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Re: [FOSDEM-Devrooms] GNUstep/Étoilé/GAP/QuantumSTEP joint application f
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David Chisnall |
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Re: [FOSDEM-Devrooms] GNUstep/Étoilé/GAP/QuantumSTEP joint application for a Devroom at FOSDEM 2013 |
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Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:50:53 +0100 |
I plan on attending FOSDEM for the BSD DevRoom and hopefully to give a talk
about our new CPU. I wouldn't mind doing the arrive on Thursday, have a nice
dinner, and hack on Friday thing again this year if other people are around...
David
On 22 Oct 2012, at 10:47, Quentin Mathé wrote:
> Hello Lars,
>
> I'd be in favor of just meeting informally. We could ask the FOSDEM
> organizers to get a small GNUstep room just for hacking…
>
> Cheers,
> Quentin.
>
> Le 22 oct. 2012 à 00:26, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf a écrit :
>
>> Bad news: no FOSDEM devroom next year. Now we have to decide if we want to
>> try to apply for a stand or if we do nothing next year but meet informally
>> at FOSDEM.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Lars
>>
>> Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
>>
>>> Von: Mark Van den Borre <mark@markvdb.be>
>>> Datum: 21. Oktober 2012 21:23:57 MESZ
>>> An: Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de>
>>> Betreff: Re: [FOSDEM-Devrooms] GNUstep/Étoilé/GAP/QuantumSTEP joint
>>> application for a Devroom at FOSDEM 2013
>>>
>>> Hi Lars,
>>>
>>> I'm sorry to inform you that we declined your devroom proposal.
>>>
>>> To clarify, your request was perfectly valid, but we had to choose.
>>> Unfortunately we do not have a sufficient number of rooms at our disposal
>>> to cover all requests.
>>>
>>> Nevertheless, there are other ways to participate in FOSDEM too. A call for
>>> participation will be announced around next week, with opportunities to:
>>> - have a stand at FOSDEM,
>>> - hold a 15 minute 'lightningtalk' in one of the biggest rooms,
>>> - speak in one of the other devrooms.
>>>
>>> On behalf of the FOSDEM devroom team,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> Op 25-09-12 23:31, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf schreef:
>>>> * Devroom name:
>>>>
>>>> World of GNUstep - a collaboration of open Objective-C based projects
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * Description:
>>>>
>>>> participating projects:
>>>>
>>>> - GNUstep
>>>>
>>>> GNUstep is a free, object-oriented, cross-platform framework
>>>> and development environment which aims at Cocoa (formerly OpenStep) API
>>>> compatibility and is written in Objective-C.
>>>> GNUstep provides a robust implementation of the AppKit and
>>>> Foundation libraries as well as the development tools available on Cocoa,
>>>> including Gorm (the InterfaceBuilder) and ProjectCenter
>>>> (ProjectBuilder/Xcode). GNUstep currently supports Unix (GNU/Linux and
>>>> GNU/HURD, Solaris, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin) and Windows.
>>>>
>>>> - Étoilé
>>>>
>>>> Étoilé is an innovative GNUstep based user environment designed
>>>> from the ground up around the things people do with computers: create,
>>>> collaborate, and learn.
>>>> Without implementation details like files and operating-system
>>>> processes polluting the computer's UI, Étoilé users will be able to:
>>>>
>>>> * have revision history for all objects in the system
>>>> * collaborate with other people on any type of document (text,
>>>> drawing, code, etc.)
>>>> * shape their own workflow by combining the provided Services
>>>> * use a system that is closer to their mental model of how
>>>> computers should work
>>>>
>>>> - GAP - the GNUstep Application Project
>>>>
>>>> The GNUstep Application Project provides a comprehensive set of
>>>> administration and user level tools to make using GNUstep based
>>>> environments a very pleasant experience. Part of the charter of this
>>>> project is not only to write new tools, but also to port existing
>>>> NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Cocoa applications to GNUstep as well.
>>>>
>>>> - QuantumSTEP / mySTEP
>>>>
>>>> QuantumSTEP is a Mac-like Application Platform that can be
>>>> installed on existing mobile Linux devices (several Openmoko devices,
>>>> Zaurus, Letux, ...) aiming at highest level of useage, data and
>>>> application source code compatibility (to the Macintosh platform) prepared
>>>> for perfect data exchange and sync.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> goals:
>>>>
>>>> - teach interested developers how to write cross platform applications
>>>> or port Cocoa applications to Linux BSD and Windows using GNUstep
>>>> - share news about the latest development and plans on GNUstep
>>>> - improve collaboration between the several GNUstep related projects
>>>> - using GNUstep to write applications for mobile devices ((e.g. the new
>>>> Openmoko GTA04, older Openmoko devices, Beagleboard)
>>>> - code sprints, hacking, discussing
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * Project URLs:
>>>>
>>>> http://gnustep.org/
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUstep
>>>>
>>>> http://etoileos.com/
>>>>
>>>> http://gap.nongnu.org/
>>>>
>>>> http://www.quantum-step.com/wiki.php?page=About
>>>> http://projects.goldelico.com/p/mySTEP/
>>>> http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * name of the responsible:
>>>>
>>>> Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
>>>>
>>>> * email:
>>>>
>>>> lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de
>>>>
>>>> * relation to the topic:
>>>>
>>>> Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf is a community manager for GNUstep
>>>>
>>>> * Preferred day:
>>>>
>>>> [x] Saturday from 12:00 to 18:00
>>>>
>>>> * Why should FOSDEM accept this proposal?:
>>>>
>>>> With the ongoing success of Apple's iOS devices interest in programming
>>>> for those has grown huge. To a part this is reflected by how Objective-C,
>>>> the principal language of GNUstep, has become one of the fastest growing
>>>> programming languages according to
>>>> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>>>>
>>>> What currently still is missing is an free and open source
>>>> implementation of all of iOS' APIs. Here GNUstep comes into the game.
>>>>
>>>> GNUstep here has the pivotal role of offering a free implementation of
>>>> the Objective-C de-facto standard frameworks "Foundation" (part of Apple's
>>>> Cocoa and iOS' APIs) and "AppKit" (part of Apple's Cocoa). It enables
>>>> thereby free and open source application and framework development while
>>>> maintaining compatibility to recognized industrial solutions.
>>>>
>>>> GNUstep continues to support modern Cocoa features, including
>>>> Objective-C 2.0 with the aid of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime, which
>>>> supports a number of features not found in the Apple implementation.
>>>>
>>>> GNUstep is a good match for FOSDEM since the target audience of GNUstep
>>>> is developers who want to develop cross platform (Unix, Windows, Mac) GUI
>>>> or server side applications or command line tools using state of the art
>>>> object oriented Frameworks.
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>>>
>>
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