(was: Re: PALMSOURCE (WAS: Re: Excellent new article))
>>Me too :-) Was I right in saying they said the next one was in a "year
>>and a bit"? I don't think I can wait... anyone fancy an "Unofficial UK
>>PalmSource 2000"?
>I would be very interested in trying to get David Fedor over to give us
>Europe based developers a technical update sometime next year, maybe we
>could meet down the pub:)
A pub sounds good... had some quite good beer in Munich, but I never
dropped into a pub in London. :-( But seriously, we're very glad that you
enjoyed the conference; it seemed to be quite successful to us as well.
I was just now talking with Gabriel Acosta (who is in charge of all the
Developer stuff here) and he said that yes, a year is a long time before
the next official PalmSource in Europe, and that it might be possible to do
some sort of a less formal tech update event inbetween now and then. We do
occasionally have smaller get-togethers here in California, and are
interested in encouraging developers to meet up since that helps everyone.
So some initial questions to the list at large are:
- where? London, Munich, Frankfurt, Paris, Brussels, Geneva, or somewhere
else? We'd only want to do it in one city, so it'd have to be somewhere
people wouldn't mind travelling to. The more people come, the better it
is, so don't just suggest your hometown!
- when? Spring? Summer? Name a month.
- what do you want it to cover? Presumably doing introductions to Palm
Programming wouldn't be a good idea, but there's tons of different things
that could be covered. Handheld APIs, comms, conduits, business issues,
enterprise items, in-depth programming, what? (No fair saying "everything"
- presumably this'd be a one or two day event.)
The more feedback, requests, suggestions for help, etc. that we get, the
more likely that this will happen, so speak your mind.
And ditto for developers in other countries! In fact if someone wants to
volunteer to collect votes, or even run the process, let me know.
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
