Bytes, Gnomes & Chozo

FOSDEM 2019 This year was my second time at FOSDEM and it was both exhausting and a lot of fun! I went from Montpellier to Brussels in TGV, via the direct line connecting the two cities. I love high speed trains, they are comfy, you can bring lots of baggage, you are not probed, you can see the countryside, they typically connect the center of cities, and they even have Wi-Fi and power plugs! 🤯 Thanks to that, I have been able to bring the booth box that was sitting at my house since Capitole du Libre 2018 for free! In a tramway in Montpellier, with the GNOME booth box, Librem 5 devkits, and my stuff. I spent the vast majority of my time helping on the GNOME booth, I helped a tiny bit on the GNOME newcomers workshop where I add the chance to meet Jorge Creixell, which resulted into a merge request , and I played a bit with a Librem 5 devkit. Oh, and in two FOSDEMs I managed to attend zero talks. The most important thing for me has been hanging out with colleagues and frie...

The last Friday GNOME 3.26 was celebrated in the SUSE headquarters in Nuremberg with pizzas and a cake. Thanks to GNOME and openSUSE for sponsoring the event! 😃 Richard, Ayoub and Howard chatting and having pizza! A cake with no footprint on it, hence way less cool than the one from São Paulo . There were KDE users too! Though Ana Maria came mostly for the free cake. 😏 Oliver explaining how GNOME is tested for openSUSE with openQA.

The openSUSE Conference was held during May 26–28, 2017 in Nuremberg, Germany. The event was really interesting and the location — Z-Bau — was perfect for this event. GNOME had a booth there, were you could have tried “the GNOME gaming handheld”: a GPD Win running Games on GNOME / openSUSE Tumbleweed ! This handheld definitely caught some attention. 😃 On a more personnal note I have been pleased to meet several persons I am looking forward to work with. 😃 See in Prague for the openSUSE Conference 2018!

This November from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 was held in Berlin the GNOME Core Apps Hackfest . My focus during this hackfest was to start implementing a widget for the series view of the Videos application , following a mockup by Allan Day. To make this more interesting, I implemented this view using Emeus , Emmanuele Bassi's new in-development constraints based layout system for GTK+. You can find the (clearly unfinished) result here: https://github.com/Kekun/totem-series . I will keep working on it with Victor Toso who did some initial prototype last year . Working at the hackfest was a great experience, interaction with the other contributors was face to face which helps a lot strengthening GNOME as a community. 😃 Thank a lot to Kinvolk and Collabora for helping to make this hackfest a great event!

This April 2–3 2016 the 17th Journées du logiciel libre (Days of Free Software) were held in Lyon (France) . GNOME 3.20 was demoed on the stand, running on Fedora 24 alpha, and goodies such as t-shirts were proposed to our visitors. Lots of persons came to visit us, from complete beginners to seasoned users and I noticed some patterns in the questions of the beginners: lots of visitors asked whether GNOME is an operating system (or "like Ubuntu"), while others asked if they were able to install it on Ubuntu. On a side-note, we accidentally changed the code of the event box's padlock when locking it at the end of the first day, hopefully Matthieu "starmad" Gautier was there to save the day by brute-forcing the padlock, trying hundreds of combinations, and allowing us to install the stand again and greet our visitors decently. starmad gauging his opponent, photo by Didier Roche To participate to this event and to help on the GNOME stand I had to trip f...