Last meeting, Cheng Dalong was quite unlucky with his hardware failing him right before his talk preventing him from showing us all the fancy new Gnome concepts he was planning to. He will be back this month challenging Murphy’s law by illustrating a step by step “hello-world” tutorial about GNOME 3.0. For those who missed last month announcement Cheng Dalong is currently Software Engineer at Oracle’s Research and Development Centre in Beijing and his presentation is titled “Head First to GNOME Shell 3.0”. Apart from

covering the new features of GNOME 3.0 he will also introduce the philosophy behind the design. In 2010 Dalong received his bachelor in Computer Science from Beihang University and also successfully completed a project for Google Summer of Code. Cheng Dalong’s presentation is available here.

Bin Li In the second part of the meeting, Bin Li from Novell China will present one of the current distributions offering GNOME 3 by default, OpenSUSE, and all the goodies that come with it. Bin Li has been working in Novell China RD since April 2007 and maintains a couple of VPN-related packages for the distribution, as well as co-maintains the NetworkManager and avahi packages in openSUSE. Bin Li is also translator of http://cn.opensuse.org/ in Simplified Chinese.

Also note that Novell is giving away DVDs for the occasion, though as they are still at the customs right now we might use USB sticks to help people install OpenSUSE if necessary.

• Time: 19:00
• Date: Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
• Location: Traktirr Russian Restaurant, 5-15 DonZhiMen NeiDaJie
• Phone: 8407-8158
• Map: here
• Subway: 东直门 (DongZhiMen) Line 2 and Line 13 (+ 3 minutes walk West) OR 北新桥 (BeiXinQiao) Line 5 (+ 10 minutes walk East)
• Bus: 东直门内 (DongZhiMen Nei) at Beijing Public Transport OR Google Maps