#guadec — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #guadec, aggregated by home.social.
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Last year I proposed a series of changes in the technical governance of the GNOME project; during this year's GUADEC, I presented the current state of the effort, and what's missing to make it complete.
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Last year I proposed a series of changes in the technical governance of the GNOME project; during this year's GUADEC, I presented the current state of the effort, and what's missing to make it complete.
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Jakub Steiner kicked off GUADEC by presenting the future of SVG icons in GTK - GNOME apps will soon get to leverage these to have smarter, animated icons!
Watch the talk here 👉️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD0I75rbI48
Support GNOME to help make GUADEC possible 👉️ https://donate.gnome.org
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Jakub Steiner kicked off GUADEC by presenting the future of SVG icons in GTK - GNOME apps will soon get to leverage these to have smarter, animated icons!
Watch the talk here 👉️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD0I75rbI48
Support GNOME to help make GUADEC possible 👉️ https://donate.gnome.org
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My Tracy profiling talk from #GUADEC is now up as an individual video, and I have prepared full edited English subtitles for it! (enable subtitles in YouTube)
https://youtu.be/KFp3iCdlP7c?list=PLca7aIB6SD3E
Thanks @bragefuglseth for cutting up the livestreams and uploading the subs!
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My Tracy profiling talk from #GUADEC is now up as an individual video, and I have prepared full edited English subtitles for it! (enable subtitles in YouTube)
https://youtu.be/KFp3iCdlP7c?list=PLca7aIB6SD3E
Thanks @bragefuglseth for cutting up the livestreams and uploading the subs!
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If anyone missed it, my #GUADEC talk is now online on YouTube 😇️
Other talks are (being) uploaded as well, so check it out if you're interested.
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If anyone missed it, my #GUADEC talk is now online on YouTube 😇️
Other talks are (being) uploaded as well, so check it out if you're interested.
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After a smaller tour through continental western Europe (Spain, Netherlands, Germany and Belgium), finally back on my way home.
While it’s been a very worthwhile trip with my first #GUADEC ever, a longer visit to my parents in the Netherlands and exploring the lovely city of Gent together with my wife. I would be lying if I’d say I’m not happy to finally sleep in my own bed again.
GUADEC travel blog will follow later next week once I caught up with my other responsibilities :)
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After a smaller tour through continental western Europe (Spain, Netherlands, Germany and Belgium), finally back on my way home.
While it’s been a very worthwhile trip with my first #GUADEC ever, a longer visit to my parents in the Netherlands and exploring the lovely city of Gent together with my wife. I would be lying if I’d say I’m not happy to finally sleep in my own bed again.
GUADEC travel blog will follow later next week once I caught up with my other responsibilities :)
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22nd July 2026
I got funding from my employer to attend the GNOME conference, and one of the requirements is that I write a “conference report” mail with a summary of what I got out of it.
I’m going to share that email here, with a bit of extra context. If you’re reading my blog — you’re either quite involved in GNOME, or maybe you know me personally and don’t have much of a clue why I go on about gnomes all the time. This email was written for an audience which is largely software engineers, many with an interest in open source and many using GNOME to do their work, but relatively few who are actively developing desktop software or participating as volunteers in big open source projects.
I’m just back from the GNOME project’s annual meetup. This year it was in A Coruña (near my adopted home town Santiago), where the University has a functioning Linux user group (GPUL) and 5 members did an amazing job as the local organizing team.
The conference is open to GNOME users and anyone interested in open computer interfaces, but it tends towards *intra-project* communication since its the one time that everyone in GNOME gets into a single place.
Given that, the talk I’m going to recommend is part 2 of the GNOME Foundation AGM:
https://www.youtube.com/live/Q4O7dhreLDU?si=eGxbIIq3TkVtuty1&t=6739
If you’ve been in the software world more than 5 minutes you’ll know that high quality code doesn’t go on trees, and if you’ve been involved in any kind of community-led initiative you’ll know that volunteers do not just appear out of nowhere either. GNOME provides a nice interface to use your computer, but also an independent legal entity that is funded and managed by its members, with membership open to anyone who participates actively in the project, and a Board of Directors elected democratically from the membership.
This part of the AGM was mainly presented by Allan Day, he is primarily a UI designer working at Red Hat but has also dedicated a lot of energy to the non-profit Foundation during a series of quite turbulent years, and for the last year was acting as President of the foundation.
Some highlights from the presentation if you don’t want to watch the whole thing:- There are now nearly 1,000 recurring monthly donations from individuals via the “Friends of GNOME” program.
- This allows running a year-long “Fellowship” initiative which will fund the work of two long-time volunteer contributors.
- The Foundation has successfully cut expenses in the last 2 years, including reducing the number of paid staff, and balanced its budget in the short term.
- Many of the people currently running the Foundation are overworked and dealing with burnout.
- There needs to be an active effort to maintain and increase the number of monthly donors for the project to survive.
This kind of management work might seem dry, but its really an essential part of any project with more than a handful of members, and I think Allan’s intuitions as a designer meant that the presentation was a lot more informative and accessible to outsiders than your average AGM.
Of course, GUADEC is also a good place to find a subset of the Freedesktop SDK community. I did a lightning talk about my mission to allow swapping out the shell & utilities in Freedesktop SDK:
<https://www.youtube.com/live/Q4O7dhreLDU?si=DFHAFHJxnG8j7SLh&t=26403>. And we landed this branch in time for FDSDK 26.08, which is good news for those of us building operating systems with FDSDK and BuildStream.
There is plenty more to watch in the videos if you’re interested in open source desktop and mobile software… including some talks by Abderrahim and some workshops run by Javier, but I’ll leave them to highlight what happened in those 😉
Thanks as always to Codethink for sponsoring us to attend.
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22nd July 2026
I got funding from my employer to attend the GNOME conference, and one of the requirements is that I write a “conference report” mail with a summary of what I got out of it.
I’m going to share that email here, with a bit of extra context. If you’re reading my blog — you’re either quite involved in GNOME, or maybe you know me personally and don’t have much of a clue why I go on about gnomes all the time. This email was written for an audience which is largely software engineers, many with an interest in open source and many using GNOME to do their work, but relatively few who are actively developing desktop software or participating as volunteers in big open source projects.
I’m just back from the GNOME project’s annual meetup. This year it was in A Coruña (near my adopted home town Santiago), where the University has a functioning Linux user group (GPUL) and 5 members did an amazing job as the local organizing team.
The conference is open to GNOME users and anyone interested in open computer interfaces, but it tends towards *intra-project* communication since its the one time that everyone in GNOME gets into a single place.
Given that, the talk I’m going to recommend is part 2 of the GNOME Foundation AGM:
https://www.youtube.com/live/Q4O7dhreLDU?si=eGxbIIq3TkVtuty1&t=6739
If you’ve been in the software world more than 5 minutes you’ll know that high quality code doesn’t go on trees, and if you’ve been involved in any kind of community-led initiative you’ll know that volunteers do not just appear out of nowhere either. GNOME provides a nice interface to use your computer, but also an independent legal entity that is funded and managed by its members, with membership open to anyone who participates actively in the project, and a Board of Directors elected democratically from the membership.
This part of the AGM was mainly presented by Allan Day, he is primarily a UI designer working at Red Hat but has also dedicated a lot of energy to the non-profit Foundation during a series of quite turbulent years, and for the last year was acting as President of the foundation.
Some highlights from the presentation if you don’t want to watch the whole thing:- There are now nearly 1,000 recurring monthly donations from individuals via the “Friends of GNOME” program.
- This allows running a year-long “Fellowship” initiative which will fund the work of two long-time volunteer contributors.
- The Foundation has successfully cut expenses in the last 2 years, including reducing the number of paid staff, and balanced its budget in the short term.
- Many of the people currently running the Foundation are overworked and dealing with burnout.
- There needs to be an active effort to maintain and increase the number of monthly donors for the project to survive.
This kind of management work might seem dry, but its really an essential part of any project with more than a handful of members, and I think Allan’s intuitions as a designer meant that the presentation was a lot more informative and accessible to outsiders than your average AGM.
Of course, GUADEC is also a good place to find a subset of the Freedesktop SDK community. I did a lightning talk about my mission to allow swapping out the shell & utilities in Freedesktop SDK:
<https://www.youtube.com/live/Q4O7dhreLDU?si=DFHAFHJxnG8j7SLh&t=26403>. And we landed this branch in time for FDSDK 26.08, which is good news for those of us building operating systems with FDSDK and BuildStream.
There is plenty more to watch in the videos if you’re interested in open source desktop and mobile software… including some talks by Abderrahim and some workshops run by Javier, but I’ll leave them to highlight what happened in those 😉
Thanks as always to Codethink for sponsoring us to attend.
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Team #GUADEC did a pretty good job on yesterday's football World Cup final !! :) #GUADEC2026
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Team #GUADEC did a pretty good job on yesterday's football World Cup final !! :) #GUADEC2026
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During yesterday's Annual General Meeting we learned about upcoming Flathub plans:
- Github → self-hosted Forgejo instance migration
- Website SSO
- App submission website
- Partial OSTree → OCI registry migration
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During yesterday's Annual General Meeting we learned about upcoming Flathub plans:
- Github → self-hosted Forgejo instance migration
- Website SSO
- App submission website
- Partial OSTree → OCI registry migration
- Improve build reproducibility -
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Finally found the official GNOME branded ice cream in A Coruña.
Sorry for making y’all aware of the existence of this thing.
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Finally found the official GNOME branded ice cream in A Coruña.
Sorry for making y’all aware of the existence of this thing.
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Shout out to the local team for all of their months of hard work and organizing plus all of their support these past few days to make this GUADEC wonderful. 👏
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Shout out to the local team for all of their months of hard work and organizing plus all of their support these past few days to make this GUADEC wonderful. 👏
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Closing time! The first part of GUADEC is coming to a close… but wait! There are two more days of BoFs/workshops.
Thank you to all presenters and attendees for a wonderful three days of talks; you can catch them all from the live streams here: https://youtube.com/@gnomedesktop
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Closing time! The first part of GUADEC is coming to a close… but wait! There are two more days of BoFs/workshops.
Thank you to all presenters and attendees for a wonderful three days of talks; you can catch them all from the live streams here: https://youtube.com/@gnomedesktop
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OK, the @gnome Release Team #GUADEC meeting is now done!" #GUADEC2026
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OK, the @gnome Release Team #GUADEC meeting is now done!" #GUADEC2026
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Ivan Molodetskikh is currently showcasing his work optimising Shell during the GNOME STF using Tracy, and how you can use it to optimise your own apps with ease!
Watch on Track 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4O7dhreLDU
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Ivan Molodetskikh is currently showcasing his work optimising Shell during the GNOME STF using Tracy, and how you can use it to optimise your own apps with ease!
Watch on Track 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4O7dhreLDU
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Some other highlights:
• Previously-experimental features have graduated to be fully supported and enabled by default, including fractional scaling and VRR
• Screen sharing improvements including HDR support
• Wide color gamut improvements
Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/live/Q4O7dhreLDU
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Some other highlights:
• Previously-experimental features have graduated to be fully supported and enabled by default, including fractional scaling and VRR
• Screen sharing improvements including HDR support
• Wide color gamut improvements
Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/live/Q4O7dhreLDU
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Our amazing Shell and Mutter developers updating us on happenings in the project, including a very happy crowd at the announcement of no X11 backend in Mutter!
Follow on Track 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4O7dhreLDU
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Our amazing Shell and Mutter developers updating us on happenings in the project, including a very happy crowd at the announcement of no X11 backend in Mutter!
Follow on Track 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4O7dhreLDU
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@cassidy Presenting Flathub plans on the #GUADEC2026 AGM, exciting things to come.
Looking forward to be able to move the infrastructure away from GitHub, eventually.
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@cassidy Presenting Flathub plans on the #GUADEC2026 AGM, exciting things to come.
Looking forward to be able to move the infrastructure away from GitHub, eventually.
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It’s day 3 of GUADEC, and Allan is chairing the GNOME foundation’s annual general meeting
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It’s day 3 of GUADEC, and Allan is chairing the GNOME foundation’s annual general meeting
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As part of this Friday night's procrastination, and since I am not jetlagged by #GUADEC, I bring you: harmonized GUI terminology for SIGSTOP/SIGTERM/SIGKILL that is less confusing for the average human (or gnome…) than what we currently have in gnome-system-monitor.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-system-monitor/-/merge_requests/229
I specifically wanted it to stop using the word "Stop", because it never stops being confusing.
Here are some screenshots of the resulting changes in my branch :blobcatcoffee:
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As part of this Friday night's procrastination, and since I am not jetlagged by #GUADEC, I bring you: harmonized GUI terminology for SIGSTOP/SIGTERM/SIGKILL that is less confusing for the average human (or gnome…) than what we currently have in gnome-system-monitor.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-system-monitor/-/merge_requests/229
I specifically wanted it to stop using the word "Stop", because it never stops being confusing.
Here are some screenshots of the resulting changes in my branch :blobcatcoffee:
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Done with my GUADEC talk today! 🎉
"When Porting Isn't Enough" was about a simple lesson I learned while rebuilding Jollpi: sometimes rewriting is the better choice.
GTK 4 isn't GTK 2 with newer APIs. It brings different design patterns, better abstractions, and new ways to build responsive applications.
Thanks to everyone who joined the session!
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Done with my GUADEC talk today! 🎉
"When Porting Isn't Enough" was about a simple lesson I learned while rebuilding Jollpi: sometimes rewriting is the better choice.
GTK 4 isn't GTK 2 with newer APIs. It brings different design patterns, better abstractions, and new ways to build responsive applications.
Thanks to everyone who joined the session!
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It starts at the 6:16:24 mark of the livestream: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsuCqHXBB0&ra=m
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It starts at the 6:16:24 mark of the livestream: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsuCqHXBB0&ra=m
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Adrian Vovk is currently showcasing how app save and restore will work in future GNOME - and we're confident it will be worth the wait:
"Save/restore will work better in Wayland then it did in X11 - the compositor can execute policy to decide how restore is handled"
Watch on Track 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGazCEww9II
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Adrian Vovk is currently showcasing how app save and restore will work in future GNOME - and we're confident it will be worth the wait:
"Save/restore will work better in Wayland then it did in X11 - the compositor can execute policy to decide how restore is handled"
Watch on Track 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGazCEww9II
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After a survey in mastodon, Juan will build a web browser with Cambalache live!
Watch On Track 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGazCEww9II
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After a survey in mastodon, Juan will build a web browser with Cambalache live!
Watch On Track 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGazCEww9II
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gnome.org, guadec.org, and planet.gnome.org should all have a big red banner at the top with “GUADEC LIVE NOW”. the stream is well hidden…