During GNOME Boxes development, a set of GObject-based libraries were developed in order to make interactions with libvirt easier. These libraries let you create VMs and manage their lifecycle, handle automatic OS installation. Boxes also used existing GTK+ widget to embed the graphical display of these VMs.  This talk will be an introduction to the libvirt-glib, libosinfo, spice-gtk libraries, and to the libraries revolving around the libvirt stack in general. It will present how these libraries can be used, as well as where they are headed in the future.

Christophe Fergeau

Christophe has been a free software user and hacker since last century. He started his involvement by helping with the French GNOME translation, and then contributed to Galeon, Rhythmbox, sound-juicer, and to various parts of the GNOME stack.
He joined Red Hat Desktop Team in 2011 and has been working on the SPICE remote display protocol since then.

This talk aims to provide a high-level overview of interesting things that have happened in and around the GStreamer multimedia framework in the last year or so, especially in relation to the Linux desktop.

It is targetted at application developers, desktop users, and anyone with an interest in GStreamer or multimedia in general.

Topics touched will include new application features and higher-level API, such as the new device discovery and device probing API, OpenGL integration, Stereoscopic Video, the new MPEG-Ts section parsing library, and plans going forward.

Tim Müller and Sebastian Dröge

Tim Müller is a GStreamer developer and maintainer. He recently joined forces with GStreamer legends Jan Schmidt and Sebastian Dröge and started Centricular Ltd, a new Open Source consultancy with a focus on GStreamer, cross-platform multimedia and graphics. Tim lives in Bristol, UK.

Sebastian Dröge is, among other things, a free software developer and one of the GStreamer maintainers and core developers since 2006 and also contributes to many other free software projects. Sebastian works at Centricular providing consultancy services around GStreamer and Free Software in general. He is based near Hanover in Germany.

Pitivi, your favorite pythonic video editor using GStreamer, is making progress towards a 1.0 release.
The current state of the project will be covered, providing an overview of the challenges we tackled, a report on Summer of Code projects, and various other contributions from our awesome community. We will also briefly touch on upcoming projects and the status of the 2014 fundraiser effort.

Jeff Fortin

Jeff is a long-time user, designer and tester for the Pitivi and GNOME projects. Since 2011, he has taken over various Pitivi development and maintainership tasks. He spends most of his time doing community management and mentoring new contributors, though he’s not afraid of refactoring large swaths of code in Pitivi to make it more robust, efficient and pythonic.

There’s a constellation of legal constructs that you often hear referred to collectively as “intellectual property law.” That’s a tricky term because it encourages you to think of these three separate legal ideas as more or less the same, even though they’re very different. More importantly, each type of “intellectual property” has different implications for free and open source software developers.

These three concepts were originally designed to provide ownership rights for tangible creations. Software isn’t particularly well-served by any of these mechanisms and so we use different concepts for different parts of our software. Just to make it more confusing, each of these mechanisms has also evolved and expanded over time. If you’ve ever wondered why patents are so tricky when applied to software or how copyright law works, then this the talk for you.

Absolutely none of this is meant to stand in for legal advice. However, your time with a lawyer can be greatly shortened when you have a good grasp of the basic legal concepts going in.

Andrea Casillas

Prior to becoming Director of Linux Defenders at Open Invention Network, Andrea Casillas was a postgraduate fellow at the Institution for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, Assistant Director of the Center for Information Law and Policy and the Director of Peer To Patent an initiative allowing the public to contribute to the USPTO’s patent examination process. She has a J.D. from New York Law School and a B.S. from Arizona State University. Andrea has presented at various conferences including LinuxCon Europe, LinuxCon North America, FSFE Legal Workshop, Open Source Festival, Google Summer of Code, Peer Review Prior Art Roundtable at WIPO in Geneva and the USPTO, in addition to guest lecturing at various universities.

Thanks to everyone who submitted a proposal for speaking at GUADEC 2014.

The papers committee will now evaluate all submissions, and notify the accepted speakers by May 18th.

Over the course of the core conference days, there was a total of 42 talks on a range of subjects, including technological developments and plans, design, and community outreach. There were also two sessions of short “lightning talks” as well as the GNOME Foundation Annual General Meeting. The majority of these sessions were recorded, and are now available to view online.

The videos provide details on the many exciting new developments that are currently happening in GNOME, including hi-resolution display support, our new geolocation framework, new applications, fantastic progress made by our outreach initiatives, Wayland support, and WebKit2 integration.

We’re happy to say that today’s party at the Starobrno Brewery is being sponsored by Mozilla. Join us there from 19.30 for food and some free drinks!

To get there from the venue you can catch tram 1 at Semilasso and get out at Mendlovo náměstí. With tram 12 you should get out at Šilingrovo náměstí and then catch tram 5 down hill to Mendlovo náměstí.

Trams stop around 22.30 so, to get back, catch bus 98 to Hlavní nádraží and then switch to bus 90 if you want to go along tram 1’s line or switch to bus 93 or 99 if you destination is on tram 12’s line.

Robert Bradford’s “Wayland: The future of Linux graphics is here” talk and the “Wayland, the road ahead” panel discussion are going to be swapped today.

See the updated schedule.

If you are at GUADEC join us later today at Fléda for a beer or two.

Doors open at 19.30, please take your badge to identify you and feel free to invite a friend.

Fléda is 4 tram stops away from the venue. Take tram nr. 1 in Semilasso and get out at Hrnčířská.

GUADEC is approaching really fast now. We will be holding a welcome event at Ventana Café on Wednesday, July 31 starting at 16:00 local time. It should end at 21:00.

Ventana Café is just across the street from this year’s venue at the Faculty of Information Technology.

Join us to claim your participant badge and meet everyone!

If you can’t make it to this event look for the registration desk during the conference to get your badge.