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Wineconf topic proposal: desktop and system integration
by Damjan Jovanovic June 3, 2015

June 3, 2015

Hi I'd like to present a diverse and ambitious topic: Wine's desktop and system integration. For desktop integration, current status and future of copy and paste, drag and drop, menus, file associations, desktop settings like screensaver, etc. How in these areas Wine compares to alternatives such as VirtualBox, and other X11 toolkits, what we can learn from them, the things we can and still could do that Windows itself can't. An inspiring vision for one unified *nix desktop of the future and a roadmap there. Since I wrote most of winemenubuilder, and have some even more controversial proposals ;-), I expect a heated discussion. The system integration half of the topic is exactly the opposite: how instead of Wine using the system, Wine can provide system services like device drivers to be used by other *nix software. By then I hope at least part of my USB work will be finished and committed, so it won't all be hot air :-). Scanning using Windows drivers, issues with TWAIN to SANE protocol conversion. The driver installation saga. Whatever other driver categories (eg. printers, webcams) I manage to look at by then. Anyone interested? Damjan

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Save the Date: WineConf on September 19, 20 in Vienna
by Stefan Dösinger May 28, 2015

May 28, 2015

Hi, I am happy to announce that we will have a WineConf again this year: It will be on Saturday September 19th and Sunday September 20th 2015 in Vienna, in the InterCityHotel Wien. I have added some basic information to http://wiki.winehq.org/WineConf2015 , and more detailed information will follow soon. Please help by suggesting talk topics and adding them to the list. I will write another mail to the list once we have an RSVP page set up. Cheers, Stefan

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Topic proposal
by Aric Stewart May 26, 2015

May 26, 2015

Hi there, I would be happy to talk about my current big project, hid, hidclass and joystick unification. Anyone interested? -aric

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WineConf 2015 event posted on Facebook
by Tom Wickline May 22, 2015

May 22, 2015

Their is a Facebook page setup for anyone interested in WineConf 2015 to confirm their attendance, post to page, like etc etc. https://www.facebook.com/events/734919546617361/ Cheers, Tom

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Feb. 4, 2014

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Sunday morning plan, such as it is
by Jeremy White Feb. 2, 2014

Feb. 2, 2014

Someone (Aric?) made a convincing argument that we should leave by 8:00 am to be in the room and well settled by 9:00. So I think most folks are planning to leave at 8:00 am. Cheers, Jeremy

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Dinner Sunday at 7:30
by Jeremy White Feb. 1, 2014

Feb. 1, 2014

The Software Freedom Conservancy is helping put together dinner for us on Sunday night. Right now, we're tentatively set for 19:30 at Chez Leon, although that is not yet confirmed. This dinner will be paid for by the Wine Party Fund, so it's a Wine party! I gave them a 'guess' of 25 people. It would be helpful to have a more accurate estimate. To that end, please reply to me privately and let me know if you plan on coming to the Sunday night dinner. Thanks! Jeremy

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Planning info
by Jeremy White Feb. 1, 2014

Feb. 1, 2014

So the plan tonight is to go in small groups for dinner. A small group of us are probably going to leave in a few minutes. Hopefully, people can wait in the lobby until there is critical mass, and then just go. I am hoping that we'll find a bar where we can all meet later on; hopefully one not too loud or smoky or crowded. I'll try to send an email to the group if/when I know of such a meetup location. Cheers, Jeremy

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Re: Wine developer room recordings
by Wouter Verhelst Feb. 1, 2014

Feb. 1, 2014

Hi, On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 07:40:21PM -0600, Jeremy White wrote: > > So I thought I was politely, and silently, declining to accept your help > > with video recording. > > > > I see now that, instead, I was rudely ignoring your call for > > unanimity. > > > > As I say, we do have a small group of people who are interested > > in recording the talks. I'll put a call out and see if we can get > > some volunteers to help. > > Urk. There were no volunteers, and I remain a video grinch. > > To be clear, I refuse to volunteer myself, as I am hostile to the whole idea. > > We have all attendees on high alert on an email list here: > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wineconf > > You could put out your own direct appeal and see if someone will > respond to your cry for help. They ignored mine: > http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wineconf/2014-January/000854.html Right, here's a request, then. We really need someone to look after the video gear in the Wine devroom. Starting this year, we really want to record *everything*. Including your devroom. That requires at least one, but preferably two or more, volunteers to man the video gear. It's not difficult. I've already sent out a few mails with details to all our other volunteers; please see <https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/video/2014-January/000078.html> and <https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/video/2014-January/000163.html>. If you're going to be in the Wine devroom most of the day anyway, you would be a perfect candidate -- even if you have no prior A/V experience: there will be a training session, there will be documentation on how everything works, and we'll be there to help you should things go wrong. If you don't have the time to put in a whole day, but can do half a day or even just a few talks, that's also helpful; if there's more than one of you doing so, you'll probably manage a full day. Note that if there is no video volunteer at all this year, this will be taken into account when we need to decide whether Wine will be able to get a devroom next year. Thanks, -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today. -- http://xkcd.com/1133/

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Plan for Saturday
by Jeremy White Jan. 31, 2014

Jan. 31, 2014

Folks, We have no formal plan for Saturday. You are all expected to be in our room (AL W 120, afairc), by 9:00 am on Sunday. Andre suggested that some group of interested parties meet in the lobby at 9:30 to travel to FODSDEM together. Hans also advised that if you walk North about a block, you'll get to a metro stop, where you can go down and buy tram tickets. He purchased two round trip tickets; one for Saturday, and one for Sunday; that may be your most economical choice. Also, recall that we take the 92 or 94 to Louisa, get off, and then take the 92 or 94 on to ULB. (Yes, that sounds wrong, but yes, it's right). Cheers, Jeremy

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