Re: GNUstep @ FOSDEM - status update - cancel it or not?

[Nicolas Roard]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org> wrote:
> On 9 Jan 2009, at 14:04, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
>
>>> What is missing (IMO) from our presentation lineup is someone talking
>>> about Etoile.
>>
>> I am also very much interested in this (especially all the stuff David
>> Chisnall did with the runtime and the LanguageKit), but from what I heard of
>> the Étoilé people my hopes are low. Blame the weak Pound for it (or
>> whatever).

indeed...
But anyway, I'm quite likely to come, so I added two talks about
Etoile in general and about Pragmatic Smalltalk.

> I can prepare some slides on LanguageKit / SmalltalkKit for someone else to
> deliver if you want, and I could possibly even deliver them via some video
> conferencing magic if someone has the requisite skill at the other end -
> maybe someone could set up a Mac on the desk with the camera pointing at the
> audience and just use iChat?  As long as someone can advance to the next
> slide for me this would be fine.

That's a good idea, I guess it depends on the connectivity (usually,
not really good enough to sustain a video conf!). But maybe we can do
something anyway, even if only audio, or only audio for the Q&A...

-- 
Nicolas Roard
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