I couldn't be at #guadec2026 this year but I recorded a talk about JavaScript in GNOME, static analysis, types, and some performance work that @igalia is supporting. Will we finally nail the Big Hammer??

Video: youtube.com/live/HnduDRyFsZ0?s…
Slides: ptomato.name/talks/guadec2026/

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Sriram Ramkrishna will be presenting how we have been building a fundraising engines to help keep GNOME's infrastructure open and developers and contributors paid - and where we can go from here

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📆18 jul 2026, 15:50

#GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2026

Session save/restore has been a hotly requested feature for our desktop - Adrian Vovk will be giving an update on his work to get it integrated into GNOME. If you want session save/restore in GNOME, don't miss it!

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📆17 jul 2026, 15:15

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A project the size of GNOME needs strong governance to thrive.

Emmanuele Bassi will describe how we can start improving our governance with a team to manage the software development platform GNOME is built on.

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📆17 jul 2026, 10:45

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GNOME Shell and Mutter, which lie at the core at the GNOME experience, have both evolved greatly in the past year - hear all about it straight from a wide panel of Mutter and Shell developers!

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📆18 jul 2026, 14:05

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Live now: Abderrahim Kitouni shares an update on the state of GNOME OS, our development, testing, and QA operating system. Hear about:

• Enabling optional features
• OpenQA integration
• Improvements for flashing on mobile devices
• Major documentation rework
• …and more!

Watch now on track 1: youtube.com/live/HnduDRyFsZ0

#GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2026

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Remote desktop on X11 was a nightmare to setup and offered little security - Jonas Ådahl is showing how we can get rid of the old cruft and implement a more secure way to do remote desktop using Wayland, Pipewire and DBus.

Join Track 1: youtube.com/live/HnduDRyFsZ0

#GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2026

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With the current geopolitical landscape drawing more attention to the concerns around digital sovereignty, privacy, and dependence on big tech, it could have been our moment for FOSS on the desktop and mobile—but we weren’t ready.

Modal Collective aims to solve this across the stack with emancipatory, local-first computing.

Listen to @jsparber and @tbernard share more now in track 2: youtube.com/live/AZATps5el7k

#GUADEC #GUADEC2026 #GNOME

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Markus and Malika sharing about recent developments in Papers, the GNOME document viewer. Some highlights:

• Improved accessibility
• Annotations, including tablet/touch screen support
• Backend isolation for rendering, improving security and unlocking more features
• Manual and digital signatures

Malika was an Outreachy intern! Shout out to Lucas as well who did a lot of work but was unable to present in person today. 💙

Join track 2 now: youtube.com/live/AZATps5el7k

#GUADEC #GUADEC2026 #GNOME

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Lunch ran long, we're getting going now! #GUADEC #GUADEC2026 #GNOME

Zeeshan Ali Khan 🇺🇦

2026-07-16 11:46:37

@gnome Is the guadec stream broken? According to the schedule there are talks happening but we only have elevator music on the steams.

We are breaking for lunch! Join us again online in a bit over an hour.

Track 1: youtube.com/live/HnduDRyFsZ0

Track 2: youtube.com/live/AZATps5el7k
#GUADEC2026 #GUADEC #GNOME

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Should we drop GLib? 🤔 @swick asking big questions at GUADEC.

Follow along live in track 1: youtube.com/live/HnduDRyFsZ0

#GUADEC #GUADEC2026 #GNOME #GLib #rust

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GUADEC 2026 is about to start. Drop by the main auditorium and pick up some Igalia stickers… and have a chat with us if you want to know what Igalia is working on

#guadec #guadec2026 #igalia

Live now: @jimmac showing new icon capabilities in GNOME! Our icons are gaining support for variable weight plus transitions and animations. 🤩

Track 1: youtube.com/live/HnduDRyFsZ0

#GNOME #GNOMEdesign #GUADEC #GUADEC2026

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Aaditya is explaining what our new Ambassadorship program is and his experience growing GNOME Nepal.

Join us! Track 2: youtube.com/watch?v=AZATps5el7…
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…and we are on! Welcome everyone (online and onsite)! Follow along online.

Track 1: youtube.com/live/HnduDRyFsZ0
Track 2: youtube.com/live/AZATps5el7k

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In one hour we start with our first day at GUADEC, join us!

Track 1: youtube.com/watch?v=HnduDRyFsZ…

Track 2: youtube.com/watch?v=AZATps5el7…

#GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2026

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We had a great time with around fifty people showing up to get their badges and socialize the night before the conference officially kicks off. We’ll be back tomorrow with more photos and links to live streams!

#GUADEC #GUADEC2026 #GNOME

Writing a GNOME Circle application can sound daunting - Sjoerd Stendahl, the author of Graphs, will showcase his journey to get Graphs from a simple prototype, to a Circle app with 50000 downloads from Flathub!

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📆17 jul 2026, 10:00

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After 5 long years of development, Juan Pablo Ugarte will be presenting then giving a demo of Cambalache 1.0 - a neat app for prototyping GTK apps!

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📆17 jul 2026, 15:15

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Optimising software is tricky to do without solid data. Ivan Molodetskikh will show us how he used Tracy to find performance issues in GNOME Shell, and how we can use it to easily optimise our own software.

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📆17 jul 2026, 15:50

#GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2026

Pre-registration party is happening now! Come pick up your badge in person at Rialta and say hi to some GNOMies before the official conference begins tomorrow.

#GUADEC #GUADEC2026 #GNOME

Having GNOME in different languages is a step closer to inclusiveness.

Guillaume Bernard will go through the fundamentals of the Internationalization (i18n) process in GNOME and the current state of Dammed Lies.

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📆17 jul 2026, 14:15

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We are delighted to welcome Thomas Depierre to GUADEC who will make us think about the space that activism takes in nowadays FOSS.

@Di4na

Join us! events.gnome.org/event/306/con…

📆17 jul 2026, 11:30

#GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2026

Symbolic icons in GNOME apps have quietly been receiving huge updates to make them simpler, more reliable and easier to animate - here to celebrate and present these improvements is long-time GNOME designer Jakub Steiner!

📆 16 July 2026, 10:10
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Sebastian Wick will present some ideas and plans to help port some crucial features in GNOME's low level libraries, such as Gio and GLib, to Varlink services written in Rust 🦀

📆 16 July 2026, 10:40
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#GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2026

What's going on in GNOME OS lately? You can join the developers to hear what they are working on!

📆16 jul 2026, 15:05
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For all the GTK devs (or those interested in icons after Jakub's talk), Matthias Clasen's talk has lots to show about all the under-the-hood improvements to native SVG rendering in GTK — including animated icons!

📆 16 July 2026, 10:25
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#GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2026

If you want to hear the news from Papers, their maintaners and contributors will give an update during the 1st day of GUADEC.

Join us on site or remote
📆16 jul 2026, 13:35
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#GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2026

Graphs story show us how building and publishing a polished GNOME application as a newcomer is not as scary as it may seems!

📆 17 July 2026, 10:00
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Let's talk about the transition from X11 to Wayland and how it affected us and the remote access to our desktop.

📆 16 July 2026, 14:05
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Last day to book your meal for 18th July!

#GUADEC #GUADEC2026

GNOME

2026-07-01 14:00:29

Because we like to feed our community well during conferences, book your meal for Saturday 18th July!!

The University hosting us will have the cafeteria open only on weekdays. However, they are opening exceptionally on saturday for prebooked meals.

More info in discourse.gnome.org/t/guadec-2…

GUADEC 2026: Saturday Lunch Registration

Hello everyone, This year, GUADEC will take place on July 16 (Thursday), July 17 (Friday), and July 18 (Saturday).

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The schedule is out!!

Our organizers have been busy the last few weeks playing Tetris (Quadrapassel?) with the talks that will be presented in A Coruña. Check them out and let us know which one are you most excited about!

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#ACoruña #GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2026

GUADEC and TrustCon travel and lodging has been acquired 💸💸💸

See you in Spain and/or SF!

#GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2026

Great minds 🧠 think alike—and they all meet at the BoFs at GUADEC 2026

Book your Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session or Workshop at GUADEC 2026!

You're still in time to submit your session. Find out how here:

discourse.gnome.org/t/guadec-2…

#GUADEC2026 #GNOME #OpenSource

The call for proposals deadline for #GUADEC, #GNOME's developer and user conference, is tomorrow, March 13!

Submit your proposals at events.gnome.org/event/306/abs…. More information at discourse.gnome.org/t/the-guad…

#opensource #linux #desktop #GUADEC2026