Re: Call for talks at our FOSDEM 2010 devroom (deadline 2010-01-03)

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Hi,

I am back from my vacation and we got quite some talk submissions now  
which is great. Thank you for that!

All in all we have now 11 proposals for 8 hours (which means we have  
an average of 45 minutes for each talk (including discussion)  
available - if we don't take breaks between the talks (this could be  
o.k. assuming that the last minutes of a talk should be Q&A/ 
discussion, even though it will get a little bit bumpy during the  
discussion - people can come in for the next talk or leave already  
during that time as well as the next presenter can already get ready  
for his talk.)

Those are the submissions so far:


David Chisnall:
* "Objective-C 2: libobjc2 and Clang, current status, plans for the  
future." Afternoon
* "Étoilé: Where it is, where it's going, why it isn't there yet."  
Afternoon
* "LanguageKit: Supporting other dynamic languages on the ObjC  
runtime." Afternoon
* "Porting Cocoa apps to other platforms: what works, what doesn't,  
what to do to make porting easier." Afternoon

@David: Could you please give me some assumptions for the duration of  
your talks?


Fred Kiefer will moderate a discussion titled:
* "Towards GNUsep GUI 1.0: what we need to get there and how to  
achieve this within the next year."

@Fred: I also need a time assumption from you. And do you have some  
preference for the time of your discussion  (morning, noon or  
afternoon)?


Mathé Quentin:
* "EtoileUI": Fast UI Development with EtoileUI and  
Smalltalk." (around 45 to 60 minutes)

@Mathé: Do you have some time preference (morning, noon or afternoon)  
or doesn't this matter?


Nicolas Roard:
* "CodeMonkey: an Étoilé IDE"

@Nicolas: Could you also please give me a time assumption?


Nikolaus Schaller (30 minutes each - please keep together):
* "Simple WebKit - a simplified WebKit compatible implementation in  
pure Obj-C 1.0" / status, architecture, demo, discussion
* "ocpp-2.0 - a preprocessor approach to translate Obj-C 2.0  
extensions to Obj-C 1.0 for (older) platforms" / status, discussion
* "Learnings from porting QuantumSTEP to different Linux Handhelds  
(e.g. Openmoko)" / demo, cross-compiler, performance, optimization,  
discussion

@Nikolaus: Do your time assumptions already include some time for a  
Q&A? Would a block in the morning hours (lets say: 9:00 - 9:30 -  
10:00 - 10:30) be fine for you?


already scheduled is Richards talk:

Sun. Feb 07, 2009
11:00 - 11:45
Richard Frith-Macdonald
* "Developing 24x7 enterprise server applications in Objective-C"



From all presenters I would need the following stuff for forwarding  
it to the FOSDEM organizers (they put it on the FOSDEM web site):

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* for each talk:
  * activity title (please try to be descriptive, there are ~250  
talks at
    FOSDEM during the week-end ;)),
  * a short abstract (1-2 paragraphs),
  * a longer description if appropriate,
  * optionally a list of links to the project website or similar


* for each speaker:
  * the speaker's real name,
  * a short overview of her bio in a couple of lines,
  * optionally also a longer bio,
  * optionally a picture (please send it to us as 128x128 PNG),
  * optionally links to her website, blog, ...

For examples, see:
* http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/devrooms/freejava
* http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/java_state_icedtea
* http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/mark+reinhold

--- snap ---

thanks,

        Lars