On 7 Feb 2011, at 23:07, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: > Hi everybody, > > at first I want to say "Thank You!" to all the speakers (in alphabetical > order: Gregory Casamento, David Chisnall, Niels Grewe, Quentin Mathé, Nicola > Pero, Sebastian Reitenbach, Nikolaus Schaller) in our devroom, to Tim Käck > for recording the sessions and buying some computer speakers for Greg's Skype > session and also to our audience who showed through their presence that > GNUstep and all the partner projects like Étoilé matter. I also want to say > "Thank you" to Gerold Rupprecht for sponsoring the drinks at the GNUstep > dinner. And at last but not least a great "Thank You!" to the FOSDEM people > which organised the whole conference. Without you this would not have been > possible.
There is, of course, one very important person omitted from this list: Lars himself. Thank you once again for doing all of the cat-herding (hurding?) required to get all of this organised. > The GNUstep devroom has been a success this year again. During the talks the > room was never empty, during some sessions a few people even had to stand in > the aisles. The talks were very interesting to the GNUstep developers but > next time we should not forget about the beginners. A question of David > asking for the knowledge regarding GNUstep and Objective-C during his main > track session on sunday showed that most of the audience has very little to > no experience in that field. For anyone who couldn't make FOSDEM, I've put an annotated version of my slides online here: http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csdavec/FOSDEM11/ObjC_Handout.pdf Feel free to copy this onto the GNUstep web site somewhere. > So I guess some tutorial like sessions would come handy next time. I can > imagine sessions like: "Creating cross plattform applications with GNUstep – > a primer", "Using Gorm to create a cross plattform GUI", "Objective-C tips > and tricks", "Objective-C for C++ programmers – the differences, the > similarities" or "Useful frameworks helping you to create your application – > an overview" or the like. Maybe that would be not to interesting for seasoned > GNUstep developers but we're doing the whole event not just for us. I think that's a good idea. We should probably regard the devroom as more of an advertising opportunity than as a place for communication between developers. We reserved a timeslot for us to discuss how to go about adding UIKit support to GNUstep, but only about a quarter of the people in the room at the time were GNUstep developers, so we couldn't do much meaningful discussion. David -- Sent from my Cray X1 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
