Re: Fwd: World-Wide (ish) NeXT Meetups
Re: Fwd: World-Wide (ish) NeXT Meetups
- Subject: Re: Fwd: World-Wide (ish) NeXT Meetups
- From: Graham J Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 03:25:47 +0100
- Organization: University of Oxford Department of Redundancy Department
[top-post and full-quottle deliberate, as some of you have yet to read
any of this discussion]
Hi all,
Yep, the below seems to be going ahead, room permitting, in Oxford on
the Tuesday 19th October (being as it is the 10th anniversary of
GNUstep). The event will be a conference regarding "OpenStep, ten
years on" and will (hopefully) feature speakers from GNUstep, Cocoa,
Darwin and related projects. The title is provisionally "OpenStep
'04". So, consider this an advance warning ;-).
I'm looking for speakers who can talk for 30-60 minutes on any of
Cocoa, Darwin or OpenStep, what they're currently doing in said field,
how they're using the technology and where they see it going.
However, until I've confirmed the venue there's nothing official so
don't mail me yet! I'm going to try and organise some space in Oxford
Uni for the anniversary date, and when I have then a Call For Speakers
will go out to the current lists (as well as gnustep's discuss list).
Please think about whether you would be able to contribute to the
event, so that when the time comes around I can quickly fill the
timetable. Having discussed with the University Media Productions
Unit, as well as with the FSF pursestring-holders, it's more than
likely that OpenStep '04 will be recorded for posterity. Which is
nice. It would be great to get people from many spheres of interest
(*<HINT>* ESPECIALLY APPLE *</HINT>*) :-).
I hope to see many of you at the Oxford event, as I'm always
interested to meet fellow NeXTies and hopefully you are all as excited
as I am. If you can't get to Oxford for geographical reasons, I urge
you to hold a more local meeting; we (GNUstep) will create a website
with reports/pictures from as many as possible. On the weekend of
2004-10-1[67], GNUstep will be holding a developer event in Oxford, so
that we have something innovative to bring to the OpenStep conference.
We urge you to set that weekend aside for OpenStep-esque development.
Other developer events are being held in the French Alps (Alpenstep,
curses) and the U.S.A.; if you're interested in attending either then
please subscribe to the GNUstep-discuss mailing list at
email@hidden?subject=help.
Yours,
Graham Lee.
Convenor, OpenStep '04.
On 2004-06-03 17:32:10 +0100 Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
<email@hidden> wrote:
I think some of you might be interested in this and the follow ups
which can
be read here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2004-05/
threads.html#00214
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
Von: Graham J Lee <email@hidden>
Datum: So, 30. Mai 2004 06:52:06 Europe/Berlin
An: email@hidden
Betreff: World-Wide (ish) NeXT Meetups
This is a *very* geeky thought, but it strikes me that 2004-10-19 is
the
tenth anniversary of the OpenStep specification being published,
and in my
book that's as good an excuse for a party as any. Unfortunately,
2004-10-19 is also a Tuesday; however may I recommend that
GNUstep/NeXTSTEP people from all over the world arrange to have
parties on
the weekend of October 16/17? I for one would like to meet some of
you,
discuss GNUstep, OS X, NeXT, reminisce about computers gone by and
also
have a lot of fun.
So, how does it sound? I'd appreciate any feedback. Number of
people
interested, locations of people, willingness to travel, what you'd
like to
do; and most important of all willingness to arrange meet-ups!
It's
unfeasible that everyone could get to one meeting but if we can
arrange
parties in a number of suitably-spaced locations then we'll still
have a
world-wide spirit; handy when considering the world-wide web came
from
NeXTSTEP! ;-)
I myself will definitely organise something in Oxford,
England...what we
do depends on what people want to do, but I can definitely promise
at
least one real black slab for those who have never seen one to play
around, compare it with GNUstep/Cocoa, and see what we're all
fussing
about. And whatever people want to do, I'm sure we can find a way
to do
it in Oxford (or at least jump on a bus to London, for more
adventurous
activities....).
OK, so the date was a bit of a cheesy tie-in, but the idea's real.
Meeting other *steppers, sharing information, shaking the hand of
that
person you've been chatting to for the last few years on the mailing
list,
they're all worthy goals, no? Let me know what you think.
Cheers,
Graham.
--
Graham Lee
Wadham College
OX1 3PN
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