McEs, A Hacker Life: Berlin GTK+ Hackfest

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Berlin GTK+ Hackfest

GTK+ and its future is of extreme importance to GNOME. The issue of GTK+ maintenance has been subject of much discussion recently, and based on feedback from advisory board members and the GTK+ maintainers, we have decided that organizing a focused meeting is the most efficient way for the foundation to help with this issue.

As a result, the GNOME Foundation is organizing the first Berlin GTK+ Hackfest, a one-week meeting of the GTK+ core development team.

Hackfest is scheduled for the week of March 10, 2008 in Berlin. It will be a small invitation-only event, designed to tackle specific tasks that have been sitting on GTK+'s TODO list. Invitations have already been sent out to developers involved, and it is expected that twenty-five people will attend the meeting. The biggest planned agenda items include:

Release planning for next stable release, currently scheduled for GUADEC, July 2008
Integrating support for the new virtual GLib filesystem support in, gio
Canvas widget, and considering it as the base for widget rendering in the future
Generic HTML widget/library (with pluggable backends)
GObject introspection: an automatable future for language bindings
Future of D-BUS GLib integration and Gsettings
Session management API

I'm trying to pull it all together, and Mathias Hasselmann (aka tbf) is doing the local organization.

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Labels: berlin, gnome, gtk+, hackfest, tbf