GNOME Developer Experience Hackfest

The goal of the hackfest is to improve the overall application developer experience (ISVs, opportunistic developers...).

Define a developer story: "How do I go from opening my code editor to users installing my application?" Come up with a list of requirements to improve such story and define a plan to get there.

Focus

There are three main areas of work we suggest for this hackfest:

  • Tooling (Anjuta, Monodevelop, application bundling, intltool, gtk-doc, autofoo and friends...)
  • Developer docs and mindshare (unified online/offline API reference UI, app developer community building...)
  • Further platform needs (improvement of data driven apps and other needs with unclear answer)
  • Application bundling and sandboxing, application as first class concept in the kernel

Work

Reports

Here we will link all the blog posts published during or after the hackfest, including information about the work done.

Administrivia

Blogging

  • Hashtag: #dxhackfest

Dates & Venue

The Betagroup Co-Working Space in Brussels from the 30th of January until 1st of February, given that FOSDEM starts on the 2nd of February this is a convenient venue and dates for a lot of people who can't travel to Europe that often.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=betagroup&hl=en&ll=50.827951,4.402621&spn=0.009162,0.022724&sll=50.827246,4.402621&sspn=0.009162,0.022724&channel=fe&client=browser-ubuntu&t=m&radius=0.6&hq=betagroup&z=16&iwloc=A

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Accomodation

This is the hotel where all attendees should stay Hotel Brussels Belgium.

For sorting out who shares room with who put yourself in this list: Rooms

Confirmed Attendees

Name

Place of residency

Arrival

Areas

Comments

Room

AlbertoRuiz

Gran Canaria, Spain

Gtk+,waf,API ref docs

FredericPeters

Brussels, Belgium

release team, jhbuild, devhelp, developer.gnome.org

Would need sponsorship (except if in Belgium).

ThomasBechtold

Berlin, Germany

devhelp, d-feet

SebastienGranjoux

Paris, France

30 Jan, 9:23 - Brussels Midi

Anjuta

ChristianHergert

San Francisco, CA

Autotools, gtk, gobject

Should have practical information from GnomeUniversity by then

Seif Lotfy

Frankfurt, Germany

Zeitgeist, community building, python

Would need sponsorship.

107

ZeeshanAli

Helsinki, Finland

Virtualization, UPnP/DLNA

Would be nice to get sponsorship for accommodation

TravisReitter

Walnut Creek, CA, USA

automation, building, tooling, testing

LennartPoettering

Berlin, Germany

30 Jan, 8:35 - Brussels Airport BRU

Apps

KaySievers

Hamburg, Germany

Apps

RyanLortie

Toronto, Ontario

platform

Lodging sponsorship appreciated.

LarsUebernickel

Germany

Platform

Luis de Bethencourt

Tenerife, Spain

Multimedia

AlexanderLarsson

Sweden

Gtk+, App/Bundle story

Lodging sponsorship appreciated.

MegFord

Chicago, IL, USA

community building, web, design

Sponsorship needed.

ColinWalters

Cambridge, MA, USA

introspection,building

AndreiaGaita

Portugal

Introspection, .NET bindings

May need sponsorship

JakubSteiner

Liberec, Czech republic

Design

Lodging sponsorship appreciated.

AllanDay

London, GB

29 Jan, 17:05 - Brussels Midi

Design

Lodging sponsorship appreciated.

WilliamJonMcCann

Cambridge, MA, USA

Design

Lodging sponsorship appreciated.

CosimoCecchi

Cambridge, MA, USA

GTK+, platform integration, UI

Lodging sponsorship appreciated.

Carl-AntonIngmarsson

Sweden

Anjuta

Lodging sponsorship appreciated.

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Seattle, WA, USA

Linux kernel

AleksanderMorgado

Madrid, Spain

29 Jan, 14:20 - Brussels Airport BRU

ModemManager, Tracker, Devhelp

JuanPabloUgarte

Casilda, Argentina

Glade, composite widgets

107

FedericoMenaQuintero

Xalapa, Mexico

GTK+, platform

Sponsorship needed

107

JasperStPierre

Westford, MA

anish

Pune, India

GTK+,Glade,Web

Would need sponsorship.

We have space for 30 people max.

Tentative Attendees

At this point, we are only asking for people interested and willing to go, this is not a definitive list of attendees.

Name

Place of residency

Areas

Comments

DaveNeary

Lyon, France

RobertAncell

New Zealand

BehdadEsfahbod

Toronto, Canada

Autotools, tooling

May be able to host.

TimJanik

Hamburg

JohannesSchmid

Berlin, Germany

Anjuta

Sponsorship appreciated would prefer a European venue

TomeuVizoso

Czech Republic

API docs, Python, introspection

May be able to host (in Cambridge, UK or in Prague, CR)

MikeFabian

Germany

i18n

DodjiSeketeli

Paris, France

Nemiver

Would need sponsorship if not in France

MariusVollmer

Espoo, Finland

PhilipVanHoof

Belgium,Leuven

Tracker, SPARQL,

Can perhaps offer some accommodation nearby Leuven for ~3 people (and drives). But don't expect much, I'm renovating the place

JeremiahFoster

Gothenburg, Sweden

AF_BUS, dbus, systemd testing

DeveloperExperience/Hackfest2013 (last edited 2013-02-14 15:25:10 by MarinaZ)