GNOME Developer Experience Hackfest
The goal of the hackfest is to improve the overall application developer experience (ISVs, opportunistic developers...).
Define a developer story: "How do I go from opening my code editor to users installing my application?" Come up with a list of requirements to improve such story and define a plan to get there.
Focus
There are three main areas of work we suggest for this hackfest:
- Tooling (Anjuta, Monodevelop, application bundling, intltool, gtk-doc, autofoo and friends...)
- Developer docs and mindshare (unified online/offline API reference UI, app developer community building...)
- Further platform needs (improvement of data driven apps and other needs with unclear answer)
- Application bundling and sandboxing, application as first class concept in the kernel
Work
/Research of development for other platforms
/GnomePlatformOverview update and revamp - let's make this the starting point for app hackers
/Tooling - how can we make our tools better?
/Documentation - documentation scratch space
/Toolkit - missing features in our toolkit
Reports
Here we will link all the blog posts published during or after the hackfest, including information about the work done.
DX Hackfest by Cosimo Cecchi
Developer Hackfest status by Alexander Larsson
DX Hackfest: Developer Documentation by Allan Day
Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?" by Travis Reitter
Developer Experience Hackfest by Meg Ford
GNOME DevX, FOSDEM by Colin Walters
Developer Experience Hackfest Report by Sébastien Granjoux
DX Hackfest part 2 by Cosimo Cecchi
2013 Developer Experience Hackfest, Brussels by Federico Mena Quintero
Gnome Developer Experience Hackfest 2013, the aftermath by Andreia Gaita
Administrivia
Blogging
- Hashtag: #dxhackfest
Dates & Venue
The Betagroup Co-Working Space in Brussels from the 30th of January until 1st of February, given that FOSDEM starts on the 2nd of February this is a convenient venue and dates for a lot of people who can't travel to Europe that often.
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Accomodation
This is the hotel where all attendees should stay Hotel Brussels Belgium.
For sorting out who shares room with who put yourself in this list: Rooms
Confirmed Attendees
Name
Place of residency
Arrival
Areas
Comments
Room
Brussels, Belgium
release team, jhbuild, devhelp, developer.gnome.org
Would need sponsorship (except if in Belgium).
San Francisco, CA
Autotools, gtk, gobject
Should have practical information from GnomeUniversity by then
Seif Lotfy
Frankfurt, Germany
Zeitgeist, community building, python
Would need sponsorship.
107
Helsinki, Finland
Virtualization, UPnP/DLNA
Would be nice to get sponsorship for accommodation
Luis de Bethencourt
Tenerife, Spain
Multimedia
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Seattle, WA, USA
Linux kernel
We have space for 30 people max.
Tentative Attendees
At this point, we are only asking for people interested and willing to go, this is not a definitive list of attendees.
Name
Place of residency
Areas
Comments
Czech Republic
API docs, Python, introspection
May be able to host (in Cambridge, UK or in Prague, CR)
Belgium,Leuven
Tracker, SPARQL,
Can perhaps offer some accommodation nearby Leuven for ~3 people (and drives). But don't expect much, I'm renovating the place