GOM is a GObject to SQLite DataMapper that simplifies building data rich applications. Developers can use this library to simplify reading and writing from SQLite through a convenient API.

This talk will discuss the basics of getting started with GOM and how to use it in your application. Advanced topics will discuss how to build partially-connected applications that synchronize from a local database.

Christian Hergert

Christian is a database engineer at MongoDB living in San Francisco, California. He can often be found prototyping developer tools, building cars, and driving the California coast.

Fleet Commander is a new project lead by Matthew Barnes and co-developed by Alberto Ruiz that attempts to turn GNOME 3 in the best desktop for sysadmins and large deployments.

It’s core functionality provides the tools neccessary to create configuration profiles through a web interface and deploy those profiles upon users, groups or hosts. Moving forward it intends to provide extended funcionality such as lockdown settings to prevent users from accessing certain apps, adding bookmarks to the web browser or deploy online accounts automagically.

We will present Fleet Commander’s design and roadmap.

Alberto Ruiz

Alberto Ruiz works at Red Hat as the engineering manager of the Evolution, LibreOffice, Firefox and now Fleet Commander teams.

Previous to Red Hat he worked at several GNOME related companies as an engineer such as Canonical, Codehtink and Sun Microsystems.

He was born and raised in Gran Canaria, Spain.

Traditionally, open source applications are written by developers. Often there’s no designer on the initial team and no time or resources to get designers involved.

In recent years, startups are more and more design minded. Especially for open source projects this means we need to advance our design sense to stay competitive and appeal to people.

In this talk I’ll describe the design process of ownCloud: How designers and developers work together, how we share knowledge and how we are building a design team.

(ownCloud is an open source project for data storage, sync and sharing. It also provides applications for management of calendars, contacts, notes and many more – most of it can be connected with GNOME Online Accounts already.)

Jan-Christoph Borchardt

Jan-Christoph Borchardt is an open source designer. Currently his focus is on ownCloud but he is involved with several other open source web projects. It is important for him to bring more design to open source and more open source to design.

In the new GNOME 3.x series we have been working on a new set of core applications for finding and selecting the user’s content. Each application is generically named, tailored to the kind of content that it is meant to handle, and integrates tightly with the cloud and network services. This talk will be about Documents and Photos. We will present the current status of these applications, the high-level design and thoughts behind having them, and shiny plans for the future.

Debarshi Ray

I got my GNOME git account roughly 4 years ago. Currently I maintain the online accounts integration in GNOME, and a couple of new core applications (ie. gnome-documents and gnome-photos). I have been working as a part of the Red Hat Desktop Team since March 2012.

One and a half years ago, I’ve started writing a Twitter client using Gtk+. This is a talk about all the obstacles I’ve faced during development, all the misconceptions my naive self had about open-source and how the community and Gnome helped me on the way.

Timm Bäder

My name is Timm Bäder, I’m currently studying Software Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany — currently in my sixth semester. I’ve been interested in and using Gnome for several years not, lurking in IRC for 3, developing an application for 2 (and since I’ve not had a real job yet, that’s it. sorry).

Last year I presented about new development happening in GNOME to make it geo-aware, through geoclue2, geocode-glib and Maps projects. A lot of progress has has been made since then to turn the dream of geo-aware OS into reality and there is a lot to come in near future. This talk will be about satisfying the curiosity of everyone dying to know about our progress and our future plans with these projects.

Zeeshan Ali

Zeeshan Ali is a GNOME developer who works at Red Hat Inc as a software engineer. He has previous worked on GStreamer, GUPnP and Rygel projects and these days focuses on Boxes and all geo-related software, especially Geoclue. He lived in Helsinki for past 8 years but recently moved to London for better climate and vicinity of fellow gnomies.

It wasn’t very long ago that Boxes was introduced as a ‘preview release’ in GNOME 3.4. At that time it was extremely unstable, unreliable and lacked essential features. The project has come a long way since then. The talk will start with a brief introduction and history lesson. All the new features will then be introduced and demoed, followed by overview of all upcoming features.

Zeeshan Ali

Zeeshan Ali is a GNOME developer who works at Red Hat Inc as a software engineer. He has previous worked on GStreamer, GUPnP and Rygel projects and these days focuses on Boxes and all geo-related software, especially Geoclue. He lived in Helsinki for past 8 years but recently moved to London for better climate and vicinity of fellow gnomies.

How can we help free software to get more sustainable, by providing revenue to those who contribute? How can users needing an improvement contribute to it?

Open Funding is a co-funding platform for free software. It aims at providing a sustainable business model to free software development and common good production. The idea is to enable free software users to contribute to projects by funding them feature by feature, creating a long term relationship between a project and its community. It also takes a professional approach to crowdfunding by enabling users to validate the development, thus committing developers to their results.

Sylvain Le Bon

Sylvain has worked in software for almost 10 years, and has never been satisfied with the way the industry deals with the projects and the skills. That’s why he first created Open Initiative, to help organize projects with agility, and then Open Funding, to provide a new business model for free software, fair and sustainable.

Building on GNOME technologies SDAPS provides a solution to easily run surveys or examinations on paper. Thanks to the powerful utilities such as Cairo and GTK+ it is surprisingly simple to create a project such as SDAPS with its efficient verification interface. This way SDAPS can handle most of the details and you can focus on creating high quality surveys and learning from the results. Thanks to its flexible python design it is possible to embed this tool into your custom workflow. This way it can cater to the various needs of researches, students, teachers or companies.
In this talk you will learn how SDAPS works, what it can be used for, and how you can contribute and extend it for your own needs.

Benjamin Berg

Benjamin Berg is an open source advocate who has been around GNOME ever since he got involved with free software a decade ago. He recently finished his studies of electrical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, where he successfully pushed for the adoption of free software.
He is not afraid of low level electronics and likes to tinker with FPGAs. When working with software he enjoys hacking Python and C and will try to fix issues upstream whenever possible.

Latest developments in GNOME’s Web and its engine WebKitGTK+ has finally closed the gap, giving our platform a beautiful, robust, modern and feature-rich Web browser.
This is a presentation on the state of Web technologies on GNOME, briefly discussing the latest architectural changes and feature additions, and a look at the future.

Eduardo Lima

Eduardo Lima has been a GNOME user and developer for years and has several contributions to various parts of the platform. He is also a member of the awesome Browsers team at Igalia, helping to make Web technologies thrive.