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GUADEC Streams and Archives Online

Posted by Hemos on from the listen-and-learn dept.

thomasvs writes "GUADEC is now live on stream.fluendo.com. We're through for today, but talks go on monday and tuesday, starting 10:00 CEST. If you missed out on today, you can still watch the talks from the archives."

47 comments

  1. What the heck is GUADEC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can't you be a tiny bit more verbose in the articles?

    1. Re:What the heck is GUADEC? by doj8 · · Score: 5, Informative

      GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC)

      I just looked it up. I had no idea either.

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    2. Re:What the heck is GUADEC? by KingSkippus · · Score: 4, Informative

      From the home site (because I didn't know myself...):

      The 6th annual GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC) will bring developers, GNOME Foundation leaders, individuals, businesses and governments, as well as Free Software and Open Source software users together in Stuttgart, Germany from the 29th to the 31st of May, 2005.

      The conference is a unique forum that highlights the capabilities and direction of GNOME - the user environment for desktop computers, networked servers and portable Internet devices. Come to GUADEC 6 to learn about -

      • Free media streaming tools
      • Convergence of the desktop and mobile devices
      • Migrating to a Linux Desktop
      • The future of GNOME development
    3. Re:What the heck is GUADEC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank you.

    4. Re:What the heck is GUADEC? by miruku · · Score: 1

      i think that was intentional; they just didn't want the live stream servers to be slashdotted ;)

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    5. Re:What the heck is GUADEC? by mixmasta · · Score: 1

      Sorry, sounds too much like GUANO to me.

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  2. WTF!?!?. I RTFM'd and I still don't get it! by consumer_whore · · Score: 1, Informative

    Looking at the streaming video, I see some people talking to each other, in front of maybe a large projector screen, with nothing on it. All I hear is what sounds like static from audio equipment. The /. desc. for this didn't help either.

  3. What is Guadec ? by Kartoch · · Score: 5, Informative

    "The 6th annual GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC) will bring developers, GNOME Foundation leaders, individuals, businesses and governments, as well as Free Software and Open Source software users together in Stuttgart, Germany from the 29th to the 31st of May, 2005."

    URL: http://2005.guadec.org/

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  4. The purpose of a slashdot story.. by Zwets · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ..is to alert us to a piece of news and help us decide if we want to know more about it.

    This story does only one of those things.

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  5. Discussion by ciroknight · · Score: 1

    So.. what are they discussing exactly?

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    1. Re:Discussion by /ASCII · · Score: 3, Funny

      They are proving once and for all that there is no swedish conspiracy.

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    2. Re:Discussion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They are proving once and for all that there is no swedish conspiracy.

      I didn't believe it before, but now it's been denied...

    3. Re:Discussion by greppy · · Score: 0

      For the uninitiated, what exactly is the Swedish Conspiracy? I did a quick Google and found this post on a Passepartout release notice. There's also this Newsforge post on the Swedish influences in Open Source Software.

  6. Re:CEST? by pbulteel73 · · Score: 1

    Central European Standard Time

  7. Waiting for oGALAXYo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    to bring some noise here!

  8. Re:CEST? by ahillen · · Score: 1

    No, Central European Summer Time

  9. Re:CEST? by Piaskal · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's Central European Summer Time (GMT+0200)
    http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym= CEST

  10. Just oGALAXYo trolling again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, this time it's really true:
    move on, nothing to see here.

    P.S.:
    He's whining that a cvs build is unstable, in case you want to know on which high intellectual level he wants to leed his discussions...

    1. Re:Just oGALAXYo trolling again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He's whining that a cvs build is unstable

      Strange, I use UBUNTU and I am able to confirm many things as demonstrated in that movie. Looks like not only CVS is unstable, also releases are unstable like hell. But the Toolbar and printing dialog issues are real and annoying. So, not much of a troll as you want to make him look like..

    2. Re:Just oGALAXYo trolling again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So, not much of a troll as you want to make him look like..

      I'm, oh-so-sure you don't happen to be him...

    3. Re:Just oGALAXYo trolling again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can now see why people avoid GNOME.

  11. "10 x 10" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I watched Jeff Waugh's talk tonight, which I found rather interesting. He was supposed to talk about the move to 3.0, but instead, gave a rather inspiring talk about "shared values and shared vision."

    The main idea he presented is his desire to see the GNOME foundation unified under a common goal, rather than just the ambiguous goal of "a good desktop." His suggestion was that the GNOME foundation and affiliated hackers push to give GNOME a 10% *global* market share by the year 2010. And yes, that means 10% of *all* computers running GNOME withing 5 years.

    Sound ridiculous? I'm not sure. I see some exciting things happening inside of GNOME. And finally, it's not just about usability, but rather, it's some exciting new apps. Not to mention the fact that 4 of the biggest distros ships GNOME by default. It seems obvious that as Linux market share grows, GNOME usage will as well.

    1. Re:"10 x 10" by twener · · Score: 1

      > Not to mention the fact that 4 of the biggest distros ships GNOME by default.

      Ship maybe, but not all use GNOME as default desktop. Or your definition of "biggest" or "default" is broken (JDS not being one of the biggest and NLD not having a default).

    2. Re:"10 x 10" by advocate_one · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I would be happy to use Gnome as my main desktop when it can beat KDE at its own game and not go off on weird spatial adventures... and one of the first things they've got to do is to use a separate programe to handle the wallpaper and icons and stop using Nautilus... there you are, happily running icewm and you accidently start Nautilus up... whoops, your desktop gets taken over and stays that way even after closing the Nautilus window...

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    3. Re:"10 x 10" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      JDS not being one of the biggest

      Talk about "broken". Are you out of your fucking mind? JDS is *THE* biggest commercially-installed desktop distro by a long, long way. Just because it doesn't have a large number of shouting zealous nutjobs posting on slashdot about how much it r00lz (that crown does to Gentoo and/or KDE supporters), doesn't mean a thing in the real world.

  12. Anyone having problems opening these oggs? by mE123 · · Score: 1

    I can't seem to open any of the archives, I tried both the Mark Shuttleworth and the Colin Walters talks...

    I'm on a windows box, so I tried it with foobar, winamp, and WMP, none of which worked...

    1. Re:Anyone having problems opening these oggs? by stevef · · Score: 1

      Can't confirm this since , I don't use windows. But I think you need a plugin called vlc. Anyways, the codec is called theora, so maybe do a google search for a theora plugin for media player. Good luck.

      Steve

    2. Re:Anyone having problems opening these oggs? by erhnamdjim · · Score: 2, Informative

      The following should be able to help you:

      http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Vorbis_Ogg_ACM .htm

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    3. Re:Anyone having problems opening these oggs? by Air-conditioned+cowh · · Score: 2, Informative

      Either VLC or the latest version of Real Player should play it.

      However the streams are a bit sketchy right now, probably due to the Slashdot effect.

    4. Re:Anyone having problems opening these oggs? by mE123 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Ahh... got it working... it would seem that I was being confused by the blankness at the begining of each one of the talks.

      Thanks to everyone that responded

    5. Re:Anyone having problems opening these oggs? by Qwertie · · Score: 1

      Yes, I downloaded Miguel_De_Icaza_-_Keynote.ogg and it crashes both Winamp and Windows Media Player. Even after installing that "ogg vorbis acm" thingie which I think was already installed anyway... Media Player Classic opened the file but it seems to be 4 hours, 54 minutes and 32 seconds of silence.

  13. Typo? by HG2 · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't the title say: GUADEC Streams and Archives Offline?

    BTW I am a GNOME user, not a troll.

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  14. Tips by natrius · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're only going to watch one, watch Jeff Waugh's presentation about "GNOME 3.0" and his ballsy 10x10 goal (10% market share by 2010). If you're looking for something to hack on, check out the presentation on PiTiVi, which is a nonlinear video editor that sounds like it has potential if the planned features that were laid out in the presentation are seen to fruition. And if you've heard about Canonical/Ubuntu's Launchpad services but never really knew they were all about, watch Mark Shuttleworth's keynote.

  15. mod parent informative... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...for linking to the crapware free version of realplayer.

  16. Maybe wait for the edited footage by HawaiianMayan · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most of the streams contain 5-15 minutes of nothing happening at the beginning, followed by presentation set-up difficulties. It seems like the video camera was activated and deactivated at pre-programmed times that had nothing to do with the actual talks.

    The Owen Taylor video in particular has 1-1/2 HOURS of footage of an empty room at the end.

    People on dial-up: avoid these until edited version appear!

  17. MOD parent up... by advocate_one · · Score: 1

    I didn't have a clue what GAUDEC stood for and even now can't access the linked article to find out what all the news is about...

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  18. missing talk archives by krappie · · Score: 1

    If anyone knows where to get some of the missing talks, such as the one by Keith Packard, please reply and let us know.

  19. Optimizing GNOME by _iris · · Score: 1

    I'm especially interested in the "Optimizing GNOME" presentation because playing these at half-size in Totem on my AMD 2100+ w/ 512MB RAM is so jittery I can't make out the words.

  20. Uhhh.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...People still use GNOME?

  21. RTFM by ReinoutS · · Score: 1

    Try nautilus --no-desktop sometime.