Thanks, Aleksey, Tim! Sorry for being a bit slow with this reply, your words are quite encouraging.
On Nov 13, 2007 12:21 AM, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the report! Good to hear you are spreading the word about > Harmony. It's also good to see some pictures of people I've only ever > exchanged e-mail with on this list -- we should make a habit of sending > links to photos. > > Regards, > Tim > > > > Alexei Fedotov wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Software developers like to gather and socialize in Moscow, and this > > is a good opportunity for Harmony people to strengthen our community > > and spirit. Last Friday I visited Software Engineering Conference > > (Russia) and distributed 45 brochures "Build Harmony in three > > commands" based on Nadya's contributor guide translation [1]. > > > > I got a free pass by working at the Intel's booth [8]. The equipment > > allowed me to demonstrate self-made Harmony video [2] and distribute > > five brochures among rare geeks attracted by the scrolling build > > progress. > > > > The guy from Viva64.com was interested in static code analysis for > > seamless application porting to x86-64 platform [3]. I sold them > > Mikhail's verification algorithm based on backward constraint merging > > and our free intermediate representation from Jitrino. Borland was > > particularly interested in 3 Gb heap support for 32-bit > > mode for profiling their Together application [4]. Oracle channel > > manager showed no immediate interest in embedding our VM into their > > product [5], but got interested in Apache methods of fostering > > communities. With a Siemens enginner we were interactively calculating > > an effect of dropping client modules such as Swing and AWT. We got a > > bundle size > > decrease of 10%. > > > > While I was presenting free CDs with Intel tools Pavel Ozhdikhin [6] > > and Pavel Pervov [7] gave a detailed presentation about DRLVM > > architecture and experienced positive interest from engineers. Then I > > witnessed a vivid talk on open source tools for software developers > > and distributed forty brochures by locating myself near room exit at > > the end of the talk. > > > > In retrospective view the event was very atmospheric and energetic. While a > > conference with a high entrance fee may not be the best place to > > attract open source developers to Harmony project, > > I believe that distributing information about Harmony use cases among > > people with the strong relationship power has a steadfast effect on > > the product perception. While these supporters don't help us > > immediately by contributing a new bug fix, they communicate through a > > broad network and may recall the opportunity to embed or bundle > > Harmony when this would be useful and valuable. > > > > Special thanks to Nadya for her excellent editorial input. > > > > [1] The contributor guide in Russian. > > http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/%d0%98%d0%bd%d1%81%d1%82%d1%80%d1%83%d0%ba%d1%86%d0%b8%d1%8f_%d0%bf%d0%be_%d1%81%d0%b1%d0%be%d1%80%d0%ba%d0%b5_%d0%b8_%d0%b8%d1%81%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d1%8c%d0%b7%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%8e_%d0%b8%d1%81%d1%85%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b3%d0%be_%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%b0_Apache_Harmony > > > > [2] The Harmony video. > > while true; do ./build.bat clean; ./build.bat; done > > > > [3] Viva64.com guy was interested in static analysis. > > ftp://ftp.pcmag.ru/SECR-2007/Photo/CD-2/IMG_7589.JPG > > > > [4] Konstantin (right) worked for Borland and what's no less > > interesting he was my > > teammate from Krasnoyarsk Summer School [9]. > > ftp://ftp.pcmag.ru/SECR-2007/Photo/CD-2/IMG_7747.JPG > > > > [5] Dmitry from Oracle (left) is unsure to embed our VM right now. > > Sergey (right) is the author of HARMONY-3773. > > ftp://ftp.pcmag.ru/SECR-2007/Photo/CD-2/IMG_7583.JPG > > > > [6] Pavel Ozhdikhin, > > ftp://ftp.pcmag.ru/SECR-2007/Photo/CD-2/IMG_7592.JPG > > > > [7] Pavel Pervov, > > ftp://ftp.pcmag.ru/SECR-2007/Photo/CD-2/IMG_7595.JPG > > > > [8] Igor Odintsov (left) and Ilya Berezhnyuk (middle) were my booth > > colleagues. You may recall that Ilya is a contributor of NCAI. > > Alexander Alexeev (right) is the author of HARMONY-4905 and what's no > > less interesting he is my colleague from Krasnoyarsk Summer School > > [9]. > > ftp://ftp.pcmag.ru/SECR-2007/Photo/IMG_7286.JPG > > > > [9] Krasnoyarsk Summer School web site was designed by Alexei > > Shipilev. It is actually an offtopic link here. > > http://www.klsh.org > > > > -- > > With best regards, > > Alexei, > > ESSD, Intel > > > -- With best regards, Alexei, ESSD, Intel
