Interview with Nathan Willis, GUADEC Keynote Speaker (GNOME News)

[Posted July 25, 2014 by jake]

LWN editor Nathan Willis is giving a keynote talk at the upcoming GUADEC (GNOME Users and Developers European Conference) and was interviewed by GNOME News. Willis's talk is titled "Should We Teach The Robot To Kill" and will look at free software and the automotive industry. "And, finally, my ultimate goal would be to persuade some people that the free-software community can — and should — take up the challenge and view the car as a first-rate environment where free software belongs. Because there will naturally be lots of little gaps where the different corporate projects don’t quite have every angle covered. But we don’t have to wait for other giant companies to come along and finish the job. We can get involved now, and if we do, then the next generation of automotive software will be stronger for it, both in terms of features and in terms of free-software ideals." GUADEC is being held in Strasbourg, France July 26–August 1.

Interview with Nathan Willis, GUADEC Keynote Speaker (GNOME News)

Posted Jul 25, 2014 18:13 UTC (Fri) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link] (4 responses)

While KDE is focused on Wayland, GNOME is thinking of pie in the sky?

Interview with Nathan Willis, GUADEC Keynote Speaker (GNOME News)

Posted Jul 25, 2014 18:36 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

This article is about a keynote from one of the LWN editors that happen to give a talk in the GNOME conference. If you want to follow Wayland development on GNOME, try

https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland

Fedora 21 status

http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2014/07/03/wayland-in-fedor...

For comparison, here is the KDE status update

http://vizzzion.org/blog/2014/07/plasmas-road-to-wayland/

Interview with Nathan Willis, GUADEC Keynote Speaker (GNOME News)

Posted Jul 26, 2014 12:10 UTC (Sat) by sramkrishna (subscriber, #72628) [Link]

GNOME will be on Wayland by 3.14 thanks to the hard work of Jasper St. Pierre and Christian Hogsberg the wayland maintainer. Wayland work has been a top priority, we would have it done last release but there was a number of things that didn't get done. Not sure why you think GNOME is not focused on Wayland?

Interview with Nathan Willis, GUADEC Keynote Speaker (GNOME News)

Posted Jul 27, 2014 9:36 UTC (Sun) by andreasn1 (guest, #88420) [Link]

GNOME have been focusing heavily on Wayland for over a year now, and it's starting to show results. It's now possible to choose a Wayland session at login by default and it actually works. Still a lot of work to do though, but it's getting there. In order to stabilize things, the Continuous test server is now set up to automatically build and test GNOME under Wayland in addition to GNOME under X.
http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/07/23/continuous-test...

TONS of work have been put into this from GNOME, more to come.

Interview with Nathan Willis, GUADEC Keynote Speaker (GNOME News)

Posted Jul 28, 2014 18:23 UTC (Mon) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

Others have already commented that GNOME and Wayland are very far ahead.

I wanted to focus on some other bit: You're assuming any project can only focus on one thing at the time. While actually GNOME consists of loads of people with their own interests, all working on things they find important. Various work on Wayland, various work on other things.

Wayland was a pie in the sky thing. With your reasoning Wayland would've never had happened (I think you need to read up on the amount of work GNOME has done with Wayland). Further, this is GUADEC. We exactly want some keynotes which trigger other thoughts. You're seem to be assuming that a keynote is a position statement. It's not.

Your post is brief while at the same time it is totally off.