XDC2005

X Developer's Meeting 2005

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We have scheduled a three day X Developer's meeting from Saturday, February 12, through Monday, February 14, at the Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

**** The meeting is now full!!! ***

This meeting is intended to cover a wide variety of topics about X Window System technologies, and the as yet unmet needs of the technologies that depend on the X Window System. As a result, this meeting is intended for people working across the entire X Window System stack, including toolkits and window managers and desktop infrastructure. This meeting is not, however, intended to cover general X application development topics or concepts.

There will be a number of people giving presentations or leading discussions. These presentations will likely consume no more than half of the overall meeting time so the remaining time can be spent with informal discussions, hacking, breakout sessions, etc.

If you wish to volunteer to give a presentation or lead a discussion, please send e-mail to xdevconf@lists.freedesktop.org. In addition, if you have specific topics you'd like to see discussed in a presentation or during informal sessions, please send e-mail with your suggestions to that address as well.

Attend via Phone

The phone bridge is not working. See below for Audio streaming.

Attend via IRC

IRC: freenode, #xdevconf

Attend via Audio/Video feeds

X developer's meeting audio and video feeds:

• Audio: Point gnomemeeting at gabe.freedesktop.org. First, go into Audio Codecs and disable everything but G.711-uLaw and G.711-ALaw; needs a bit more bandwidth but means you can actually hear what people are saying.
• Video: Depending on your browser click on http://freedesktop.org:9192/ or http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/webcam.html. Will video presentations be available somewhere? Are them recorded?

Presentation Agenda

Current presentations for the X Developer's Meeting include:

Saturday, February 12

• Starting at 9:00
• Welcome, logistics, agenda, schedule bashing
  • Freedesktop Forum: What Problems Do We Need To Solve - Havoc Penningon, George Staikos, Jim Gettys
  • DND, Other Specification Issues - Owen Taylor and George Staikos
  • xrestop, xephyr, and X on handhelds - Mathew Allum (slides, demo)
  • Testing Strategies - Stuart Anderson, Free Standards Group and X.org
  • Short Topics - All

Sunday, February 13

• Starting at 9:00
  • X Proxy and Multicast Demo - David Flynn, Realm Systems
  • A Unified View of Improving X Desktop Rendering - The Owen Taylor, Søren Sandmann, Kristian Høgsberg and Diana Fong show
  • Cairo Status - Carl Worth, Red Hat (Slides: SVG, HTML PDF)
  • X Input Redirection - Deron Johnson, Keith Packard (Intro & Slides)
  • A New Input System - Kristian HøgsbergH, Jim Gettys
  • Polling And Scheduling in the X Main Loop - Kristian Høgsberg, Red Hat
    • Reworking the X server main loop, with proposed changes.
  • X and Media Support - Leon Shiman
  • 3D Graphics Pipelines - Nick Triantos, NVidia

Monday, February 14

• Starting at 9:00
  • Open Source Legal discussion, Patents and Copyrights - Scott Peterson, Greg Jones, Linda Hamel, General Counsel, MA ITD (Information Technology Division)
  • X on GL - David Reveman, Novell
  • Mesa Solo - Jon Smirl
  • Merging fbdev and DRM - Jon Smirl
  • X.org Update - Audience Please all the people leave your presentations here so other people can see them.

Limited In-Person Attendance

Due to space limitations, attendance will be limited to no more than 40 people, and we are almost full. If you would like to attend, please send mail to xdevconf@lists.freedesktop.org. Having the names of attendees in advance eases building security, as we share the building with other companies.

An audio feed will be made available for those attending remotely or unable to attend due to limitations on space. The meeting venue provides networking support with high speed Internet access.

The hotels recommended near CRL are The Kendall Hotel, the Cambridge Marriott, and the Residence Inn. All three of these are a short walk from CRL and easily accessible via public transportation from the Kendall Square subway stop next to MIT. We have not negotiated any special rates with these hotels, so you'll need to shop around for the best rates, as they vary. A longer list of hotels is available at http://www.ai.mit.edu/visiting/hotels/hotels.shtml . Directions to the lab can be found at: http://www.crl.hpl.hp.com/who/lab/directions.htm

Currently Registered Attendees

Currently registered attendees include:

1. Bill Abt
2. Matthew Allum
3. Paul Anderson
4. Stuart Anderson
5. Scott Balneves
6. David Boloker
7. Phil Blundell
8. Mirko Boehm
9. Alan Coopersmith
10. Egbert Eich
11. Mike Emmel
12. David Flynn
13. Nat Friedman
14. Diana Fong
15. Bdale Garbee
16. Jim Gettys
17. Jim Glutting
18. Linda Hamel
19. Mike A. Harris
20. Kristian Høgsberg
21. Mattias Hopf
22. Harold Hunt
23. Miguel de Icaza
24. Lars Knoll
25. Tommi Komulainen
26. Adam Jackson
27. Deron Johnson
28. Eric Kunze
29. Stewart Kreitman
30. Paul Litvak
31. Chris Lee
32. Lubos Lunak
33. Duncan Mak
34. Kevin Martin
35. Jim McQuillan
36. Nhan Nguyen
37. Keith Packard
38. Tapani Pälli
39. Havoc Pennington
40. Larry Rau
41. David Reveman
42. Andy Ritger
43. Robin Rowe
44. Zack Rusin
45. George Staikos
46. Søren Sandmann
47. Leon Shiman
48. Owen Taylor
49. Nick Triantos
50. Peter Winston
51. Carl Worth
52. Scott Peterson
53. Greg Jones

-- JimGettys - Feb. 13, 2005