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In Memoriam


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To The Teeth:
Arming GNOME For
Desktop Success

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linux.conf.au, January 2004

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Preparing for success

	Make sure you have no visible leadership

	A moving target is more exciting

	FAT WADS OF CASH make everyone happy

	Triple the size of your team

	Bring in some mercenaries - hackers for hire

	Find a scapegoat: SUCKER #1

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How did we
do it?

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Social Structure: Technical

	Module maintainers and contributors

	Sub-projects and contributors
			Documentation
			Accessibility
			Bugsquad
			Usability
			Internationalisation

	Release Team

	Distributors and users

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Social Structure: Administrative

	Foundation Board
			Marketing
			Funds management
			Conference organisation

	Advisory Board

	Contributing companies

	Distributors and users

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"Product" Structure

	Divide and Conquer!

	'Foundation' Libraries
			Free Desktop stack
			Glib, Pango, ATK, GTK+, libxml2

	Developer Platform
			libgnome, gnome-vfs, GConf

	Desktop
			Panel, Text Editor, File Manager, Web Browser

	And soon, many more!

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ANARCHY

AIM

FIRE!

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Anarchy, Aim, Fire!

	Stay as open as possible to contributions and new ideas

	Sieve out and lock down a set of deliverables
		Defer the rest - some go away, some return stronger
		Make your bets early - more time for clever saves

	Work like hell and DELIVER

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Anarchy, Aim, Fire: Macro Example

	GNOME's time-based release process

	General process suggested by Havoc, causing yet another project-wide flamewar

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Anarchy, Aim, Fire: Macro Example

	2.0: Negotiation period

	2.2: Five months, to the day

	2.4: Six months, to the day

	2.6: On course for six months, to the day

	Next year, if I have anything interesting to say at all, we at least know there'll be two GNOME releases out the door

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Anarchy, Aim, Fire: Micro Example

	We've committed to API/ABI compatibility across the 2.x series

	No more "lamp" and "gauge" widget mistakes...

	libegg cut'n'paste library successes:
		Epiphany and the new actions-based menu/toolbar API
		Totem and the "Bacon" video widget
		Desktop and recently-used files

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WE WILL

WE WILL

ROCK YOU

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The Free Desktop Stack

	Cairo

	XCB (X C Binding), XCL (Xlib Compatibility Layer)

	Keith's new X hackery

	Project Utopia
		udev, HAL, D-BUS and...
		... everything that can go on top!
		NO ugly polling or FAM or crap like that!

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The Free Desktop Stack

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Evolution Dataserver

	C and CORBA/Bonobo APIs

	Provides read-write, real-time access to calendar and contacts data

	Should be in the Desktop release for 2.6, and the Developer Platform for 2.8

	Projects working with it:
		Ross Burton's lookup applet
		Integration: Gaim, Evolution, Planner
		An lbdb backend for all you mutt fans

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Dashboard & Galago

	Prototype association engine and interface

	Yeah, yeah, Emacs had this first (the Inference Engine)

	Sources information via plugins

	Responds to input from other applications

	Christian Hammond (of Gaim fame) is now working on a D-BUS infrastructure for Dashboard-like functionality, called Galago

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Dashboard & Galago
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Storage

	Designed by Seth Nickell to "replace the traditional filesystem with a new document store".

	Is it like WinFS?
		Different approach to WinFS in terms of storage
		Seth mainly focused on natural language aspects

	Prototype implementation of backend and frontends...

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Storage
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Storage
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Storage
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Storage
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Storage
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Collaboration Station

	Contacts & Calendar

	Association & Context

	Projects & Presence

	Manageable data and metadata

	Network transparency

	What happens when all of these are part of the desktop environment?

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WE WILL

WE WILL

ROCK YOU