Re: preliminary schedule for the GNUstep devroom @ FOSDEM 2010

[Nicolas Roard]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
<lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here is what I have compiled for now:
>
> 09:00 - 09:30 Nikolaus Schaller:              "Simple WebKit - a simplified
> WebKit compatible implementation in pure Objective-C 1.0" / status,
> architecture, demo, discussion
> 09:45 - 10:15 Nikolaus Schaller:              "ocpp-2.0 - a preprocessor
> approach to translate Obj-C 2.0 extensions to Objective-C 1.0 for (older)
> platforms" / status, discussion
> 10:30 - 11:00 Nikolaus Schaller:              "Learnings from porting
> QuantumSTEP to different Linux Handhelds (e.g. Openmoko)" / demo,
> cross-compiler, performance, optimization, discussion
> 11:15 - 12:00 Fred Kiefer:                    "Towards GNUstep GUI 1.0: what
> we need to get there and how to achieve this within the next year." /
> discussion
> 12:15 - 12:45 Mathé Quentin & David Chisnall: "Étoilé: Where it is, where
> it's going, why it isn't there yet."
> 13:00 - 13:45 Nicolas Roard:                  "CodeMonkey: an Étoilé IDE"
> 14:00 - 14:45 Mathé Quentin:                  "EtoileUI: Fast UI Development
> with EtoileUI and Smalltalk."
> 15:00 - 15:30 David Chisnall:                 "Objective-C 2: libobjc2 and
> Clang, current status, plans for the future."
> 15:45 - 16:15 David Chisnall:                 "LanguageKit: Supporting other
> dynamic languages on the ObjC runtime."
> 16:30 - 17:00 David Chisnall:                 "Porting Cocoa apps to other
> platforms: what works, what doesn't, what to do to make porting easier."
>
> the schedule is also here:
> http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/FOSDEM_2010#Schedule
>
>
> I tried my best to consider every wish so far and cluster belonging stuff
> together the same time. But still: this is of course just preliminary and
> not set in stone. You can of course rearrange this if you come to an
> agreement with somebody else.
>
> Some notes:
>
> - Richard dropped his talk to allow for a more relaxed schedule with breaks.
> - David is not 100% sure if he can come (he has a house move pending) so it
> would be good if we would have some drop in talks prepared just in case
> - Nicolas, since you didn't reply me with a time assumption I have scheduled
> your talk to 45 minutes. I hope this is o.k. (but it still can be changed)

sorry -- I actually just sent you an email :)
45mn is probably too much,.. on the other hand I can always fill it up
with a nice demo.. as you want.

> - You can extend your talk / concluding Q&A quite a bit, that 15 minutes
> granularity is mainly there to keep the FOSDEM organizers happy but 5
> minutes should be enough for a break
> - I still need your resume and a short abstract for each talk until this
> saturday (9th of January) to forward it to the FOSDEM organizers (I've got
> this only from Fred so far)
>
> this is what FOSDEM wishes to get:
>
> --- snip ---
>
> * for each talk:
>  * activity title (please try to be descriptive, there are ~250 talks at
>    FOSDEM during the week-end ;)),
>  * a short abstract (1-2 paragraphs),
>  * a longer description if appropriate,
>  * optionally a list of links to the project website or similar
>
>
> * for each speaker:
>  * the speaker's real name,
>  * a short overview of her bio in a couple of lines,
>  * optionally also a longer bio,
>  * optionally a picture (please send it to us as 128x128 PNG),
>  * optionally links to her website, blog, ...
>
> For examples, see:
> * http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/devrooms/freejava
> * http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/java_state_icedtea
> * http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/mark+reinhold
>
> --- snap ---
>
> thanks,
>
>        Lars
>
>



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