Re: FOSDEM Arrangements

[David Chisnall]

On 13 Dec 2010, at 15:24, Quentin Mathé wrote:

>> I poked DBUSKit a bit and it definitely looks like a thing that's worth 
>> advertising and some demos.  If Niels doesn't want to give a long talk, 
>> maybe we could have a few 'system integration' lightning talks and have 
>> other people talk about the UXTheme / GNOME Theme stuff and anything else of 
>> relevance?
> 
> Agreed. Having a talk about theming even if it's short sounds important, at 
> least to show GNUstep is really motivated into supporting high-quality themes 
> and integration in various environments. 
> The DBusKit fits well in this perspective and the app example Niels wrote 
> seemed pretty exciting to me. Few yours ago, I wrote some DBus code (using 
> the basic C lib and the glib-based lib) and it wasn't a completely pleasant 
> experience.

So, can we schedule an hour for four 15 minute talks (10 minutes + setup / 
questions) about using GNUstep with other environments?  Anyone else want to 
add some topics for this?  

>>> - EtoileText (… I'm especially curious about the possibility to leverage 
>>> OMeta to write the tree transform rules)
>>> - LanguageKit Progresses
>> 
>> I could talk about either of these.  Most of the changes in LanguageKit 
>> since last year have been polishing off rough edges and a few optimisations 
>> (most of these can also apply to Objective-C, but because it's so hard to 
>> drive them from GNUstep Make we have the amusing situation that Smalltalk is 
>> a lot faster than Objective-C for some things).  
>> 
>> EtoileText might be of interest to other people.  For anyone who hasn't been 
>> following the Étoilé blog, I'm using it to generate the ePub version of my 
>> upcoming book from LaTeX sources, complete with clang-driven syntax 
>> highlighting for the code samples (which looks much nicer than the LaTeX 
>> listings package, since it can distinguish typedefs, macros, and so on).  
> 
> If I had to make a choice, I'd rather pick EtoileText since I know close to 
> nothing about it. But that's my personal preference, I suppose people who 
> attend to the talks might be more interested to hear about LanguageKit and 
> recent progresses such as EScript. It's more trendy in a way ;-)

I'd be happy to talk about EtoileText, and maybe a little bit about 
SourceCodeKit at the same time.  

EScript is not all that interesting.  It's a tech demo rather than something 
I'd recommend people actually use.  I've got some out-of-tree optimisations for 
it that should bring it closer to speed parity with Smalltalk, but I've not 
finished them because I'm not really interested in it as a language (I'm much 
more keen to finish ObjMeta, which I also haven't had time for...).

David

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