{"id":386,"date":"2013-08-06T20:21:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T18:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/xrcalvar\/?p=386"},"modified":"2017-07-13T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T09:26:00","slug":"guadec-2013-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/xrcalvar\/2013\/08\/06\/guadec-2013-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"GUADEC 2013 is over"},"content":{"rendered":"

I departed from A Coru\u00f1a, flying to Barcelona (where I had time to have a coffee with a friend), then to Vienna and then to Brno by bus. It was a bit tiring so after having a quick drink at our hotel<\/a> with the rest of the Igalians, I just went to bed.<\/p>\n

Web, the future is now<\/a> by my Igalian friend Claudio Saavedra<\/a> (different from Garnacho) was my first talk (apart from the keynote). Even after knowing the content already, I found quite interesting the way Claudio spoke about the latest changes in the development of Web<\/i> (a.k.a. Epiphany<\/a>), specially the way WebKit 2<\/a> helps to provide a much better user experience.<\/p>\n

I liked a lot Alex Larsson’s talk of High resolution display support in GNOME<\/a>. His approach of the abstract pixels<\/i> and all the way down in the stack from GTK+ was very interesting.<\/p>\n

Matt Dalio and his Endless Mobile<\/a> project just rock, not only because of the tech and GNOME involved but also because of its social implications. Keep going!<\/p>\n

Given the rest of my career and my work in WebKit<\/a>, specially in the WebKitGTK+<\/a> port, I am always interested in GStreamer<\/a>, as it is the framework we use use for multimedia playback (and other ports like EFL and Qt in Linux). What’s cooking in GStreamer<\/a> talk by Sebastian Dr\u00f6ge<\/a> and Tim-Philipp M\u00fcller was of course mandatory and worth going.<\/p>\n

Jan-Christoph Borchardt’s talk about GNOME and ownCloud: desktop plus web for a holisic experience<\/a> showed everything that is and is coming with ownCloud<\/a>. I introduced him to Claudio as he mentioned that he would like to see at least Ephy’s bookmarks syncronized with ownCloud. It looks interesting.<\/p>\n

I missed Philip Withnall’s talk about Testing online services<\/a> because it was at the same time as the ownCloud one, but I was interested because of my wife<\/a>‘s research project about the same subject. Philip, if you read this, leave me a comment or get in touch directly with her as she was very interested.<\/p>\n

It is always refreshing to attend Marina Zhurakhinskaya’s talk about Outreach Program for Women: a lesson in collaboration<\/a>, because I think it is very important to keep reminding ourselves about the relevance of programs to integrate more women into our community and I think we, and specially Marina and the OPW program<\/a>, get always awesome results, though we cannot fall asleep and keep pushing till, at least, the 50%.<\/p>\n

My Igalian friend Juan Su\u00e1rez<\/a> had a talk called Writing multimedia applications with Grilo<\/a> where he showed the easy but powerful possibilities of the Grilo<\/a> API and its plugins. There was also a lightning talk by an intern about adding support to build Lua plugins for Grilo.<\/p>\n

Juan Pablo Ugarte was showing off his Glade skills in his talk about Rich custom user interfaces with Glade and CSS<\/a>. His slides were made with Glade. Cool!<\/p>\n

More secure with less “security”<\/a> by Stef Walter had a lot of interesting ideas about how to improve security and making at the same time the user’s life easier.<\/p>\n

Just after lunch it was the turn of my Igalian friend Martin Robinson<\/a> who gave the talk about Webkit2 and you<\/a> and explained many things about the WebKit 2<\/a> model, like for example all its layers and how the processes work.<\/p>\n

There was another talk given by other fellow Igalians, Alejandro Pi\u00f1eiro<\/a> and Joanmarie Diggs<\/a>, called Tag, your PDF is it<\/a> that I couldn’t attend. In that case I preferred to prioritize other talks as I can always easily talk to them.<\/p>\n

The rest of the talks I attended were:<\/p>\n