Re: OSCon proposal

[Paul Cooper <pgc linux intel com>]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 08:51 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
> Awesome! 

Yeah, good work Dave.

> Who all will be at OSCON? Would it make sense to meet up there too?

I don't know yet, and if experience to date is any guide I won't know
until a lot nearer the time. I hope they are integrating the Mobile
track properly into the conference rather than as pre-conference session
parallel to the tutorials.

Paul

> Stormy
> 
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         
>         For your information, this presentation was accepted! Yay!
>         Looking
>         forward to getting input closer to the date on things I should
>         be
>         talking about.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Dave.
>         
>         
>         Dave Neary wrote:
>         > Hi all,
>         >
>         > I have submitted a proposal for OSCon 2009 on GNOME Mobile:
>         >
>         > "GNOME Mobile"
>         >
>         > Summary:
>         > GNOME Mobile is a collection of community projects which are
>         at the
>         > heart of an increasing number of mobile Linux platforms. We
>         will present
>         > the genesis of the initiative, the state of the art, and our
>         plans for
>         > the project, as we become increasingly relevant to free
>         software mobile
>         > developers.
>         >
>         > Abstract:
>         > As Linux is increasingly adopted on mobile and embedded
>         platforms,
>         > numerous rich application frameworks have emerged. Many are
>         heavily
>         > proprietary frame-buffer based, but increasingly, free
>         software-based
>         > frameworks are emerging as heavyweights in the domain.
>         >
>         > Technologies which have grown from the GNOME project, such
>         as GTK+,
>         > Clutter, and D-Bus, are at the heart of many of these free
>         software
>         > based frameworks. Through the GNOME Mobile initiative, we
>         encourage
>         > collaboration on common desktop components which are used in
>         the
>         > embedded and mobile space, and ensure that the needs of
>         embedded
>         > developers are central to the design of these components.
>         >
>         > We will present the genesis of the initiative, an overview
>         of the
>         > distributions and devices which ship with these GNOME
>         technologies at
>         > their core, and will highlight some of our priorities for
>         the project in
>         > the near future.
>         >
>         >
>         > Cheers,
>         > Dave.
>         >
>         
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>         Dave Neary
>         GNOME Foundation member
>         dneary gnome org
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