Re: World-Wide (ish) NeXT Meetups

[Quentin Mathé]

Le 30 mai 04, à 17:01, Nicolas Roard a écrit :

> Le 30 mai 04, à 05:52, Graham J Lee a écrit :
>
> > So, how does it sound?  I'd appreciate any feedback.  Number of 
> > people interested, locations of people, willingness to travel, what 
> > you'd like to do; and most important of all willingness to arrange 
> > meet-ups!  It's unfeasible that everyone could get to one meeting but 
> > if we can arrange parties in a number of suitably-spaced locations 
> > then we'll still have a world-wide spirit; handy when considering the 
> > world-wide web came from NeXTSTEP!  ;-)
>
> I will definitely come to Oxford for the event :-)
>
> Another idea, after talking about that event on #gnustep... we are a 
> few gnustep developers in england, and france isn't that far (well 
> Paris->Oxford at least) with train, and possibly people in others 
> countries could want to come...

Like me (Paris)… :-)

> So, why not organize a "GNUstep Developers Meeting", say from the 
> saturday to the monday, where we'll be able to discuss and code ?
>
> Then, the tuesday, we could have some kind of "OpenStep Day", with 
> talks -- from NeXT/Cocoa devs, and from us (like a talk to present 
> gnustep, its current state and future, and another to show the 
> technology...)
> Targetting OpenStep will permit to have more people the tuesday and 
> could be quite interesting for everybody (plus we'll be able to show 
> gnustep to the people that are the most likely to use it in the first 
> place)
>
> So, are there some people interested to do that ? October isn't 
> perfect from an organization point of view, and tuesday isn't great 
> either, beeing in the middle of the week. But the symbol is nice...

This "GNUstep Developers Meeting" idea as described by Nicolas looks 
very cool and promising. I'm very interested to help it becoming a 
reality. Otherwise October 15…19 is ok for me.

Quentin.

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Quentin Mathé
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