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FOSDEM 2012

2012-01-20T10:16:52Z

Qmathe: Added CoreObject talk abstract

== 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'''
|-
| 10:30 - 11:00 || 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 || -
|-
| 11:00 - 11:30 || 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
|-
| 11:45 - 12:15 || 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
|-
| 12:30 - 13:15 || 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
|-
| 13:30 - 14:00 || 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
|-
| 14:15 - 15:00 || 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
|-
| 15:15 - 16:00 || 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
|-
| 16:15 - 17:00 || 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
|-
| 17:15 - 18:00 || 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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FOSDEM 2012

2012-01-10T16:52:16Z

Qmathe: Updated FOSDEM schedule with my two Étoilé talks

== 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 ||
|-
| Nicola Pero || || || || ? || GNUstep ||
|-
| Fred Kiefer || || || || ? || GNUstep (GUI, Cairo) ||
|-
| Riccardo Mottola || || || || ? || GNUstep, GAP ||
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || || || || ? || GNUstep ||
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || || || || ? || GNUstep ||
|-
| 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 05, 2011'''
|-
| 10:00 - 10:30 || 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 || -
|-
| xx:xx - xx:xx || 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
|-
| xx:00 - xx:30 || 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
|-
| xx:00 - xx:00 || Quentin Mathé || '''CoreObject : An Object Store built for Revision Control and Desktop Environment Needs'''

''Short description to be written''

|| talk || t.b.d. link to slides
|-
| xx:xx - xx:xx || t.b.d. who is holding the event || '''t.b.d. The Title of the Event'''

t.b.d. some longer description here

|| t.b.d. what is it (talk, discussion, lecture, demo ...) || 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]]

{| style="background: #ff958e;"
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|}

FOSDEM 2011

2011-01-23T20:58:47Z

Qmathe: Added my Étoilé talks

== FOSDEM 2011 Announcement ==

[http://fosdem.org/2011/ FOSDEM 2011] will take place at at the '''Université Libre de Bruxelles''', in '''Brussels''' on '''Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2011'''.

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 2011:

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

|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || event organizer || t.b.d.
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || QuantumSTEP || Louise, Rue Veydt
|-
| Quentin Mathé || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || Étoilé || t.b.d
|-
| Niels Grewe || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || Étoilé || Argus Hotel
|-
| David Chisnall || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || Étoilé || t.b.d
|-
| Sebastian Reitenbach || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || OpenBSD packages || t.b.d.
|-
| Nicolas Roard || Yes || No || Yes || Yes || Étoilé || Argus Hotel, Rue Capitaine Crespel
|-
| Nicola Pero || Yes || No || Yes || Yes || GNUstep || t.b.d
|-
| Fred Kiefer || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || GNUstep || Argus Hotel
|-
| t.b.d. || 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 '''AW1.117''' (capacity is 31 seats; in the building "AW"),
-- on '''Saturday 2011-02-05''' from '''13:00''' 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 ===

* David Chisnall:
** t.b.d.
** t.b.d. (Yeah, David, I know you want to give some talks ;-))

* Nikolaus Schaller: Latest progress of Simple WebKit and QuantumSTEP, 45 min

* Quentin Mathé:
** Fast and Flexible UI Development with EtoileUI (overview and what's new since the previous FOSDEM), 45 to 60 mn
** Étoilé Status Update, 30 to 45 mn

* Niels Grewe: DBusKit: Integrating GNUstep applications with the free software desktop (30min or lightning talk)

* Nicola Pero:
** Objective-C support in GCC 4.6, 30 min

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

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

* CoreBase and CoreGraphics/Opal in GNUstep
* GNUstep Progresses and Roadmap
* DBusKit
* EtoileText (… I'm especially curious about the possibility to leverage OMeta to write the tree transform rules)
* LanguageKit Progresses
* How to develop a UIKit?

=== 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 05, 2011'''
|-
| 13:00 - xx:xx || 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 || -
|-
| 13:00 - xx:xx || 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 to which we have contributed a lot recently. We will also discuss the project status in a broader way, and what can be expected in 2011.

|| talk || -
|-
| 13:00 - xx:xx || Quentin Mathé || '''Fast and Flexible UI Development with EtoileUI'''

EtoileUI is a high-level UI toolkit for Étoilé where elements visible on screen are abstract nodes to which pluggable aspects can be bound. The same uniform tree structure is used to describe any kind of structured content (composite document, application User Interface etc.) and the role of each node can be entirely changed at runtime by altering the aspects bound to it. All User Interface concerns such as layouts, tools, action handlers, styles, model objects etc. are pluggable aspects which can be easily reused and recombined.

In this presentation, we will give a general introduction to the EtoileUI framework available on any GNUstep platform and also Mac OS X (EtoileUI is Cocoa compatible). We will discuss which problems EtoileUI tries to solve, and how it moves away from the monolithic widget model used by most other UI toolkits to support treating the User Interface as a permanent prototype. We will share our progresses since the last FOSDEM and highlight various points which were not covered in the last year presentation. Finally we will present new features which have been added recently and talk about our next plans a bit.

|| talk || -
|-
| xx:xx - xx:xx || t.b.d. who is holding the event || '''t.b.d. The Title of the Event'''

t.b.d. some longer description here

|| t.b.d. what is it (talk, discussion, lecture, demo ...) || t.b.d. link to slides
|}

== Suggested Hotels ==

last year Sebastian Reitenbach and Nikolaus Schaller have booked here. Alk 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.

=== 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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FOSDEM 2011

2011-01-05T15:30:10Z

Qmathe: Added David Chisnall as a FOSDEM attendant

== FOSDEM 2011 Announcement ==

[http://fosdem.org/2011/ FOSDEM 2011] will take place at at the '''Université Libre de Bruxelles''', in '''Brussels''' on '''Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2011'''.

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 2011:

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

|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || event organizer || t.b.d.
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || QuantumSTEP || Loiuse, Rue Veydt
|-
| Quentin Mathé || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || Étoilé || t.b.d
|-
| Niels Grewe || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || Étoilé || t.b.d.
|-
| David Chisnall || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || Étoilé || t.b.d
|-
| t.b.d. || 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 '''AW1.117''' (capacity is 31 seats; in the building "AW"),
-- on '''Saturday 2011-02-05''' from '''13:00''' 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 ===

* David Chisnall:
** t.b.d.
** t.b.d. (Yeah, David, I know you want to give some talks ;-))

* Nikolaus Schaller: Latest progress of Simple WebKit and QuantumSTEP, 45 min

* Quentin Mathé:
** Fast and Flexible UI Development with EtoileUI (overview and what's new since the previous FOSDEM), 45 to 60 mn
** Étoilé Status Update, 30 to 45 mn

* Niels Grewe: DBusKit (30min or lightning talk)
=== Wishlist for talks/discussions/sessions ===

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

* CoreBase and CoreGraphics/Opal in GNUstep
* GNUstep Progresses and Roadmap
* DBusKit
* EtoileText (… I'm especially curious about the possibility to leverage OMeta to write the tree transform rules)
* LanguageKit Progresses
* How to develop a UIKit?

=== 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 05, 2011'''
|-
| 13:00 - xx:xx || 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 || -
|-
| xx:xx - xx:xx || t.b.d. who is holding the event || '''t.b.d. The Title of the Event'''

t.b.d. some longer description here

|| t.b.d. what is it (talk, discussion, lecture, demo ...) || t.b.d. link to slides
|}

== Suggested Hotels ==

last year Sebastian Reitenbach and Nikolaus Schaller have booked here. Alk 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.

=== 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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FOSDEM 2011

2010-12-12T01:00:18Z

Qmathe:

== FOSDEM 2011 Announcement ==

[http://fosdem.org/2011/ FOSDEM 2011] will take place at at the '''Université Libre de Bruxelles''', in '''Brussels''' on '''Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2011'''.

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 2011:

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

|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || event organizer || t.b.d.
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || QuantumSTEP || Loiuse, Rue Veydt
|-
| Quentin Mathé || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || Étoilé || t.b.d
|-
| t.b.d. || 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 '''AW1.117''' (capacity is 31 seats; in the building "AW"),
-- on '''Saturday 2011-02-05''' from '''13:00''' 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 ===

* David Chisnall:
** t.b.d.
** t.b.d. (Yeah, David, I know you want to give some talks ;-))

* Nikolaus Schaller: Latest progress of Simple WebKit and QuantumSTEP, 45 min

* Quentin Mathé:
** Fast and Flexible UI Development with EtoileUI (overview and what's new since the previous FOSDEM), 45 to 60 mn
** Étoilé Status Update, 30 to 45 mn

=== 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 05, 2011'''
|-
| 13:00 - xx:xx || 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 || -
|-
| xx:xx - xx:xx || t.b.d. who is holding the event || '''t.b.d. The Title of the Event'''

t.b.d. some longer description here

|| t.b.d. what is it (talk, discussion, lecture, demo ...) || t.b.d. link to slides
|}

== Suggested Hotels ==

last year Sebastian Reitenbach and Nikolaus Schaller have booked here. Alk 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.

=== 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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FOSDEM 2010

2010-01-09T16:04:59Z

Qmathe:

== FOSDEM 2010 Announcement ==

[http://fosdem.org/2010/ FOSDEM 2010] will take place at at the '''Université Libre de Bruxelles''', in '''Brussels''' on '''Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 February 2010'''.

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

== Organizers ==

* Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf (lars dot sonchocky dash helldorf at hamburg dot de)
* Richard Frith-Macdonald (richard at tiptree dot demon dot co dot uk)

== 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 2010:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
5. Feb
! Saturday
6. Feb
! Sunday
7. Feb
! Special comments / topics

|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || Yes || likely || Yes || Yes ||
|-
| Nicola Pero || Yes || No || Yes || Yes ||
|-
| Nicolas Roard || likely || likely || likely || likely ||
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || likely || likely || likely || likely ||
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || mySTEP (embedded), Simple Web Kit
|-
| Fred Kiefer || likely || likely || likely || likely ||
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || Yes || maybe || Yes || Yes || GNUstep-base, server software
|-
| Riccardo Mottola || likely || maybe || likely || likely ||
|-
| David Chisnall || likely || maybe || likely || likely || Etoile,libobjc,base
|-
| Quentin Mathé || likely || likely || likely || likely || Étoilé
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || No || No || No || No || http://livecd.gnustep.org/
|-
| Sebastian Reitenbach || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || OpenGroupware port to GNUstep
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations and Events ==

The room at out disposal will be '''AW1.117''' (capacity is 31 seats; in the building "AW"),
-- on '''Sunday 2010-02-07''' from '''09:00''' to '''17:00'''

=== 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_2010#Organizers|above]] or - if you've got a wiki account - enter them right [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php?title=FOSDEM_2010&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 Sunday 2010-01-03, deadline for the papers is Sunday 2010-01-10'''

'''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 ===

* David Chisnall:
** "Objective-C 2: libobjc2 and Clang, current status, plans for the future." Afternoon
** "LanguageKit: Supporting other dynamic languages on the ObjC runtime." Afternoon
** "Porting Cocoa apps to other platforms: what works, what doesn't, what to do to make porting easier." Afternoon

* Fred Kiefer will moderate a discussion titled:
** "Towards GNUsep GUI 1.0: what we need to get there and how to achieve this within the next year."

* Quentin Mathé:
** "EtoileUI": Fast and Flexible UI Development with EtoileUI and Smalltalk." (around 45 to 60 minutes)

* Quentin Mathé & David Chisnall
** "Étoilé: Where it is, where it's going, why it isn't there yet." (around 20 to 40 minutes) Afternoon

* Nicolas Roard:
** "CodeMonkey: an Étoilé IDE"

* Nikolaus Schaller (30 minutes each - please keep together):
** "Simple WebKit - a simplified WebKit compatible implementation in pure Obj-C 1.0" / status, architecture, demo, discussion
** "ocpp-2.0 - a preprocessor approach to translate Obj-C 2.0 extensions to Obj-C 1.0 for (older) platforms" / status, discussion
** "Learnings from porting QuantumSTEP to different Linux Handhelds (e.g. Openmoko)" / demo, cross-compiler, performance, optimization, discussion

=== Schedule ===

{| border="1"
!width="65pt"| Time Slot !! width="130pt"| Author !! width="360pt"| Title !! width="130pt"| Kind !! width="40pt" | Slides
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#ddd;" | '''Sunday, Feb 07, 2009'''
|-
| 09:00 - 10:00 || Developers || "Developer's Meeting" || meeting || -
|-
| 10:00 - 11:00 || Nikolaus Schaller || 10:00-10:20 "Simple WebKit: A simplified WebKit compatible implementation in pure Objective-C 1.0"

10:20-10:40 "Learnings from porting QuantumSTEP to different Linux Handhelds (e.g. Openmoko)"

10:40-11:00 "ocpp-2.0: A preprocessor approach to translate Obj-C 2.0 extensions to Objective-C 1.0 for (older) platforms"

|| status, architecture, demo, discussion
status, discussion
demo, cross-compiler, performance, optimization, discussion
|| t.b.d.
|-
| 11:15 - 12:00 || Fred Kiefer (moderator) || "Towards GNUstep GUI 1.0: what we need to get there and how to achieve this within the next year." || moderated discussion || t.b.d.
|-
| 12:15 - 12:45 || Quentin Mathé & David Chisnall || "Étoilé: Where it is, where it's going, why it isn't there yet." || status, discussion || t.b.d.
|-
| 13:00 - 13:45 || Nicolas Roard || "CodeMonkey: an Étoilé IDE" || t.b.d. || t.b.d.
|-
| 14:00 - 14:45 || Quentin Mathé || "EtoileUI": Fast and Flexible UI Development with EtoileUI and Smalltalk." || t.b.d. || t.b.d.
|-
| 15:00 - 17:00 || David Chisnall || 15:00-15:30 "Objective-C 2: libobjc2 and Clang, current status, plans for the future."

15:45-16:15 "LanguageKit: Supporting other dynamic languages on the ObjC runtime."

16:30-17:00 "Porting Cocoa apps to other platforms: what works, what doesn't, what to do to make porting easier."
|| t.b.d. || t.b.d.
|}

== Suggested Hotels ==

This year Sebastian Reitenbach and Nikolaus Schaller have booked already here:

=== 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.

=== Argus Hotel Brussels (Belguim) (good experiences from last year) ===
*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: 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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FOSDEM 2010

2010-01-06T22:02:46Z

Qmathe: Add myself to the Étoilé status talk

== FOSDEM 2010 Announcement ==

[http://fosdem.org/2010/ FOSDEM 2010] will take place at at the '''Université Libre de Bruxelles''', in '''Brussels''' on '''Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 February 2010'''.

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

== Organizers ==

* Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf (lars dot sonchocky dash helldorf at hamburg dot de)
* Richard Frith-Macdonald (richard at tiptree dot demon dot co dot uk)

== 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 2010:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
5. Feb
! Saturday
6. Feb
! Sunday
7. Feb
! Special comments / topics

|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || Yes || likely || Yes || Yes ||
|-
| Nicola Pero || Yes || No || Yes || Yes ||
|-
| Nicolas Roard || likely || likely || likely || likely ||
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || likely || likely || likely || likely ||
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || mySTEP (embedded), Simple Web Kit
|-
| Fred Kiefer || likely || likely || likely || likely ||
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || Yes || maybe || Yes || Yes || GNUstep-base, server software
|-
| Riccardo Mottola || likely || maybe || likely || likely ||
|-
| David Chisnall || likely || maybe || likely || likely || Etoile,libobjc,base
|-
| Quentin Mathé || likely || likely || likely || likely || Étoilé
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || No || No || No || No || http://livecd.gnustep.org/
|-
| Sebastian Reitenbach || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || OpenGroupware port to GNUstep
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations and Events ==

The room at out disposal will be '''AW1.117''' (capacity is 31 seats; in the building "AW"),
-- on '''Sunday 2010-02-07''' from '''09:00''' to '''17:00'''

=== 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_2010#Organizers|above]] or - if you've got a wiki account - enter them right [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php?title=FOSDEM_2010&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 Sunday 2010-01-03, deadline for the papers is Sunday 2010-01-10'''

'''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 ===

* David Chisnall:
** "Objective-C 2: libobjc2 and Clang, current status, plans for the future." Afternoon
** "LanguageKit: Supporting other dynamic languages on the ObjC runtime." Afternoon
** "Porting Cocoa apps to other platforms: what works, what doesn't, what to do to make porting easier." Afternoon

* Fred Kiefer will moderate a discussion titled:
** "Towards GNUsep GUI 1.0: what we need to get there and how to achieve this within the next year."

* Mathé Quentin:
** "EtoileUI": Fast UI Development with EtoileUI and Smalltalk." (around 45 to 60 minutes)

* Mathé Quentin & David Chisnall
** "Étoilé: Where it is, where it's going, why it isn't there yet." (around 20 to 40 minutes) Afternoon

* Nicolas Roard:
** "CodeMonkey: an Étoilé IDE"

* Nikolaus Schaller (30 minutes each - please keep together):
** "Simple WebKit - a simplified WebKit compatible implementation in pure Obj-C 1.0" / status, architecture, demo, discussion
** "ocpp-2.0 - a preprocessor approach to translate Obj-C 2.0 extensions to Obj-C 1.0 for (older) platforms" / status, discussion
** "Learnings from porting QuantumSTEP to different Linux Handhelds (e.g. Openmoko)" / demo, cross-compiler, performance, optimization, discussion

=== Schedule ===

{| border="1"
!width="120pt"| Day !! width="100pt"| Time Slot !! width="120pt"| Author !! width="250pt"| Title !! width="150pt"| Slides
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#ddd;" | '''Sunday'''
|-
| Sun. Feb 07, 2009 || 09:00 - ??:?? || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 07, 2009 || 11:00 - 11:45 || Richard Frith-Macdonald || Developing 24x7 enterprise server applications in Objective-C || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 07, 2009 || ??:?? - ??:?? || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 07, 2009 || ??:?? - 17:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|}

== Suggested Hotels ==

This year Sebastian Reitenbach and Nikolaus Schaller have booked already here:

=== 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.

=== Argus Hotel Brussels (Belguim) (good experiences from last year) ===
*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: 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

----

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FOSDEM 2010

2010-01-03T12:45:52Z

Qmathe: Aded EtoileUI talk

== FOSDEM 2010 Announcement ==

[http://fosdem.org/2010/ FOSDEM 2010] will take place at at the '''Université Libre de Bruxelles''', in '''Brussels''' on '''Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 February 2010'''.

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

== Organizers ==

* Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf (lars dot sonchocky dash helldorf at hamburg dot de)
* Richard Frith-Macdonald (richard at tiptree dot demon dot co dot uk)

== 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 2010:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
5. Feb
! Saturday
6. Feb
! Sunday
7. Feb
! Special comments / topics

|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || Yes || likely || Yes || Yes ||
|-
| Nicola Pero || Yes || No || Yes || Yes ||
|-
| Nicolas Roard || likely || likely || likely || likely ||
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || likely || likely || likely || likely ||
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || mySTEP (embedded), Simple Web Kit
|-
| Fred Kiefer || likely || likely || likely || likely ||
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || Yes || maybe || Yes || Yes || GNUstep-base, server software
|-
| Riccardo Mottola || likely || maybe || likely || likely ||
|-
| David Chisnall || likely || maybe || likely || likely || Etoile,libobjc,base
|-
| Quentin Mathé || likely || likely || likely || likely || Étoilé
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || No || No || No || No || http://livecd.gnustep.org/
|-
| Sebastian Reitenbach || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || OpenGroupware port to GNUstep
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations and Events ==

The room at out disposal will be '''AW1.117''' (capacity is 31 seats; in the building "AW"),
-- on '''Sunday 2010-02-07''' from '''09:00''' to '''17:00'''

=== 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_2010#Organizers|above]] or - if you've got a wiki account - enter them right [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php?title=FOSDEM_2010&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 Sunday 2010-01-03, deadline for the papers is Sunday 2010-01-10'''

'''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 ===

* David Chisnall:
** "Objective-C 2: libobjc2 and Clang, current status, plans for the future." Afternoon
** "Étoilé: Where it is, where it's going, why it isn't there yet." Afternoon
** "LanguageKit: Supporting other dynamic languages on the ObjC runtime." Afternoon
** "Porting Cocoa apps to other platforms: what works, what doesn't, what to do to make porting easier." Afternoon

* Fred Kiefer will moderate a discussion titled:
** "Towards GNUsep GUI 1.0: what we need to get there and how to achieve this within the next year."

* Mathé Quentin:
** "EtoileUI": Fast UI Development with EtoileUI and Smalltalk." (around 45 to 60 minutes)

* Nicolas Roard:
** "CodeMonkey: an Étoilé IDE"

* Nikolaus Schaller (30 minutes each - please keep together):
** "Simple WebKit - a simplified WebKit compatible implementation in pure Obj-C 1.0" / status, architecture, demo, discussion
** "ocpp-2.0 - a preprocessor approach to translate Obj-C 2.0 extensions to Obj-C 1.0 for (older) platforms" / status, discussion
** "Learnings from porting QuantumSTEP to different Linux Handhelds (e.g. Openmoko)" / demo, cross-compiler, performance, optimization, discussion

=== Schedule ===

{| border="1"
!width="120pt"| Day !! width="100pt"| Time Slot !! width="120pt"| Author !! width="250pt"| Title !! width="150pt"| Slides
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#ddd;" | '''Sunday'''
|-
| Sun. Feb 07, 2009 || 09:00 - ??:?? || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 07, 2009 || 11:00 - 11:45 || Richard Frith-Macdonald || Developing 24x7 enterprise server applications in Objective-C || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 07, 2009 || ??:?? - ??:?? || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 07, 2009 || ??:?? - 17:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|}

== Suggested Hotels ==

This year Sebastian Reitenbach and Nikolaus Schaller have booked already here:

=== 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.

=== Argus Hotel Brussels (Belguim) (good experiences from last year) ===
*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: 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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FOSDEM 2010

2009-11-03T20:59:56Z

Qmathe: FOSDEM presence

Summer Of Code 2009

2009-03-10T13:07:11Z

Qmathe: Added David Chisnall as a mentor

== Summer Of Code 2009 ==

The [http://code.google.com/soc/ Summer Of Code] is a Google program that offers student developers stipends to create new freely available programs or to help currently established projects. It would be an excellent opportunity for GNUstep to fund some developments.

'''We need more [[#Mentors | mentor(s)]] to manage the volunteers…''' More infos on the [http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html SoC FAQ]

=== Joint Application ===

The idea of a joint application for [http://www.gnustep.org GNUstep], [http://www.etoileos.com Étoilé], [http://www.nongnu.org/gap/ GAP] and [http://www.opengroupware.org OpenGroupware.org] has been brought up. A lot of the projects that were accepted last year were joint applications (e.g. GNU, GNOME, KDE), so it might improve our chances. Please discuss!

=== GNUstep Ideas ===

''Here are some ideas -- Feel free to add more''

* '''Porting'''
** Porting [http://developer.apple.com/opensource/internet/webkit.html WebKit] (using GCC 4.x with ObjC++ support) should be a lot easier by now (see http://lwat.blogspot.com/2008/11/redistributable-webkit.html and http://lwat.blogspot.com/2009/02/opencflite-476171-release.html)
** helping to improve Simple WebKit which does not require gcc 4.xx and Obj-C++ and has less dependencies and a much smaller footprint than full WebKit

* '''General Improvements'''
** Windows support
** Compare current API with Leopard's (Mac OS X 10.5) API, indicate which classes are missing, and summarize the current status of the existing ones, then work to complete them... ;) The best would be to have a tool which parses all headers (both from Cocoa and GNUstep) and outputs differences in HTML (XML probably too by the way). This would summarize missing classes, missing or partially implementated methods in existing classes and GNUstep-specific extensions. Eventually we should include links to the related documentation on both GNUstep and Cocoa web sites.
** Craft a system which allows to distribute GNUstep to the various packaging systems (rpm, debian, ports, etc.) on various distributions (Ubuntu, Red Hat, FreeBSD, etc.) with a snap and without knowledge of the specific packaging system. This system should be able to distribute GNUstep libraries, and existing or new applications written with it. The user should be able to choose how often this is done: on request, on each release, on in regular intervals, tracking a source code repository. Ideally, changes to the library/app's sources are minimized and/or calculated at runtime.

* '''AppKit'''
** Themes for GNUstep. This includes coming up with a general concept for the handling of AppKit subclasses in themes, the moving of all drawing code from the GUI classes into theme methods, replacing all hard coded panels with Gorm/NIB files and as the prove of the concept a native Windows theme (Or at least one theme that looks sufficiently different from standard GNUstep).

* '''GNUstepWeb'''
** GNUstepWeb (add script language support, etc)
** Create a AJAX Framework for GNUstepWeb (similar to what [http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/Project+WONDER-Overview Project Wonder] [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:WebObjects/Project_WONDER/Frameworks/Ajax provides for WebObjects]

* '''[[Summer Of Code Ideas | More Ideas]]'''

=== Étoilé Ideas ===

Take a look at Étoilé [http://etoileos.com/dev/projects/ Open Projects page].

=== GAP Ideas ===

''Feel to add ideas…''

=== OpenGroupware.org Ideas ===

''Feel free to add ideas…''

=== Mentors ===

* Quentin Mathé
* David Chisnall

=== Students ===

- t.b.a.

[[Category:Summer Of Code]]

Summer Of Code 2009

2009-03-10T12:52:01Z

Qmathe: Divided Ideas into GNUstep, Étoilé, GAP, OpenGroupware sections and reorganized a bit

== Summer Of Code 2009 ==

The [http://code.google.com/soc/ Summer Of Code] is a Google program that offers student developers stipends to create new freely available programs or to help currently established projects. It would be an excellent opportunity for GNUstep to fund some developments.

'''We need more [[#Mentors | mentor(s)]] to manage the volunteers…''' More infos on the [http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html SoC FAQ]

=== Joint Application ===

The idea of a joint application for [http://www.gnustep.org GNUstep], [http://www.etoileos.com Étoilé], [http://www.nongnu.org/gap/ GAP] and [http://www.opengroupware.org OpenGroupware.org] has been brought up. A lot of the projects that were accepted last year were joint applications (e.g. GNU, GNOME, KDE), so it might improve our chances. Please discuss!

=== GNUstep Ideas ===

''Here are some ideas -- Feel free to add more''

* '''Porting'''
** Porting [http://developer.apple.com/opensource/internet/webkit.html WebKit] (using GCC 4.x with ObjC++ support) should be a lot easier by now (see http://lwat.blogspot.com/2008/11/redistributable-webkit.html and http://lwat.blogspot.com/2009/02/opencflite-476171-release.html)
** helping to improve Simple WebKit which does not require gcc 4.xx and Obj-C++ and has less dependencies and a much smaller footprint than full WebKit

* '''General Improvements'''
** Windows support
** Compare current API with Leopard's (Mac OS X 10.5) API, indicate which classes are missing, and summarize the current status of the existing ones, then work to complete them... ;) The best would be to have a tool which parses all headers (both from Cocoa and GNUstep) and outputs differences in HTML (XML probably too by the way). This would summarize missing classes, missing or partially implementated methods in existing classes and GNUstep-specific extensions. Eventually we should include links to the related documentation on both GNUstep and Cocoa web sites.
** Craft a system which allows to distribute GNUstep to the various packaging systems (rpm, debian, ports, etc.) on various distributions (Ubuntu, Red Hat, FreeBSD, etc.) with a snap and without knowledge of the specific packaging system. This system should be able to distribute GNUstep libraries, and existing or new applications written with it. The user should be able to choose how often this is done: on request, on each release, on in regular intervals, tracking a source code repository. Ideally, changes to the library/app's sources are minimized and/or calculated at runtime.

* '''AppKit'''
** Themes for GNUstep. This includes coming up with a general concept for the handling of AppKit subclasses in themes, the moving of all drawing code from the GUI classes into theme methods, replacing all hard coded panels with Gorm/NIB files and as the prove of the concept a native Windows theme (Or at least one theme that looks sufficiently different from standard GNUstep).

* '''GNUstepWeb'''
** GNUstepWeb (add script language support, etc)
** Create a AJAX Framework for GNUstepWeb (similar to what [http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/Project+WONDER-Overview Project Wonder] [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:WebObjects/Project_WONDER/Frameworks/Ajax provides for WebObjects]

* '''[[Summer Of Code Ideas | More Ideas]]'''

=== Étoilé Ideas ===

Take a look at Étoilé [http://etoileos.com/dev/projects/ Open Projects page].

=== GAP Ideas ===

''Feel to add ideas…''

=== OpenGroupware.org Ideas ===

''Feel free to add ideas…''

=== Mentors ===

* Quentin Mathé

=== Students ===

- t.b.a.

[[Category:Summer Of Code]]

Summer Of Code 2009

2009-03-08T16:05:34Z

Qmathe: Added myself as a SoC mentor

== Summer Of Code 2009 ==

The [http://code.google.com/soc/ Summer Of Code] is a Google program that offers student developers stipends to create new freely available programs or to help currently established projects. It would be an excellent opportunity for GNUstep to fund some developments.

=== Joint Application? ===

The idea of a joint application for GNUstep, Étoilé, GAP and opengroupware.org has been brought up. A lot of the projects that were accepted last year were joint applications (e.g. GNU, GNOME, KDE), so it might improve our chances. Please discuss!

=== Ideas ===

Here are some ideas -- Feel free to add more

* '''Porting'''
** Porting [http://developer.apple.com/opensource/internet/webkit.html WebKit] (using GCC 4.x with ObjC++ support) should be a lot easier by now (see http://lwat.blogspot.com/2008/11/redistributable-webkit.html and http://lwat.blogspot.com/2009/02/opencflite-476171-release.html)
** helping to improve Simple WebKit which does not require gcc 4.xx and Obj-C++ and has less dependencies and a much smaller footprint than full WebKit

* '''General Improvements'''
** Windows support
** GNUstepWeb (add script language support, etc)
** Compare current API with Leopard's (Mac OS X 10.5) API, indicate which classes are missing, and summarize the current status of the existing ones, then work to complete them... ;) The best would be to have a tool which parses all headers (both from Cocoa and GNUstep) and outputs differences in HTML (XML probably too by the way). This would summarize missing classes, missing or partially implementated methods in existing classes and GNUstep-specific extensions. Eventually we should include links to the related documentation on both GNUstep and Cocoa web sites.
** Craft a system which allows to distribute GNUstep to the various packaging systems (rpm, debian, ports, etc.) on various distributions (Ubuntu, Red Hat, FreeBSD, etc.) with a snap and without knowledge of the specific packaging system. This system should be able to distribute GNUstep libraries, and existing or new applications written with it. The user should be able to choose how often this is done: on request, on each release, on in regular intervals, tracking a source code repository. Ideally, changes to the library/app's sources are minimized and/or calculated at runtime.

* '''AppKit'''
** Themes for GNUstep. This includes coming up with a general concept for the handling of AppKit subclasses in themes, the moving of all drawing code from the GUI classes into theme methods, replacing all hard coded panels with Gorm/NIB files and as the prove of the concept a native Windows theme (Or at least one theme that looks sufficiently different from standard GNUstep).

* '''Base'''

* '''Misc'''
** Create a AJAX Framework for GNUstepWeb (similar to what [http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/Project+WONDER-Overview Project Wonder] [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:WebObjects/Project_WONDER/Frameworks/Ajax provides for WebObjects]

* '''More Ideas'''
** [[Summer Of Code Ideas]]

=== Note ===

We need [http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html mentor(s)] to manage the volunteers...

=== Mentors ===

* Quentin Mathé

=== Students ===

- t.b.a.

FOSDEM 2009

2009-01-06T11:40:18Z

Qmathe: FOSDEM presence

== FOSDEM 2009 Announcement ==

[http://www.fosdem.org/2009/ FOSDEM 2009] will take place at at the '''Université Libre de Bruxelles''', in '''Brussels''' on the '''7/8. Feb 2009'''.

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

Note: this year we will have a joint devroom for GNUstep + Etoilé + OpenGroupware.org but no stand/booth since running a stand consumes a lot of effort and there were complaints about the split up of folks between the devroom and the stand in the years before (and until now less people than in the years before have confirmed an attendance at FOSDEM this year)

== Organizers ==

* Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
* t.b.d.

== 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 2009:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments

|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || ? || yes || yes || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || (arriving ~3PM) || yes || yes || [[http://www.OpenGroupware.org OpenGroupware.org]]
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || ? || x || x ||
|-
| Graham Lee || ? || ? || ? || ? ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || unlikely || ? || ? || ? || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || yes || yes || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || ? || ? || ? || ? || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || ? || ? || ? || ? || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || ? || ? || ? || ? ||
|-
| Gregory Casamento || ? || ? || ? || ? || GORM, GNUstep Chief Maintainer
|-
| Riccardo Mottola || probably not, but I can provide and organize material for others on my topics || ? || ? || ? || BSD Ports, [[http://www.nongnu.org/gap/ GNUstep Application Project]]: LaternaMagica, Vespucci, FTP; PRICE
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || no (unfortunately) but I will provide an Openmoko and a Minibook for the Demo || - || - || - || mySTEP, [[http://www.quantum-step.com QuantumSTEP]], [[http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/SimpleWebKit Simple WebKit]], GSCoreData
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || ? || ? || ? || ? || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|-
| Fred Kiefer || most likely not || - || - || - || GNUstep-gui, back
|-
| Sašo Kiselkov || ? || ? || ? || ? || GSCoreData, DataBuilder
|-
| Ludovic Marcotte || ? || ? || ? || ? || [[http://sogo.opengroupware.org ScalableOGo]]
|-
| Marcus Mueller || ? || ? || ? || ? || [[http://sope.opengroupware.org SOPE]]

|}

== Dev-Room Presentations and Events ==

'''deadline for the papers is Monday 2009-01-12'''

The room at out disposal will be AW1.117 (capacity is 31 seats; in the building "AW"),
-- on Saturday 2009-02-07 from 12:00 to 18:00
-- on Sunday 2009-02-08 from 09:00 to 17:00

Note that on Saturday, it ''is'' possible to use the room before 11:00

{| border="1"
!width="120pt"| Day !! width="100pt"| Time Slot !! width="120pt"| Author !! width="250pt"| Title !! width="150pt"| Slides
|-
| Saturday
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 12:00 - 13:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 13:00 - 14:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 14:00 - 15:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 15:00 - 16:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 16:00 - 17:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 16:00 - 17:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 17:00 - 18:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sunday
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 09:00 - 10:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 10:00 - 11:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 11:00 - 12:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 12:00 - 13:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 13:00 - 14:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 14:00 - 15:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 15:00 - 16:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 16:00 - 17:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 16:00 - 17:00 || t.b.d. || t.b.d || t.b.d.
|}

Note: Does anyone have a projector for the talks? The FOSDEM organisation will gives us one if needed, but having our own would be more convenient (if only to have a good one, remember last year)

== Suggested Hotels ==

Thanks to Nikolaus Schaller who has done some initial research as follows:

=== Argus Hotel Brussels (Belguim) (good experiences from last year) ===
*6, Rue Capitaine Crespel
*B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgique
*Tel +32 2 514 07 70
*Fax +32 2 514 12 22
*reception@hotel-argus.be

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!)

=== 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

----

Summer Of Code Ideas

2008-03-30T22:18:30Z

Qmathe: Updated SoC ideas to take in account progresses done in the past year

These are the ideas that were proposed as projects. This section is maintained for historical interest, and to aid planning for the Summer of Code 2008 (if it happens again). If you have a project that would be interesting for next year, feel free to add it here.

=== Porting ===
* Port [http://developer.apple.com/opensource/internet/webkit.html WebKit] (using GCC 4.x with ObjC++ support). The WebKit team is willing to help whoever wants to take on this project, please see [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2007-03/msg00290.html this email].
* Fix ms-windows integration issues (in conjunction with general gui theming) ... focus and app activation/deactivation, taskbar integration (when an app is hidden/deactivated it should be represented as a single item in the taksbar), implementation of menus within each window. New features as dynamically selectable options.
* Support for ms-windows native theming ... have a subclass of GSTheme for windows which detects changes in the native theme and matches them within gnustep apps.

=== General Improvements ===
* Printing Support (make printing work consistantly. Test.)
* MS Windows support (better integration in the MS Windows look and feel, especially the in-window-menu support, file dialogs, etc)
* Finish input server [http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/libs/gui/branches/kazunobu_input_management/ support]
* Finish project center
* Revamp Objective-C garbage collection and make it compatible with the Apple implementation
* Cross-compilation from GNU/Linux to embedded devices
* [[GNUstepWeb]] (add script language support, etc)
* [[SimpleWebKit]] help development (event handling, better renderer, parsing quirks)
* Screen change support ... handle resizing of the screen etc. It's now common to run in virtual machines or with multiple displays with different sizes, so we need to gracefully handle changes of screen size while an application is running.

=== AppKit ===
* Complete theming support ... go through each control in the gui and make sure it draws itsself using the theming engine, adding methods to the theming engine as required. Update/improve Thematic.app to match by providing wysiwyg editine/cretion of themes for each control.
* Modify save and open panel, and perhaps browsers, to support multiple roots as needed on ms-windows where the filesystem has multiple roots (eg D:\... or //host/...)
* Fix focusing bugs/issues making sure GNUstep apps can be used with all window managers
* Text System should be cleaned, profiled and finished. Many methods in NSLayoutManager are unfinished or unimplemented, so we currently cannot tweak the test system as much as the one provided by Cocoa. (Quentin Mathe)
* We need NSTypeSetter, NSGlyphStorage, NSGlyphInfo, and NSGlyphGenerator implementations. If NSTypeSetter and NSLayoutManager were implemented, they would probably be used in Etoile. (Quentin Mathe)
* NSTextTable, NSTextTableBlock, NSTextList, & NSTextBlock implementations would also bring the GNUstep text system in line with that of Cocoa as of Mac OS 10.4. The classes could be useful to build a powerful word processor. (Quentin Mathe)
* NSOpenGL Classes could be improved, made compatible with current Cocoa implementations, and further tested. Note sure about that anymore. Feedback from people using these classes would be useful? (Quentin Mathe)
* NSBitmapImageRep formats: Currently, we support reading and writing for TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PNM (reading-only). We would like to complete NSEPSImageRep and NSPDFImageRep (with Cairo?). SVG reading and writing support, would be nice too. (Quentin Mathe)
* NSDatePicker (and obligatory companion NSCell subclass) implementation.
* NSFormatter isn't working very well at this time. Not sure anymore about this one… (Quentin Mathe)
* Backend: especially xlib but also art could use performance improvements. NSImageView scrolling on xlib comes to my mind for example. (shouldn't improvements focus on the preferred, cairo backend rather than the deprecated ones?)
* improve our RTF parser, to be able to correctly load OO and MS-Office created RTFs. Add support for reading NeXT RTFDs. Correct loading of Apple RTFs including char encoding

=== Base ===
* Improve testsuite to have regression tests cover much more of base library.
* NSDateComponents & NSCalendar implementation.
* Test the NSXMLParser Cocoa class (both the native ObjC implementation and the wrapper around GSXML), (Nicola: it seems to work fine, but it would be nice to have regression tests). Once this is thoroughly tested, NSXMLDocument, NSXMLDTD, and NSXMLDTDNode, and NSXMLElement, and NSXMLNode implementations would be useful for compatibility.
* Implement Apple's scripting/apple-events classes as a subproject of the base library.
* Complete separation of gnustep specific extensions from Apple APIs and implement new Apple methods missing from existing classes for compatibility.
* Complete implementation of Apple's latest URL handling classes based on NSStream... testing on mswindows as well as unix.
* Implement CoreFoundation on Base
* Now that Apple have XML based keyed coding, implement a version of Distributed Objects to talk directly to Apple applications (Nicolaus has done some work towards this in mGSTEP).

=== Core Data ===
* Saso Kiselkov started implementing this [http://gscoredata.nongnu.org/ framework] and now hosted here [http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/libs/gscoredata/] as part of GNUstep. However, NSManagedObjectContext & NSPersistentStoreCoordinator have yet to be tackled according to his web page. Presumably NSPersistentDocument also needs to be implemented.

=== Misc ===
* Create a AJAX Framework for GNUstepWeb
** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/wonder Project WONDER], especially the stuff mentioned here: [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:WebObjects/Project_WONDER/Frameworks/Ajax] could be ported over from Java. See also [http://search.lists.apple.com/?cmd=Search!&fmt=long&form=extended&m=all&ps=10&q=Ajax&sp=1&ul=webobjects-dev&wf=2221&wm=wrd&s=DRP] and [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=webobjects+ajax&btnG=Search]
* There's a truck load of stuff in WO 5.4.1 that GNUstepWeb is missing: [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/WO541Reference/index.html]
* Create Objective-C bindings for DBUS

FOSDEM 2008

2008-02-20T16:32:00Z

Qmathe: Last minute change of my FOSDEM presence

== FOSDEM 2008 Announcement ==

[http://www.fosdem.org/2008 FOSDEM 2008] will take place at at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Brussels on the 23/24. Feb 2008.

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

Note: this year we will have just a small stand/booth but no on-site devroom (see Sun hotel). So, we have to even better prepare our stand (product demos, leaflets, T-Shirts etc.)

== Organizers ==

* Gerold Rupprecht
* Adam Fedor

== 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 2008:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || late || x || x || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || late || x || x || [[http://www.OpenGroupware.org OpenGroupware]]
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || x || x || x ||
|-
| Graham Lee || || || || ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || no || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || x || x || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé - looking forward to the developer meeting
|-
| Jesse Ross || no || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || yes || x || x || x || Sponsor Saturday dinner
|-
| Gregory Casamento || no || || || || GORM, GNUstep Chief Maintainer
|-
| Riccardo Mottola || || || || || BSD Ports, [[http://www.nongnu.org/gap/ GNUstep Application Project]], SimpleWebKit, Vespucci
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || x || x || x || mySTEP, [[http://www.quantum-step.com QuantumSTEP]], [[http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/SimpleWebKit Simple WebKit]], GSCoreData
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || yes || x || x || x || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|-
| Fred Kiefer || yes || x || x || || GNUstep-gui, back
|-
| Sašo Kiselkov || || || || || GSCoreData, DataBuilder

|}

== Suggested Hotels ==

Thanks to Nikolaus Schaller who has done some initial research as follows:

===Developer Meeting Hotel - Sun Hotel in Brussels (Belguim) ===
**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

----

FOSDEM 2008

2008-02-19T11:42:56Z

Qmathe: FOSDEM presence

== FOSDEM 2008 Announcement ==

[http://www.fosdem.org/2008 FOSDEM 2008] will take place at at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Brussels on the 23/24. Feb 2008.

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

Note: this year we will have just a small stand/booth but no on-site devroom (see Sun hotel). So, we have to even better prepare our stand (product demos, leaflets, T-Shirts etc.)

== Organizers ==

* Gerold Rupprecht
* Adam Fedor

== 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 2008:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || late || x || x || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || late || x || x || [[http://www.OpenGroupware.org OpenGroupware]]
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || x || x || x ||
|-
| Graham Lee || || || || ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || x || x || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé - looking forward to the developer meeting
|-
| Jesse Ross || no || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || yes || x || x || x || Sponsor Saturday dinner
|-
| Gregory Casamento || no || || || || GORM, GNUstep Chief Maintainer
|-
| Riccardo Mottola || || || || || BSD Ports, [[http://www.nongnu.org/gap/ GNUstep Application Project]], SimpleWebKit, Vespucci
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || x || x || x || mySTEP, [[http://www.quantum-step.com QuantumSTEP]], [[http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/SimpleWebKit Simple WebKit]], GSCoreData
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || yes || x || x || x || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|-
| Fred Kiefer || yes || x || x || || GNUstep-gui, back
|-
| Sašo Kiselkov || || || || || GSCoreData, DataBuilder

|}

== Suggested Hotels ==

Thanks to Nikolaus Schaller who has done some initial research as follows:

===Developer Meeting Hotel - Sun Hotel in Brussels (Belguim) ===
**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

----

FOSDEM 2008

2008-01-22T11:29:00Z

Qmathe:

== FOSDEM 2008 Announcement ==

[http://www.fosdem.org/8 FOSDEM 2008] will take place at at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Brussels on the 23/24. Feb 2008.

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

Note: this year we will have just a small stand/booth but no on-site devroom (see Sun hotel). So, we have to even better prepare our stand (product demos, leaflets, T-Shirts etc.)

== Organizers ==

* Gerold Rupprecht
* Adam Fedor

== 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 2008:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || late || x || x || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || || || || ||
|-
| Graham Lee || || || || ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || likely || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || no || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || yes || x || x || x || Sponsor Saturday dinner
|-
| Gregory Casamento || || || || || GORM
|-
| Riccardo Mottola || || || || || BSD Ports, [[http://www.nongnu.org/gap/ GNUstep Application Project]], SimpleWebKit, Vespucci
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || likely || x || x || x || mySTEP, [[http://www.quantum-step.com QuantumSTEP]], [[http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/SimpleWebKit Simple WebKit]], GSCoreData
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|-
| Fred Kiefer || likely || x || x || || GNUstep-gui, back
|-
| Sašo Kiselkov || || || || || GSCoreData, DataBuilder

|}

== Suggested Hotels ==

Thanks to Nikolaus Schaller who has done some initial research as follows:

===Developer Meeting Hotel - Sun Hotel in Brussels (Belguim) ===
**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

----

Main Page

2006-05-10T16:36:21Z

Qmathe: Moved Summer of Code link into Development Subprojects (since I added it to Community Portal)

{| style="border:1px solid black; background-color:lavender; padding:10pt;"
|+
| '''GNUstep''' is a [[Portability|cross-platform]], object-oriented set of [[Frameworks|frameworks]] for desktop application [[Development tools|development]]. The set of frameworks, based on [[OpenStep]] (now [[Cocoa]]), 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.
|}

__NOTOC__

== About GNUstep ==

'''[http://www.gnustep.org GNUstep home page]'''

'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUstep Wikipedia entry for GNUstep]'''

[[Blogs]] concerning GNUstep

[[Project development|Contact and Project development]]

[[Architecture]]

[[FAQ]]

[[Application News ]]

== Users ==
[[GNUstep_Installation_Process|GNUstep Installation Process]]

[[Internationalisation]]

[[GNUstep environments]]

[[Wish list]]

[[Artworks]]

== Developers ==

[[Development Subprojects]] ([[Summer Of Code 2006|Summer of Code]], [[Themability]], [[Portability]], [[Package management]], [[I18n]], ...)

[[Using Subversion]]

[[Development tools]]

[[Applications]]

[[Frameworks]]

[[Installation process]]

[[Scripting]]

[[Programming topics]] and [[Snippets]]

== [[Glossary]] ==

== About Wiki ==

[http://www.possibility.com/epowiki/Wiki.jsp?page=HowToOrganizeWiki How To Organize Wiki]

[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_development Wiki Dev Doc]

[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User'sGuide]

[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ FAQ]

[http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net WikiPedia]

GNUstepWiki:Community Portal

2006-05-10T16:32:25Z

Qmathe: Added a link to Summer of Code 2006

== Development ==

* [[Roadmap]]
* [[GNUstep release procedure]]
* [[Quality assurance]]

* [[Ideas]]

* [[User knowledge requirements]]

* [[Summer Of Code 2006 | Summer of Code 2006]]

== Marketing ==

* [[Marketing CD]]
* [[Survey]]
* [[Presentations]]
* [[News]]

Notes:
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2006-05-10T13:44:25Z

Qmathe: Added a link to Summer of Code 2006

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Summer Of Code 2006

2006-05-10T13:38:11Z

Qmathe: Removed myself from mentors list since I submitted applications as a student (it isn't allowed to be a mentor at the same time)

== Summer Of Code 2006 ==

The [http://code.google.com/soc/ Summer Of Code] is a Google program that offers student developers stipends to create new freely available programs or to help currently established projects. It would be an excellent opportunity for GNUstep to fund some developments.

Here are some ideas -- Feel free to add more

* '''Bindings, KVO support'''
** We need NSController, NSArrayController, NSObjectController, NSTreeController, NSUserDefaultController, NSValueTransformer implementations. NSSortDescriptor has already been implemented by Saso Kiselkov. The current NSTreeController is known to be a bit buggy and have an API a bit flawed, as Apple rushed the release of this class in Mac OS 10.4. It is widely believed that these shortcomings will be fixed in Leopard (10.5), so perhaps we should wait a while.
** Key Value Observing implementation was written by Richard Frith-Macdonald, and is only about 80% finished. Needs completion and testing.

* '''Porting'''
** Port [http://developer.apple.com/opensource/internet/webkit.html WebKit] (using GCC 4.x with ObjC++ support)

* '''General Improvements'''
** Printing Support (better postcript generation, etc.)
** Cairo backend
** Windows support
** GNUstepWeb (add script language support, etc)
** Finish input server [http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/libs/gui/branches/kazunobu_input_management/ support]
** Compare current API with Tiger's API, indicate which classes are missing, and summarize the current status of the existing ones, then work to complete them... ;) The best would be to have a tool which parses all headers (both from Cocoa and GNUstep) and outputs differences in HTML (XML probably too by the way). This would summarize missing classes, missing or partially implementated methods in existing classes and GNUstep-specific extensions. Eventually we should include links to the related documentation on both GNUstep and Cocoa web sites.

* '''AppKit'''
** PDFKit wrapper implementation around the Freedesktop Poppler library, probably by wrapping PopplerKit (used in ViewPDF/Vindaloo, a GNUstep PDF Viewer). Afterwards, providing support in AppKit trough NSPDFImageRep would be great.
*** Here is a link to [http://home.gna.org/gsimageapps/ PopplerKit/Vindaloo] that works well, but is currently lacking a maintainer.
** Text System should be cleaned, profiled and finished. Many methods in NSLayoutManager are unfinished or unimplemented, so we currently cannot tweak the test system as much as the one provided by Cocoa. (Quentin Mathe)
** We need NSTypeSetter, NSGlyphStorage, NSGlyphInfo, and NSGlyphGenerator implementations. If NSTypeSetter and NSLayoutManager were implemented, they would probably be used in Etoile. (Quentin Mathe)
** NSTextTable, NSTextTableBlock, NSTextList, & NSTextBlock implementations would also bring the GNUstep text system in line with that of Cocoa as of Mac OS 10.4. The classes could be useful to build a powerful word processor. (Quentin Mathe)
** Finish once and for all the NSTableView class, and have it work properly with any kind of cells. This is a big job, but sorely needed (Quentin Mathe)
** NSOpenGL Classes could be improved, made compatible with current Cocoa implementations, and further tested (Quentin Mathe)
** NSBitmapImageRep formats: Currenly, we support only reading and writing for TIFF, read-only for GIF, JPEG, PNG, PNM. We would like to have write support for these NSBitmapImageRep categories. Afterwards, SVG reading, then write support, would be nice. (Quentin Mathe)
** NSDatePicker, NSLevelIndicator (and obligatory companion NSCell subclasses) implementations.
** Updating NSDocument architecture with numerous modern methods which were introduced in Mac OS 10.4. In 10.4, Apple deprecated many methods in NSDocument in favor of a more flexible and well-designed implementation.
** NSFormatter isn't working very well at this time (Quentin Mathe)

* '''Base'''
** NSError related improvements to allow better user messages (with the new error responder chain). In Mac OS 10.4, NSDocument version uses this.
** NSLocale-compatible locale implementation could be useful for internationalization.
** NSDateComponents implementation.
** NSCalendar implementation.
** Finish the NSPredicate implementation. This was partially done by Quentin Mathe, but is untested. The most important part is not done, which is to write a parser and lexer for the custom language used by NSPredicate. Also needed for this are NSComparisonPredicate, NSCompoundPredicate, and NSExpression implementations.
** Test the NSXMLParser Cocoa class wrapper around GSXML, written by Richard-Frith Macdonald. Once this is thoroughly tested, NSXMLDocument, NSXMLDTD, and NSXMLDTDNode, and NSXMLElement, and NSXMLNode implementations may be useful for compatibility.

* '''Misc'''
** Create a AJAX Framework for GNUstepWeb

== Note ==

We need [http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html mentor(s)] to manage the volunteers...

=== Mentors ===

- David Wetzel (dave at turbocat dot de) could mentor GSWeb related projects

- Adam Fedor (backup mentor)

=== Students ===

Nicolas Roard

Quentin Mathé

Frameworks

2005-03-27T08:52:13Z

Qmathe: /* Development */

Add your extension, framework, library or bundle below to one of the categories.<br />If a category doesn't yet exist, choose a new name as a short description (eg. ''Math'' or ''Science'' or ''Games'' ... simply calling it ''Library'' is '''not''' a good description ;-)

Please try to stay '''alphabetically''' ...

== Core frameworks ==
* [[Base]] - Foundation kit
* [[GUI]] - Application kit

== Extension frameworks ==
''(official parts of GNUstep project)''

=== Audio ===

=== Database ===
* [[GDL2]] - Database frameworks (Enterprise Objects/EO)

=== Development ===

=== Graphics ===

=== Networking ===
* [[GNUstepWeb]] - WebObjects 4.x compatible framework that provides an MVC approach to building web applications and which integrates tightly with [[GDL2]] to provide easy access to database objects.

=== PIM ===

=== Scripting and Binding ===
* [ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/libs/ GNUstep Guile] - Extension to make use of the GUILE scripting language.
* [http://www.gnustep.it/jigs/ JIGS] - GNUstep Java interface
* [http://www.gnustep.org/experience/RIGS.html RIGS] - GNUstep Ruby bridge
* [[StepTalk]] - Scripting framework

=== Security ===

=== Text Processing ===

== Other frameworks ==
''(not official parts of GNUstep project)''

=== Audio ===
* [http://musickit.sourceforge.net/ MusicKit] - The MusicKit is an object-oriented software system for building music, sound, signal processing, and MIDI applications. It has been used in such diverse commercial applications as music sequencers, computer games, and document processors. Professors and students in academia have used the MusicKit in a host of areas, including music performance, scientific experiments, computer-aided instruction, and physical modeling.

=== Database ===

=== Development ===
* [[DevelopmentKit]] - computer aided development
* [http://homepage.mac.com/gandreas/ IDEKit] - Framework for programmer editors (I have stated to port it to GNUstep, to know more you can contact me [[user:Qmathe | Quentin Mathé]])
* [[KoKit]] : A framework '''collection''', that extends the functionality of GNUstep's [[Foundation]] and [[AppKit]].
** [http://www.knuddel.org/Projects/Kits/KoBase/ KoBase] - A low-lewel framework. It's main purpose is to provide simple to use debugging aids.
** [http://www.knuddel.org/Projects/Kits/KoFoundation/ KoFoundation] - Extension to [[Foundation]] framework.
** [http://www.knuddel.org/Projects/Kits/KoAppKit/ KoAppKit] - Contains useful [[AppKit]] extensions and widgets.
** [http://www.knuddel.org/Projects/Kits/KoCrypt/ KoCrypt] - A collection of classes of cryptographic algorithms and categories for quick and easy access.
**[http://www.knuddel.org/Projects/Kits/KoNet/ KoNet] - A collection of classes that deal with BSD socket programming.
* [http://www.people.virginia.edu/~yc2w/GNUstep/english/ PCRE Parser] - Perl-compatible '''regular expression''' library.
* [http://www.opengroupware.org/ SKYRIX Core] - Various Foundation extensions, classes for processing MIME entities

=== Graphics ===
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu3dkit/gnu3dkit.html 3DKit] - The GNU 3DKit provides multiple Objective-C frameworks which facilitate the design and implementation of '''3D''' applications based on '''OpenGL'''. It tightly integrates with GNUstep and Cocoa.
* [http://home.gna.org/gsimageapps/ CameraKit] : a simple wrapper to [http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/ libgphoto]
* [http://home.gna.org/gsimageapps/ DiagramKit] : DiagramKit is a framework for manipulating, linking, drawing diagrams.
* [http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/good GOOD] - GOOD stands for GNUstep Object Oriented Diagramming. It is a library that aims to provide GNUstep developers a way to add '''modern''' diagramming capabilities to their own application.
* [http://maliwan.sourceforge.net/ Maliwan] - GNUstep Generic Graphic Manipulate Framework.
* [http://home.gna.org/gsimageapps/ PDFKit] : PDFKit is a framework that supports rendering of PDF content in GNUstep applications.
* [http://home.gna.org/gsimageapps/ SlideShowKit] : a small kit to include slideshow in your application

=== Networking ===
* [http://www.knuddel.org/Projects/Kits/KoNet/ KoNet] - A collection of classes that deal with '''BSD socket''' programming. It is part of KoKit.
* [http://netclasses.aeruder.net/ netclasses] - A GNUstep '''socket library'''.
* [http://www.collaboration-world.com/cgi-bin/project/index.cgi?pid=3 Pantomime] : The Pantomime framework supports the major mail protocols: POP3, IMAP, and SMTP.
* [http://www.opengroupware.org/ SKYRIX Core] - Provides a java.io like stream and socket library, a full IMAP4 implementation, a prototypical POP3 and SMTP processors and an Objective-C wrapper for LDAP directory services.
* [http://www.gnustep.org/ SMBKit] - SAMBA library wrapper
* [http://www.knuddel.org/Projects/Kits/Tryst/ Tryst] - Rendezvous™ for GNUstep
* [http://mac.wms-network.de/gnustep/WebCore/blog/ WebKit] - The Web Kit provides a set of classes to display web content in windows, and implements browser features such as following links when clicked by the user, managing a back-forward list, and managing a history of pages recently visited"

=== PIM ===
* [http://giesler.biz/bjoern/en/sw_addr.html Addresses] - A framework that allows access to the addresses database in a way that is sourcecode-compatible with Apple's AddressBook framework. It also contains a view framework to facilitate the construction of applications that use the contact database.
* [http://www.opengroupware.org/ SKYRIX Core] - Classes for iCalendar/vCard objects
* [http://opengroupware.org/en/projects/syncml/index.html syncml] - SyncML is an XML based standard for data synchronization.

=== Scripting and Binding ===
* [http://camelbones.sourceforge.net/index.php CamelBones] - GNUstep/Cocoa Perl bridge
* [http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/ Pyobjc] - GNUstep/Cocoa Python bridge

=== Security ===
* [http://www.knuddel.org/Projects/Kits/KoCrypt/ KoCrypt] - A collection of classes of '''cryptographic algorithms'''. It is part of KoKit.

=== Text Processing ===
* [http://www.apax.net/swpets/objc_p1.html libobjcxerces] - XML (SAX, SAX2) and DOM handling in Objective-C using libXerces.
* [http://www.opengroupware.org/ SKYRIX XML] - provides a SAX2 implementation for Objective-C, DOM on top of SaxObjC, an XML-RPC implementation (without the transport layer), SaxObjC driver bundles for: libical (iCalendar,vCard), expat (XML), plists, pyx, CoreFoundation (XML) )

== Bundles ==
* [[Backend]] - obligatory bundle for GNUstep backed graphics system
* [[Camaelon]] - theme bundle

----
See also:
[[Scripting of frameworks|How to make frameworks scriptable]],
[[PrefixIndex|
Index of prefixes used by different GNUstep-related libraries and frameworks]]

Platform compatibility

2005-03-27T08:45:34Z

Qmathe: /* DragonFly */

'''Note''': Anyone know how to convert [http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/User/GNUstep/gnustep-howto_toc.html Platform Compatibility HowTO]source into wiki language, so we can work on others' effort?

Following are procedures for installing GNUstep on different Operating Systems.<br>

=== AIX ===
''To be provided.''

----

=== BSD ===

==== Darwin ====
''To be provided.''

===== Intel =====
''To be provided.''

===== PowerPC =====
''To be provided.''

==== DragonFly ====
[http://www.dragonflybsd.org/main/ DragonFly] is an operating system and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the [[Platform_compatibility#FreeBSD|FreeBSD]]-4.x OS series.

I have mostly ported GNUstep to DragonFly, I just need to submit patches now for both GNUstep and DragonFly. To know more, you can contact me. ''[[user:Qmathe | Quentin Mathé]]''

==== FreeBSD ====
You can install GNUstep via ''/usr/ports/devel/gnustep''. However, not all required dependancies are installed.

If you install the following in advance, you should be fine: ''wmaker, libxml2, libxslt, libgmp4, libart_lgpl2, libaudiofile, ffcall, glitz''

You may also want to install ''/usr/ports/net/mDNSResponder''.

'''Note''':
There is a bug in libkvm that '''requires''' a mounted ''/proc''. Until this bug is fixed, make sure you have an entry for ''/proc'' in your ''/etc/fstab'':

proc /proc procfs rw 0 0

References:
[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=gnustep&stype=all FreeBSD GNUstep ports],
[http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=gnustep&search=go&num=10&stype=name&method=match&deleted=excludedeleted&start=1&casesensitivity=caseinsensitive Freshports GNUstep]

==== Kernel of FreeBSD with GNU userland ====
It was reported that this runs GNUstep as well. For more details see the topic of
the IRC channel #gnu-kbsd on irc.gnu.org

==== Mac OS X ====
''To be provided.''

==== NetBSD ====
Installing GNUstep from pkgsrc is really straight-forward for NetBSD if you're using a recent pkgsrc distribution. NetBSD/i386 has no known problems right now, however there are reports of crashout problems for gdomap on NetBSD/sparc which may be related to ffi/ffcall issues.

In terms of pre-requisites, ensure you've got a working X11 environment on your system and preferrably are using WindowMaker as your window manager.

'''Build instructions'''

To install GNUstep, you need to cd to your pkgsrc tree and then cd to the right package directory, on my system:

cd /usr/pkgsrc

then go to the package you wish to install, for example:

cd meta-pkgs/gnustep

and issue the command:

make install

This command will download source code and whatever dependencies and compile and install them. The version of the meta-packages I used (released with NetBSD 2.0 and called gnustep-1.10.0nb2) installs the following GNUstep components as parts of the meta-package:

* gnustep-make-1.10.0
* gnustep-base-1.10.1
* gnustep-ssl-1.10.1
* gnustep-gui-0.9.4
* gnustep-back-0.9.4
* gnustep-examples-1.0.0
* ImageViewer-0.6.3
* Pantomime-1.1.2
* Addresses-0.4.6
* GNUMail-1.1.2
* Gorm-0.8.0
* ProjectCenter-0.4.0
* GWLib-0.6.5
* Renaissance-0.8.0
* gworkspace-0.6.5

A number of dependency packages are also installed.

This may be overkill - if you don't need all the applications etc, you can install the packages individually.

==== OpenBSD ====
''To be provided.''

==== PicoBSD ====
[http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html PicoBSD] is a one floppy version of [[Platform_compatibility#FreeBSD|FreeBSD]] 3.0-current.

----

=== GNU/Hurd ===
GNUstep also runs on GNU/Hurd on the GNUMach kernel.

----

=== HP/UX ===
* GNUstep-core-1.0, please see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/CPAM_with_TWW#GNUstep_and_TWW_HPMS. look for the gnustep-core-1.0.sb and gnustep-core-1.0.pb file for building and packaging information.

----

=== Irix ===
''To be provided.''

----

=== Linux ===

==== Debian ====
Since Debian "Sarge" you can just say

apt-get install x-window-system-core wmaker gnustep gnustep-devel gnustep-games

to get GNUstep, X11 and Window Maker installed.

But what happen if you are on Debian stable (3.0) release ?

Here is an answer from gnustep irc channel:
<pre>
<fsmunoz> change every occurence of "stable" for "testing"
<fsmunoz> remove the security.debian.org line
<fsmunoz> do apt-get update
<fsmunoz> apt-get dist-upgrade
<fsmunoz> repeat this last one until nothing gets installed or removed.
<fsmunoz> the, replace "testing" with "unstable"
<fsmunoz> then, apt-get update
<fsmunoz> apt-get dist-upgrade
<fsmunoz> repeat, repeat.
<fsmunoz> done
</pre>

The above was a general guide to upgrade from Debian stable to unstable, not exactly the best way to install GNUstep packages. If one doesn't want to upgrade it is possible to simply add the unstable apt lines to the sources.list and specify the distribution when installing the packages, e.g.
<pre>
# apt-get install -t unstable gnumail.app
</pre>

This will probably upgrade some other packages to satisfy dependencies, but will have a much small impact on the system since only the packages on which GNUstep depends will be upgraded.

Yet another way is to add tarzeau's repository (powerpc and source); he packages a huge ammount of GNUstep packages. Just add this to your sources.list:
<pre>
deb http://www.linuks.mine.nu/debian/ ./
deb-src http://www.linuks.mine.nu/debian/ ./
</pre>

This repository contains packages made in unstable, so it's possible that the dependencies only are satisfied in unstable systems.

==== RedHat ====
''To be provided.''

===== Advance Server 3.0 =====
* GNUstep-core-1.0, please see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/CPAM_with_TWW#GNUstep_and_TWW_HPMS. look for the gnustep-core-1.0.sb and gnustep-core-1.0.pb file for building and packaging information.

===== FC 3 =====
''To be provided.''

==== Slackware ====
''To be provided.''

==== SuSE ====
''To be provided.''

----

=== Solaris ===

==== Intel ====
''To be provided.''

==== Sparc ====

* http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/solaris is one of package sources to create solaris packages for GNUstep.
* GNUstep-core-1.0, please see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/CPAM_with_TWW#GNUstep_and_TWW_HPMS. look for the gnustep-core-1.0.sb and gnustep-core-1.0.pb file for building and packaging information.

----

=== Windows ===

==== Cygwin ====
''To be provided.''

==== MingW ====
''To be provided.''

==== SFU ====
Microsfot's Service For Unix.

----

=== Others ===

==== LiveCD for Intel ====
Current version is 0.9.4.2

Find the instructions to install and the CD itself [http://livecd.gnustep.org/ here]

==== Linksys NSLU2 ====
* First thing need to happen is to gnerate a gcc cross compiler with objc enabled.
Current nslu2 supported gcc only has c and c++ enabled when building the crosstool-native package.
* check out unslung source using follow command.

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nslu co unslung

* add in objc as language need to be enabled.

perl -pi -e 's!^GCC_LANGUAGES=.*!GCC_LANGUAGES="c,c++,objc"!' toolchain/crosstool/nslu2-cross335.sh
perl -pi -e 's!^GCC_LANGUAGES=.*!GCC_LANGUAGES="c,c++,objc"!' sources/crosstool-native/nslu2-native335.sh

** Compile cross-compiler for arm cpu using gcc compiler on debian 3.1 linux.

<pre>
tjyang@debian:~/unslung$ pwd
/home/tjyang/unslung
tjyang@debian:~/unslung$ rm toolchain/crosstool/.configured
tjyang@debian:~/unslung$ rm toolchain/crosstool/.built
tjyang@debian:~/unslung$ unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
tjyang@debian:~/unslung$make toolchain
</pre>

* A arm gcc with objective-C enabled.
<pre>
/export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5/bin/armv5b-softfloat-linux-gcc -v

Reading specs from /export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5/lib/gcc-lib/armv5b-softfloat-linux/3.3.5/specs
Configured with: /export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/crosstool/build/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5/gcc-3.3.5/configure --target=armv5b-softfloat-linux --host=i686-host_pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5 --with-float=soft --with-cpu=xscale --enable-cxx-flags=-mcpu=xscale --with-headers=/export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5/armv5b-softfloat-linux/include --with-local-prefix=/export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5/armv5b-softfloat-linux --disable-nls --enable-threads=posix --enable-symvers=gnu --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-languages=c,c++,objc --enable-shared --enable-c99 --enable-long-long
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.5
[tjyang@dual unslung]$
</pre>
** A simple test of objc on host linux machine.
<pre>
[tjyang@dual bin]$ pwd
/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/toolchain/armv5b-softfloat-linux/gcc-3.3.5-glibc-2.2.5/armv5b-softfloat-linux/bin
[tjyang@dual bin]$
[tjyang@dual bin]$ cat helloworld.m
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
printf("Hello World\n");
}
[tjyang@dual bin]$ ./gcc helloworld.m -lobjc -o helloworld
[tjyang@dual bin]$ file helloworld
hellow: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, ARM, version 1 (ARM), for GNU/Linux 2.4.3, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
[tjyang@dual bin]$ uname -a
Linux dual 2.4.21-9.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Jan 8 17:08:56 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[tjyang@dual bin]$

</pre>
** Second step is to use this cross-compiler which generate binaries code for armb cpu to compile a native compiler. This complier can only be run on native machine nslu2 not on Intel linux.
<pre>
[tjyang@dual unslung]$ make crosstool-native;make crosstool-native-ipk
[tjyang@dual unslung]$ ls -lrt builds/*.ipk
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tjyang tjyang 5569523 Feb 17 13:32 builds/crosstool-native-bin_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tjyang tjyang 12677163 Feb 17 13:33 builds/crosstool-native-lib_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tjyang tjyang 1722660 Feb 17 13:33 builds/crosstool-native-inc_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tjyang tjyang 7049858 Feb 17 13:34 builds/crosstool-native-arch-bin_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tjyang tjyang 9032668 Feb 17 13:34 builds/crosstool-native-arch-lib_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tjyang tjyang 7483945 Feb 17 13:35 builds/crosstool-native-arch-inc_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tjyang tjyang 1058 Feb 17 13:35 builds/crosstool-native_0.28-rc37-3_armeb.ipk

[tjyang@dual unslung]$ cp /export/home/tjyang/slug/unslung/builds/*.ipk /disk76/nslu2/tmp/
[tjyang@dual unslung]$

login into your nslu2, cd to where the ipk packages are.
run following commands.
bash-2.05b# for i in *.ipk
> do
> ipkg -force-overwrite install $i
> done
Upgrading crosstool-native-arch-bin on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
Configuring crosstool-native-arch-bin
Upgrading crosstool-native-arch-inc on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
Configuring crosstool-native-arch-inc
Upgrading crosstool-native-arch-lib on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
Configuring crosstool-native-arch-lib
Upgrading crosstool-native-bin on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
Configuring crosstool-native-bin
Upgrading crosstool-native-inc on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
Configuring crosstool-native-inc
Upgrading crosstool-native-lib on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
Configuring crosstool-native-lib
Upgrading crosstool-native on root from 0.28-rc37-3 to 0.28-rc37-5...
Configuring crosstool-native
bash-2.05b# date
Sat Feb 19 01:04:07 CST 2005
bash-2.05b#

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** try to compile helloworld.m objective-C file and run the helloworld binary on nslu2.
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bash-2.05b# gcc helloworld.m -lobjc -o helloworld
bash-2.05b# file helloworld
helloworld: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, ARM, version 1 (ARM), for GNU/Linux 2.4.3, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
bash-2.05b# ./helloworld
./helloworld: error while loading shared libraries: libobjc.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
bash-2.05b#

libobjc.so.1 is in /opt/armeb/armv5b-softfloat-linux/lib, this path need to be in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

bash-2.05b# ./helloworld
Hello World
bash-2.05b# uname -a
Linux LKG7BFA96 2.4.22-xfs #1 Sat Jan 1 21:34:54 HST 2005 armv5b unknown unknown GNU/Linux
bash-2.05b# date
Thu Feb 17 11:35:19 CST 2005
bash-2.05b# cat compile.sh
/opt/armeb/armv5b-softfloat-linux/bin/gcc helloworld.m -o helloworld -lobjc
bash-2.05b# cat /etc/profile
PATH=/opt/bin:/share/hdd/data/public/nslu2/tjyang/unslung/staging/bin:${PATH}
TERM=xterm
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/lib:/lib:/opt/armeb/armv5b-softfloat-linux/lib
export PATH TERM
bash-2.05b#

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** Of course more strong testing is needed. please add instructon below if you know how to run objective-c's testsuite in crosstool.

* Using Objective-C enalbed gcc to compile gnustep-core,gnustep-* software.

References: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2005-02/msg00124.html

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