FOSDEM 2010 schedule

Sunday 7th February 2010

• Mono Edge

  by Miguel de Icaza

  This talk will focus on the ongoing development efforts in Mono, and explore what are the new challenges that we are tackling.

  • C#
  • Mono

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Sunday 7th February

  Coverage video

• Towards GLSL in the r300 Gallium driver

  by Nicolai Hähnle

  After a very brief overview of some relevant details of the hardware-level programming interface of Radeon R300-R500 shader hardware, I explain the high-level structure of how fragment and vertex programs are compiled in the modern Gallium 3D driver and how we got there. Finally, I talk about the big remaining challenges for full GLSL support.

  • OpenGL

  At 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Sunday 7th February

• Polishing X11 and making it shiny

  by Daniel Stone

  There are a few niggles about X11 today that mean every embedded device vendor patches the server in various unpleasant ways, whereas on the desktop it just looks suboptimal and we suck it up.

  This talk will cover a few parts of X11, such as client-side cursors, the video API, Composite, RandR, which currently need to be improved to make X11 look as good as it possibly can, without going to Wayland or X12.

  • X Window System

  At 1:00pm to 1:45pm, Sunday 7th February

  Coverage slide deck

• The free software desktop’s graphics driver stack

  by Luc Verhaegen

  • Free Desktop
  • Linux Kernel
  • OpenGL
  • X Window System

  At 2:00pm to 2:45pm, Sunday 7th February

• GPU Userspace - kernel interface & Radeon kernel modesetting status

  by Jerome Glisse

  • GPU
  • Linux Kernel
  • X Window System

  At 3:00pm to 3:45pm, Sunday 7th February

• X on e-Paper

  by Mikhail Gusarov

  • Mobile devices
  • X Window System

  At 4:00pm to 4:45pm, Sunday 7th February

Unscheduled

• An Introduction To HTML5

  by Robert Nyman

  Coverage slide deck write-up

• Building The Virtual Babel: Mono In Second Life

  by Jim Purbrick

  This giant, collaborative development environment is run on a grid of over 30,000 CPUs that simulate the land of Second Life. Since August 2008 Mono has been available as a scripting engine for running interactive content in Second Life and over 27 million user created scripts are now running on Mono in Second Life. This talk will discuss our experiences using Mono in Second Life and our plans for the future.

  • API Design
  • C#
  • Mono
  • Second Life

• NOSQL For Fun & Profit

  by Tim Anglade

  • NoSQL