Re: [FOSDEM-Devrooms] GNUstep/Étoilé/GAP/QuantumSTEP joint application for a Devroom at FOSDEM 2013

[Quentin Mathé]

Hello Lars,

I'd be in favor of just meeting informally. We could ask the FOSDEM organizers 
to get a small GNUstep room just for hacking…

Cheers,
Quentin.

Le 22 oct. 2012 à 00:26, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf a écrit :

> Bad news: no FOSDEM devroom next year. Now we have to decide if we want to 
> try to apply for a stand or if we do nothing next year but meet informally at 
> FOSDEM.
> 
> cheers,
> 
>       Lars
> 
> Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
> 
>> Von: Mark Van den Borre <mark@markvdb.be>
>> Datum: 21. Oktober 2012 21:23:57 MESZ
>> An: Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de>
>> Betreff: Re: [FOSDEM-Devrooms] GNUstep/Étoilé/GAP/QuantumSTEP joint 
>> application for a Devroom at FOSDEM 2013
>> 
>> Hi Lars,
>> 
>> I'm sorry to inform you that we declined your devroom proposal.
>> 
>> To clarify, your request was perfectly valid, but we had to choose. 
>> Unfortunately we do not have a sufficient number of rooms at our disposal to 
>> cover all requests.
>> 
>> Nevertheless, there are other ways to participate in FOSDEM too. A call for 
>> participation will be announced around next week, with opportunities to:
>> - have a stand at FOSDEM,
>> - hold a 15 minute 'lightningtalk' in one of the biggest rooms,
>> - speak in one of the other devrooms.
>> 
>> On behalf of the FOSDEM devroom team,
>> Mark
>> 
>> Op 25-09-12 23:31, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf schreef:
>>> * Devroom name:
>>> 
>>>     World of GNUstep - a collaboration of open Objective-C based projects
>>> 
>>> 
>>> * Description:
>>> 
>>>     participating projects:
>>>     
>>>     - GNUstep
>>>     
>>>             GNUstep is a free, object-oriented, cross-platform framework 
>>> and development environment which aims at Cocoa (formerly OpenStep) API 
>>> compatibility and is written in Objective-C.
>>>             GNUstep provides a robust implementation of the AppKit and 
>>> Foundation libraries as well as the development tools available on Cocoa, 
>>> including Gorm (the InterfaceBuilder) and ProjectCenter 
>>> (ProjectBuilder/Xcode). GNUstep currently supports Unix (GNU/Linux and 
>>> GNU/HURD, Solaris, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin) and Windows.
>>>     
>>>     - 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.
>>>             Without implementation details like files and operating-system 
>>> processes polluting the computer's UI, Étoilé users will be able to:
>>>     
>>>             * have revision history for all objects in the system
>>>             * collaborate with other people on any type of document (text, 
>>> drawing, code, etc.)
>>>             * shape their own workflow by combining the provided Services
>>>             * use a system that is closer to their mental model of how 
>>> computers should work
>>>     
>>>     - 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 (several Openmoko devices, 
>>> 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. the new 
>>> Openmoko GTA04, older Openmoko devices, Beagleboard)
>>>     - code sprints, hacking, discussing
>>> 
>>> 
>>> * Project URLs:
>>> 
>>>     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/
>>>     http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> * name of the responsible:
>>> 
>>>     Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
>>> 
>>> * email:
>>> 
>>>     lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de
>>> 
>>> * relation to the topic:
>>> 
>>>     Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf is a community manager for GNUstep
>>> 
>>> * Preferred day:
>>> 
>>>     [x] Saturday from 12:00 to 18:00
>>> 
>>> * Why should FOSDEM accept this proposal?:
>>> 
>>>     With the ongoing success of Apple's iOS devices interest in programming 
>>> for those has grown huge. To a part this is reflected by how Objective-C, 
>>> the principal language of GNUstep, has become one of the fastest growing 
>>> programming languages according to 
>>> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>>>     
>>>     What currently still is missing is an free and open source 
>>> implementation of all of iOS' APIs. Here GNUstep comes into the game.
>>>     
>>>     GNUstep here has the pivotal role of offering a free implementation of 
>>> the Objective-C de-facto standard frameworks "Foundation" (part of Apple's 
>>> Cocoa and iOS' APIs) and "AppKit" (part of Apple's 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.
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> devrooms@lists.fosdem.org
>>> https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/devrooms
>> 
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