European GNUstep Developer's Meeting

1st. "AlpenStep" / GNUstep EDM: What it is about

During FOSDEM 2007 it was felt that we need a separate GNUstep developer's meeting so that we all have the time to go through ideas, discuss, present, decide, plan future aspects without being in three places at the same time.

A thread started on the discussion list http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/852d2f0686d1e64e/cf6d877685630896 shows a lot of interest in such a meeting.

So, let's make nails with heads and have GSFun, GSHack and maybe GSHike!

GSLocation

to be defined

Candidates

St-Gervais les Bains (Bettex) - chalet up to 12 persons
near Bergamo - location to be defined by requirements
Sarentino - to be verified
Freiburg area
Switzerland (Emmental?)
Switzerland CH-1923 Les Marécottes

Cost

We hope that we can keep accomodation cost low.

To reduce travel cost, we can try to do car sharing.

GSSponsors

A lot of sponsorship for accommodation support for students and other participants who have demand would be very welcome!

GSTimeInterval

Weekend in September

something like Sat 15:00 - Sun 15:00

like 31 August / 1 September (Saturday) / 2 September (Sunday)

GSParticipants

Everybody who thinks he/she can contribute to the development of GNUstep is welcome!

Note: development is more than coding - it includes bug reporting, documentation, etc.

Interest indicated

(Please add yourself or write a note to gnustep.discuss)

Fred Kiefer
Gerold Rupprecht
Gürkan Sengün
Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
M J Ray
Nicolas Roard
Nikolaus Schaller
Quentin Mathé
Riccardo Mottola
Richard Frith-Macdonald - interested, but most probably not
Roland Schwingel
Sašo Kiselkov

GSAgenda

to be finalized

Welcome
Collection of Topics to discuss and fix the GSAgenda based on wishes from the GSRealParticipants
Planning for FOSDEM 2008
Demonstrations, Talks, Discussions, Fun
Decisions

Topics from the mail discussion:

how to make/plan/verify new releases
news on Cairo backend
SimpleWebKit status, issues, missing parts in GNUstep Base and GUI
Etoile
how to attract new developers and users?
organization for FOSDEM 2008 + participation in other OSS / Linux events?
how to handle ObjC-2.0 and new features of OS X 10.5?
GAP
Hacking session(s)

If the selected location permits: private extension of the stay for e.g. hiking tours...