Re: GNUstep developer meeting in January

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 3 Jan 2009, at 16:48, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:

> <rant>
> What actually is the point in this? I think this will effectively  
> distracting possible attendees from FOSDEM because it is so close by  
> (timewise)
>
> The points for FOSDEM are (IMHO):
>
> - it is located more centrally in Europe (means easier or equally  
> difficult to reach)
> - we have some public visibility (which means sending the signal:  
> "GNUstep is alive and well") besides the meeting opportunity (there  
> we also can have "nice development and debugging sessions", it's  
> just up to us).
> - we got a developers room for free there where we can meet (no need  
> to *rent* a room)
>
> I really don't understand why everybody in our community (are we  
> still one?) tries to "cook his own soup" (as a german saying goes)  
> by splitting up our forces (I guess nobody will have the time and  
> the money to attend every of those proposed meetings). I feel a  
> little bit sabotaged …
> </rant>
>
> … but maybe there's no interest in FOSDEM at all and I should cancel  
> the event so that FOSDEM can give the room to some other project  
> before it's to late for them.

I hope FOSDEM will have plenty of people attending.  I guess the other  
meeting might appeal to different people, but I'd like to be at both,  
and as you say ... only have the time to get to one of them (it  
basically takes me at least a day to get anywhere from where I live),  
so I'll (obviously) be at FOSDEM.

In the developer room I'd like to discuss at least the following:

Theming

Web Services

Garbage collection

MacOS-X compatibility

And hopefully we *can* get some coding done ... I thought we didn't  
have a stand this year, so we avoid the problem of having to man a  
stand  and can spend more time  discussing/developing.  Actually, that  
would seem to suggest that there's less point having another meeting.

> Or maybe people don't feel good with me organizing the event and  
> somebody else wants to take over. If so please drop me a mail and I  
> will hand everything over.


It's great that you've organised it ... thanks very much.