Hi Cor, all,
I would like to say a big thank you to all the one who contributed, for
everything, including Team OpenOffice.org e.V. for funding me.
This FOSDEM was my third one, as participant, and it was yet better than
the previous one, really. And I start to be easy in Bruxelles, what is a
good thing ;-)
About my workshop : less people than last year, but all where
developers, and had c++ ( and some objective C ) knowledge. Glad to see
ancient students from UTBM proposing talks and better for some, and to
see the one who came to say me hello too.
I have put online my slides, and the patches I commented there :
http://eric.bachard.free.fr/FOSDEM2009
Asap, I'll complete this with a course explaining how I traced and fixed
a bug using gdb, because people told me afterwards it was the most
interesting of the workout.
Some students where very glad to learn about the existence of the
OpenOffice.org Education Project. What is strange, is the Sun people
working with them never told them about Education Project. Will
investigate how to improve.
Tip : for the one interested, the slides of my previous participations
are easy to find : just replace 2009 with 2008 and 2007 ... means
everything is : http://eric.bachard.free.fr/FOSDEM2008
http://eric.bachard.free.fr/FOSDEM2007 ;-)
One idea for improvement: our booth finished at 5 this afternoon. Most people had left … but still there were visitors, developers around. So
maybe we can plan next year that some people stay longer (and maybe also arrive later). We will have even better coverage then.
Yes, if ever I'm there again, I'll take my car, and stay longer + I'll
prepare other wild debug workouts :)
Last but not least, the most important I will retain is when we meet
other devs face to face, we do an incredible good work, more difficult
to achieve my IRC or email.
For example, we traced a crash with Stephan (we found a beginning of
fix), and I worked more than one hour with Thorsten, on something
complicated (Cairo , color space and OpenGL). Be face to face was the
key of the good work.
I'll never insist enough about the importance of be together and work
together. I just regret the network was not working when Eike wanted to
show me his work about formulas and some other important stuff he's
working on.
Was a great FOSDEM !
Regard,s
Eric Bachard
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Education Project:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project
L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org
Blog : http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news
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