Re: CRM will be hosting OctConf 2012!

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 13, 2012, at 9:06 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> I'm happy to announce that the Centre des Recherches Mathématiques has
> confirmed support for hosting OctConf 2012 during July 16-20. Please
> start making travel plans as soon as possible. I'm still working on
> getting more funding for it. I cannot promise anything to anyone, but
> it would be helpful if you could start sending me estimated travel
> expenses, including lodging. I will see about group rates for the
> lodging that the CRM offers.
> 
> We should also start thinking about topics of discussion annd problems
> to tackle, plus preparing presentation materials for new users and a
> general audience. The GUI and making OpenGL default (perhaps even
> deprecating fltk in favour of Qt) seem like some example of big goals
> we could handle working face-to-face.
> 
> I will be adding an announcement to the Octave webpage about this.
> Fotios, could you start making a poster about it? If possible in a
> format where it would be easy to add text to it? I'm still not exactly
> sure what it should say, but I really liked your design from many
> months ago.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

I'd like to see some developers with MacOS, Linux, and Windows sit down and try 
to hash out some of the fltk bugs.

See bugs: 31518, 31976, 32134, 32276, and 34720.

It would also be nice to run through the bug list and clean up duplicates, 
reports that aren't really bugs, etc. I've tried to do that from time to time, 
but am uncomfortable making such decisions in isolation. Maybe that can be done 
in combination with the code sprints ?

Ben