Re: GNUstep & FOSDEM 2004

[Helge Hess]

On 07.01.2004, at 12:16, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> No reason to get upset.

No one is upset, but FOSDEM is coming near and so far there was little 
feedback on my suggestion ;-)

> As usual there are a lot of different oppinions in this mailing list. 
> And I, for example, like your idea of a shared panel very much. I 
> think this years GNUstep presentation should be focused on user 
> applications, as during the last year we made the greates progress in 
> this area.

Sounds very good to me.

> And OGo is surely the most wellknown application in the bigger GNUstep 
> environment.
> What about presentations on some of the interesting application, that 
> where writen/completed in the last year? Of course we should also give 
> short talks on Gorm and Renaissance, to catch the atention of new 
> GNUstep users. Or just use these, when showing how to extend the given 
> applications?

I think a mini-from-scratch-tutorial on that would be quite nice. After 
all this is considered to be a major GNUstep advantage - rapid building 
of powerful applications.

> Who would be willing to do presentations at all? I intend to be at 
> this FOSDEM, but don't have anything to show, being to lazy to develop 
> something in the last year now shows.

Well, I'm pretty bad at making presentations, last years was awful ;-) 
But I could try again to give two overviews on OGo, one from a 
developers point of view (what is in there for reuse) and one from a 
users point of view.

Anyway, so far someone would need to organize a developers room with 
the FOSDEM team - I guess we are already late again ... The one two 
years ago was pretty good, I didn't like the big one last year too 
much.

Greets,
  Helge
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