Re: FOSDEM Arrangements

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

David Chisnall wrote:
> 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?
I'll be there, which reminds me that I should add myself to the list of
people available there. I think I could fill 10 minutes talking about
GNUstep on OpenBSD, but I usually use windowmaker, and haven't yet
looked into themes at all ;)

cheers,
Sebastian

>  
>
>   
>>>> - 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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