World of GNUstep - a collaboration of open Objective-C based projects



participating projects:

- GNUstep

	GNUstep is a free, object-oriented, cross-platform, OpenStep/Cocoa API compatible framework and development environment written in Objective-C

- Étoilé

	Étoilé is an innovative GNUstep based user environment designed from the ground up around the things people do with computers: create, collaborate, and learn.

- GAP - the GNUstep Application Project

	The GNUstep Application Project provides a comprehensive set of administration and user level tools to make using GNUstep based environments a very pleasant experience. Part of the charter of this project is not only to write new tools, but also to port existing NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Cocoa applications to GNUstep as well.

- QuantumSTEP / mySTEP

	QuantumSTEP is a Mac-like Application Platform that can be installed on existing mobile Linux devices (Openmoko, Zaurus, Letux, ...) aiming at highest level of useage, data and application source code compatibility (to the Macintosh platform) prepared for perfect data exchange and sync.



goals:

- teach interested developers how to write cross platform applications or port Cocoa applications to Linux BSD and Windows using GNUstep
- share news about the latest development and plans on GNUstep
- improve collaboration between the several GNUstep related projects
- using GNUstep to write applications for mobile devices ((e.g. Openmoko, Beagleboard)
- code sprints, hacking, discussing



http://gnustep.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUstep

http://etoileos.com/

http://gap.nongnu.org/

http://www.quantum-step.com/wiki.php?page=About
http://projects.goldelico.com/p/mySTEP/



Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf



lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de



Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf is a community manager for GNUstep



[x] Saturday from 12:00 to 18:00



Objective-C, the principal language of GNUstep, is currently the fastest growing programming language according to http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

GNUstep has the pivotal role of offering a free implementation of the Objective-C de-facto standard framework "OpenStep" (now Cocoa). It enables thereby free and open source application and framework development while maintaining compatibility to recognized industrial solutions.

GNUstep continues to support modern Cocoa features, including Objective-C 2.0 with the aid of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime, which supports a number of features not found in the Apple implementation.

GNUstep is a good match for FOSDEM since the target audience of GNUstep is developers who want to develop cross platform (Unix, Windows, Mac) GUI or server side applications or command line tools using state of the art object oriented Frameworks.