Re: GNUstep @ FOSDEM - status update - cancel it or not?

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 09.01.2009 um 11:00 schrieb Nicola Pero:

> > - several talks and topics where proposed, as of now only Helge  
> > has confirmed two talks (thanks Helge!)
>
> I'll be there and can hold two talks
>
>   Saturday 15:00 - 16:00: Cross-Platform Objective-C Development  
> Using GNUstep (Presentation)
>
>   Sunday 12:00 - 13:00: Building Server Applications using  
> Objective-C and GNUstep (Tutorial)
>
> Since there will be fewer of us this year, I decided it's better to  
> give general presentations for
> the "general non-GNUstep public" on how they could use Objective-C  
> and GNUstep to "do useful
> things"

If I can scrape some time together I would be willing to prepare such  
an ObjC Basics session (maybe including some exercise on the  
notebooks the people bring along - that would possibly even exclude  
GNUstep itself to keep the setup requirements low - so just doing  
some hello world stuff in ObjC for which only an installed GCC with  
ObjC+Runtime would be needed).

But then again I don't know the underlying C that much by heart so  
that some quirky questions by the auditorium could easily knock me off.


Maybe I just prepare the slides and somebody else can take over at  
FOSDEM?

> - as opposed to talking about details of a specific project or  
> piece of software. ;-)
>
> The room is small (31 people) so I wouldn't be too hurried about  
> cancelling it.  We're not taking
> up huge resources from Fosdem, and our line-up of presentations is  
> quite decent and exciting.
> A lot of people know about Apple and Objective-C and will be  
> interested - the room might even
> be too small for some of the activities! ;-)

True.

> What is missing (IMO) from our presentation lineup is someone  
> talking about Etoile.

I am also very much interested in this (especially all the stuff  
David Chisnall did with the runtime and the LanguageKit), but from  
what I heard of the Étoilé people my hopes are low. Blame the weak  
Pound for it (or whatever).

> Thanks

regards,

        Lars