XDC2012: The X.Org Developers' Conference

The 2012 X.Org Developers' Conference took place in the charming Bavarian city Nuremberg (Nürnberg), over the period 19-21 September 2012, hosted at the headquarters of the Linux distributor, SUSE.

The conference program page provides links to pages detailing the various sessions; in many cases, those pages contain links to slides and videos for the sessions. Simon Farnsworth took some rough notes from each session, and these have been placed on a "proceedings" page; that page also has links to videos of nearly all of the talks.

LWN has coverage of selected talks; these will be linked off this page as they appear.

• Status report from the X.Org Board

• Graphics stack security: what are the security problems in X11, and how can they be avoided in Wayland/Weston?

• Programming languages for X application development: to what extent is the choice of programming language important in terms of making it easier to build desktop applications?

• OpenGL futures: what are the plans for the OpenGL ABI?

Above: XDC2012 conference group photo

Above: Kristian Høgsberg bending the laws of desktop graphics on Weston