UI of Software; the implementation of these will be a major goal of the 41 development cycle. Some work has already landed in the 40 release. As always, help is welcome!

Contributing Beyond Code in GNOME

• Ruth Ruth Ikegah (GNOME Engagement)

One year transitioning into Tech from a Biology career path was quite interesting. More intriguing, a zeal to contribute to open source, three months in with the GNOME project as the first discovery. With a scare to contribute via code due to my experience level, I settled for engaging in the community which brought me into some interesting projects beyond code. Starting my contributions as a beginner in tech was an amazing journey and really something worth sharing because I was able to contribute beyond the code by actively helping out other beginners get involved. It took me from submitting talks about including beginners in OSS, making explanatory blog posts, tweeting about OSS, getting involved in onboarding teams to improve the process, and even having one on one calls to help out others get involved. In this talk, I will be sharing my challenges, strategies, and accomplishments so far.

Whoops! Responding Thoughtfully to a Crisis

• Deb Nicholson (Open Source Inititative)

When a project hits crisis mode, often things will start to move very fast. Thinking about how you want to respond to emergencies and how you want to be seen at the end of the fiasco is worth thinking and talking about in advance. This talk is for folks who suspect that one day it could be their turn to handle a crisis and want to be as prepared as possible when it finally happens.

Large GUI application with Python and GTK (Application Development and Deployment)

• Arjan Molenaar

Most applications written in Python remain relatively small. But what happens if your application grows? How can you grow the code base of a dynamically typed language? We'll have a look at Gaphor, a modeling tool written in Python, and see what patterns have been used to keep the code maintainable and extensible.

What's new with JavaScript in GNOME: The 2021 edition (Application Development and Deployment)

• Philip Chimento

This talk is the latest in the yearly series about improvements made in GNOME's JavaScript platform. If you are writing code for a GNOME app or shell extension that uses JavaScript and you want to know how to modernize your code or use new language features, this talk will be interesting for you. If you are curious about the progress made on the garbage collection bug, and what needs to happen before it can be fixed, this talk will be interesting for you. And if you are interested in working on a JavaScript engine and want some ideas for projects to get started with, from beginner through expert level, this talk will definitely be interesting for you!

BoF: XDG Portals

• Georges Basile Stavracas Neto (Endless OS Foundation)

This is the second round of discussions around XDG Portals, after doing the first one at LAS. The topics will include: * Status of various portals (audio, screencasting, etc) * State of portals documentation * Any other news since the last round This BoF is technical; it is expected of attendees to have prior general knowledge about XDG Portals.

Workshop: Let's Talk About Non-Profit Boards

• Deb Nicholson (Open Source Inititative)

BoF: Learn by Building: GitLab CI/CD

• Philip Metz (GitLab)

In this session, you'll learn about GitLab as a DevOps solution by building our tanuki logo in the GitLab UI. We'll cover GitLab basics like pipelines, issues, and general use. Come see how GitLab is the open core solution to your DevOps needs.

LGBTQA+ BoF

• Federico Mena Quintero
• Brett Smith

This session is for everyone LGBTQA+. Whether you're out, not ready to be out, or exploring your identity, you are welcome! We will start with a brief, introductory talk by Brett Smith on what technology means to some of the issues faced by the queer community. We can use this as a starting point for conversation or just chat, hang out, and drink tea and prosecco. This is a social session and meant to be chill and fun. No hate speech or trolling will be tolerated.