2025-11-07T00:07:25Z

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| '''[http://www.gnustep.org GNUstep]''' is a [[Portability|cross-platform]], object-oriented set of [[Frameworks|frameworks]] for desktop application [[Development tools|development]].<br>This set of frameworks, based on [[Cocoa]] (previously [[OpenStep]]), enables developers to rapidly build sophisticated software by employing a large library of reusable software components. GNUstep is already used [[GNUstep in production|in production]] environments at several organizations.

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* '''Download Unstable Core packages : ''' [https://github.com/gnustep Git Repository]

* '''Developer applications:''' [[Gorm.app|Gorm]], [[ProjectCenter.app| ProjectCenter]]

Here are the minutes from the latest [[Monthly Meetings]].

New [[ObjC2_FAQ|Objective-C 2.0 FAQ]]

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[[Installation_MSYS2]]

If you find bugs, please refer how to [[ Report_Bugs | report bugs]].
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Monthly Meetings

2025-11-06T23:47:49Z

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Organization

2025-06-12T01:15:28Z

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The Owner section is essentially who is currently maintaining it (or who has the most knowledge of the item) and can contain more than one person. To make it challenging, please keep the Summary to one sentence.

Please only add things to this that are officially part of GNUstep, not GNUstep-adjacent (such as GSDE).

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Libraries
|-
! Name !! Owner !! Summary !! Status !! Notes
|-
| [https://github.com/gnustep/libs-base/ base] || || || ||
|-
| [https://github.com/gnustep/libs-gui/ gui] || Gregory Casamento || || Done? ||
|-
| [https://github.com/gnustep/libs-back/ back] || || Tells the system how to draw objects from libs-gui. || ||
|-
| [https://github.com/gnustep/libs-xcode/ xcode] || || || ||
|-
| [https://github.com/gnustep/libs-ruby/ rigs] || || Ruby bindings. || Not working ||
|-
| [https://github.com/gnustep/gdl2/ gdl2] || || clone of the Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) || compiles, but doesn’t currently build the postgresqladaptor (which is needed to make it work with PostgreSQL) without special configuration options ||
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Tools
|-
! Name !! Owner !! Summary !! Status !! Notes
|-
| make || || || ||
|-
| nib2xib || || || Done? ||
|-
| autogsdoc || || Generates HTML, XML, etc. reference documentation from source code. || || Part of base?
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Apps
|-
! Name !! Owner !! Summary !! Status !! Notes
|-
| System Preferences || || || ||
|-
| GORM || || || ||
|-
| ProjectCenter || || || ||
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Websites
|-
! Name !! Owner !! Summary !! Status !! Notes
|-
| gnustep.org || || || ||
|-
| wiki.gnustep.org || Ivan Vucica || || ||
|}

Main Page

2025-06-12T01:08:21Z

IOOI: the meeting is now monthly

{| style="border:1px solid black; background-color:lavender; padding:10pt; width:100%"
|+
| '''[http://www.gnustep.org GNUstep]''' is a [[Portability|cross-platform]], object-oriented set of [[Frameworks|frameworks]] for desktop application [[Development tools|development]].<br>This set of frameworks, based on [[Cocoa]] (previously [[OpenStep]]), enables developers to rapidly build sophisticated software by employing a large library of reusable software components. GNUstep is already used [[GNUstep in production|in production]] environments at several organizations.

Sounds interesting? Have a look at the more in-depth [[Introduction to GNUstep|introduction]]!

* '''Download Stable Core Packages :''' [https://github.com/gnustep/tools-make/releases Make], [https://github.com/gnustep/libs-base/releases Base], [https://github.com/gnustep/libs-gui/releases GUI], [https://github.com/gnustep/libs-back/releases Back]

* '''Download Unstable Core packages : ''' [https://github.com/gnustep Git Repository]

* '''Developer applications:''' [[Gorm.app|Gorm]], [[ProjectCenter.app| ProjectCenter]]

Here are the minutes from the latest [[quarterly_meetings|Monthly Meeting]].

New [[ObjC2_FAQ|Objective-C 2.0 FAQ]]

Here are the instructions for installing on Windows using MSYS64, it's a work in progress
[[Installation_MSYS2]]

If you find bugs, please refer how to [[ Report_Bugs | report bugs]].
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Application wish list

2016-07-06T22:04:43Z

IOOI: /* Database management */

What applications do you want for GNUstep? Please check the [[:Category:Applications|list of applications]] before adding.

== Database ==

=== Database management ===

A desktop software (like [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgaccess/ PgAccess] for example) to manage database. This program could use the GDL2 (Gnustep Database Library). It could be a good exercise and demonstration of this very good library.

[https://github.com/sequelpro/sequelpro SequelPro] - MySQL database management for Mac OS X (Objective-C).
* gnustep libraries are not complete enough to make Sequel pro work?
** They need help: https://github.com/sequelpro/sequelpro/issues/362

== Development ==

=== Project Management app ===

Something like [http://www.simpleprojectmanagement.com/planner/home.html Planner]. It has to be simple, not overbloated as MS Project.

=== nib2gmodel/nib2gorm without OPENSTEP/MacOSX ===
GORM can open NIB files created with MacOSX 10.2 and later. OPENSTEP/MacOSX is still needed for older NIB files.

=== CVS app ===

Port CVL.

=== F-Script ===
[http://www.fscript.org/ F-Script] is useful for examining applications' properties and various Objective-C objects. It's FOSS, but I don't think there's a GNUstep port yet.

: this is highly dependent on the objc-runtime

=== ManOpen ===
[http://www.clindberg.org/projects/ManOpen.html] Source is available and even an OpenSTEP variant. But not GNUstep.

=== Terminal ===
For [[Terminal.app]], write multi-tab support
* File a bug [https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=gap here]?
** For some reason Terminal is not in [http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/trunk/?root=gap the source tree] (?) --[[User:Svetlana|svetlana]] 00:20, 30 November 2015 (CET)

== Graphics ==

=== Blender ===

Blender has recently (since October 2002) gone GPL. Consisting of porting the Blender GUI/WM abstract library GHOST, using NSOpenGLContext, or a CoreGraphics implementation one day. Objective-C++ might be needed for implementing GHOST, but probably can be worked around easily enough. There is an OSX port, probably using CoreGraphics.

[http://www.blender.org/ Blender Foundation Homepage]

Most of Blender is written in C++ doesn't seem to use CoreGraphics but Apple's GL.

=== OmniGraffle clone ===

(I don't really know what this is, but people have said they want one. Someone please add a description! :)

This is for diagram, UML ....
I 'm thinking to write it. But not *right now*.
It will have probably a Gorm-feel

[http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/ OmniGraffle] was a clone of Lighthouse Design's Diagram.app, which was a re-working of the NeXT Developer Example Sketch.app, adding rubber-banding / angular connection lines.

=== OmniOutliner clone ===

This is a really cool app which can be used for anything. Mostly i think it is used to organise your minds while being creative (some kind of knowledge manager).

The inspiration for this was Jayson Adams' Millennium Software's NoteBook.app, which lives again as the (commercial) program [http://www.aquaminds.com/ NoteTaker].

=== Painting app (photoshop) ===

Bitmap drawing app.

Think Photoshop, not [http://www.gimp.org/ The Gimp].

In fact, forget that. Something new.

Something usable - can do Photoshop, but easy to learn. The Gimp can nearly do photoshop, but who can use it?

It would be great if it consisted of two parts - a very small very useful image viewer/manager (eg gqview) and the actual editor plugin (the big part). So installing image-core would give a very small useful app, then adding image-edit would make it into photoshop.

When opening an image file eg by clicking on it or running image-core thefile.jpg then only the core apps should start, so it starts real quick. If i right-click and choose edit or something .. THEN the other stuff is pulled in.

Or whatever. Just an idea. But makes development path cool. Could also have a vector plugin, or whatever.

Maybe we should wait, when (if?) Gimp gets '[http://gegl.org/ gegl]'ed.
then having a decent photoshop like app would be as simple as writing a gui for the gegl foundation.
+ gives us a nice featureset + plugins!

Maliwan project is aiming to achieve the same goal of GEGL. Right now GEGL isn't even half complete but we can still reimplement it base on GEGL's design. lastlife is waiting for you in irc if you want to discuss the idea. Maliwan is planned to be the heart of the BluTulip which is the actual application.

* porting http://seashore.sourceforge.net/ from their website: Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format.

a screenshot is here: [http://seashore.sourceforge.net/screenshot.php] which looks very clean and easy to use.

=== Pixen (Pixel Art Tool) ===

[http://www.pixenapp.com/ Pixen] is a decent, open source pixel art tool and there aren't alot of free or professional programs like it. There is also a compliment tool by the same guys for mapping called Reptile.

A port can be found [http://home.gna.org/gsimageapps/ here].

== MultiMedia ==

=== iTunes/Rhythmbox clone ===

It would be nice to see a music or video player with real music/media management like [https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox Rhythmbox] or [http://www.apple.com/itunes/ iTunes]. iTunes has started to support management of movies and videoclips, so maybe media management is the way to go?

=== DivX/XViD/DVD/VCD Player ===

I see that there was at least an attempt to port mplayer at one point but it seems to be dead. Maybe [http://www.videolan.org/ VLC] which does have an OSX version, could be ported.

: ''Looks cool, but requires CoreFoundation'' -- cbv

I'd like to see [http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ Ogle] (a DVD player) ported. [[User:Martin|Martin]]

: ''As far as I can see, Ogle (the actual player) doesn't really need porting, only Ogle-gui (the user interface add-on), which is GTK2 based'' -- cbv

== Networking ==

=== Torrent ===
A torrent client for GNUstep?

=== ICQ ===

And other instant messengers.

* Check http://freshmeat.net/projects/fireapp/
* See [[Grouch]].

=== Web browser ===

Seems to be a popular request :).

* Work is on the way to bring [[SimpleWebKit]], a small WebKit compatible library up to working condition. [[SimpleWebKit]] is part of the GNUstep project and can be found in the SVN. This library will allow the creation of a simple web browser, such as [[Vespucci.app]].
* The WebKit project has also offered their support to anyone who wishes to port WebKit to GNUstep, [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2007-03/msg00290.html see this e-mail]. This framework would allow the creation of a fully functional web browser.
* [https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/mac_build_instructions.md the OS X version of Chromium] (no porting in progress to my knowledge)
* "Apple's version of WebKit on which a clone of Safari can be built"

=== Web services app ===
A [http://www.karelia.com/watson/ Watson] / Sherlock clone would be useful to me.

=== Video conferencing software ===
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SIP_software#Free_and_open-source_license_2
* There's [http://www.ekiga.org/ Ekiga] (excellent piece of software) which it no longer dependent on the GNOME libraries to work but looses some functionality. Would be nice to have a GNUstep native application that could use the same protocols (SIP and H.323).
* [http://www.tlphn.com/ Telephone (application)] - a softphone for Mac OS X. It uses Session Initiation Protocol for communication. Written in Objective-C, BSD licence.

== PIM ==

=== Task management app ===

Chronographer (lobbying by ludovic) + libical
or
~TaskManager (lobbying by Fabien) + libical

Check SKYRIX libs (Opengroupware)

== Security ==
===Keychain===
I want a better Keychain. I need an architecture and app to securely store not just usernames and passwords, but also other useful data. Think associated email / verification method, SSH passwords and keys, email public and private keys, and user-defined name-value pairs (for unforeseen uses, this facilitates micro-formats, like a standard for voicemail PIN etc). And a pony!

Apple indicates that their KeyChain is derived from the open-source Common Data Security Architecture, so such a project would not have to start from scratch. I'm unsure how useful the third-party open-source [http://sourceforge.net/projects/keychain Keychain Framework] would be.

''The above mentioned keychain on SourceForge depends on Apple's own 'Security' framework. I'm not sure how much of it is publicly available (and if so, portable)'' -- cbv

== Text Processing / Office ==

=== Word Processor ===

A port of the Cocoa version of [http://www.abisource.com/ AbiWord] would be great, considering a word processor is a pretty vital application, and that Abiword is a pretty good one.

Porting Bean from the Macintosh 10.4 is currently done in the [[GAP]] GNUstep application project. It mostly works and the build is done using [[pbxbuild]], but no release to the general public yet.

=== Spreadsheet ===

A spreadsheet application would be great for GNUstep. A clone of Lotus Improv or Lighthouse Design's Parasheet would be a nice thing for GNUstep to have.

: You could look at porting [http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexisheet/ FlexiSheet]; it's the only Cocoa FOSS spreadsheet I know of. Coincidentally, it has a couple of ideas borrowed from Lotus Improv.

There has been recent progress for a FlexiSheet revival. GNUmakefiles are done. The current application is in [[GAP]] cvs, no release yet to the general public.

=== CSS/html editor ===

A cool html/css editor - emphasis on the css structural side.

Object oriented properties application to CSS element definitions, and insert those properties into HTML in web pages. Don't worry about WYSIWIG - that's what web browsers are for, displaying web pages. Just make a object-oriented CSS/HTML editor.

Maybe port [http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html Nexus] for that?

''This might actually be feasible, however, Nexus is based on [http://www.w3.org/Library/ libwww] and its source is, well, very NeXTSTEP'ish...'' -- cbv

=== A simple DTP application ===

A simple frame-based application for desktop publishing. Something like [http://www.calamus.net/ Calamus] ([http://www.calamus.net/man/index_us.htm here] is the documentation of tools and modules). Nothing fancy, just application that can lay out frames, control text flow, use paragraph styles and master pages.

I'd rather see TeXView.app come back myself.... I think it's far more feasible (doing a decent page layout app is _hard_ just as Donald E. Knuth). Perhaps better still would be to take advantage of LyX's ``GUI-independence'' and provide a GNUstep front-end for it, http://www.lyx.org .

No, nothing like LyX or TeX. I have in mind a ''visual'' page layout editing tool with features as described above (similar to PageMaker). LyX and TeX are a bit different approaches and should be alternatives to Frame based DTP application.

- Stefan

I think a heavy-weight drawing package w/ page layout features would be a better solution here (this is the workflow I'm using on my NeXT Cube now), then it could be tied into an XML-based workflow in a fashion like to Apple's new Keynote, perhaps in a fashion like to Pages-by-Pages. To describe my workflow a bit---I now use Altsys Virtuoso on my NeXT Cube w/ Omega (Unicode-aware TeX variant) for most of my page layout. IME, if a document gets too large to manage w/ Altsys Virtuoso, it might as well go into TeX... Not that I'd mind seeing a replacement for PasteUp.app, I just think that a drawing program is more immediately important / useful.

For simple DTP utility, I'd dearly love to see a re-creation of [http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdPartySoftware/Utilities/FONTS/AdobeTouchType/AdobeTouchType.html TouchType.app]

- William

Maybe you should take a look at [http://www.texmacs.org/ TeXmacs]. Looks promising and is in great need of a GNUstep frontend.

- david.

Interesting. I'd seen TeXMacs mentioned on comp.text.tex quite often, but hadn't realized it had gotten as far as it had. Interesting counterpoint to LyX.
- William

One really interesting thing would be to have a fame class which would useful enough so it could be used to put together a simple DTP Application but which would be flexible enough that it could be available to any application - the text control is a standard control for windows managers like MS Windows or Gnome. If there were an equivalent "flowing graphic control", you'd have a powerful building block indeed (note that in MS windows, the text control is actually poor enough that no credible application can built around besides notepad).
Also, for a programming text editor, scintilla is great. One thing to consider is that for DTP/HTML editor, what you would want would be a *superset* of the scintilla interface. It would be great to add all the different features in such a way that you didn't have interfaces duplicating each other's functionalities.

-- JosephSolbrig

=== Digital Librarian-like ===

I would really, really like a Digital Librarian for GNUstep. Basically, imagine an application that manage your documents the same way iTunes manage your music or iPhoto your photos... (to take well-known OSX apps as example ;-)

It would provide 1) automatic management of the documents by projects/ideas/whatever metadata 2) index your documents to let you search quickly in it 3) handles bibliography
As a postgrad student I have a LOT of articles in PDF/PS/DVI/html on my hard drive, and such an application would be really nice to help managing that.

* How about something like [http://debian.uni-essen.de/misc/GNUstep/Apps/GNUlibrarian/ GNULibrarian]? I was just browsing the other day and found it! [[User:Stefanbidi|Stefanbidi]]

== Misc ==

=== Old NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP apps ===
See [http://www.levenez.com/NeXTSTEP/meApps.html this side (in French)] for a list.

=== Frontend for different platform to [http://www.granddictionnaire.com/ Grand Dictionnaire (in French)] ===

=== Keyboard switcher application ===

=== Google.app ===

* Complete with ApplicationServices
* WebBrowser integration
* Using proper NS* classes for HTML retrieval
* Ability to select which Google server (www.google.ca, www.google.co.jp)
* Google News, Google Groups, Google Images too.

Hns: his looks more like a general WebBrowser than a special Google.app

=== DMG.app? ===

* Installer/extractor/viewer for DMG images.
* Create DMG packages
* Useful for OSX source packages

''Note:'' The DMG format is Apple proprietary and undocumented. Basically, DMG support is only available under OSX and its unlikely to change.

=== CronniX - A cron front end ===

http://www.abstracture.de/projects-en/cronnix

That won't be easily portable, as different OSs use a different cron setup. Eg. BSD has (and uses) both, /etc/crontab __and__ /var/cron/tabs/<username> ...

=== PfaEdit - A font editor ===

PfaEdit has its name changed to [http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ FontForge].

Actually, Cenon (see above) is able to do some limited font editing. Not to knock pfaedit, I use it a lot and think it's a way cool program. Wonder if the two could be merged somehow.

=== GuileServices / StepTalk Services ===

On NeXTSTEP there was an application (service?) called [http://www.doubleu.com/TickleServices.html TickleServices] that allowed you to write your own services in the Tcl language. Something along these lines, but using guile/steptalk would be a nice addition to gnustep.

=== Printer.app ===

An application/framework for managing printers, printer properties and print queues. (CUPS frontend?) (NOTE: To an extent, GNUstep already has CUPS support, and has number of builtin classes and panels for managing printers and printer settings. They may just need to be extended a little for different uses and environments.)

=== Growl! (Global notification system) ===

[http://growl.info/ Growl!] uses distributed notification center to display a graphic message on screen. Every application can send messages to it, for example, when new emails arrive, buddies sign in the instant messager, a task end, etc. It is very easy to implement.

''Parts require CoreFoundation and/or WebKit'' -- cbv

Perhaps the CoreFoundation bits could be handled by [http://developer.apple.com/opensource/cflite.html CF-Lite].

''Since about version 299 CoreFoundation doesn't compile properly anymore on systems other than Darwin.'' -- [[User:Cbv|cbv]]

== Games ==

=== Chess ===
Port [http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/ xboard] to GNUstep?

=== Crosswords ===
An application to generate (automatically or by hand) crosswords. Candidates to port from (review?):
* [https://github.com/mattneub/crosswords opensource iPad application] by Matt Neuburg and Mark Alldritt

== Desktop settings ==

Tools to configure simple desktop settings such as
* xrandr (gnustep needs arandr ported to it, preferably as a SystemPreferences.app module)
* sound management
** [[VolumeControl.app]] already exists
** porting pavucontrol as a system preferences module to the wishlist item for pulseaudio? pavucontrol handles device and volume selection for pulseaudio. (jcarthew on the mailing list [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2016-02/msg00031.html])
* network management
** nm-applet under the wishlist item for network-manager. We don't need to port the entirety of network-manager or pulseaudio, just the user facing frontends. (jcarthew on the mailing list [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2016-02/msg00031.html])
** wicd?
** another?

FOSDEM 2012

2012-02-12T21:36:32Z

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== FOSDEM 2012 Announcement ==

[http://fosdem.org/2012/ FOSDEM 2012] will take place at at the '''Université Libre de Bruxelles''', in '''Brussels''' on '''Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February 2012'''.

This page is for organizing GNUstep's participation in the event. This includes the organization of a developer meeting
the Friday before FOSDEM.

== Organizer(s) ==

* Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf (lars dot sonchocky dash helldorf at hamburg dot de)
* is somebody else interested in lending me a hand?

== Who will attend FOSDEM ==

One of the main reasons people attend the event is that you can meet, and talk directly to, other developers, whom you would otherwise meet only virtually (on mailing lists, emails, newsgroups, IRC etc.). We expect many lead developers and contributors to be present, so if you have never met them, you shouldn't miss this occasion!

The following is a list of people of GNUstep fame who have confirmed (or denied) that they will be able to join us at the GNUstep meeting at FOSDEM 2012:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Friday
3. Feb
! Saturday
4. Feb
! Sunday
5. Feb
! Monday
6. Feb
! Special comments / topics
! Hotel

|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf ||| Yes || Yes || Yes || No || event organizer || Argus
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || No || Yes || Yes || No || QuantumSTEP + Openmoko / GTA04.org || Argus
|-
| Quentin Mathé || Yes || Yes || Yes || No || Étoilé ||
|-
| Niels Grewe || || || || || Étoilé, DBusKit ||
|-
| David Chisnall || || || || || Étoilé ||
|-
| Sebastian Reitenbach || Yes || Yes || Yes || No || OpenBSD packages, GAP, OpenGroupware || Hotel The Moon
|-
| Nicolas Roard || || || || ? || Étoilé ||
|-
| Fred Kiefer || Yes || Yes || Yes || No || GNUstep (GUI, Cairo) || Hotel Aqua
|-
| Riccardo Mottola || || || || ? || GNUstep, GAP ||
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || ? || Yes || Yes || ? || GNUstep ||
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || Late || Yes || Yes || No || GNUstep || Argus
|-
| N.N. || t.b.d. || t.b.d. || t.b.d. || t.b.d. || t.b.d. ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations and Events ==

The room at out disposal will be '''AW1.126''' (capacity is 72 seats (this is more than twice of what we had the years ago); in the building "AW"),
-- on '''Saturday 2011-02-04''' from (to be confirmed) '''11:00''' to '''19:00'''

=== Call for participation ===

We are looking for people who want to give a talk, moderate a discussion, hold a hand ons (practice) / hacking session or organize a code sprint. Please send your proposals to [mailto:discuss-gnustep@gnu.org GNUstep discussion list], the organizers mentioned [[FOSDEM_2011#Organizers|above]] or - if you've got a wiki account - enter them right [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php?title=FOSDEM_2011&action=edit&section=6 here]. 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.

'''deadline for filing is t.b.d., deadline for the papers is t.b.d.'''

'''Note:''' 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! But we should have 15 minutes breaks between the talks so that the visitors have enough time to find a seat and the presenters have enough time to get ready.

=== List of submitted talk/discussion/session proposals ===

Please submit through *[mailto:discuss-gnustep@gnu.org GNUstep discussion list]* until *2011-12-31*

=== Wishlist for talks/discussions/sessions ===

Enter talks/discussions/sessions here you would be interested in.

* GNUstep Progresses and Roadmap
* CoreBase and CoreGraphics/Opal in GNUstep

=== Schedule ===

{| border="1"
!width="65pt"| Time Slot !! width="130pt"| Author !! width="360pt"| Title / Abstract !! width="130pt"| Kind !! width="40pt" | Slides
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#ddd;" | '''Saturday, Feb 04, 2012'''
|-
| 11:00 - 11:15 || GNUstep Developers || '''GNUstep Developer's Meeting'''

Meet the GNUstep developers face to face, discuss current afairs of GNUstep, share news about the latest development and plans on GNUstep, improve collaboration between the several GNUstep related projects

|| meeting, discussion || -
|-
| 11:15 - 11:45 || Sebastian Reitenbach || '''OpenBSD GNUstep ports update'''

Topics covered:
* Why the hell on OpenBSD
* How easy it is to create a new GNUstep port
* What's new compared to last year
* Problems I encountered over the last year
* Goals for the next year

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 12:00 - 12:30 || Sebastian Reitenbach || '''OpenGroupware - Phoenix from the ashes'''

Topics covered:
* short history of OpenGroupware, overview of its features
* porting effort from gnustep-make 1 to gnustep-make 2, and from libFoundation to gnustep-base
* OpenGroupware is now based on SOPE fork from the SOGo team, lots of bugs in SOPE got fixed
* talk about some new features
* OpenGroupware-5.5rc1 (I hope to agree with Adam to release it even before the FOSDEM)
* short Demo

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 12:45 - 13:30 || Sebastian Reitenbach || '''A GNUstep Applications Overview'''

* it will feature GAP (GNUstep Application Project)
** introduce the project, and its goals
** cover some of the applications found there
* it will also include the usual known suspects: GWorkspace, ProjectCenter, Gorm, ...
* it will also cover some other nice GNUstep applications found scattered all over the web, for example:
** CDPlayer, Burn, GNUMail, SimpleAgenda, Zipper and more
* show/demonstrate some of the applications live

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 13:45 - 14:15 || Fred Kiefer || '''GNUstep GUI: Recent Developments - Graphics and Text'''

* New features in the text system this year
* Resolution Independence/scale factor support
* Other graphics improvements
* Demo

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 14:30 - 15:00 || Quentin Mathé || '''Étoilé: What has been done over the past year and what's next?'''

In this presentation, we will take a look at the Étoilé progresses over the past year. We will summarize our work on both our core frameworks and GNUstep. We will also discuss the project status in a broader way, and what can be expected in 2012.

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 15:15 - 16:00 || Richard Frith-Macdonald || '''Enterprise Control, Configuration and Logging/Alarming using GNUstep-base'''

1. An overview of the problem of dealing with multiple server processes on multiple hosts and sites. How to provide fault tolerance and how to scale up without losing control.
2. A discussion of the use of the basic technologies such as Distributed Objects and property lists etc to implement these systems.
3. Control ... how we start/stop server processes, prevent duplication of processes, support automated restart, and query the state of processes.
4. Configuration ... how we provide specific configuration to each process under central control, yet allow those servers to operate independently.
5. Logging/Alarming ... how we provide and manage simple and consistent audit/debug logging facilities for server processes, and how we integrate with SNMP.

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 16:15 - 17:00 || Quentin Mathé || '''CoreObject : An Object Store built for Revision Control and Desktop Environment Needs'''

This talk will introduce CoreObject, an Object Store built from the ground up to support features such as selective undo, live collaboration without locking, branching, etc. not found in Object-Oriented Databases until now. CoreObject is not based on Operational Transformations but a new Object Graph Diffing and Merging model, that makes possible to integrate these revision control features into a database and ensure they scale to large object histories.
From a desktop environment perspective, revision tracks are available to create interactive views on the history and support multiple undo/redo granularity levels. CoreObject also comes with a collection of reusable object models to solve recurrent use cases in document management, organization and edition.

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 17:15 - 18:00 || David Chisnall || '''New Features of Objective-C'''

With iOS 5 and OS X 10.7, Apple introduced a number of new Objective-C features. With the release of version 1.6 of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime and version 3.0 of clang these are now all available to GNUstep developers. The new features include better data hiding, automatic reference counting, and a number of other features. This talk will cover these features, as well as some of the extensions beyond Apple's version and the improvements in Objective-C performance since FOSDEM last year.

|| talk || [http://www.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/new_objc_features link to slides]
|-
| 18:15 - 19:00 || Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller || '''QuantumSTEP: new frameworks and future directions'''

QuantumSTEP is a technology study framework and application
suite that is partially based on GNUstep. It aims at consequently
using Objective-C on embedded and portable devices. This talk
describes the latest additions to the frameworks: CoreLocation,
MKMapKit, CoreWLAN, CoreTelephony and demonstrates how
they work on the new GTA04 hardware.

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|}

== Suggested Hotels ==

last year Sebastian Reitenbach and Nikolaus Schaller have booked here. Ask them on the mailing list on their Experience:

=== Louise Hotel ===
* 40, rue Veydt
* 1050 Bruxelles
* http://www.louisehotel.com/
* Sebastian Reitenbach says:
** book via: http://www.hotelreservierungen.de , which is cheaper than the offer on the hotel site. The reservation includes breakfast.
** free WiFi is available
** it costs only about half the price of the Argus hotel from last year.
** Its near avenue louise, only a foot walk away from the university campus.

NOTE Dec 2011: appears to have changed owner and is no longer listed in online booking portals

=== Argus Hotel Brussels (Belguim) (good experiences from past years) ===
*6, Rue Capitaine Crespel
*B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgique
*Tel +32 2 514 07 70
*Fax +32 2 514 12 22
*reception@hotel-argus.be
*Rate: 65/night - but you have to ask for the 'GNUstep/FOSDEM' discount
*has free Internet ;-)

Normal prices are here:

http://www.hotel-argus.be/ukrates.htm

but there are discounts available:

http://www.hotel-argus.be/ukpromotions.htm

and we'll ask for even better discounts for a group booking (we need to know who's will be there for that!)

Some people booked that hotel in the last years: Nicolas, Marcus, Helge ,Lars.

=== Sun Hotel in Brussels (Belguim) (not recommended) ===
*Rue du Berger, 38
*1050 Brussels (near Porte de Namur)
*Tel : +32(0)2 511 21 19
*Fax : +32(0)2 512 32 71
*sunhotel@skynet.be
*www.hotels-belgium.com/brussel-al/sunhotel.htm

*50 EUR/Single room with breakfast
*22 rooms total
*3km distance to University

has internet access, will make breakfast room available for developers after 11:00 am. Two electrical plugs for breakfast room, so need extension cord with additional plugs. Ask for first or second floor rooms close to reception for good wifi connections.

=== Hotel Sabina in Brussels (Belgium)===
*Rue du Nord 78
*B-1000 Brussels
*Tel: (32)2 218 26 37
*Fax: (32)2 219 32 39
(very good rating by visitors)
63 EUR/Single with breakfast
8 single only + 16 double rooms
4,2km distance

=== Hotel Mozart in Bruxelles (Belgium)===
*Rue Marché aux Fromages 23
*B-1000 Brussels
*Tel +32 2 502 66 61
*Fax +32 2 502 77 58
*Email Hotel.mozart@skynet.be
http://www.hotels-belgium.com/brussel-center/mozart.htm

70 EUR/Single room NO breakfast
WLAN

51 rooms total
4,2km distance

We are open to other suggestions. Please take into account distance to the University and access to public transportation.

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A quick introduction to Brussels:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussel

----

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FOSDEM 2012

2012-01-21T15:21:38Z

IOOI: /* Schedule */ Fred's talk confirmed

== FOSDEM 2012 Announcement ==

[http://fosdem.org/2012/ FOSDEM 2012] will take place at at the '''Université Libre de Bruxelles''', in '''Brussels''' on '''Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February 2012'''.

This page is for organizing GNUstep's participation in the event. This includes the organization of a developer meeting
the Friday before FOSDEM.

== Organizer(s) ==

* Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf (lars dot sonchocky dash helldorf at hamburg dot de)
* is somebody else interested in lending me a hand?

== Who will attend FOSDEM ==

One of the main reasons people attend the event is that you can meet, and talk directly to, other developers, whom you would otherwise meet only virtually (on mailing lists, emails, newsgroups, IRC etc.). We expect many lead developers and contributors to be present, so if you have never met them, you shouldn't miss this occasion!

The following is a list of people of GNUstep fame who have confirmed (or denied) that they will be able to join us at the GNUstep meeting at FOSDEM 2012:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Friday
3. Feb
! Saturday
4. Feb
! Sunday
5. Feb
! Monday
6. Feb
! Special comments / topics
! Hotel

|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf ||| Yes || Yes || Yes || No || event organizer || Argus
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || No || Yes || Yes || No || QuantumSTEP + Openmoko / GTA04.org || Argus
|-
| Quentin Mathé || Yes || Yes || Yes || No || Étoilé ||
|-
| Niels Grewe || || || || || Étoilé ||
|-
| David Chisnall || || || || || Étoilé ||
|-
| Sebastian Reitenbach || Yes || Yes || Yes || No || OpenBSD packages || Hotel The Moon
|-
| Nicolas Roard || || || || ? || Étoilé ||
|-
| Fred Kiefer || || || || ? || GNUstep (GUI, Cairo) ||
|-
| Riccardo Mottola || || || || ? || GNUstep, GAP ||
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || || || || ? || GNUstep ||
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || Yes || Yes || Yes || No || GNUstep || Argus
|-
| N.N. || t.b.d. || t.b.d. || t.b.d. || t.b.d. || t.b.d. ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations and Events ==

The room at out disposal will be '''AW1.126''' (capacity is 72 seats (this is more than twice of what we had the years ago); in the building "AW"),
-- on '''Saturday 2011-02-04''' from (to be confirmed) '''11:00''' to '''19:00'''

=== Call for participation ===

We are looking for people who want to give a talk, moderate a discussion, hold a hand ons (practice) / hacking session or organize a code sprint. Please send your proposals to [mailto:discuss-gnustep@gnu.org GNUstep discussion list], the organizers mentioned [[FOSDEM_2011#Organizers|above]] or - if you've got a wiki account - enter them right [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php?title=FOSDEM_2011&action=edit&section=6 here]. 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.

'''deadline for filing is t.b.d., deadline for the papers is t.b.d.'''

'''Note:''' 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! But we should have 15 minutes breaks between the talks so that the visitors have enough time to find a seat and the presenters have enough time to get ready.

=== List of submitted talk/discussion/session proposals ===

Please submit through *[mailto:discuss-gnustep@gnu.org GNUstep discussion list]* until *2011-12-31*

=== Wishlist for talks/discussions/sessions ===

Enter talks/discussions/sessions here you would be interested in.

* GNUstep Progresses and Roadmap
* CoreBase and CoreGraphics/Opal in GNUstep

=== Schedule ===

{| border="1"
!width="65pt"| Time Slot !! width="130pt"| Author !! width="360pt"| Title / Abstract !! width="130pt"| Kind !! width="40pt" | Slides
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#ddd;" | '''Saturday, Feb 04, 2012'''
|-
| 11:00 - 11:15 || GNUstep Developers || '''GNUstep Developer's Meeting'''

Meet the GNUstep developers face to face, discuss current afairs of GNUstep, share news about the latest development and plans on GNUstep, improve collaboration between the several GNUstep related projects

|| meeting, discussion || -
|-
| 11:15 - 11:45 || Sebastian Reitenbach || '''OpenBSD GNUstep ports update'''

Topics covered:
* Why the hell on OpenBSD
* How easy it is to create a new GNUstep port
* What's new compared to last year
* Problems I encountered over the last year
* Goals for the next year

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 12:00 - 12:30 || Sebastian Reitenbach || '''OpenGroupware - Phoenix from the ashes'''

Topics covered:
* short history of OpenGroupware, overview of its features
* porting effort from gnustep-make 1 to gnustep-make 2, and from libFoundation to gnustep-base
* OpenGroupware is now based on SOPE fork from the SOGo team, lots of bugs in SOPE got fixed
* talk about some new features
* OpenGroupware-5.5rc1 (I hope to agree with Adam to release it even before the FOSDEM)
* short Demo

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 12:45 - 13:30 || Sebastian Reitenbach || '''A GNUstep Applications Overview'''

* it will feature GAP (GNUstep Application Project)
** introduce the project, and its goals
** cover some of the applications found there
* it will also include the usual known suspects: GWorkspace, ProjectCenter, Gorm, ...
* it will also cover some other nice GNUstep applications found scattered all over the web, for example:
** CDPlayer, Burn, GNUMail, SimpleAgenda, Zipper and more
* show/demonstrate some of the applications live

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 13:45 - 14:15 || Fred Kiefer || '''GNUstep GUI: Recent Developments - Graphics and Text'''

* New features in the text system this year
* Resolution Independence/scale factor support
* Other graphics improvements
* Demo

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 14:30 - 15:00 || Quentin Mathé || '''Étoilé: What has been done over the past year and what's next?'''

In this presentation, we will take a look at the Étoilé progresses over the past year. We will summarize our work on both our core frameworks and GNUstep. We will also discuss the project status in a broader way, and what can be expected in 2012.

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 15:15 - 16:00 || Richard Frith-Macdonald || '''Enterprise Control, Configuration and Logging/Alarming using GNUstep-base'''

1. An overview of the problem of dealing with multiple server processes on multiple hosts and sites. How to provide fault tolerance and how to scale up without losing control.
2. A discussion of the use of the basic technologies such as Distributed Objects and property lists etc to implement these systems.
3. Control ... how we start/stop server processes, prevent duplication of processes, support automated restart, and query the state of processes.
4. Configuration ... how we provide specific configuration to each process under central control, yet allow those servers to operate independently.
5. Logging/Alarming ... how we provide and manage simple and consistent audit/debug logging facilities for server processes, and how we integrate with SNMP.

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 16:15 - 17:00 || Quentin Mathé || '''CoreObject : An Object Store built for Revision Control and Desktop Environment Needs'''

This talk will introduce CoreObject, an Object Store built from the ground up to support features such as selective undo, live collaboration without locking, branching, etc. not found in Object-Oriented Databases until now. CoreObject is not based on Operational Transformations but a new Object Graph Diffing and Merging model, that makes possible to integrate these revision control features into a database and ensure they scale to large object histories.
From a desktop environment perspective, revision tracks are available to create interactive views on the history and support multiple undo/redo granularity levels. CoreObject also comes with a collection of reusable object models to solve recurrent use cases in document management, organization and edition.

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 17:15 - 18:00 || David Chisnall || '''New Features of Objective-C'''

With iOS 5 and OS X 10.7, Apple introduced a number of new Objective-C features. With the release of version 1.6 of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime and version 3.0 of clang these are now all available to GNUstep developers. The new features include better data hiding, automatic reference counting, and a number of other features. This talk will cover these features, as well as some of the extensions beyond Apple's version and the improvements in Objective-C performance since FOSDEM last year.

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| 18:15 - 19:00 || Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller || '''QuantumSTEP: new frameworks and future directions'''

QuantumSTEP is a technology study framework and application
suite that is partially based on GNUstep. It aims at consequently
using Objective-C on embedded and portable devices. This talk
describes the latest additions to the frameworks: CoreLocation,
MKMapKit, CoreWLAN, CoreTelephony and demonstrates how
they work on the new GTA04 hardware.

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|}

== Suggested Hotels ==

last year Sebastian Reitenbach and Nikolaus Schaller have booked here. Ask them on the mailing list on their Experience:

=== Louise Hotel ===
* 40, rue Veydt
* 1050 Bruxelles
* http://www.louisehotel.com/
* Sebastian Reitenbach says:
** book via: http://www.hotelreservierungen.de , which is cheaper than the offer on the hotel site. The reservation includes breakfast.
** free WiFi is available
** it costs only about half the price of the Argus hotel from last year.
** Its near avenue louise, only a foot walk away from the university campus.

NOTE Dec 2011: appears to have changed owner and is no longer listed in online booking portals

=== Argus Hotel Brussels (Belguim) (good experiences from past years) ===
*6, Rue Capitaine Crespel
*B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgique
*Tel +32 2 514 07 70
*Fax +32 2 514 12 22
*reception@hotel-argus.be
*Rate: 65/night - but you have to ask for the 'GNUstep/FOSDEM' discount
*has free Internet ;-)

Normal prices are here:

http://www.hotel-argus.be/ukrates.htm

but there are discounts available:

http://www.hotel-argus.be/ukpromotions.htm

and we'll ask for even better discounts for a group booking (we need to know who's will be there for that!)

Some people booked that hotel in the last years: Nicolas, Marcus, Helge ,Lars.

=== Sun Hotel in Brussels (Belguim) (not recommended) ===
*Rue du Berger, 38
*1050 Brussels (near Porte de Namur)
*Tel : +32(0)2 511 21 19
*Fax : +32(0)2 512 32 71
*sunhotel@skynet.be
*www.hotels-belgium.com/brussel-al/sunhotel.htm

*50 EUR/Single room with breakfast
*22 rooms total
*3km distance to University

has internet access, will make breakfast room available for developers after 11:00 am. Two electrical plugs for breakfast room, so need extension cord with additional plugs. Ask for first or second floor rooms close to reception for good wifi connections.

=== Hotel Sabina in Brussels (Belgium)===
*Rue du Nord 78
*B-1000 Brussels
*Tel: (32)2 218 26 37
*Fax: (32)2 219 32 39
(very good rating by visitors)
63 EUR/Single with breakfast
8 single only + 16 double rooms
4,2km distance

=== Hotel Mozart in Bruxelles (Belgium)===
*Rue Marché aux Fromages 23
*B-1000 Brussels
*Tel +32 2 502 66 61
*Fax +32 2 502 77 58
*Email Hotel.mozart@skynet.be
http://www.hotels-belgium.com/brussel-center/mozart.htm

70 EUR/Single room NO breakfast
WLAN

51 rooms total
4,2km distance

We are open to other suggestions. Please take into account distance to the University and access to public transportation.

----
A quick introduction to Brussels:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussel

----

[[Category:FOSDEM]]

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