Lars, It hasn't happened yet. I have the materials prepared and should get the banner and everything else on this coming Monday. Jesse has been helping with the artwork. I am also working with him on getting the brochures ready.
SCALE is from the 20-22 next week. :) The hotel is reserved, plans are made.... I shall report back what happens when I come back. It should be a great week. :) GC On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf < [email protected]> wrote: > I'll write a couple of mails to the list during the next days covering > several aspects (talks, the Dev-Room, the hotel and so on) of FOSDEM. I also > recorded all sessions on video and I'll post them on some online video > portal when I am done with some basic editing (adding a title mainly) of > them. > > > Some general words: > > - It was fun. All the work and dispair (because of the very slow start I > was several times at the brink of giving it all up) finally paid of. > > - Giving talks is fun. It was my first time and despite I had some crashes > to fight during my talk it still was fun. I felt very content after it. > > - It's really nice to meet all the people you usually talk to only at the > mailing list and the chat. Especially the dinner at saturday night is always > a highlight (we went to a pretty decent indian restaurant this year) > > - Quite some people asked for a Live-CD of GNUstep. I know there are > (were?) several ones, we had none. Also, most Live-CDs seem to be a little > bit out of date meanwhile (at least that's what people told me). So it would > be nice to have some good and up to date Live-CDs next year (Étoilé-folks > and Gürkan are you listening?). > > > Talks/Presentations: > > Interest was higher than I originally expected (I was going for the > smallest room available if you remember), it was most of the time more than > two-third full, in some talks the attendees even stood in the aisles. I also > learned that it seems to be very important what headline you give to your > talk. The more the attendees can imagine what the talk will be about the > more likely they are willing to come. Being somewhat catchy here certainly > helps while if you're using to many cryptic acronyms nobody knows (and if > it's to early in the morning) you'll probably end up giving a private talk > to some single person (despite giving a good talk) ;-) > > I have not exact counts or statistics but I had the impression that the > Étoilé talk drew the most people, despite the somewhat difficult > circumstances (basically, the "Pragmatic Smalltalk" talk was given twice, > once via iChat by David Chisnall and the second time by a helpful friend of > the Étoilé people (Sorry, I am not sure about his name - although having > seen him the years before - was it David?)). Interesting here is also that > nobody went out when not the originally planned "Étoilé" talk but he > "Pragmatic Smalltalk" talk was given. > > I also noticed that knowledge about GNUstep is still no very widespread. > While we weren't getting those notorious "Ah, GNUstep, I use window maker > too!" remarks we usually have gotten at the stand in the years before, the > folks who came to the talks - already knowing GNUstep, otherwise you don't > go to a talk I think - still were not aware of many things GNUstep has to > offer. You always can impress them with Gorm for instance, most didn't know > that and what GNUstep offers for theming nor do they know details about the > frameworks. In essence you approach a lot of them at a quite basic level. > O.k. there are some OPENSTEP veterans mixed in but a lot of the attendees > would benefit from practical lessons about what for instance GNUstep base > and GNUstep gui have to offer. Basically you have to give your attendees a > reason to use GNUstep (for instance faster/easier app development, > integration of apps created that way into their desktop environment of > choice - develop once, deploy everywhere and such things). If you can offer > them some benefit I think they'll be convinced. But that message has to be > spread. > > > If you have some more questions just ask. > > > Now I also have a question. Greg, you announced that you would attend > SCALE. How did that work out? Can you write a little bit about it? > > > > regards, > > Lars > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > -- Gregory Casamento Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant ## GNUstep Chief Maintainer yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell), (301)362-9640 (Home)
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