Re: FOSDEM 2011 devroom application - will GAP and QuantumSTEP / mySTEP participate?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Lars,
> - GAP - the GNUstep Application Project
>
>     The GNUstep Application Project provides a comprehensive set of 
> administration and user level tools to make using GNUstep based 
> environments a very pleasant experience. Part of the charter of this 
> project is not only to write new tools, but also to port existing 
> NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Cocoa applications to GNUstep as well.

GAP will try to be present! However since I am its only member in old 
Europe, it lies on me! I am still unsure if I can make it to Brussels in 
2011, both time-wise and economically.
I will try my best and for the time being, count GAP in.

I offer myself also for a talk, but the topics should be discussed. I 
did not partecipate in 2010, so some topics of 2009 could be digged out, 
updated and reissued.
> - teach interested developers how to write cross platform applications 
> or port Cocoa applications to Linux BSD and Windows using GNUstep

Approved. Since GAP harbors several example of Applications shared 
between Cocoa, GNUstep and some even Windows, they could be taken as 
example points for different problems (or even 100% port).
> - share news about the latest development and plans on GNUstep

Although they won't reach any stable state, I think some flash updates 
about SWK, Theming and the Windows theme could be given. All those 
topics touch GAP too, so again, a talk could be interesting.
> - code sprints, hacking, discussing
That's always good :)
> --> also mostly copy paste from last year's application. but then 
> again, we didn't change our topics and goals, didn't we?

No, we didn't. We can also reach the year back, 2009. I bet most people 
won't remember every detail of our speeches, but it is good to show some 
progress, in any case.
> Objective-C, the principal language of GNUstep, is currently the 
> fastest growing programming language according to 
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Always a good selling point. If you learn it on GNUstep, you may reuse 
it on Mac or on the iPhone.
> GNUstep has the pivotal role of offering a free implementation of the 
> Objective-C de-facto framework-standard "OpenStep" (now Cocoa). It 
> enables thereby free and open source application and framework 
> development while maintaining compatibility to recognized industrial 
> solutions.
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> GNUstep is a good match for FOSDEM since the target audience of 
> GNUstep are developers who want to develop cross platform (Unix, 
> Windows, Mac) GUI or server side applications or command line tools 
> using state of the art object oriented Frameworks.
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Riccardo