In the interest of total media saturation, I’m going to post here
an email I recently sent out:
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Sorry for the late announcement, but here goes:
The short and sweet announcement (long and bitter follows):
This Monday, June 13, at 6:00 pm in teaching lab 3, the Dal-ACM will be
hosting a tutorial covering the ins and outs of working on a large
Open Source project, GNOME. The tutorial will probably last around 2
hours, and will cover such topics as:
software engineering and development tools use in the GNOME project
fundamental GNOME libraries
a GNOME geography lesson
Free software hacking for fun an profit
Don’t forget your towel!
Long and bitter:
I’ll be giving a revised and expanded version of the talk I did at GUADEC
2005. The talk will be a fast-paced wizz-bang overview of everything you
need to know about GNOME, rapidly devolving into a Q&A session, and
finishing up with discussion of GNOME bounties and google’s summer of
code, for those of you who want some extra bling.
What GNOME is and why you (as a person and a programmer) should care
about it.Essential mailing lists and websites.
JHBuild, CVS, and the autotools; GNOME’s magic infrastructure.
Event-based programming and the glib main loop.
Essential GNOME libraries.
Freedesktop.org standards, libraries, and applications.
And much, much more…
Admission is free, but your humble presenter always enjoys a bag or two of
M&Ms.
-James
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