DevConf.cz 2018: Full Schedule

DevConf.cz 2018 is the 10th annual, free, Red Hat sponsored community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contributors to open source technologies such as Linux, Middleware, Virtualization, Storage, Cloud and mobile where FLOSS communities sync, share, and hack on upstream projects together in the beautiful city of Brno, Czech Republic.

When: Friday, January 26 to Sunday, January 28, 2018

Venue: Faculty of Information Technology (VUT FIT - Božetěchova 2, Brno)

Reminders:

Friday 17:15: at the venue there will be a surprise show, stick around!
Saturday 19:00: the social event starts at Fleda Club. TICKET IS REQUIRED. Tickets will be distributed each day at check-in. First come, first serve.
Sunday 17:00: there will be many prizes given away at the closing session.

2:00pm CET

A status update on GTK+ 4

Limited Capacity seats available

"In this presentation, I will give an overview of the current state of GTK+ 4 development. This will include a high-level explanation of how rendering and input worked in GTK+ 3, what changes we are making for GTK+ 4, and why we are making them.
I will show some examples of things that will become possible with GTK+ 4."

Speakers

Matthias Clasen

Manager, Red Hat, Inc.

Matthias is an engineering manager in the desktop team at Red Hat. His contributions to GTK+ and GNOME go back to the early 2000s. He's the maintainer of GTK+. Matthias and his team have worked on many parts of the Linux desktop infrastructure. In recent years, Wayland and Flatpak... Read More →

Friday January 26, 2018 2:00pm - 2:23pm CET
E-G202 Faculty of Information Technology (VUT FIT)

Desktop, Presentation

Host Organization Red Hat
Company Desktop

2:30pm CET

PipeWire: Rethinking Multimedia

Limited Capacity seats available

"PipeWire is a multimedia API that makes it easier to build distributed
real-time multimedia pipelines. It was originally built to provide shared access to
cameras but it can also be used to build a variety of multimedia services
such as a sound server. PipeWire is built on top of a new low-level plugin API (SPA for Simple Plugin API) that is designed to be simple, efficient and suitable for hard real-time processing.

In this presentation I want to talk about the design ideas, the current status
and the future plans for PipeWire."

Speakers

Wim Taymans

Co-founder of the GStreamer multimedia framework.

Wim Taymans has a computer science degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He co-founded the GStreamer multimedia framework in 1999. Wim Taymans is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, responsible for various multimedia packages and is currently working on P... Read More →

Friday January 26, 2018 2:30pm - 2:53pm CET
E-G202 Faculty of Information Technology (VUT FIT)

Desktop, Presentation

Host Organization Red Hat
Company Desktop, Development, Middleware

3:00pm CET

Flatpaking your app for fame and fortune

Limited Capacity filling up

"Flatpak is a new cross-distribution, sandboxing deployment mechanism
for desktop applications. This talk will explain how you, as an
upstream developer can create a flatpak version of your application,
reaching a large audience and getting a more direct channel to your
users.

The session will start with the basics of building and distributing
flatpaks, and then cover more advanced topics like how to tweak the
sandbox to allow access to the things your app needs, and finally how
you can modify your application to work better when sandboxed without
such access."

Speakers

Alexander Larsson

Desktop Developer and gnome guy, Red Hat

Alexander Larsson has worked at Red Hat the last 17 years, working on projects like Gnome, GVfs, Gtk+, and docker. Recently he has spent most of his time working on Flatpak.

Friday January 26, 2018 3:00pm - 3:53pm CET
E-G202 Faculty of Information Technology (VUT FIT)

Desktop, Presentation

Host Organization Red Hat
Company Desktop, Development

4:00pm CET

Desktop OS of the future: ostree + flatpak

Limited Capacity filling up

"Endless is building a Linux desktop OS for the next billion consumers, aiming to make desktop computing practical and affordable so people can learn and create with technology.

Starting from a "clean slate" in 2012 allowed us to develop a "legacy free" Linux core OS platform using OStree from the very start, and adopting Flatpak in 2016 as it reached usability/maturity, to replace our own home-grown app bundling system.

Focusing on ostree and Flatpak, this session will detail our reasons for choosing these technologies, our experience from being early adopters in production, and the strengths, weaknesses and potential improvements we found.

Endless OS: https://endlessos.com/for-developers/
OSTree: https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Flatpak: http://flatpak.org/"

Speakers

Robert McQueen

VP of Deployment at Endless, GNOME/freedesktop.org hacker

Robert McQueen is VP of Deployment at Endless, responsible for bringing the OS to billions of people with a great experience on different devices. Previously CTO and co-founder of Collabora, he has been a long-term contributor to FOSS projects like GNOME, Flatpak and freedesktop... Read More →

Friday January 26, 2018 4:00pm - 4:23pm CET
E-G202 Faculty of Information Technology (VUT FIT)

Desktop, Presentation

Host Organization Red Hat
Company Configuration Management, Containers, Desktop, Middleware, Platform / OS

4:30pm CET

A distribution approach to building Flatpaks

Limited Capacity seats available

"Flatpaks are a new way of distributing applications with bundled
dependencies so that a single binary can run across multiple versions
of a distribution and even on different distributions. While Flatpaks
are often built directly from source, building them from distribution
packages allows leveraging the distribution's existing package set and
security update process.

This talk will discuss how and why Fedora is extending its build
system to generate Flatpaks and Flatpak runtimes, how this relates to
building server-side containers and to modularity, and demonstrate the
packager-side view of the process. Attendees will learn how Flatpak
relates to the traditional distribution packaging mechanisms, and will
hopefully be inspired to help convert Fedora applications to Flatpaks."

Speakers

Owen Taylor

Desktop Team Architect

Owen Taylor is a long time contributor to Fedora and GNOME, and a past upstream maintainer of core desktop modules like GTK+ and GNOME Shell. He currently is the architect for the desktop team at Red Hat.

Friday January 26, 2018 4:30pm - 4:53pm CET
E-G202 Faculty of Information Technology (VUT FIT)

Desktop, Presentation

Host Organization Red Hat
Company Containers, Desktop, Development, Platform / OS

DevConf.cz 2018

2:00pm CET

Matthias Clasen

2:30pm CET

Wim Taymans

3:00pm CET

Alexander Larsson

4:00pm CET

Robert McQueen

4:30pm CET

Owen Taylor

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