I don't want to give a talk, but rather lead a discussion. The title could be "Towards GNUsep gui 1.0" and it will be about what we need to get there and how to achieve this within the next year. I will prepare a few opening statements and the rest will be up to the audience.
Fred Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf schrieb: > FOSDEM is up in just 63 days and we have time until Sunday 2010-01-10 to > finally submit the talks in our devroom to the FOSDEM organizers. So I'd > say we preferably finish our schedule until 2010-01-03 so that the > presenters have some time to turn in their abstracts, picture and > (optionally) bio for the presentation at the FOSDEM website. Until the > 3rd of January only 29 days are left. > > > I have set up a list of proposed talks the talks schedule at our wiki: > http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/FOSDEM_2010#Dev-Room_Presentations_and_Events > . I think we first should collect all talk offers and then start > scheduling. > > > So please send your proposals to the list or - even better - enter them > on the wiki page above. At first a title, a short summary, proposed > duration and a preffered time slot would do, so we can start scheduling > as soon as possible. The FOSDEM organizers strongly recommend a > granularity of 15 minute blocks. So if a talk is just 15 (lightning > talk), 30 or 45 minutes long - fine! > > As an advice: experience tells that 15 minutes are really short (hence > the moniker "lightning talk"). Usually such a lightning talk is only > sufficient when you want to put a single new feature into the spotlight > - let me give an example here: "There's now a GNOME theme available for > GNUstep" (hint for a talk!) or something along those lines. 30 to 45 > minutes are a good time for a full featured talk and don't underestimate > the time needed for a discussion afterwards. > > > Later I would need the following from the presenters for forwarding it > to the FOSDEM organizers (they put it on the FOSDEM web site): > > * 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 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
