Re: our Devroom - what do we want to do there - call for papers

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 6 Jan 2009, at 00:57, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:

> Am 03.01.2009 um 19:12 schrieb hns@computer.org:
>
> > Some thoughts (without priorities):
> >
> > 1. How to install and run GNUstep on Windows
> > 2. The new Cairo Backend (Cairo - Fred)
> > 3. Applications, Applications, Applications (GAP - Riccardo)
> > 4. How can I contribute to GNUstep?
> > 5. Is there a nice Desktop? (Etoile - Quentin)
> > 5. What do I get from GNUstep what I don't from GTK, Qt, Cocoa,
> > Android, etc.?
> > 6. (non-)Compatibility to Macintosh and iPhone
> > 7. What and how can I do with (Scalable) OpenGroupWare? (Helge)
> >
> >
> > Nikolaus
>
> Nikolaus, thank you very much for your proposals.
>
>
> I would like to add some personal favorites I'd like to see at FOSDEM:
>
> - Some updates about what is going on with Étoilé - I read the blog  
> on http://etoileos.com/news/ from time to time and David's runtime  
> stuff, the Smalltalk Integration, Quentin's CoreObject stuff and all  
> the other things interest me very much. Étoilé guys, are you  
> listening? Maybe you can update the talks of your last hackathon a  
> little bit and (re)present those on FOSDEM this year.
>
> - a talk/discussion about the future of theming in GNUstep -  
> wouldn't FOSDEM be a great opportunity to come closer to a solution?
>
> - an ObjC primer for starters - what is ObjC, how is it related to  
> C, C++, Java and so on. I guess the iPhone and its app store has  
> created new interest in ObjC
>
> - last years recap for GNUstep. GNUstep has developed big time in  
> the last year. What are the most important news and changes?
>
>
>
> please feel free to propose additional topics and post them to the  
> list - or even better enter a talk you're going to give here: http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/FOSDEM_2009
>
> If you ain't got an account for the wiki - don't hesitate: send your  
> talk to me and I'll enter it.


You said that the deadline for our schedule for presentations was 10th  
Jan.
Looking at the wiki we have a daunting 14 slots, and none of them  
filled in yet.
We ought to fill *something* in.  Maybe we can repeat the schedule on  
the two days.

Let's say I volunteer to do talks on Theming and Web Services ...  
there is certainly enough to talk about on those two topics and fill a  
couple of slots on each day.

Is there anything else people would like me to lead a discussion about  
(I'd rather do that than formal talks) to fill up a few more slots?

What about any other volunteers?