Boston Summit 2010

The 10th annual Boston Summit will be held on the weekend of November 6th-8th in Boston, MA, USA.

This year we are piggy backing the Linux Plumbers conference which is also being held in Boston. The event will be held at MIT's Tang Centre (same as last year) and the new Media Lab.

• Saturday and Sunday (6th-7th)

  • 3rd floor of the Tang Centre - rooms E51-315, E51-325, E51-335, E51-345, E51-372 and E51-376

• Monday (8th)

  • 6th floor of the Media Lab - Event space 674, Lecture hall 633 (until 4pm), Winter Garden and Silverman Skyline

The Boston Summit is a three-day hackfest for GNOME developers and contributors. It is not primarily aimed at users or new contributors, but if you want to jump right into the deep end, it's a fantastic way to meet everyone and get involved. Unlike traditional conferences, the Boston Summit is all about getting developers together and getting things done. While there are some non-hacking sessions, they are geared heavily towards many-to-many, interactive discussion and planning, rather than one-to-many presentations.

• Tell us you're coming - add your name to the list to let us know that you're planning to participate.

• http://twitter.com/gnomesummit for updates

Travel

This year the travel committee has a limited budget to send a couple of people to the Summit. Please go to the Travel Committee page for instructions on how to submit a request for sponsorship. If you require a visa to travel to the United States, the travel committee will also issue you a letter inviting you to the conference. This letter should be submitted with your visa application to the appropriate consulate or visa agency.

Schedule

Got a meeting time? Mark it here:

• Saturday
  	345	335	325	315	Hall
  9 AM	Opening
  10 AM
  11:15 AM	Where are we going 3.0
  12:15 PM	Lunch
  2 PM	Gtk Animation Framework - Clutter 2.0		Hacking	Hacking	Hacking
  3 PM	Gestures	Caribou/AT-SPI	Hacking	Hacking	Hacking
  4 PM	Overflow	Friends of Gnome	Hacking	Snowy Hackfest	Hacking

NOTE: Daylight Savings Time in the US ends Saturday night. Sunday and Monday times are UTC-5, not UTC-4!

• Sunday
  	345	335	325	315	Hall
  10 AM	GNOME in 30 seconds videos
  11 AM	Setting Goals for GNOME
  12 PM	Browser in Gtk+/WebKit in the Platform
  1 PM	Lunch
  2 PM	Litl OS				Litl's Snacks
  3 PM	Unity
  4 PM	Moduleset reorg
  5 PM
  6 PM
  7 PM
  8 PM	Beer Summit Sponsored By Collabora	Beer Summit	Beer Summit	Beer Summit	Beer Summit

  Monday - at the Media Lab
  Lecture hall 633		Event space partition 1	Event space partition 2	Event space partition 3
  10 AM	Closing day address		Gnome feature video shooting
  11 AM	Jumplists	PyGObject Introspection	Gnome feature video shooting
  12 PM	GNOME for Dummies, how the various parts of the project function		Gnome feature video shooting	User Accounts / SSSD
  1 PM	Lunch
  2 PM	hacking			GNOME 3 Universal Access
  3 PM	IM integration in the Shell (presence, contacts, ...)	hacking
  4 PM	room closed	hacking
  6 PM	clean up

NOTE: for some reason irc.gnome.org doesn't seem to work in the Media Lab. Try irc.gimp.ca instead.

• Participate! - Got a project to hack on or a plan to put in motion? Want to lead a BoF? Hack on something with the community? Give a talk? Let us know! These proposals will inform the content and structure of the event.