From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: GNU devroom at FOSDEM 2011 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:21:36 +0100 Message-ID: <70D9A290-AC68-4A64-81A1-0A2793D446D9@gmail.com> References: <87k4ib6vhl.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57367 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pcmjo-0004pY-TC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:31:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pcmay-0005cx-DN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:21:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87k4ib6vhl.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Jose E. Marchesi" Cc: emacs-orgmode@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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > 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 =3D 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 > -------+----------+--------------------=20 > +------------------------------------------------------------------ > 13:00 40 min Bastien Guerry Org-mode for Emacs : =20 > your life in plain text. > 14:00 40 min Andy Wingo Dynamic hacking with =20 > Guile. > 15:00 30 min Ole Tange GNU Parallel - the =20 > command line power tool. > 15:40 30 min Ralf Wildenhues GNU Autotools. > 16:20 30 min Simon Josefsson GNU Network Security =20 > Labyrinth. > 17:00 30 min Karsten Gerloff Power, Freedom, Software. > 17:40 30 min Matthias Kirschner Non-free software =20 > advertisement -- presented by your government. > 18:20 30 min Jose E. Marchesi GNU recutils: your data =20= > in plain text. > > The talks > ~~~~~~~~~~ > > Org-mode for Emacs: your life in plain text > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > 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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D > > 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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > By Ole Tange. > > Demo of what you can do with GNU Parallel - loosely based on > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DOpaiGYxkSuQ] > > GNU Autotools > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > 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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > 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 =20 > systems > =3D=20 > =3D=20 > =3D=20 > =3D=20 > =3D=20 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > 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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > By Matthias Kirschner. > > What would you think about a sign on the highway saying =93You need = a > Volkswagen to drive on this road. Contact your Volkswagen dealer > for a gratis test drive =96 Your Government=94? 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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > 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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > 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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > 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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > 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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > Simon Josefsson is the GNU maintainer of SASL, Libidn, GSS, Shishi > and GnuTLS. > > Andy Wingo > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > Andy Wingo is the co-maintainer of GNU Guile, the Scheme > interpreter. > > Ralf Wildenhues > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > 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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > 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) =96 > 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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > 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/=20 > 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] > > Questions? 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