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Gtk3 Hackfest 2011
Two major changes have recently occurred in Sugar's underlying technologies. Firstly, GTK+ 2 has been obsoleted by GTK+ 3, and GNOME is now based on GTK+ 3. Secondly, PyGTK, the underlying Python library that Sugar uses to call into GTK+, has been deprecated in favour of PyGObject Introspection (hereafter "PyGI"). More background info can be found at [[1]]. Goal of this hackfest is to remove the biggest blockers before we can start the porting and potentially start porting over.
Event Details
Location: Praha (Prague), Czech Republic
The hackfest will be held at the brmlab a hackerspace in Prague. The place is located here, using public transport you can get here easily, just hop off at (Metro & Tram stop: "Vltavska").
Date: Friday, October 28th - Sunday October 30th 2011
Primary contact: Simon Schampijer <simon AT laptop DOT org>
Secondary contact: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso AT collabora DOT co DOT uk>
Target audience
Sugar developers
Sponsors
We want to thank brmlab for hosting us during the week.
Agenda, goals
- removing Hippo and other custom widgets
- migration path to Gtk3 (do we ship two toolkits? Do we migrate the shell and the toolkit and activities at once?)
- porting Sugar's theme to gtk3 (go benzea, go!)
- other introspected libraries that need work (namely NM)
Measuring your success
coming soon...
Attendants
Are you planning to attend? Add your name and contact info below!
Accommodation
This is a table to find out when people do need accommodation during the hackfest.
| Name | 27.10.11 | 28.10.11 | 29.10.11 | 30.10.11 | 31.10.11 | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Schampijer | - | yes | yes | yes | - | - |
| Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | - |
| Walter Bender | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | - |
| Benjamin Berg | - | yes | yes | yes | - | Arriving 28.10. 10:15; leaving 31.10. 18:31 Uhr |
Lodging
This one does seem to be a reasonable offer: http://www.booking.com/hotel/cz/plus-prague-hostel.en-us.html?sid=efb1e369a800d8137da1013763ae00e9;checkin=2011-10-27;checkout=2011-10-30;srfid=8d0e0147ab19098770fd94887bfca1e1X1
Schedule
Friday, October 28
Saturday, October 29
Sunday, October 30
Impressions
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