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Beagle, content indexer and search tool

Quickly find the stuff you care about.

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever you're looking for.

Using Beagle, you can easily find:

documents
emails & attachments
web history
IM/IRC conversations
addressbook contacts
calendar appointments
notes
source code
images
music/video files
archives and their contents
applications
... and much more

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Anjuta, Integrated Development tool

What is Anjuta DevStudio?

Anjuta DevStudio is a versatile software development studio featuring a number of advanced programming facilities including project management, application wizard, interactive debugger, source editor, version control, GUI designer, profiler and many more tools. It focuses on providing simple and usable user interface, yet powerful for efficient development.

   
     user interface     simple     flexible     clean     usable     configurable     dockable   
     editing     highlighting     folding     calltips     autocomplete     symbols     classes     C     python     C++     Vala     Java     JavaScript   
     tools     git     valgrind     gdb     profiler     subversion     scratchbox     automake     glade     inheritance     cvs     devhelp     wizards     tasks     terminal

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Agnubis, Presentation Program

Agnubis is the GNOME Presentation Program comparable to such programs as Microsoft PowerPoint or Corel Present. It has been developed and designed for the GNOME 2 plattform and is created to integrate well with the rest of the components in the GNOME Office suite.
Agnubis is currently in the CVS server of GNOME Spain. It will be moved to the main GNOME SVN server shortly however. You can view the code here.

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Accerciser, Interactive accessibility explorer

Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI to inspect and control widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information to assistive technologies and automated test frameworks. Accerciser has a simple plugin framework which you can use to create custom views of accessibility information.

In essence, Accerciser is a next generation at-poke tool.

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Abiword, Word Processor

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
AbiWord allows you to collaborate with multiple people on one document at the same time. It is tightly integrated with the AbiCollab.net web service, which lets you store documents online, allows easy document sharing with your friends, and performs format conversions on the fly.

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GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest 2010

From February 22-26, 2010 the GNOME community will hold a Usability hackfest in London, England.

As GNOME 3.0 approaches, a usability focused hackfest is overdue. Now is an excellent opportunity for GNOME Usability to take a step forward, and this hackfest will provide the GNOME Usability team an opportunity to focus, set goals, and accomplish work to prepare the GNOME community for the GNOME 3.0 transition and the future.

Considering this is a Usability hackfest, it would be great if a volunteer could provide an icon or banner, and otherwise spruce up this Wiki page a bit. Have had a go, suggestions for improvement welcome! --CalumBenson

Venue

The event will be held at the Canonical offices in London, England:

Canonical
27th floor, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank
London SW1P 4QP, UK

Millbank Tower is near Pimlico Station (which is on the Victoria line) and near Westminster Station (which is on the Jubilee and District and Circle lines). The London Tube website provides information about the London subway system and has links to maps.

Goals and Agenda

See /GoalsAndAgenda for the latest proposed goals and agenda.

Travel and Accommodation

Both Palmers Lodge and Hillspring Lodge are close to Jubilee Line Stations (Swiss Cottage and Willesden Green) so getting to Westminster would be no problem - 10 to 20 minutes on the tube. Both hostels are very busy during the dates requested but could possibly accommodate a small group. This would be better at Hillspring because we have small rooms left (a few 4 bed and one 14-Bed) - it may not be possible to get your own group rooms at Palmers. If people express an interest in this option, please speak up so arrangements can be made.

The following have also been recommended as good budget hotels/hostels to consider:

The Premier Inn is not too far away. They have rooms for between £92 and £117 a night (excluding breakfast).
The Mitre House Hotel London is not too far away. They have rooms for around £80 per night.
The German YMCA has also been recommended.
Also consider checking London HostelWorld.

For people looking for a hotel close to the venue, the City Inn Westminster – London Hotel is just around the corner from the hackfest venue. The prices of their rooms are a bit inflated due to the location - week nights range between £180 and £190 a night per room (excluding VAT, without breakfast).

Public transport

London has an excellent public transportation system. Comprehensive travel advice, including a journey planner, can be found on on the Transport for London website. Visitors are advised to get a pay as you go Oyster card or a Travelcard. These are valid on all modes of transport and are much cheaper than buying individual tickets.

Leisure and Entertainment

A meal is being organised for the first night (Monday 22nd February). Please sign up using the attendees table below. There are also plans to have a GNOME LondonBeer event during the hackfest.

A Google Map has been put together showing recommended restaurants close to the hackfest venue and beyond. Further information about what to do in London can be obtained from TimeOut, Le Cool and Ldn. TimeOut produces a printed listings magazine each Wednesday which is available from most newsagents.

Feel free to contact AllanDay about social activities or for advice about where to eat and drink.

Attendees

Please add your name below if you plan on attending:

Name	Organization	Dates	Hotel/Accommodation	First night meal (y/n)
BrianCameron	Sun Microsystems and the GNOME Foundation	Feb 22-26
Charline Poirier	Canonical	Feb 22-26
Ivanka Majic	Canonical	Feb 22-26
William Jon McCann	Red Hat	Feb 20-28	probably http://www.trebovirhotel.com/
Jeremy Perry	Red Hat	Feb 20-28	probably http://www.trebovirhotel.com/
Calum Benson	Sun Microsystems	Feb 22-26	Premier Inn	y
Thomas Wood	Intel	Feb 22-26
Nick Richards	Intel	Feb 22-26
Hylke Bons	Intel	Feb 22-26
Karl Lattimer	Codethink	Feb 22-26
AllanDay		Feb 22-26		y
Jakub Steiner		Feb 22-26
WillieWalker	Sun Microsystems	Feb 22-26
BastienNocera	Red Hat	been there for ~10 years
MairinDuffy	Red Hat	Feb 22-27	http://www.plazaontheriver.co.uk/
GarrettLeSage	Novell	Feb 20-28
SethNickell	ain't got nothin' but a song in my heart	Feb 22-26
PhilBull	Ubuntu / GNOME Docs	Feb 24-25
SteveLee	OSS Watch	Feb 24-25 (@Dev8D)
Emli-Mari Nel	University of Cambridge	Feb 25
Alan Lawrence	University of Cambridge	Feb 25
Patrick Welche	University of Cambridge	Feb 24-26
VincentUntz	Novell	Feb 24-26	http://www.trebovirhotel.com/
MatthewPaulThomas	Canonical	Feb 22~26	home	y

If you need assistance with travel, please fill out a Travel Subsidy form. For more details, follow the GNOME Travel Subsidy process.

Miscellaneous

The Dev8D Conference is happening in London from February 24-27. There should be opportunities to coordinate some time together to work on projects or socialize. Since the Dev8D conference runs a bit longer than the GNOME 3.0 Usability hackfest, some people may have an interest in attending this event on the 27th.

Below are some ideas for collaboration:

Organize a day when the GNOME Usability Team or community meets at the Dev8D venue to give a talk or session or hang out for or hack. The 27th looks like being a good day to encourage people from the GNOME Usability hackfest to attend the Dev8D conference as it is the day after the GNOME event.
The GNOME Foundation could provide some compelling speakers, presenters, or discussion topics on GNOME Usability or free software GUI usability in general.
Dev8D attendees could provide an introduction to HE research specific projects
OSS Watch will be running a workshop before the events that will provide an opportunity for learning about Wookie, the W3C Widget server that is now in the Apache Incubator. This means there will be people hacking on Wookie and widgets at Dev8D.
Eye gaze control using cheap web cams is a hot accessibility topic so it would be good to see some joint hacking on GNOME Mouse Trap and University of Cambridge Inference group's opengazer project; http://bit.ly/6iZqbr and http://bit.ly/GL9tJ (thanks to @pepperbox for the idea).

References

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Mozilla Sponsors GNOME Accessibility Efforts

BOSTON, Mass — February 4, 2010 — The GNOME Foundation is happy to announce a substantial donation from the Mozilla Corporation to benefit the GNOME Project's accessibility efforts. The donation will help continue the collaborative efforts between GNOME and Mozilla on Accessibility.
The Mozilla Corporation is granting the GNOME Foundation $10,000 for 2010. The funds will be used in part to send GNOME developers to the 25th Annual International CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. The CSUN Conference is one of the premier technology conferences for people with disabilities, and by holding a GNOME accessibility hackfest at the conference, GNOME can ensure a diverse group of GNOME developers are immersed in the accessibility space with direct hands-on interaction with end users.

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