Re: GNU devroom at FOSDEM 2011

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU devroom at FOSDEM 2011
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:21:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70D9A290-AC68-4A64-81A1-0A2793D446D9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4ib6vhl.fsf@gnu.org>

Hi everyone,

I will be at the meeting on Saturday, and I hope to meet some of you!
If you have an org-mode T-Shirt - I think it would be fun to wear
it - I will.

Most of all, I will be very pleased to finally meet Bastien in person.

- Carsten

On Jan 11, 2011, at 9:22 PM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:

>
> Hi.
>
> Since Bastien is going to make a (quite interesting!) talk in the GNU
> devroom, I am sending you the full information about the devroom,
> including the schedule.
>
>
>                      GNU devroom at FOSDEM 2011
>                      ==========================
>
>
> Hacking GNU at FOSDEM.
>
> The Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting
> (FOSDEM) is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the
> widespread use of Free and Open Source software.
>
> This year the GNU Project will be present with a development room.
> The goal of the devroom is to promote discussion on the advancement of
> the GNU coding standards and maintainers guidelines as well as the
> packages implementing them, and strengthen the community of
> maintainers and developers.
>
> If you plan to join us at FOSDEM please tell us at fosdem2011@gnu.org.
>
> Date and Location
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>  *Date:* Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2011.
>
>  *GNU devroom date:* Saturday 5th February from 13:00 to 19:00
>
>  *Location:* Brussels (Belgium)
>
> Who's coming
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>  Registrations:
>
>  - Jose E. Marchesi (GNU PDF, GNU recutils, GNU Ferret).
>  - Karsten Gerloff (FSFE).
>  - Brian Gough (GNU Scientific Library).
>  - Simon Josefsson (SASL, Libidn, GSS, Shishi, GnuTLS).
>  - Andy Wingo (Guile).
>  - Ralf Wildenhues (GCC, Libtool, Autoconf).
>  - Ole Tange (GNU Parallel).
>  - Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva. TBC.
>  - Aleksander Morgado (GNU PDF).
>  - Bastien Guerry (org-mode).
>  - Giuseppe Scrivano (GNU myserver, Gnuzilla, wget).
>  - Matthias Kirschner (FSFE).
>  - Henrik Sandklef (GNU xnee).
>  - Luca Saiou (GNU epsilon).
>
>  TBC = to be confirmed
>
> Schedule
> ~~~~~~~~~
>
>  This is the schedule for the GNU devroom.  Please see below for more
>  information about the talks and the speakers.
>
>      Time   Duration   Speaker              Title
>    -------+----------+-------------------- 
> +------------------------------------------------------------------
>     13:00   40 min     Bastien Guerry       Org-mode for Emacs :  
> your life in plain text.
>     14:00   40 min     Andy Wingo           Dynamic hacking with  
> Guile.
>     15:00   30 min     Ole Tange            GNU Parallel - the  
> command line power tool.
>     15:40   30 min     Ralf Wildenhues      GNU Autotools.
>     16:20   30 min     Simon Josefsson      GNU Network Security  
> Labyrinth.
>     17:00   30 min     Karsten Gerloff      Power, Freedom, Software.
>     17:40   30 min     Matthias Kirschner   Non-free software  
> advertisement -- presented by your government.
>     18:20   30 min     Jose E. Marchesi     GNU recutils: your data  
> in plain text.
>
> The talks
> ~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Org-mode for Emacs: your life in plain text
> ============================================
>
>   By Bastien Guerry.
>
>   Org-mode is an Emacs mode for keeping notes, maintaining TODO
>   lists, doing project planning and authoring with a fast and
>   effective plain-text system.
>
>   In this talk, I'll go through existing core features (the
>   organizer, the exporters, the Babel library) and present examples
>   of real use.  I will also list possible contributions (exporters,
>   libraries to interact with online organizers, bug tracking tools,
>   etc.) and mention hard problems to solve, the hardest one being to
>   make Org suitable for collaborative project planning.
>
>   Finally, I'll give an overview of Org's history and community, with
>   some ideas on how to sustain this great project.
>
> Dynamic hacking with Guile
> ===========================
>
>   By Andy Wingo.
>
>   I'll start by giving my standard propaganda schtick about guile,
>   and how it can make hacking GNU more like hacking lisp
>   machines. I'll go on like that for about 15 minutes.
>
>   In the latter 15 minutes I'll do some live hacking. I think what
>   I'd like to show would be live-hacking a web application through
>   emacs and geiser, in which I show what it's like to hack on a
>   running application, what it's like to hack the web in sxml, how to
>   make new bindings to C functions without restarting the process,
>   things like that.
>
> GNU Parallel - the command line power tool
> ===========================================
>
>   By Ole Tange.
>
>   Demo of what you can do with GNU Parallel - loosely based on
>   [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ]
>
> GNU Autotools
> ==============
>
>   By Ralf Wildenhues.
>
>   The GNU Autotools provide a source code build system portable to
>   various different environments.  This talk reviews some of the
>   recent developments and highlights a few tips and tricks for users.
>
> GNU Network Security Labyrinth
> ===============================
>
>   By Simon Josefsson.
>
>   I will talk about the network application security technologies
>   SASL, Kerberos, GSS-API and TLS on a general level.  I'll give an
>   overview of the GNU implementations of these protocols.  Focus will
>   be on how the protocols and implementations interact with each
>   other, and how you as application writer can use them.
>
> Power, Freedom, Software. Why we need to divide and re-conquer our  
> systems
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> = 
> ======================================================================
>
>   By Karsten Gerloff.
>
>   The GNU project to create a Free Software operating system has been
>   a resounding success, giving millions of people around the world
>   the freedom to use, study, share and improve the programs on their
>   computers. "Cloud computing" and software as a service present new
>   challenges for the Free Software movement. As more people every day
>   use computers controlled by someone else, how do we win back our
>   freedom? How do we translate the ideals behind the GNU project into
>   this changing world?
>
>   Instead of giving all the answers, the goal of this talk is to get
>   you asking the right questions.
>
> Non-free software advertisement -- presented by your government
> ================================================================
>
>   By Matthias Kirschner.
>
>   What would you think about a sign on the highway saying “You need a
>   Volkswagen to drive on this road. Contact your Volkswagen dealer
>   for a gratis test drive – Your Government”? When it comes to
>   software that opens PDF files, many public sector organisations do
>   this every day.
>
>   With the pdfreaders.org campaign FSFE has turned the spotlight on
>   government organisations who behave in this way, exposing how
>   frequent such advertisements for non-free software are. With the
>   help of activists across Europe, FSFE contacted these organisations
>   and explained them how to improve their websites so that they
>   respect our freedom.
>
>   Why did FSFE choose this topic? How was the campaign organised?
>   What has the Belgium's Prime Minister or the German Federal
>   Criminal Police Office replied to our letters? How successful was
>   the campaign?
>
> GNU recutils: your data in plain text
> ======================================
>
>   By Jose E. Marchesi.
>
>   GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access
>   human-editable, text-based databases called recfiles.  The data is
>   stored as a sequence of records, each record containing an
>   arbitrary number of named fields.
>
>   The talk will introduce the rec format and how can it be used to
>   store medium sized databases with data integrity.  A little demo
>   will follow showing the recutils in action.
>
> The speakers
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Bastien Guerry
> ===============
>
>   I'm the employee of the french Wikimedia chapter[1].  I've been
>   involved in the free software movement for the last ten years, and
>   I co-founded OLPC France[2] back in 2008.  My background education
>   is in philosophy and cognitive sciences.
>
>   After a few years of contribution to Org-mode, Carsten Dominik
>   invited me to take over maintainance.
>
>   [1] [http://www.wikimedia.fr]
>   [2] [http://olpc-france.org]
>
> Karsten Gerloff
> ================
>
>   Karsten Gerloff is a Free Software activist and analyst.  As FSFE's
>   President since June 2009, he leads FSFE's strategy development and
>   execution, as well as the organisation's policy work at the
>   European institutions and the United Nations. He focuses on topics
>   such as Free Software, Open Standards, copyright, patents and
>   competition policy. His central interest is in all aspects of the
>   question of how we as a society manage our knowledge and
>   communication.
>
> Jose E. Marchesi
> =================
>
>   Jose E. Marchesi is a long-term GNU activist. In 1999, he founded
>   GNU Spain, and he later assisted in the creation of GNU Italy and
>   GNU Mexico. His experience in GNU software maintainership cover GNU
>   gv (up to 2007), GNU Ghostscript (up to 2006), GNU Ferret, GNU PDF
>   and GNU recutils. He also performs what he calls "random works" in
>   the GNU Project, such as writing internal code and editing Web
>   pages as needed. He develop his professional work in the Space
>   sector, writing software for the European Space Agency.
>
> Simon Josefsson
> ================
>
>   Simon Josefsson is the GNU maintainer of SASL, Libidn, GSS, Shishi
>   and GnuTLS.
>
> Andy Wingo
> ===========
>
>   Andy Wingo is the co-maintainer of GNU Guile, the Scheme
>   interpreter.
>
> Ralf Wildenhues
> ================
>
>   Ralf Wildenhues is a scientific computing math PhD student who got
>   fed up writing dependency tracking rules in makefiles portable to
>   several systems and compilers, and ended up co-maintaining
>   Automake, Libtool, and the GCC build system.
>
> Ole Tange
> ==========
>
>   Ole Tange has worked as Hostmaster for .dk, as a security
>   consultant, as network admin, as site reliablility engineer, as
>   developer and is now working as a bioinformatician. He has worked
>   with UNIX since 1991, GNU/Linux since 1992, and in 1996 he deleted
>   his Microsoft Windows partition. His phone has been running free
>   software since 2008. He has done lots of presentations on security,
>   Free Software, and IT political issues (such as software patents) –
>   both for the general public and to polticians. He is best know as
>   the person behind the original "The Patented Webshop"
>   ([http://ole.tange.dk/swpat]) illustrating software patents in a
>   typical webshop.
>
> Matthias Kirschner
> ===================
>
>   Matthias is FSFE's Fellowship Coordinator and the Coordinator of
>   the German team. After being FSFE's first intern in 2004, he
>   continued to work for FSFE as a volunteer. In 2009 he finished his
>   diploma thesis on "IT coordination in the Superior Federal
>   Administration", and started working full time for FSFE. Amoungst
>   other policy work, Matthias is or was in charge the "I love Free
>   Software"
>   [http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/valentine-2010/ 
> valentine-2010.en.html]
>   campaign, the "Ask your candidates" campaign
>   [http://www.fsfe.org/projects/btw09/btw09.en.html] for the German
>   Federal Election in 2009, and the Free Software PDF Readers
>   campaign
>   [http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.en.html].
>
>
> Accomodation for GNU Hackers
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>  Many of the attending hackers will be stopping at the Astrid Hotel,
>  located in Zaterdagplein 11, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
>
> Further information
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>  General travel and accomodation information are on the FOSDEM
>  webpage at [http://www.fosdem.org]
>
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>
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