[$] An asynchronous Internet in GNOME

At GUADEC 2016 inKarlsruhe, Germany, Jonathan Blandford challenged the GNOME project torethink how its desktop software uses network access. The GNOMEdesktop assumes Internet connectivity is always available, which hasthe side effect of making the software stack considerably less usefuland, indeed, usable to people who live in those places regarded as the developing world.