X.Org Developers Conference 2023 Returning To Spain

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X.Org Developers Conference 2023 Returning To Spain

Back in 2018 the X.Org Developers Conference (XDC) was hosted in A Coruña, Spain by Igalia developers and for XDC2023 it's again returning...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2023-Spain

[uid313]

My wishes for X.Org / X11 and its ecosystem:

• Port GIMP from GTK 2 to 3, then to 4
• Port Synaptic from GTK 3 to 4
• Port LibreOffice from GTK 3 to 4
• For GNOME to stop depend in XWayland
• For GNOME to stop depend on any X11 libraries
• Never to see X.Org Server or X11 again!

[zexelon]

Hmmm this is an odd thing to me... why host a conference for something that so many people are claiming is fully dead and buried?

Guess the rumors of its demise are highly inflated :P

[Hibbelharry]

Hmmm this is an odd thing to me... why host a conference for something that so many people are claiming is fully dead and buried?
Guess the rumors of its demise are highly inflated :P

Have a look at last years timetable:

https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/2/timetable/#all.detailed

If you scan the topics you will see there is not much X11 talks between them, but a lot of generel infrastructure like MESA, kernel, new hardware,...

There is no real progress or developer manpower in X11 anymore, the conference just kept its old name.

[Quackdoc]

X.Org is not limited to X11

[andyprough]

Hmmm this is an odd thing to me... why host a conference for something that so many people are claiming is fully dead and buried?

Guess the rumors of its demise are highly inflated :P

Monty Python "Bring out your dead", Revisited:
Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead!
[A WAYLAND DEV appears with a (seemingly) dead XORG over his shoulder]
WAYLAND DEV: Here's one.
Dead Collector: Nine pence.
"Dead" XORG: I'm not dead.
Dead Collector: What?
WAYLAND DEV: Nothing. [hands the collector his money] Here's your nine pence.
"Dead" XORG: I'm not dead!
Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
WAYLAND DEV: Yes he is.
"Dead" XORG: I'm not.
Dead Collector: He isn't.
WAYLAND DEV: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
"Dead" XORG: I'm getting better.
WAYLAND DEV: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
"Dead" XORG: I don't want to go on the cart.
WAYLAND DEV: Oh, don't be such a baby.
Dead Collector: I can't take him.
"Dead" XORG: I feel fine.
WAYLAND DEV: Oh, do me a favor.
Dead Collector: I can't.
WAYLAND DEV: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
WAYLAND DEV: Well, when's your next round?
Dead Collector: Thursday.
"Dead" XORG: I think I'll go for a walk.
WAYLAND DEV: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
"Dead" XORG: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[The collector paces for an idea, then whacks the WAYLAND PROJECT with his club, solving the problem]
XORG: Ah, thank you very much.
Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
XORG: Right.

[Vermilion]

Hmmm this is an odd thing to me... why host a conference for something that so many people are claiming is fully dead and buried?

Guess the rumors of its demise are highly inflated :P

From X.org:

X.Org Foundation's (or X.Org for short) purpose is to research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack and the developers and users thereof. This stack includes, but is not limited to, the following projects: DRM, Mesa, Wayland and the X Window System.

Plus everything freedesktop.org is part of X.org.