The Second GNOME Users Group Meeting

2008-Dec-10

Added by Emily Chen

Time: 2008-12-17 19:00

Venue: Flow cafe & bar (Previous called "Study English Learning Pub")
57th, Chengfu Road, Haidian District, Beijing City. It is 100 meters west to the south-gate of the Tsinghua University, north of the road. It is on the west side, 300 meters away from the Wu-Dao-Kou SubWay Station. You may step off at the bus station of Tsinghua-Yuan through line 726, 743, 731, 307, 319, 331, 355, 438, 628, Qinghuayuan station.
Map: http://www.aibang.com/?area=abbd&cmd=traffic&id=829420302-695595310&frm=in_bzt_mapb

Agenda:
7:00pm - 7:30pm Sign-in, self-introduction
7:30pm - 8:30pm Topic 1: Accessibility Introduction and Discussion Panel
8:30pm - 9:30pm Topic 2 : Making Slides with Inkscape
9:30pm - Free talk

Fee： 20RMB/person to enjoy unlimited drink and share projector and venue.

Topic 1:
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Topic: Accessibility Introduction and Discussion Panel
Speakers: Julien Forgeat, Ray Wang, Pockey lam, Emily Chen
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Introduction of the Speakers：

Julien Forgeat：Julien Forgeat：He is a Beijing based engineer working in the telecommunication industry and an enthusiastic Linux user.

Ray Wang: Ray Wang: FreeSoftware/OpenSource Software Fan, believes in the Philosophy and Spirit of the FSSOSS, has three years GNU/Linux Experience, now working for Novell, focuses on the Accessibility of the Mono. Member of the BLUG(Beijing Linux User Group).

Pockey Lam: Core member of Beijing Linux (Open Source) User Group, Pockey Lam has been active in contributing to Open Source promotion in China by assisting in open source event organization such as user group meetings, DistroShow in universities, Software Freedom Day(Beijing & Qingdao), Linux Developer Symposium, GNOME.Asia Summit and OOoCon, etc. She also established a TechGirls Group in Beijing in 2007 having projects like Installfest for girls in order to draw more girls participation in the Open World.

Emily Chen: Emily joined Sun as a Software Engineer and now work on OpenSolaris desktop team. Currently she is responsible for the quality of the Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird applications on OpenSolaris. Emily worked on Google Summer of Code project as a mentor in 2006 and 2007. She is called OpenSolairs contributor in 2008. She organized the first ever GNOME.Asia Summit in Beijing.

Agenda of Topic 1：

1) General introduction / Concept of accessibility and this accessibility project from Julien

* 1.1. Introduction about computer accessibility
* 1.2. Example(s) of accessibility challenges
* 1.3 Where shall accessibility stand?
* 1.4 So Accessibility is not about tools and features that help make software usable by everybody?
* 1.5 Objectives of the accessibility project we are running (getting people involved, SoC, ...)

2) Mono presentation from Ray and Figod and how to get involve See slides from: here

3) Q&A

Topic 2 :
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Topic: Making Slides with Inkscape
Speaker: Lingtao Pan
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Introduction of Speaker

Lingtao Pan is a student of Second-year master's degree in Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, researches for computer network, especially for routing of the Internet. He has been using Linux for five years, and has strong interest on programming. He want to be able to grasp the programming skills thoroughly, and now focuses on GNOME Desktop System.

Introduction of the Tsinghua Open Source Software Club:

Tsinghua Open Source Software Club is an opensource organization focuses on building the open-source community of Tsinghua University. It was fouded in 2005-9.The aim of the Club: Building the open-source community of Tsinghua University, Practice and disseminate the open source philosophy---Fun for tech, Open, Equality and Communicate to Create Together.
Club Website www.thoss.org.cn
Topic: Making Slides with Inkscape
Outline:

* 1.How to use Inkscape to create slides
1.1 Advantages to other tools
* 2. A tiny software to simplize the process of using Inkscape.
2.1 Procedure Demonstration and Introduction of the code
* 3. Proposal of Creating slides Based on Inkscape
3.1 Demo (modified from Eye of Gnome(eog))