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FOSDEM 2011

2011-01-14T19:35:30Z

Rio: /* Who will attend FOSDEM */

== 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 || t.b.d.
|-
| 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
|-
| 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)

* 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 || -
|-
| 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

2011-01-11T18:39:14Z

Rio: /* Who will attend FOSDEM */

== 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
|-
| Sebastian Reitenbach || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || OpenBSD packages || t.b.d.
|-
| Nicolas Roard || Yes || No || 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]]

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

FOSDEM 2011

2011-01-11T18:38:53Z

Rio: /* Who will attend FOSDEM */

== 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
|-
| Sebastian Reitenbach || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || OpenBSD packages || t.b.d.
|-
| Nicolas Roard || No || 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 2010

2009-12-20T23:59:29Z

Rio: /* List of submitted talk/discussion/session proposals */

== 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/
|}

== 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."

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

=== 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 ==

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
*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

2009-10-16T12:42:31Z

Rio: /* Who will attend FOSDEM */

FOSDEM 2010

2009-10-16T12:41:48Z

Rio: /* Who will attend FOSDEM */

FOSDEM 2010

2009-10-16T12:41:26Z

Rio: /* Who will attend FOSDEM */

FOSDEM 2010

2009-10-16T12:40:48Z

Rio: /* Who will attend FOSDEM */

Summer Of Code 2009

2009-03-13T00:50:54Z

Rio: /* GNUstep Ideas */

== 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''

* '''Core Data''': A CoreData compatible library is today in a alpha stage and needs some improvements.
** ''NSPersistentStore concrete classes'' based on SQLite, XML, binary, etc. backends.
** ''DataBuilder.app'' is a graphical application for designing data models. The GUI needs some improvement. Moreover DataBuilder should be turn into a true CoreData application.
** ''File formats compatibility'' with Cocoa, including model files.

* '''WebKit / SimpleWebKit'''
** 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'''
** 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.
** Garbage Collection ... get this working reliably for all classes in the base library (mostly done already) and then make the gui and back libraries support garbage collection too. The existing support consists of an option in gnustep-make to build everything with GS_WITH_GC defined and link with the Boehm garbage collecting library and the garbage collecting version of the runtime, and near complete support for the OSX10.5 garbage collection APIs in gnustep-base. the project would involve making sure that all classes handle memory management properly in a GC environment, and would require the student to develop a thorough understanding of the benefits and pitfalls of using garbage collection, and how to alter existing design patterns to make classes operate efficiently in a garbage collecting environment. existing code would need to be stress-tested in both single and multi-threaded use and on different platforms (at least gnu/linux and mswindows).
** 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.

* '''Backend'''
** ''Windows support'' : Win32 backend lacks some features
** ''Unified backend'' : Win32 and X11 backends share a lot of functionalities. Many of them might be provided by a base class. The student would have to find out these functions shared by both backend, design an interface to theses functions, and adapt the current backend classes that would then use the new interface.
** ''Cairo/DirectFB backend'' : a DirectFB backend for GNUstep would run on low-end embedded devices. As Cairo can already draw on a DirectFB surface, the project concern the system part of the backend and the access to low level resources through DirectFB. The student would have to understand both GNUstep backend and DirectFB interface, and link them through a standardized interface (see above).
** ''Cairo/Glitz/OpenGL backend'' : Glitz is an OpenGL backend for Cairo graphics. Today in an alpha stage, Glitz based GNUstep graphic backend gives access to hardware accelerated graphics on platforms that only implement OpenGL (or OpenGL-ES) functions like some embedded devices. It might be used along with a DirectFB backend (see above). Glitz itself is in a beta stage and not actively maintained.

* '''Foundation'''
** Update the main class/API coverage to match OSX 10.5 by implementing missing methods and in particular the missing NSXML classes (for tree-based XML processing and XSLT etc) and the NSOperation class (leave the scripting classes as a separate task). This is quite a wide and varied project. Checking for and implementing missing minor features provides an easy introduction to the OpenStep/Cocoa API without any need to go into great depth, while implementing the missing XML classes will develop a good understanding of how XML works, and implementing the NSOperation code is an interesting problem in task scheduling and efficient multi-threaded programming, as an ideal implementation would involve multiple threads working with a single queue and avoiding locking overheads.
** CoreFoundation ... implement the CoreFoundation API as an extension of the base library so that Apple code which uses it can easily be ported. This is a great exercise in writing portable code as it must provide the same (working) API on both unix-style systems and on mswindows. The CoreFoundation library would be built as a subproject of the base library and could both wrap base library classes and implement new code changing the base library classes to wrap the new code, as appropriate. This combination of Foundation/CoreFoundation allows maximum re-use of existing code, but also allows for critical parts to be written for optimum performance and/or clarity/maintainability.
** Implement the apple scripting classes and produce example/test programs and utilities/tools for scripting using those classes from applescript and/or an objective-c like scripting language. Supporting applescript would be good for OSX compatibility. Supporting objective-c scripting would be great for GNUstepWeb. Helge Hesse has written objective-c interpreter code which could be used as a basis for an objective-c scripting language.
** Implement a version of distributed objects binary compatible with the Apple implementation by using keyed archiving (work on NIB support means that the keyed archiving is now basically binary compatible) and my using Nicolas' work on NSSocketPort etc in mySTEP (he says that his port implementation is binary compatible with OSX). This would let GNUstep applications communicate directly with cocoa applications, something which was until recently considered too big a job to attempt.

* '''AppKit'''
** Themes for GNUstep. This includes the moving of all drawing code from the GUI classes into theme methods, replacing all hard coded panels with Gorm/NIB files, updating Thematic.app to support the new theming methods, and as the proof of the concept a native Windows theme (Or at least one theme that looks sufficiently different from standard GNUstep).
** Implement a test framework for the graphical part of the GNUstep AppKit implementation. We already have a great test framework for base and this is well suited for non-graphical tests.
** ''NSMovie/QTMovie class'' : on Mac OSX, the NSMovie (now deprecated) and QTMovie classes are based on QuickTime Apple tecnologies. GNUstep compatible classes might be based on open source ans multiplatform technologies like [http://www.videolan.org VideoLAN]
** NSOpenGLPixelBuffer : this class has been introduced in Mac OSX 10.5. It might be useful for any modern OpenGL application.
** Improve/clean the text system -- add temporary attributes, pango support

* '''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 (GNUstep Application Project) Ideas ===

* Debug and Complete FlexiSheet, making sure it works on Cocoa as expected and noting incompatibilities with GNUstep. Those should be either fixed for both platforms (FlexiSheet portability of code improvment) or noted as a bug or missing feature in GNUstep.
* implement (Extract from Addresses) an iSync compatible framework, its corresponding managment application and then integrating it with AddressBook (which already has part of such framework). The goal would be to have syncronization of Addresses (but in future, perhaps calendar, Vespucci bookmarks) gnustep to gnustep, gnustep to mac and gnustep to .Mac/MobileMe by having such account.
* porting of Applications from OpenStep or Cocoa abandonware. This needs to be checked on application-per-application: License and dependencies can be a problem as defining the scope of the project well.
* Some miscellaneous applications that run a Cocoa GUI could be ported to GNUstep:
** ''Vim GUI'' : at least two cocoa-based gui projects already exist - [http://www.ohloh.net/p/vim-cocoa vim-cocoa] and [http://macvim.org/OSX mac-vim]
** ''Mozilla Gecko'' : at least one cocoa project - [http://caminobrowser.org/ Camino] (used to be Chimera). Cocoa is now officially supported by Mozilla with [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Cocoa_Widgets Cocoa Widgets]. See also [http://www.artlogic.com/resources/embedding-mozilla Embedding Mozilla in Mac OS X Cocoa Apps]
** ''OpenOffice'' : [http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.html OOo Aqua] has been released some weeks ago.
** [http://www.videolan.org/vlc VLC media player] : a Cocoa based interface exists for VLC.
** ''[http://www.sbrain.org/nethack3d NetHack3D]'' is a Cocoa port of [http://www.nethack.org NetHack] with 3D graphics.
* ''[http://www.cilinder.be/docs/next/NeXTStep/3.3/nd/GeneralRef/17_3DKit/Intro3DKit.htmld/index.html 3DKit] enables NEXTSTEP applications to model and render 3-dimensional scenes''. It is now obsolete. A new 3D engine, with modern graphic technologies would be useful.
* ''OpenGL extensions management API'': before using an OpenGL extension a program must first determine its availability. The mechanism for doing this is platform-specific and libraries such as [[w:GLEW]] and [[w:GLEE]] exist to simplify the process. The target of this project is a multiplatform Objective-C wrapper around OpenGL platform-specific functions.
* ''HID API'': GNUstep can only handle the usual ''human interface devices'' (HID) : keyboard and mouse. A multiplatform framework would allow GNUstep application to handle joystick, graphic tablet or 3D device.

''Feel to add ideas…''

=== OpenGroupware.org Ideas ===

Some ideas by Sebastian Reitenbach:

(a) port SOPE/OGo from libFoundation to gnustep-base

(b) implement the CalDAV/CardDAV REPORT operations in ZideStore

(c) implement VTODO put in ZideStore

(d) Complete the SOAP implementation in SOPE.

For (b) and (c) I think I could help them out and both I would consider
pretty 'educational' since it touched on allot of things (Obj-C, HTTP,
DAV, etc...) They are also [relatively] small-ish. Whereas I would apply to help with (a).

=== Mentors ===

* Quentin Mathé
* David Chisnall
* Richard Frith-Macdonald
* Fred Kiefer
* Riccardo Mottola (as co-Mentor, as Fred suggested)
* Xavier Glattard
* Nicolas Roard

=== Students ===

- t.b.a.

[[Category:Summer Of Code]]

Summer Of Code 2009

2009-03-13T00:43:40Z

Rio: /* Mentors */

== 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''

* '''Core Data''': A CoreData compatible library is today in a alpha stage and needs some improvements.
** ''NSPersistentStore concrete classes'' based on SQLite, XML, binary, etc. backends.
** ''DataBuilder.app'' is a graphical application for designing data models. The GUI needs some improvement. Moreover DataBuilder should be turn into a true CoreData application.
** ''File formats compatibility'' with Cocoa, including model files.

* '''WebKit / SimpleWebKit'''
** 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'''
** 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.
** Garbage Collection ... get this working reliably for all classes in the base library (mostly done already) and then make the gui and back libraries support garbage collection too. The existing support consists of an option in gnustep-make to build everything with GS_WITH_GC defined and link with the Boehm garbage collecting library and the garbage collecting version of the runtime, and near complete support for the OSX10.5 garbage collection APIs in gnustep-base. the project would involve making sure that all classes handle memory management properly in a GC environment, and would require the student to develop a thorough understanding of the benefits and pitfalls of using garbage collection, and how to alter existing design patterns to make classes operate efficiently in a garbage collecting environment. existing code would need to be stress-tested in both single and multi-threaded use and on different platforms (at least gnu/linux and mswindows).
** 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.

* '''Backend'''
** ''Windows support'' : Win32 backend lacks some features
** ''Unified backend'' : Win32 and X11 backends share a lot of functionalities. Many of them might be provided by a base class. The student would have to find out these functions shared by both backend, design an interface to theses functions, and adapt the current backend classes that would then use the new interface.
** ''Cairo/DirectFB backend'' : a DirectFB backend for GNUstep would run on low-end embedded devices. As Cairo can already draw on a DirectFB surface, the project concern the system part of the backend and the access to low level resources through DirectFB. The student would have to understand both GNUstep backend and DirectFB interface, and link them through a standardized interface (see above).
** ''Cairo/Glitz/OpenGL backend'' : Glitz is an OpenGL backend for Cairo graphics. Today in an alpha stage, Glitz based GNUstep graphic backend gives access to hardware accelerated graphics on platforms that only implement OpenGL (or OpenGL-ES) functions like some embedded devices. It might be used along with a DirectFB backend (see above). Glitz itself is in a beta stage and not actively maintained.

* '''Foundation'''
** Update the main class/API coverage to match OSX 10.5 by implementing missing methods and in particular the missing NSXML classes (for tree-based XML processing and XSLT etc) and the NSOperation class (leave the scripting classes as a separate task). This is quite a wide and varied project. Checking for and implementing missing minor features provides an easy introduction to the OpenStep/Cocoa API without any need to go into great depth, while implementing the missing XML classes will develop a good understanding of how XML works, and implementing the NSOperation code is an interesting problem in task scheduling and efficient multi-threaded programming, as an ideal implementation would involve multiple threads working with a single queue and avoiding locking overheads.
** CoreFoundation ... implement the CoreFoundation API as an extension of the base library so that Apple code which uses it can easily be ported. This is a great exercise in writing portable code as it must provide the same (working) API on both unix-style systems and on mswindows. The CoreFoundation library would be built as a subproject of the base library and could both wrap base library classes and implement new code changing the base library classes to wrap the new code, as appropriate. This combination of Foundation/CoreFoundation allows maximum re-use of existing code, but also allows for critical parts to be written for optimum performance and/or clarity/maintainability.
** Implement the apple scripting classes and produce example/test programs and utilities/tools for scripting using those classes from applescript and/or an objective-c like scripting language. Supporting applescript would be good for OSX compatibility. Supporting objective-c scripting would be great for GNUstepWeb. Helge Hesse has written objective-c interpreter code which could be used as a basis for an objective-c scripting language.
** Implement a version of distributed objects binary compatible with the Apple implementation by using keyed archiving (work on NIB support means that the keyed archiving is now basically binary compatible) and my using Nicolas' work on NSSocketPort etc in mySTEP (he says that his port implementation is binary compatible with OSX). This would let GNUstep applications communicate directly with cocoa applications, something which was until recently considered too big a job to attempt.

* '''AppKit'''
** Themes for GNUstep. This includes the moving of all drawing code from the GUI classes into theme methods, replacing all hard coded panels with Gorm/NIB files, updating Thematic.app to support the new theming methods, and as the proof of the concept a native Windows theme (Or at least one theme that looks sufficiently different from standard GNUstep).
** Implement a test framework for the graphical part of the GNUstep AppKit implementation. We already have a great test framework for base and this is well suited for non-graphical tests.
** ''NSMovie/QTMovie class'' : on Mac OSX, the NSMovie (now deprecated) and QTMovie classes are based on QuickTime Apple tecnologies. GNUstep compatible classes might be based on open source ans multiplatform technologies like [http://www.videolan.org VideoLAN]
** NSOpenGLPixelBuffer : this class has been introduced in Mac OSX 10.5. It might be useful for any modern OpenGL application.

* '''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 (GNUstep Application Project) Ideas ===

* Debug and Complete FlexiSheet, making sure it works on Cocoa as expected and noting incompatibilities with GNUstep. Those should be either fixed for both platforms (FlexiSheet portability of code improvment) or noted as a bug or missing feature in GNUstep.
* implement (Extract from Addresses) an iSync compatible framework, its corresponding managment application and then integrating it with AddressBook (which already has part of such framework). The goal would be to have syncronization of Addresses (but in future, perhaps calendar, Vespucci bookmarks) gnustep to gnustep, gnustep to mac and gnustep to .Mac/MobileMe by having such account.
* porting of Applications from OpenStep or Cocoa abandonware. This needs to be checked on application-per-application: License and dependencies can be a problem as defining the scope of the project well.
* Some miscellaneous applications that run a Cocoa GUI could be ported to GNUstep:
** ''Vim GUI'' : at least two cocoa-based gui projects already exist - [http://www.ohloh.net/p/vim-cocoa vim-cocoa] and [http://macvim.org/OSX mac-vim]
** ''Mozilla Gecko'' : at least one cocoa project - [http://caminobrowser.org/ Camino] (used to be Chimera). Cocoa is now officially supported by Mozilla with [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Cocoa_Widgets Cocoa Widgets]. See also [http://www.artlogic.com/resources/embedding-mozilla Embedding Mozilla in Mac OS X Cocoa Apps]
** ''OpenOffice'' : [http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.html OOo Aqua] has been released some weeks ago.
** [http://www.videolan.org/vlc VLC media player] : a Cocoa based interface exists for VLC.
** ''[http://www.sbrain.org/nethack3d NetHack3D]'' is a Cocoa port of [http://www.nethack.org NetHack] with 3D graphics.
* ''[http://www.cilinder.be/docs/next/NeXTStep/3.3/nd/GeneralRef/17_3DKit/Intro3DKit.htmld/index.html 3DKit] enables NEXTSTEP applications to model and render 3-dimensional scenes''. It is now obsolete. A new 3D engine, with modern graphic technologies would be useful.
* ''OpenGL extensions management API'': before using an OpenGL extension a program must first determine its availability. The mechanism for doing this is platform-specific and libraries such as [[w:GLEW]] and [[w:GLEE]] exist to simplify the process. The target of this project is a multiplatform Objective-C wrapper around OpenGL platform-specific functions.
* ''HID API'': GNUstep can only handle the usual ''human interface devices'' (HID) : keyboard and mouse. A multiplatform framework would allow GNUstep application to handle joystick, graphic tablet or 3D device.

''Feel to add ideas…''

=== OpenGroupware.org Ideas ===

Some ideas by Sebastian Reitenbach:

(a) port SOPE/OGo from libFoundation to gnustep-base

(b) implement the CalDAV/CardDAV REPORT operations in ZideStore

(c) implement VTODO put in ZideStore

(d) Complete the SOAP implementation in SOPE.

For (b) and (c) I think I could help them out and both I would consider
pretty 'educational' since it touched on allot of things (Obj-C, HTTP,
DAV, etc...) They are also [relatively] small-ish. Whereas I would apply to help with (a).

=== Mentors ===

* Quentin Mathé
* David Chisnall
* Richard Frith-Macdonald
* Fred Kiefer
* Riccardo Mottola (as co-Mentor, as Fred suggested)
* Xavier Glattard
* Nicolas Roard

=== Students ===

- t.b.a.

[[Category:Summer Of Code]]

FOSDEM 2009

2009-01-09T23:52:00Z

Rio: /* Dev-Room Presentations and Events */

== 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 || ? || yes || yes ||
|-
| Graham Lee || ? || ? || ? || ? ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || unlikely || ? || ? || ? || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || yes || yes || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || || yes || yes || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || ? || ? || ? || ? || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || ? || ? || ? || ? ||
|-
| Gregory Casamento || ? || ? || ? || ? || GORM, GNUstep Chief Maintainer
|-
| Riccardo Mottola || probably yes || ? || ? || ? || WebServices, [[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 || Richard F-M || Theming in GNUstep || t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 13:00 - 14:00 || lunchbreak
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 14:00 - 15:00 || Helge Hess || ScalableOGo || t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 15:00 - 16:00 || Nicola Pero || Cross-Platform Objective-C Development using GNUstep (Presentation) || t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 16:00 - 17:00 || Richard F-M + Riccardo Mottola|| Web Services in Objective-C (with example app)|| t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 17:00 - 18:00 || Nicolas Roard || Etoile || 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 || Riccardo Mottola || GAP Applications + PRICE || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 11:00 - 12:00 || Nicolas Roard || Pragmatic Smalltalk || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 12:00 - 13:00 || Nicola Pero || Building Server Applications using Objective-C and GNUstep (Tutorial) || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 13:00 - 14:00 || lunchbreak
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 14:00 - 15:00 || Helge Hess || GroupDAV/CalDAV Implementors Meeting (to be organized) || 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.
|}

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

----

FOSDEM 2009

2009-01-09T23:49:22Z

Rio: /* Who will attend FOSDEM */

== 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 || ? || yes || yes ||
|-
| Graham Lee || ? || ? || ? || ? ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || unlikely || ? || ? || ? || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || yes || yes || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || || yes || yes || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || ? || ? || ? || ? || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || ? || ? || ? || ? ||
|-
| Gregory Casamento || ? || ? || ? || ? || GORM, GNUstep Chief Maintainer
|-
| Riccardo Mottola || probably yes || ? || ? || ? || WebServices, [[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 || Richard F-M || Theming in GNUstep || t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 13:00 - 14:00 || lunchbreak
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 14:00 - 15:00 || Helge Hess || ScalableOGo || t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 15:00 - 16:00 || Nicola Pero || Cross-Platform Objective-C Development using GNUstep (Presentation) || t.b.d.
|-
| Sat. Feb 07, 2009 || 16:00 - 17:00 || Richard F-M + Riccardo Mottola|| Web Services in Objective-C (with example app)|| 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 || Riccardo Mottola || GAP Applications + PRICE || 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 || Nicola Pero || Building Server Applications using Objective-C and GNUstep (Tutorial) || t.b.d.
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 13:00 - 14:00 || lunchbreak
|-
| Sun. Feb 08, 2009 || 14:00 - 15:00 || Helge Hess || GroupDAV/CalDAV Implementors Meeting (to be organized) || 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.
|}

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 2008

2008-03-24T22:04:40Z

Rio: /* Mentors */

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. GNUstep is currently applying to be accepted in the 2008 program.

Please look at, edit, and/or add to the [[Summer_Of_Code_Ideas|proposed ideas]]. Any student is encouraged to become familiar with this list.

=== Mentors ===

We need mentors to work with the students. Please put your name below if you are willing to
help:

* Adam Fedor (administrator)
* Nicolas Roard
* Richard Frith-Macdonald
* David Chisnall

Summer Of Code 2008

2008-03-17T23:57:50Z

Rio: /* Mentors */

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. GNUstep is currently applying to be accepted in the 2008 program.

Please look at, edit, and/or add to the [[Summer_Of_Code_Ideas|proposed ideas]]. Any student is encouraged to become familiar with this list.

=== Mentors ===

We need mentors to work with the students. Please put your name below if you are willing to
help:

* Adam Fedor (administrator)
* Nicolas Roard

FOSDEM 2008

2008-01-30T22:33:16Z

Rio: /* Who will attend FOSDEM */

== 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 || || || || || [[http://www.OpenGroupware.org OpenGroupware]]
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || x || x || x ||
|-
| Graham Lee || || || || ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || likely || 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 || || || || || 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 || yes || x || x || x || 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

----

FOSDEM 2008

2008-01-30T22:32:59Z

Rio: /* Who will attend FOSDEM */

== 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 || || || || || [[http://www.OpenGroupware.org OpenGroupware]]
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || x || x || x ||
|-
| Graham Lee || || || || ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || likely || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || x || x || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé - looking forward the developer meeting
|-
| 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 || yes || x || x || x || 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

----

FOSDEM 2008

2008-01-30T21:51:45Z

Rio: /* Who will attend FOSDEM */

== 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 || || || || || [[http://www.OpenGroupware.org OpenGroupware]]
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || x || x || x ||
|-
| Graham Lee || || || || ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || likely || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || x || x || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || 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 || yes || x || x || x || 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

----

FOSDEM 2008

2008-01-24T00:00:54Z

Rio: /* Who will attend FOSDEM */

== 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 || || || || || [[http://www.OpenGroupware.org OpenGroupware]]
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || || || || ||
|-
| Graham Lee || || || || ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || likely || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || possibly || x || x || x || 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 || yes || x || x || x || 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

----

Summer Of Code 2007

2007-03-15T17:33:45Z

Rio: /* Mentors */

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.

== Ideas ==
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. see [https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?16262 bug #16262])
** 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 implemented methods in existing classes and GNUstep-specific extensions. Eventually we should include links to the related documentation on both GNUstep and Cocoa web sites.
*** That is being done here on the wiki, see [[ApplicationKitCompatibility]] [[User:Martin|Martin]] 08:47, 7 March 2007 (CET)

* '''AppKit'''
** 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 (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.
** NSFormatter isn't working very well at this time (Quentin Mathe)

* '''Base'''
** 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 and a backup administrator.

=== Mentors ===

* Adam Fedor (Also main administrator)
* Nicolas Roard

=== Students ===

* Daniel J Farrell
* Fabio Andreoz.

Summer Of Code 2007

2007-03-15T17:33:08Z

Rio: /* Mentors */

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.

== Ideas ==
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. see [https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?16262 bug #16262])
** 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 implemented methods in existing classes and GNUstep-specific extensions. Eventually we should include links to the related documentation on both GNUstep and Cocoa web sites.
*** That is being done here on the wiki, see [[ApplicationKitCompatibility]] [[User:Martin|Martin]] 08:47, 7 March 2007 (CET)

* '''AppKit'''
** 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 (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.
** NSFormatter isn't working very well at this time (Quentin Mathe)

* '''Base'''
** 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 and a backup administrator.

=== Mentors ===

- Adam Fedor (Also main administrator)

- Nicolas Roard

=== Students ===

* Daniel J Farrell
* Fabio Andreoz.

Summer Of Code 2007

2007-03-15T17:32:59Z

Rio: /* Mentors */

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.

== Ideas ==
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. see [https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?16262 bug #16262])
** 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 implemented methods in existing classes and GNUstep-specific extensions. Eventually we should include links to the related documentation on both GNUstep and Cocoa web sites.
*** That is being done here on the wiki, see [[ApplicationKitCompatibility]] [[User:Martin|Martin]] 08:47, 7 March 2007 (CET)

* '''AppKit'''
** 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 (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.
** NSFormatter isn't working very well at this time (Quentin Mathe)

* '''Base'''
** 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 and a backup administrator.

=== Mentors ===

- Adam Fedor (Also main administrator)
- Nicolas Roard

=== Students ===

* Daniel J Farrell
* Fabio Andreoz.

FOSDEM 2007

2007-02-21T13:07:37Z

Rio: /* Who will attend the fosdem */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions - same as last year
* update the plan - one half is GNUstep, the other one is Ogo
* determine final size and number of posters we can place - no posters

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==
Plans for merchanidize have been given up. There may be some Give-Aways (brochures).

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || Sat&Sun || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| tbd || Flatscreen || Gerold Ruprecht || || 1xpower ||
|-
| MacOS X || macbook || Quentin Mathé || || 1xpower ||
|-
| GNU/Linux, WindowsXP, MacOS X || macbook || Richard Frith-Macdonald ||not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa Programming || Anuish, Buck and Yacktman || Fred Kiefer
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd || Reused from last year
|-
|}

== Who will attend the 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || x || x || x ||
|-
| Graham Lee || yes || || x || x ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || yes || || x || x || Sponsor Saturday dinner
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || yes || || x || x || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join. There's usually a saturday dinner too.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || N.N. || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || N.N. || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

The agenda as distributed by FOSDEM is here: http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/opengroupwaregnustep

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || Nicola Pero || GNUstep development tools: GNUstep-make
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Sašo Kiselkov || GNUstep development tools: Project Manager IDE
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || Oliver Langer, Helge Hess || Developer Workshop: What to do with 3rd Party Solutions within the GNUstep Community?
The goal of this workshop is to discuss questions dealing with 3rd party solutions and GNUstep and to summarize the results. At the beginning we may identify projects which seem to reinvent the wheel. Such projects are those implementing add-ons which have been developed before – logging functionality is a good example for this. Also, we may focus projects (re-) implementing GNUstep base functionality, like e.g. mySTEP. Then, having these projects figured out we may elaborate the potential reasons behind.
By starting to identify reasons for “duplicating” code we may shift the discussion to a different perspective and ask ourself, what GNUstep brings to the application programmer? Especially we may work out the requirements of the “typical” GNUstep application programmer. Collecting all information, thus bringing the potential reasons for “duplicated” codes, plus the capabilities of and the requirements for GNUstep altogether, we may then find out approaches for the handling of 3rd party solutions within the GNUstep community.
Since this session is meant as a workshop, the abstract presented hereby should be regarded as a collection of hints and all developers are warmly invited to actively participate in the discussion. The session will be moderated and organized by Helge Hess and Oliver Langer.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Richard Frith-Macdonald || Discussion of base library priorities
|-
| || 10:00 - 11:00 || Oliver Langer || [http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fortytwo FortyTwo] – Towards a Semistructured Database System
Agenda
* About the Project
** Motivation
** Theoretical Background
* Architecture
** Data- and Servicemodel
** Architectural Overview of FortyTwo
* Positioning
** Comparison with other semistructured database systems, with Coredata etc.
* Showtime
** Demonstration
** Current State
* Summary and future Directions

|-
| || 11:00 - 12:00 || Nikolaus Schaller || GNUstep for Embedded Devices e.g. Zaurus or Mobile Phones
The recent announcement of the Apple iPhone which is reported to use Cocoa for the GUI, has again shown that Objective-C and the OpenSTEP system can really be used in embedded devices. Topics to cover in this presentation:
* why does one want to run GNUstep on embededed devices?
* what is different on embedded devices?
* what is needed to develop applications for embedded devices?
* why is it currently run as a separate project (mySTEP)?
* examples: Sharp Zaurus, Acer n30, Nokia N770, OpenMoko, ...
|-
| || 12:00 - 13:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || Helge Hess, Marcus Müller || Open Groupware: OGo / JOPE / SOPE
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || Nicolas Roard (Quentin Mathé) || Étoilé: a Desktop Environment
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Matt Rice (tbc.) || GNUstep Database Library 2
|-
| || 16:00 - 17:00 || Richard Frith-Macdonald. || Discussion of theming integration in the gui
|-
| || 17:00 - 18:00 || tba. || to be announced
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer? - not required
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers - same as last year
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create - none
* Define demonstrations - see above
* Define posters to show and confirmation - same as last year
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them? - not required
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - done: http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations - done

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-02-21T13:06:20Z

Rio: /* Who will attend the fosdem */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions - same as last year
* update the plan - one half is GNUstep, the other one is Ogo
* determine final size and number of posters we can place - no posters

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==
Plans for merchanidize have been given up. There may be some Give-Aways (brochures).

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || Sat&Sun || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| tbd || Flatscreen || Gerold Ruprecht || || 1xpower ||
|-
| MacOS X || macbook || Quentin Mathé || || 1xpower ||
|-
| GNU/Linux, WindowsXP, MacOS X || macbook || Richard Frith-Macdonald ||not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa Programming || Anuish, Buck and Yacktman || Fred Kiefer
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd || Reused from last year
|-
|}

== Who will attend the 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || x || x || x ||
-
| Graham Lee || yes || || x || x ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || yes || || x || x || Sponsor Saturday dinner
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || yes || || x || x || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join. There's usually a saturday dinner too.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || N.N. || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || N.N. || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

The agenda as distributed by FOSDEM is here: http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/opengroupwaregnustep

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || Nicola Pero || GNUstep development tools: GNUstep-make
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Sašo Kiselkov || GNUstep development tools: Project Manager IDE
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || Oliver Langer, Helge Hess || Developer Workshop: What to do with 3rd Party Solutions within the GNUstep Community?
The goal of this workshop is to discuss questions dealing with 3rd party solutions and GNUstep and to summarize the results. At the beginning we may identify projects which seem to reinvent the wheel. Such projects are those implementing add-ons which have been developed before – logging functionality is a good example for this. Also, we may focus projects (re-) implementing GNUstep base functionality, like e.g. mySTEP. Then, having these projects figured out we may elaborate the potential reasons behind.
By starting to identify reasons for “duplicating” code we may shift the discussion to a different perspective and ask ourself, what GNUstep brings to the application programmer? Especially we may work out the requirements of the “typical” GNUstep application programmer. Collecting all information, thus bringing the potential reasons for “duplicated” codes, plus the capabilities of and the requirements for GNUstep altogether, we may then find out approaches for the handling of 3rd party solutions within the GNUstep community.
Since this session is meant as a workshop, the abstract presented hereby should be regarded as a collection of hints and all developers are warmly invited to actively participate in the discussion. The session will be moderated and organized by Helge Hess and Oliver Langer.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Richard Frith-Macdonald || Discussion of base library priorities
|-
| || 10:00 - 11:00 || Oliver Langer || [http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fortytwo FortyTwo] – Towards a Semistructured Database System
Agenda
* About the Project
** Motivation
** Theoretical Background
* Architecture
** Data- and Servicemodel
** Architectural Overview of FortyTwo
* Positioning
** Comparison with other semistructured database systems, with Coredata etc.
* Showtime
** Demonstration
** Current State
* Summary and future Directions

|-
| || 11:00 - 12:00 || Nikolaus Schaller || GNUstep for Embedded Devices e.g. Zaurus or Mobile Phones
The recent announcement of the Apple iPhone which is reported to use Cocoa for the GUI, has again shown that Objective-C and the OpenSTEP system can really be used in embedded devices. Topics to cover in this presentation:
* why does one want to run GNUstep on embededed devices?
* what is different on embedded devices?
* what is needed to develop applications for embedded devices?
* why is it currently run as a separate project (mySTEP)?
* examples: Sharp Zaurus, Acer n30, Nokia N770, OpenMoko, ...
|-
| || 12:00 - 13:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || Helge Hess, Marcus Müller || Open Groupware: OGo / JOPE / SOPE
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || Nicolas Roard (Quentin Mathé) || Étoilé: a Desktop Environment
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Matt Rice (tbc.) || GNUstep Database Library 2
|-
| || 16:00 - 17:00 || Richard Frith-Macdonald. || Discussion of theming integration in the gui
|-
| || 17:00 - 18:00 || tba. || to be announced
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer? - not required
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers - same as last year
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create - none
* Define demonstrations - see above
* Define posters to show and confirmation - same as last year
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them? - not required
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - done: http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations - done

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-02-21T13:06:08Z

Rio: /* Who will attend the fosdem */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions - same as last year
* update the plan - one half is GNUstep, the other one is Ogo
* determine final size and number of posters we can place - no posters

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==
Plans for merchanidize have been given up. There may be some Give-Aways (brochures).

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || Sat&Sun || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| tbd || Flatscreen || Gerold Ruprecht || || 1xpower ||
|-
| MacOS X || macbook || Quentin Mathé || || 1xpower ||
|-
| GNU/Linux, WindowsXP, MacOS X || macbook || Richard Frith-Macdonald ||not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa Programming || Anuish, Buck and Yacktman || Fred Kiefer
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd || Reused from last year
|-
|}

== Who will attend the 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || x || x || x || -
-
| Graham Lee || yes || || x || x ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || yes || || x || x || Sponsor Saturday dinner
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || yes || || x || x || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join. There's usually a saturday dinner too.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || N.N. || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || N.N. || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

The agenda as distributed by FOSDEM is here: http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/opengroupwaregnustep

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || Nicola Pero || GNUstep development tools: GNUstep-make
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Sašo Kiselkov || GNUstep development tools: Project Manager IDE
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || Oliver Langer, Helge Hess || Developer Workshop: What to do with 3rd Party Solutions within the GNUstep Community?
The goal of this workshop is to discuss questions dealing with 3rd party solutions and GNUstep and to summarize the results. At the beginning we may identify projects which seem to reinvent the wheel. Such projects are those implementing add-ons which have been developed before – logging functionality is a good example for this. Also, we may focus projects (re-) implementing GNUstep base functionality, like e.g. mySTEP. Then, having these projects figured out we may elaborate the potential reasons behind.
By starting to identify reasons for “duplicating” code we may shift the discussion to a different perspective and ask ourself, what GNUstep brings to the application programmer? Especially we may work out the requirements of the “typical” GNUstep application programmer. Collecting all information, thus bringing the potential reasons for “duplicated” codes, plus the capabilities of and the requirements for GNUstep altogether, we may then find out approaches for the handling of 3rd party solutions within the GNUstep community.
Since this session is meant as a workshop, the abstract presented hereby should be regarded as a collection of hints and all developers are warmly invited to actively participate in the discussion. The session will be moderated and organized by Helge Hess and Oliver Langer.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Richard Frith-Macdonald || Discussion of base library priorities
|-
| || 10:00 - 11:00 || Oliver Langer || [http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fortytwo FortyTwo] – Towards a Semistructured Database System
Agenda
* About the Project
** Motivation
** Theoretical Background
* Architecture
** Data- and Servicemodel
** Architectural Overview of FortyTwo
* Positioning
** Comparison with other semistructured database systems, with Coredata etc.
* Showtime
** Demonstration
** Current State
* Summary and future Directions

|-
| || 11:00 - 12:00 || Nikolaus Schaller || GNUstep for Embedded Devices e.g. Zaurus or Mobile Phones
The recent announcement of the Apple iPhone which is reported to use Cocoa for the GUI, has again shown that Objective-C and the OpenSTEP system can really be used in embedded devices. Topics to cover in this presentation:
* why does one want to run GNUstep on embededed devices?
* what is different on embedded devices?
* what is needed to develop applications for embedded devices?
* why is it currently run as a separate project (mySTEP)?
* examples: Sharp Zaurus, Acer n30, Nokia N770, OpenMoko, ...
|-
| || 12:00 - 13:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || Helge Hess, Marcus Müller || Open Groupware: OGo / JOPE / SOPE
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || Nicolas Roard (Quentin Mathé) || Étoilé: a Desktop Environment
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Matt Rice (tbc.) || GNUstep Database Library 2
|-
| || 16:00 - 17:00 || Richard Frith-Macdonald. || Discussion of theming integration in the gui
|-
| || 17:00 - 18:00 || tba. || to be announced
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer? - not required
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers - same as last year
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create - none
* Define demonstrations - see above
* Define posters to show and confirmation - same as last year
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them? - not required
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - done: http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations - done

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-02-21T13:05:47Z

Rio: /* Who will attend the meeting */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions - same as last year
* update the plan - one half is GNUstep, the other one is Ogo
* determine final size and number of posters we can place - no posters

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==
Plans for merchanidize have been given up. There may be some Give-Aways (brochures).

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || Sat&Sun || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| tbd || Flatscreen || Gerold Ruprecht || || 1xpower ||
|-
| MacOS X || macbook || Quentin Mathé || || 1xpower ||
|-
| GNU/Linux, WindowsXP, MacOS X || macbook || Richard Frith-Macdonald ||not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa Programming || Anuish, Buck and Yacktman || Fred Kiefer
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd || Reused from last year
|-
|}

== Who will attend the 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || x || x || x || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || no || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Graham Lee || yes || || x || x ||
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || yes || || x || x || Sponsor Saturday dinner
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || yes || || x || x || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join. There's usually a saturday dinner too.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || N.N. || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || N.N. || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

The agenda as distributed by FOSDEM is here: http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/opengroupwaregnustep

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || Nicola Pero || GNUstep development tools: GNUstep-make
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Sašo Kiselkov || GNUstep development tools: Project Manager IDE
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || Oliver Langer, Helge Hess || Developer Workshop: What to do with 3rd Party Solutions within the GNUstep Community?
The goal of this workshop is to discuss questions dealing with 3rd party solutions and GNUstep and to summarize the results. At the beginning we may identify projects which seem to reinvent the wheel. Such projects are those implementing add-ons which have been developed before – logging functionality is a good example for this. Also, we may focus projects (re-) implementing GNUstep base functionality, like e.g. mySTEP. Then, having these projects figured out we may elaborate the potential reasons behind.
By starting to identify reasons for “duplicating” code we may shift the discussion to a different perspective and ask ourself, what GNUstep brings to the application programmer? Especially we may work out the requirements of the “typical” GNUstep application programmer. Collecting all information, thus bringing the potential reasons for “duplicated” codes, plus the capabilities of and the requirements for GNUstep altogether, we may then find out approaches for the handling of 3rd party solutions within the GNUstep community.
Since this session is meant as a workshop, the abstract presented hereby should be regarded as a collection of hints and all developers are warmly invited to actively participate in the discussion. The session will be moderated and organized by Helge Hess and Oliver Langer.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Richard Frith-Macdonald || Discussion of base library priorities
|-
| || 10:00 - 11:00 || Oliver Langer || [http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fortytwo FortyTwo] – Towards a Semistructured Database System
Agenda
* About the Project
** Motivation
** Theoretical Background
* Architecture
** Data- and Servicemodel
** Architectural Overview of FortyTwo
* Positioning
** Comparison with other semistructured database systems, with Coredata etc.
* Showtime
** Demonstration
** Current State
* Summary and future Directions

|-
| || 11:00 - 12:00 || Nikolaus Schaller || GNUstep for Embedded Devices e.g. Zaurus or Mobile Phones
The recent announcement of the Apple iPhone which is reported to use Cocoa for the GUI, has again shown that Objective-C and the OpenSTEP system can really be used in embedded devices. Topics to cover in this presentation:
* why does one want to run GNUstep on embededed devices?
* what is different on embedded devices?
* what is needed to develop applications for embedded devices?
* why is it currently run as a separate project (mySTEP)?
* examples: Sharp Zaurus, Acer n30, Nokia N770, OpenMoko, ...
|-
| || 12:00 - 13:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || Helge Hess, Marcus Müller || Open Groupware: OGo / JOPE / SOPE
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || Nicolas Roard (Quentin Mathé) || Étoilé: a Desktop Environment
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Matt Rice (tbc.) || GNUstep Database Library 2
|-
| || 16:00 - 17:00 || Richard Frith-Macdonald. || Discussion of theming integration in the gui
|-
| || 17:00 - 18:00 || tba. || to be announced
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer? - not required
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers - same as last year
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create - none
* Define demonstrations - see above
* Define posters to show and confirmation - same as last year
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them? - not required
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - done: http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations - done

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-02-18T00:20:52Z

Rio: /* Demos */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions - same as last year
* update the plan - one half is GNUstep, the other one is Ogo
* determine final size and number of posters we can place - no posters

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==
Plans for merchanidize have been given up. There may be some Give-Aways (brochures).

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || Sat&Sun || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| tbd || Flatscreen || Gerold Ruprecht || || 1xpower ||
|-
| MacOS X || macbook || Quentin Mathé || || 1xpower ||
|-
| GNU/Linux, WindowsXP, MacOS X || macbook || Richard Frith-Macdonald ||not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa Programming || Anuish, Buck and Yacktman || Fred Kiefer
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd || Reused from last year
|-
|}

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || x || x || x || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || yes || || x || x || Sponsor Saturday dinner
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || yes || || x || x || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || N.N. || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || N.N. || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

The agenda as distributed by FOSDEM is here: http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/opengroupwaregnustep

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || Nicola Pero || GNUstep development tools: GNUstep-make
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Sašo Kiselkov || GNUstep development tools: Project Manager IDE
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || Oliver Langer, Helge Hess || Developer Workshop: What to do with 3rd Party Solutions within the GNUstep Community?
The goal of this workshop is to discuss questions dealing with 3rd party solutions and GNUstep and to summarize the results. At the beginning we may identify projects which seem to reinvent the wheel. Such projects are those implementing add-ons which have been developed before – logging functionality is a good example for this. Also, we may focus projects (re-) implementing GNUstep base functionality, like e.g. mySTEP. Then, having these projects figured out we may elaborate the potential reasons behind.
By starting to identify reasons for “duplicating” code we may shift the discussion to a different perspective and ask ourself, what GNUstep brings to the application programmer? Especially we may work out the requirements of the “typical” GNUstep application programmer. Collecting all information, thus bringing the potential reasons for “duplicated” codes, plus the capabilities of and the requirements for GNUstep altogether, we may then find out approaches for the handling of 3rd party solutions within the GNUstep community.
Since this session is meant as a workshop, the abstract presented hereby should be regarded as a collection of hints and all developers are warmly invited to actively participate in the discussion. The session will be moderated and organized by Helge Hess and Oliver Langer.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 11:00 || Oliver Langer || [http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fortytwo FortyTwo] – Towards a Semistructured Database System
Agenda
* About the Project
** Motivation
** Theoretical Background
* Architecture
** Data- and Servicemodel
** Architectural Overview of FortyTwo
* Positioning
** Comparison with other semistructured database systems, with Coredata etc.
* Showtime
** Demonstration
** Current State
* Summary and future Directions

|-
| || 11:00 - 12:00 || Nikolaus Schaller || GNUstep for Embedded Devices e.g. Zaurus or Mobile Phones
The recent announcement of the Apple iPhone which is reported to use Cocoa for the GUI, has again shown that Objective-C and the OpenSTEP system can really be used in embedded devices. Topics to cover in this presentation:
* why does one want to run GNUstep on embededed devices?
* what is different on embedded devices?
* what is needed to develop applications for embedded devices?
* why is it currently run as a separate project (mySTEP)?
* examples: Sharp Zaurus, Acer n30, Nokia N770, OpenMoko, ...
|-
| || 12:00 - 13:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || Helge Hess, Marcus Müller || Open Groupware: OGo / JOPE / SOPE
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || Nicolas Roard (Quentin Mathé) || Étoilé: a Desktop Environment
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Matt Rice (tbc.) || GNUstep Database Library 2
|-
| || 16:00 - 17:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| || 17:00 - 18:00 || tba. || to be announced
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer? - not required
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers - same as last year
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create - none
* Define demonstrations - see above
* Define posters to show and confirmation - same as last year
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them? - not required
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - done: http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations - done

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-29T14:25:00Z

Rio: /* Who will attend the meeting */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions - same as last year
* update the plan - one half is GNUstep, the other one is Ogo
* determine final size and number of posters we can place - no posters

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==
Plans for merchanidize have been given up. There may be some Give-Aways (brochures).

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || Sat&Sun || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / Linux || ibook g3 600/384Mb || Nicolas Roard || all the time || 1xpower || not sure I can bring it :-/
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| tbd || Flatscreen || Gerold Ruprecht || || 1xpower ||
|-
| MacOS X || macbook || Quentin Mathé || || 1xpower ||
|-
| GNU/Linux, WindowsXP, MacOS X || macbook || Richard Frith-Macdonald ||not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa Programming || Anuish, Buck and Yacktman || Fred Kiefer
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd || Resued from last year
|-
|}

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || yes || || x || x || Sponsor Saturday dinner
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || N.N. || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || N.N. || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || Nicola Pero || GNUstep development tools: GNUstep-make
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Sašo Kiselkov || GNUstep development tools: Project Manager IDE
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || Oliver Langer, Helge Hess || Developer Workshop: What to do with 3rd Party Solutions within the GNUstep Community?
The goal of this workshop is to discuss questions dealing with 3rd party solutions and GNUstep and to summarize the results. At the beginning we may identify projects which seem to reinvent the wheel. Such projects are those implementing add-ons which have been developed before – logging functionality is a good example for this. Also, we may focus projects (re-) implementing GNUstep base functionality, like e.g. mySTEP. Then, having these projects figured out we may elaborate the potential reasons behind.
By starting to identify reasons for “duplicating” code we may shift the discussion to a different perspective and ask ourself, what GNUstep brings to the application programmer? Especially we may work out the requirements of the “typical” GNUstep application programmer. Collecting all information, thus bringing the potential reasons for “duplicated” codes, plus the capabilities of and the requirements for GNUstep altogether, we may then find out approaches for the handling of 3rd party solutions within the GNUstep community.
Since this session is meant as a workshop, the abstract presented hereby should be regarded as a collection of hints and all developers are warmly invited to actively participate in the discussion. The session will be moderated and organized by Helge Hess and Oliver Langer.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 11:00 || Oliver Langer || [http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fortytwo FortyTwo] – Towards a Semistructured Database System
Agenda
* About the Project
** Motivation
** Theoretical Background
* Architecture
** Data- and Servicemodel
** Architectural Overview of FortyTwo
* Positioning
** Comparison with other semistructured database systems, with Coredata etc.
* Showtime
** Demonstration
** Current State
* Summary and future Directions

|-
| || 11:00 - 12:00 || Nikolaus Schaller || GNUstep for Embedded Devices e.g. Zaurus or Mobile Phones
The recent announcement of the Apple iPhone which is reported to use Cocoa for the GUI, has again shown that Objective-C and the OpenSTEP system can really be used in embedded devices. Topics to cover in this presentation:
* why does one want to run GNUstep on embededed devices?
* what is different on embedded devices?
* what is needed to develop applications for embedded devices?
* why is it currently run as a separate project (mySTEP)?
* examples: Sharp Zaurus, Acer n30, Nokia N770, OpenMoko, ...
|-
| || 12:00 - 13:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || Helge Hess, Marcus Müller || Open Groupware: OGo / JOPE / SOPE
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || Nicolas Roard (Quentin Mathé) || Étoilé: a Desktop Environment
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Matt Rice (tbc.) || GNUstep Database Library 2
|-
| || 16:00 - 17:00 || tba. || to be announced
|-
| || 17:00 - 18:00 || tba. || to be announced
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer? - not required
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers - same as last year
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create - none
* Define demonstrations - see above
* Define posters to show and confirmation - same as last year
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them? - not required
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - done: http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations - done

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-28T01:05:20Z

Rio: /* Demos */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions - same as last year
* update the plan - one half is GNUstep, the other one is Ogo
* determine final size and number of posters we can place - no posters

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==
Plans for merchanidize have been given up. There may be some Give-Aways (brochures).

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / Linux || ibook g3 600/384Mb || Nicolas Roard || all the time || 1xpower || not sure I can bring it :-/
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| tbd || Flatscreen || Gerold Ruprecht || || 1xpower ||
|-
| MacOS X || macbook || Quentin Mathé || || 1xpower ||
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa Programming || Anuish, Buck and Yacktman || Fred Kiefer
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd || Resued from last year
|-
|}

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| David Chisnall || maybe || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Gerold Rupprecht || yes || || x || x || Sponsor Saturday dinner
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || Nicola Pero || GNUstep development tools: GNUstep-make
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Sašo Kiselkov || GNUstep development tools: Project Manager IDE
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || Oliver Langer, Helge Hess || Developer Workshop: What to do with 3rd Party Solutions within the GNUstep Community?
The goal of this workshop is to discuss questions dealing with 3rd party solutions and GNUstep and to summarize the results. At the beginning we may identify projects which seem to reinvent the wheel. Such projects are those implementing add-ons which have been developed before – logging functionality is a good example for this. Also, we may focus projects (re-) implementing GNUstep base functionality, like e.g. mySTEP. Then, having these projects figured out we may elaborate the potential reasons behind.
By starting to identify reasons for “duplicating” code we may shift the discussion to a different perspective and ask ourself, what GNUstep brings to the application programmer? Especially we may work out the requirements of the “typical” GNUstep application programmer. Collecting all information, thus bringing the potential reasons for “duplicated” codes, plus the capabilities of and the requirements for GNUstep altogether, we may then find out approaches for the handling of 3rd party solutions within the GNUstep community.
Since this session is meant as a workshop, the abstract presented hereby should be regarded as a collection of hints and all developers are warmly invited to actively participate in the discussion. The session will be moderated and organized by Helge Hess and Oliver Langer.
|-
| || 18:00 - 19:00 || ||
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 11:00 || Oliver Langer || [http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fortytwo FortyTwo] – Towards a Semistructured Database System
|-
| || 11:00 - 12:00 || Nikolaus Schaller || GNUstep for Embedded Devices e.g. Zaurus or Mobile Phones
The recent announcement of the Apple iPhone which is reported to use Cocoa for the GUI, has again shown that Objective-C and the OpenSTEP system can really be used in embedded devices. Topics to cover in this presentation:
* why does one want to run GNUstep on embededed devices?
* what is different on embedded devices?
* what is needed to develop applications for embedded devices?
* why is it currently run as a separate project (mySTEP)?
* examples: Sharp Zaurus, Acer n30, Nokia N770, OpenMoko, ...
|-
| || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || Helge Hess, Marcus Müller || Open Groupware: OGo / JOPE / SOPE
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || Nicolas Roard (Quentin Mathé) || Étoilé: a Desktop Environment
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || Matt Rice (tbc.) || GNUstep Database Library 2
|-
| || 16:00 - 17:00 || ||
|-
| || 17:00 - 18:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer? - not required
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers - same as last year
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create - none
* Define demonstrations - see above
* Define posters to show and confirmation - same as last year
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them? - not required
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - done: http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations - done

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-26T16:42:33Z

Rio: /* Books to Show */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / Linux || ibook g3 600/384Mb || Nicolas Roard || all the time || 1xpower || not sure I can bring it :-/
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa Programming || Anuish, Buck and Yacktman || Fred Kiefer
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| David Chisnall || maybe || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T16:46:51Z

Rio:

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / Linux || ibook g3 600/384Mb || Nicolas Roard || all the time || 1xpower || not sure I can bring it :-/
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| David Chisnall || maybe || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T16:45:23Z

Rio: /* Demos */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos / Hardware ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / Linux || ibook g3 600/384Mb || Nicolas Roard || all the time || 1xpower || not sure I can bring it :-/
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| David Chisnall || maybe || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T16:42:16Z

Rio: /* Demos */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / Linux || ibook g3 600/384Mb || Nicolas Roard || all the time || 1xpower || not sure I can bring it :-/
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| David Chisnall || maybe || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T16:41:54Z

Rio: /* Demos */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed ||
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / Linux || ibook g3 600/384Mb || Nicolas Roard || all the time || 1xpower || not sure I can bring it :-/
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| David Chisnall || maybe || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T16:41:20Z

Rio: /* Demos */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || all the time || 1xpower || confirmed
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || 1xpower || all the time ||
|-
| GNU/Linux / Windows || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / Linux || ibook g3 600/384Mb || Nicolas Roard || all the time || 1xpower || not sure I can bring it :-/
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || 1xpower || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| David Chisnall || maybe || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T16:39:39Z

Rio: /* Demos */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time ||
|-
| GNU/Linux || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / Linux || ibook g3 600/384Mb || Nicolas Roard || all the time || not sure I can bring it :-/
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz/2Gb || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| David Chisnall || maybe || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T16:38:49Z

Rio: /* Demos */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Availability !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || all the time ||
|-
| GNU/Linux || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || not all the time || personal laptop
|-
| MacOS X / Linux || ibook g3600 || Nicolas Roard || all the time || not sure I can bring it :-/
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz || Nicolas Roard || not all the time || personal laptop
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| David Chisnall || maybe || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T16:37:21Z

Rio: /* Demos */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

Currently available hardware for the demos:

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || 533Mhz/256Mb transmeta laptop || Saso Kiselkov || || could be use all the time
|-
| GNU/Linux || 1.5Ghz laptop || Saso Kiselkov || || personal laptop (not available all the time)
|-
| MacOS X / Linux || ibook g3600 || Nicolas Roard || || not sure I can bring it; if I can, it will be available all the time
|-
| MacOS X / FreeBSD / Linux / Windows || macbook pro 2ghz || Nicolas Roard || || personal laptop (not available all the time)
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| David Chisnall || maybe || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T14:44:52Z

Rio: /* Who will attend the meeting */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| David Chisnall || maybe || || || || Étoilé
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T14:30:31Z

Rio: /* Books to Show */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || Adobe Inc., note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || Nancy Craighill, note: anybody interested ? else I might not take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T14:29:35Z

Rio: /* Books to Show */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || note: anybody interested ? else I won't take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTstep || note: anybody interested ? else I won't take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|-
| OpenStep for Enterprises || note: anybody interested ? else I won't take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T14:24:12Z

Rio: /* Books to Show */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| Cocoa in a nutshell || Michael Beam and James Duncan Davidson || Graham Lee
|-
| Programming in Objective-C || Stephen Kochan || Graham Lee
|-
| Objective-C, précis & Concis (french edition) || Andrew M. Duncan || Nicolas Roard
|-
| Cocoa Programming for MacOS X (1st edition) || Aaron Hillegass || Nicolas Roard
|-
| NeXTSTEP Programming || Simson L. Garfinkel and Michael K. Mahoney || Nicolas Roard
|-
| The NeXT book || Bruce F. Webser || Nicolas Roard
|-
| PostScript Language Reference || note: anybody interested ? else I won't take it :) || Nicolas Roard
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T14:16:40Z

Rio: /* Who will attend the meeting */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| tbd || tbd || tbd
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki (or send a mail to nicolas [at] roard com, I will add you). Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access on the wiki and you want it, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request it.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T14:14:57Z

Rio: /* Who will attend the meeting */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| tbd || tbd || tbd
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki. Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access: "If you want to participate, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request write-access"

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T14:12:07Z

Rio: /* Dev-Room Presentations */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| tbd || tbd || tbd
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 (in alphabetical order of first name) who have confirmed (or denied) that they will be able to join us at the GNUstep meeting at FOSDEM 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki. Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access: "If you want to participate, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request write-access"

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, and will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T14:11:29Z

Rio: /* Dev-Room Presentations */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| tbd || tbd || tbd
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 (in alphabetical order of first name) who have confirmed (or denied) that they will be able to join us at the GNUstep meeting at FOSDEM 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki. Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access: "If you want to participate, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request write-access"

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

The room at out disposal will be AW1.115 (capacity is 31 seats),
- - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00
- - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00

Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00
as university courses are being held in all rooms until then.
For that reason the schedule starts at 14:15, an we'll end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00)

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sun. Feb 25, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T14:05:40Z

Rio: /* Who will attend the meeting */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| tbd || tbd || tbd
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 (in alphabetical order of first name) who have confirmed (or denied) that they will be able to join us at the GNUstep meeting at FOSDEM 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || x || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || x || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki. Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access: "If you want to participate, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request write-access"

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-25T14:04:44Z

Rio: /* Who will attend the meeting */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers - done
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| tbd || tbd || tbd
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 (in alphabetical order of first name) who have confirmed (or denied) that they will be able to join us at the GNUstep meeting at FOSDEM 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Quentin Mathé || yes || || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Nicolas Roard || yes || || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Jesse Ross || yes || || x || x || Étoilé
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki. Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

If you don't have write access: "If you want to participate, you need to create an account and send a mail with your user name to webmasters [AT] gnustep.org to request write-access"

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 14:15 - 15:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices? - there is a hadrware equipment insurance by FOSDEM - BUT ON REGISTRATION ONLY!
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#
* Collect presentations - done partially

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2007-01-18T15:55:48Z

Rio: /* Who will attend the meeting */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Away ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

To-Do:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC with Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC with BSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC with Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Mac OS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| tbd || tbd || tbd
|}

== Posters ==

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner || 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| [[Gorm]] || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* setting a deadline,
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who will attend the meeting ==

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting 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 (in alphabetical order of first name) who have confirmed (or denied) that they will be able to join us at the GNUstep meeting at FOSDEM 2007:

{| border="1"
! Name
! Presence
! Friday
! Saturday
! Sunday
! Special comments
|-
| Helge Hess || yes || || || || OpenGroupware.org
|-
| Lars S.-Helldorf || yes || || || || -
|-
| Nicola Pero || yes || || || || GNUstep-make
|-
| Saso Kiselkov || yes || || x || x || ProjectManager
|-
| Nikolaus Schaller || yes || || x || x || mySTEP
|-
| Richard Frith-Macdonald || yes || || || || GNUstep-base
|-
| Gürkan Sengün || hopefully || || || || http://livecd.gnustep.org
|}

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki. Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fall-back
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| So. Feb 25, 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Set-up by all responsible || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Dev-Room Presentations ==

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 13:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep (should be made part of the general FOSDEM presentation track!)
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 17:00 || ||
|-
| || 17:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sa. Feb 24, 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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)

== Questions / To-Do List ==

* How to secure valuable devices?
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Dev-Room - done
* Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
* Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
* Define demonstrations
* Define posters to show and confirmation
* Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
* Post a ''Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers''' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec by Sašo Kiselkov]

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even re-released last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

FOSDEM 2007

2006-12-14T22:20:34Z

Rio: /* Devroom Presentations */

== Stand Overview ==
From the Front:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_FRONT.png|350px]]

From Top:

[[Image:FOSDEM_2007_TOP.png|350px]]

ToDo:
* request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers
* find out exact dimensions
* update the plan
* determine final size and number of posters we can place

== Merchandise and Give-Aways ==

{| border="1"
! Merchandise !! Price !! Number !! Responsible !! Comment
|-
| T-Shirt || x EUR || 20 L, 20 XL || tbd || what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
|-
| Mouse Pad || x EUR || tbd|| tbd || what is a fair price?
|-
| [[GNUstep Live CD|Live CD]] [http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform:Other#LiveCD_for_Intel Photo] || 5 EUR || 100? || tbd || which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
|-
| GNUstep stickers || free || 1000 || tbd || tbd
|-
| GNUstep brochure || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|-
| GNUstep booklet || free || 200? || tbd || see download on [[Introduction_to_GNUstep]]
|}

ToDo:
* We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
* We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

== Demos ==

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some
eyes at the booth.

{| border="1"
! System !! Device !! Responsible !! Requirements !! Comments
|-
| GNU/Linux || PC wih Linux || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| BSD || PC wih xBSD || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Windows|| PC wih Windows || tbd || space for PC+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| MacOS X || Mac mini ? || tbd || space for Mac+Screen || 2xpower, Kensington locker
|-
| Linux PDA || Sharp Zaurus || N. Schaller || space for device, 1xpower outlet || confirmed
|}

== Books to Show ==

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

{| border="1"
! Title !! Author !! Responsible
|-
| tbd || tbd || tbd
|}

== Posters ==

Posters shoud have size DIN A0 in color.

{| border="1"
! Topic !! Size !! Responsible !! Comments
|-
| GNUstep banner|| 2m x 30cm? || tbd ||
|-
| GORM|| DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| Cross Platform Development || DIN A0 || tbd ||
|-
| embedded GNUstep (mySTEP) || DIN A0 || N. Schaller || confirmed
|-
| ... || DIN A0 || tbd || please propose!
|}
Someone should take care of
* setting a deadline,
* collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
* have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

== Who is at the booth ==
We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fallback if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! First Name !! Second Name || Fallback
|-
| Sa 24 Feb 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || setup by all responsibles || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|-
| Su 25 Feb 2007 || 09:00 - 10:00 || Setup by all responsibles || ||
|-
| || 10:00 - 12:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 12:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 14:00 - 16:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 16:00 - 18:00 || N.N. || N.N. || N.N.
|-
| || 18:00 - 18:30 || tear down || ||
|}

== Devroom Presentations ==

{| border="1"
! Day !! Time Slot !! Author !! Title
|-
| Sa 24 Feb 2007 || 13:00 - 14:00 || N.N. || History and Future of GNUstep (should be made part of the general FOSDEM presentation track!)
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|-
| || 16:00 - 17:00 || ||
|-
| || 17:00 - 18:00 || moderator? || GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
|-
| Sa 24 Feb 2007 || 12:00 - 13:00 || ||
|-
| || 13:00 - 14:00 || ||
|-
| || 14:00 - 15:00 || ||
|-
| || 15:00 - 16:00 || ||
|}

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

== Questions / ToDo List ==

* How to Secure valuable devices?
* How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
* Request a Devroom
* Request additional Presentation to the main audience
* Clarify Size of Booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
* Clarify number and price of Merchandize to create
* Define Demos
* Define Posters to show and confirmation
* who collects Poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
* Define Presentations and get Presenter's confirmations
* post a Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss

== Organizing Committee ==

* A. Fedor
* H. Hess
* N. Roard
* N. Schaller
* volunteers welcome!

== Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in) ==

=== Few ideas ===
* http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_thread/thread/9580d4fb865bfa4c/f6edba0f74411dec?q=fosdem&rnum=1#f6edba0f74411dec

=== Extract ===
* use Live CD - even rereleased last version
* Perhaps some GNUstep merchandize, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads,
GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could so easily afford these yet.
Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to
around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
* perform a [Survey]

=== Portability demonstration ===

Use several machines side-by side with:
* GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
* some Apple hardware for showing that the same apps can run on GNUstep and OSX
* some Linux machine
* some BSD machine
* some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
* some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk

Summer Of Code 2006

2006-04-19T13:35:52Z

Rio: /* Note */

== 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 open source programs or to help currently established projects. It would be an excellent opportunity for GNUstep to fund some developments.

Here is some ideas:

- Improve the Printing Support (better postcript generation, etc.)

- Bindings, KVO support

- Improve the Cairo backend

- Improve Windows support

- Improve GNUstepWeb (add script language support, etc)

- Finish input server [http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/libs/gui/branches/kazunobu_input_management/ support]

- Port WebCore to GNUstep using gcc4.1

- Compare current API with Tiger API, indicates which are missing, and the status of the existing ones, then work to complete them... ;)

Feel free to add other ideas !

== Note ==

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

=== Mentors ===

none ?

=== Students ===

Nicolas Roard