FOSDEM 2007

Stand Overview

From the Front:

File:FOSDEM 2007 FRONT.png

From Top:

File:FOSDEM 2007 TOP.png

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).

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?
Live CD 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:

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.

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

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:

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!

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)

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	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

• 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