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| Speaker Name |
Nat Friedman |
| Company |
Ximian/Novell |
| Talk Title |
Usability and Innovation: The Gnome Desktop |
| Track |
Users |
| Scope |
General |
| Synopsis |
How does a distributed group of developers build a set of components which integrate together into a harmonious, usable desktop environment? This talk will explore the Gnome project\'s focus on users and simplicity: making easy things simple and complicated things hard.
The Gnome desktop has also been a fertile ground for innovation. We will present some of the newest innovations in the Gnome user experience, and show you where we\'re going.
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| Speaker Profile |
A long-time open source developer, Nat Friedman is a developer of the GNOME Foundation's proposal and charter and has made significant contributions to the development of the Bonobo object model, the GNOME architecture for creating reusable software components and compound documents. Both a hacker and an entrepreneur since childhood, Nat's dynamic personality has made him a natural leader and an important spokesperson for the Free Software movement. Nat earned bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and in Computer Science at MIT.
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