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Overview

The Desktop Summit will consist of two major parts. First, 3 days of keynotes and talks followed by in the rest of the week BoFs, workshops and hacking sessions for the community to get together and get work done.

Day/Hour	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	...
Fri. Aug. 5th									Pre-registration event
Sat. Aug. 6th	Registration		Presentations
Sun. Aug. 7th		Presentations											Beach Party
Mon. Aug. 8th		Presentations										Football match
Tues. Aug. 9th		KDE e.V.and GNOME Foundation meetings, hacking											Island Party
Wed. Aug. 10th		Workshops & BoFs
Thurs. Aug. 11th		Workshops & BoFs and Daytrip Activities
Fri. Aug. 12th		Workshops & BoFs

Program

Day 1 - August 6th, 2011

Time	Audimax	Kinosaal	Rm2002	Rm3038
8:30AM - 10:00AM	Registration Date and time:
10:00AM - 10:20AM	Opening Date and time:
10:20AM - 10:50AM	Degrees of Playing Nice: Large Companies in Open Source Dirk Hohndel Date and time:
10:50AM - 11:20AM	Coffee Break Date and time:
11:20AM - 11:50AM	Get new contributors (and diversity) through outreach Asheesh Laroia Date and time:	Heart of Blingness: Clutter and GNOME Emmanuele Bassi Date and time:	Folks: Contact aggregation for Free Software Travis Reitter Date and time:	simon: Open Sourcing Speech Recognition with KDE technology Peter Grasch Date and time:
12:00PM - 12:30PM	Conflict management in teams and communities Thomas Thym Date and time:	Clutter Everywhere Chris Lord, Damien Lespiau, Neil Roberts Date and time:	Oracle Trusted Extensions and GNOME 3 Migration Brian Cameron Date and time:	Helpful Help Shaun McCance Date and time:
12:30PM - 2:00PM	Lunch Break Date and time:
2:00PM - 2:30PM	The Cost of Going it Alone Dave Neary Date and time:	WebKit Clutter Port Present and Future; WebKitGtk Status and Roadmap to WebKit2 Gustavo Noronha Silva, Martin Robinson, Alejandro G. Castro Date and time:	Compositing after X - KWin on the Road to Wayland Martin Gräßlin Date and time:	GNOME 3.0 Accessibility: State of the Union Alejandro Piñeiro Date and time:
2:40PM - 3:10PM	Navigators and Explorers: A Leadership Model for Open Source Teams Aaron Seigo Date and time:	KDE contributions to Qt Knut Yrvin Date and time:	GNOME: The state of the Union Fernando Herrera and Xan Lopez Date and time:	Building Bridges: Making KDE accessible Frederik Gladhorn Date and time:
3:20PM - 4:05PM	Sponsor Lightning Talks Date and time:
4:05PM - 4:35PM	Coffee Break Date and time:
4:35PM - 5:05PM	Why are we here? Stuart Jarvis Date and time:
5:15PM - 6:00PM	GNOME and KDE Interns Showcase Ruben Vermeersch and Lydia Pintscher Date and time:	GNOME Shell version π Owen Taylor Date and time:	Improving the quality of video calls on the Free Desktop Olivier Crête Date and time:	Design Thinking and how the Free Desktop may benefit from it Clemens N. Buss Date and time:
6:10PM - 7:00PM	Panel on Copyright Assignment Date and time:

Day 2 - August 7th, 2011

Time	Audimax	Kinosaal	Rm2002	Rm3038
9:00AM - 9:30AM	Calligra: office documents everwhere Boudewijn Rempt Date and time:	Blending the web and the desktop Xan Lopez Date and time:	Making color management "just work" using colord Richard Hughes Date and time:	Improving how we build GNOME, both in code and in human terms Colin Walters Date and time:
9:40AM - 10:10AM	Liberating Open Office Development Michael Meeks Date and time:	Plasma Active - Conquering the Device Spectrum Sebastian Kügler Date and time:	Network and Location Awareness in Your Application Dan Williams Date and time:	Thoughts on Gjs-based development Lucas Rocha Date and time:
10:20AM - 10:50AM	Krita: the making of an artist's tool Boudewijn Rempt Date and time:	Theming GTK+ 3 widgets with CSS Cosimo Cecchi Date and time:	Gluing Together Usable Desktop Crypto Stef Walter Date and time:	Vala? Are you kidding me?? Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Date and time:
10:50AM - 11:20AM	Coffee Break Date and time:
11:20AM - 11:50AM	UI Design in a Cloud of Diverse Devices Claire Rowland Date and time:
12:00PM - 12:30PM	Towards Marble 2.0 - the journey around a virtual globe Torsten Rahn Date and time:	GTK 4 - the future of your favorite toolkit Benjamin Otte, Matthias Clasen Date and time:	LightDM: Cross Desktop Display Manager Robert Ancell Date and time:	Open Build Service - Cross-Distribution Packaging Sascha Peilicke Date and time:
12:30PM - 2:00PM	Lunch Break Date and time:
2:00PM - 2:45PM	Lightning Talks Date and time:
2:45PM - 3:10PM	Group Photo Date and time:
3:10PM - 3:40PM	Rekonq: a WebKit browser for KDE Andrea Diamantini & Pierre Rossi Date and time:	QML, A designers perspective! Nuno Pinheiro Date and time:	systemd and Login Sessions Lennart Poettering Date and time:	From GIT to a full <insert your desktop here> OS image in a few click Frederic Crozat Date and time:
3:40PM - 4:10PM	Coffee Break Date and time:
4:10PM - 4:40PM	GNOME Shell: Iteration's what you need Nick Richards Date and time:
4:50PM - 5:20PM	Integrating virtualization into the desktop Marc-André Lueau Date and time:	Extend your KDE application with QML Artur de Souza Date and time:	PulseAudio: Control and Command - State of Desktop Integration in GNOME & KDE Colin Guthrie Date and time:	Software with the Quality that Has No Name Federico Mena Quintero Date and time:
5:30PM - 6:00PM	KParts browser plugin – bringing KDE components to all browsers Thomas Fischer Date and time:	KDE Platform 4 Roadmap Aaron Seigo Date and time:	The Slothful Ways of D-Bus Will Thompson Date and time:	Features follow function - design-driven development of GNOME Shell Florian Müllner Date and time:
6:00PM - 7:30PM
7:30PM - 2:00AM	Beach Party Date and time:

Day 3 - August 8th, 2011

Time	Audimax	Kinosaal	Rm2002	Rm3038
9:00AM - 9:30AM	Think Semantically - Nepomuk and the social semantic desktop Vishesh Handa and Sebastian Trueg Date and time:	Defining Common Standards for Calendar Systems and Holidays John Layt Date and time:	They call us crazy, but we store Contacts in Tracker Mathias Hasselmann Date and time:	Winning organisations over to free software Knut Yrvin Date and time:
9:40AM - 10:10AM	Zeitgeist in the activity-centric desktop Federico Mena Quintero Date and time:	Making and Distributing Games Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen and Arjen Hiemstra Date and time:	KDE Communities Far Far Away Pradeepto Bhattacharya Date and time:	LiMux Desktop retrospective Florian Maier Date and time:
10:20AM - 10:50AM	A new activity based mobile user interface with Plasma and Nepomuk Marco Martin Date and time:	To the Ends of the Earth - Exploring the Limits of Portability Till Adam Date and time:	GNOME a continent, starting from Asia. Emily Chen Date and time:	Free desktops for Europe's public sector Karsten Gerloff Date and time:
10:50AM - 11:20AM	Coffee Break Date and time:
11:20AM - 11:50AM	The Complexity of Everyday Technology Thomas Thwaites Date and time:
12:00PM - 12:30PM	The Semantic Desktop for Application Developers George Goldberg Date and time:	Massif Visualizer - Memory Profiling UI Milian Wolff Date and time:	Ramblings of a retired release manager Vincent Untz Date and time:	EU member states' interoperability impossible without vendor independent PCs Gijs Hillenius Date and time:
12:30PM - 2:00PM	Lunch Break Date and time:
2:00PM - 2:30PM	Activities - the helpful Big Brother Ivan Čukić Date and time:	My sofa wants a new form factor Bastien Nocera Date and time:	Daily Melee: paid people within Free Software initiatives - How they tick, how to keep them and the art of behaving if you are one. Bernhard E. Reiter Date and time:	Changing mindset, adoption of open source in Indian Government Enterprise Atul Kumar Jha Date and time:
2:40PM - 3:10PM	Bringing Video calls to the TV - Merging Telepathy and Media-Explorer Dario Freddi Date and time:	Introducing The Board Lucas Rocha Date and time:	Open Source Visualization of Scientific Data Marcus D. Hanwell Date and time:	Linux case in Public Schools and in a Private College in Brazil Izabel Valverde Date and time:
3:20PM - 3:50PM	Quick Overview of Enlightenment Foundation Libraries and E17 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri Date and time:	Towards a multitouch gnome-shell Carlos Garnacho Date and time:	We're a family! -- How five years of University Collaboration changed our town landscape Kevin Ottens Date and time:	KDE4 - an integration platform for IT infrastructure management Thomas Groß Date and time:
3:50PM - 4:20PM	Coffee Break Date and time:
4:20PM - 5:05PM	GNOME & KDE - Working towards better collaboration by learning from each others rights and wrongs Seif Lotfy and Lydia Pintscher Date and time:	Swimming upstream or downstream? Both! Vincent Untz Date and time:	ownCloud - The next logical step for the free software world Frank Karlitschek Date and time:	GStreamer 1.0 Wim Taymans and Edward Hervey Date and time:
5:15PM - 6:00PM	Akademy Awards, Travelling Pants, Closing Session and Award Ceremony for "Berlin's future is open" Date and time:
6:00PM - 7:00PM
7:00PM - 9:00PM	Football and Volleyball Date and time:

Day 4 - August 9th, 2011

Day 5 - August 10th, 2011

Day 6 - August 11th, 2011

Day 7 - August 12th, 2011

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