Re: our Devroom - what do we want to do there - call for papers

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On 30 Dez. 2008, 01:59, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-
helld...@hamburg.de> wrote:
> Hi GNUsteppers, Étoilists and OpenGroupwarers,
>
> now that we've got our dev-room at FOSDEM it is now up to us to use  
> that once in a lifetime (not really ;-)) chance for our purposes and  
> as we think it's best. That can include talks, hacking sessions,  
> discussions and so on. Just what we want.
>
> Since our FOSDEM presence can hardly be a one man show I ask you to  
> put down your ideas and plans here:http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/
> FOSDEM_2009 or to mail them to the list.
>
> Please enter whether you want to be there or not and whether you want  
> to hold a talk in the same wiki page:http://wiki.gnustep.org/
> index.php/FOSDEM_2009 (Btw. this is just a quickly cleaned up page  
> copy of the page from the year before, feel free to correct mistakes,  
> especially if your name doesn't show up there don't be concerned)
>

That is great news and we have to hurry up of course to hit the
timeline!

What I would like to suggest is that we look through the glasses of
FOSDEM visitors. That are

* 33% core developers tied to other FOSS projects who already know
GNUstep from the past and have some (bad?) prejudice about it
* 33% developers not tied to any project and looking for interesting
new projects
* 33% others (i.e. Families going for a walk on Sunday afternoon)

So what would they want to see and hear in the talks?


Some thoughts (without priorities):

1. How to install and run GNUstep on Windows
2. The new Cairo Backend (Cairo - Fred)
3. Applications, Applications, Applications (GAP - Riccardo)
4. How can I contribute to GNUstep?
5. Is there a nice Desktop? (Etoile - Quentin)
5. What do I get from GNUstep what I don't from GTK, Qt, Cocoa,
Android, etc.?
6. (non-)Compatibility to Macintosh and iPhone
7. What and how can I do with (Scalable) OpenGroupWare? (Helge)


Nikolaus