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

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 4 Jan 2010, at 23:04, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:

> 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"
> 

I don't mind dropping my slot in order to fit people in with time for 
breaks/discussions/q&a ... I did two slots last year, so it's really not my 
turn.