FOSDEM 2010

FOSDEM 2010 Announcement

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:

Name	Presence	Friday 5. Feb	Saturday 6. Feb	Sunday 7. Feb	Special comments / topics
Lars S.-Helldorf	Yes	likely	Yes	Yes
Nicola Pero	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Nicolas Roard	likely	likely	likely	likely
Gerold Rupprecht	likely	likely	likely	likely
Nikolaus Schaller	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	mySTEP (embedded), Simple Web Kit
Fred Kiefer	likely	likely	likely	likely
Richard Frith-Macdonald	Yes	maybe	Yes	Yes	GNUstep-base, server software
Riccardo Mottola	likely	maybe	likely	likely
David Chisnall	likely	maybe	likely	likely	Etoile,libobjc,base
Quentin Mathé	likely	likely	likely	likely	Étoilé
Gürkan Sengün	No	No	No	No	http://livecd.gnustep.org/
Sebastian Reitenbach	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	OpenGroupware port to GNUstep

Dev-Room Presentations and Events

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

Call for participation

We are looking for people who want to give a talk, moderate a discussion, hold a hand ons (practice) / hacking session or organize a code sprint. Please send your proposals to GNUstep discussion list, the organizers mentioned above or - if you've got a wiki account - enter them right here. At first a title, a short summary, proposed duration and a preffered time slot would do, so we can start scheduling as soon as possible.

deadline for filing is Sunday 2010-01-03, deadline for the papers is Sunday 2010-01-10

Note: The FOSDEM organizers strongly recommend a granularity of 15 minute blocks. So if a talk is just 15 (lightning talk), 30 or 45 minutes long - fine! But we should have 15 minutes breaks between the talks so that the visitors have enough time to find a seat and the presenters have enough time to get ready.

List of submitted talk/discussion/session proposals

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

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

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

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

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

Schedule

Day	Time Slot	Author	Title	Slides
Sunday
Sun. Feb 07, 2009	09:00 - ??:??	t.b.d.	t.b.d	t.b.d.
Sun. Feb 07, 2009	11:00 - 11:45	Richard Frith-Macdonald	Developing 24x7 enterprise server applications in Objective-C	t.b.d.
Sun. Feb 07, 2009	??:?? - ??:??	t.b.d.	t.b.d	t.b.d.
Sun. Feb 07, 2009	??:?? - 17:00	t.b.d.	t.b.d	t.b.d.

Suggested Hotels

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

Louise Hotel

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

Argus Hotel Brussels (Belguim) (good experiences from last year)

• 6, Rue Capitaine Crespel
• B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgique
• Tel +32 2 514 07 70
• Fax +32 2 514 12 22
• reception@hotel-argus.be
• Rate: 65/night - but you have to ask for the 'GNUstep/FOSDEM' discount
• has free Internet ;-)

Normal prices are here:

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

but there are discounts available:

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

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

Some people booked that hotel: Nicolas, Marcus, Helge ,Lars.

Sun Hotel in Brussels (Belguim) (not recommended)

• Rue du Berger, 38
• 1050 Brussels (near Porte de Namur)
• Tel : +32(0)2 511 21 19
• Fax : +32(0)2 512 32 71
• sunhotel@skynet.be
• www.hotels-belgium.com/brussel-al/sunhotel.htm

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

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

Hotel Sabina in Brussels (Belgium)

• Rue du Nord 78
• B-1000 Brussels
• Tel: (32)2 218 26 37
• Fax: (32)2 219 32 39

(very good rating by visitors) 63 EUR/Single with breakfast 8 single only + 16 double rooms 4,2km distance

Hotel Mozart in Bruxelles (Belgium)

• Rue Marché aux Fromages 23
• B-1000 Brussels
• Tel +32 2 502 66 61
• Fax +32 2 502 77 58
• Email Hotel.mozart@skynet.be

http://www.hotels-belgium.com/brussel-center/mozart.htm

70 EUR/Single room NO breakfast WLAN

51 rooms total 4,2km distance

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

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