Below is an up to date agenda for wineconf 2002. Things are coming together great and it should be a information filled event. Thanks to all the attendees who are going to make this event worthwhile through their valuable presentations. Be sure and get that haircut before coming because my sources tell me there will be 3 video cameras capturing this event for later broadcasting.
We have two full days planned (March 15th-16th). The sessions will go from 9-5 on both Friday and Saturday. I think all of the international attendees are coming in on Thurs, so they'll be rested up to start at 9am Friday morning. Both days, breakfast pastries will be provided at the conference premises along with lunch. Dinners will be within walking distance on Friday and Saturday.
We're also planning on providing transportation from the airport to hotels on Thurs for our out of town guests. So a rental cars may not be necessary unless you're planning on extra activities on Sunday that aren't part of the conference.
As for the conference sessions, the attendees are the speakers, so we're asking those in attendance to prepare a 30-45 minute presentation meant to educate and inform as well as spur on discussion. If you don't see your name on the list below, please send me a topic you would like to give a presenation on. I've heard from nearly everyone.
We have a great conference venue lined up which will have plenty of meeting rooms and state of the art presentation capabilities along with internet access. To give a presentation, you can either bring a laptop to plug into the video projection system or you can email to me your presentation and I will insure that it is on a computer plugged into the projection system for your presentation.
There are 2 areas that we'll be focusing on:
Business issues - This will be a combination of presentation from companies talking about their business experience with WINE as well as talks on the non-technical issues facing WINE.
Wine Technology - There will be some advanced topics as well as some more general overviews. Since (http://www.lpbn.org) will be on hand to shoot video of all the session, our goal is to have a video series that those newer to wine can view at anytime via the net to get up to speed. Alexandre's keynote will set the tone and provide a roadmap for many of the discussions. Alexandre's keynote will kickoff the conference.
NOTE: Presentations listed below with a * designate a Friday presentation. If there's no asteric, then the presentation will be on Saturday. For maximum diversity, we will be alternating between technology presentations and business. There will be two technology presentations and then one on a business topic. Repeat.
Wine Technology -------------------- WINE Past, Present and Future [Julliard]* Supporting Drag and Drop between Wine and non-Wine windows [Weigland]* How To Make Fonts Look Great In Wine [Davies]* Package streamlining of WINE [Meissner]* DirectX [Kaaven]* IActiveScript, or how jscript.dll was reimplemented using the Mozilla JScript engine, lots of glue, and a little bit of luck". [Hatheway]* Beyond Trial And Error, Alternative Ways To Insure Quality Code [Stridvall] A Howto For Regression Testing [Gouget] Winedoc and Automated Verification [Paun] Wine/Windows bootup handling and documentation/end user representation [Mohr] Package streamlining of WINE [Meissner] TBD [Czekalla]
Business Talks ----------------- Macadamian - Making It As A Software House [Boulanger]* An Unique Commercial Application for WINE [Cadlink Technology/Hawkes]* Gaming and Beyond [Transgaming/State]* ReactOS - Where it's at, where it's going [ReactOS/Filby] Corel, A Look Back [Xandros/Tranter] Lindows.com And WINE [Robertson]
We have two full days planned (March 15th-16th). The sessions will go from 9-5 on both Friday and Saturday. I think all of the international attendees are coming in on Thurs, so they'll be rested up to start at 9am Friday morning. Both days, breakfast pastries will be provided at the conference premises along with lunch. Dinners will be within walking distance on Friday and Saturday.
Michael, is there a final solution for video broadcasting?
I want to post this announcment as well as broadcasting URL for the slashdot readers (I'm a slashdot author), but it really depends how "strong" the video servers will be as well as bandwidth limitation...
Care to give some info please?
Thanks, Hetz
Michael, is there a final solution for video broadcasting?
I want to post this announcment as well as broadcasting URL for the slashdot readers (I'm a slashdot author), but it really depends how "strong" the video servers will be as well as bandwidth limitation...
Hetz,
The community is really coming together nicely so I think we're going to have a sturdy video solution to broadcast wineconf 2002.
Raymond Steding from LPBN.org is doing a lot of work to setup servers and will have 3 cameras at the event capturing it. He's the brains behind the video operation and is doing lots of work to make it happen. Here's what Raymond told me he has organized:
Mandrake is donating a T1 for the event. I have several 784kbps servers and I'm in the process of getting UCLA to donate a server. Let me know if I can have three feeds from three separate cameras (computers) going to a hub and then out to the net to the various streaming server locations. I'm planning on 56k streams.
Lindows.com is donating $500 to Linux Public Broadcasting Network to help defray some of the costs.
I don't have the url at which the video will be streamed from yet, but if people go to the main conference page at: www.lindows.com/wineconf we'll have a link to go to the video.
If people miss the original broadcast that shouldn't be a problem because I believe the videos will be available on lpbn.org for later viewing.
Again, special thanks to LPBN.org, Raymond Steding and Mandrake for making this possible.
-- MR
On Thursday 07 March 2002 11:50 am, Michael Robertson wrote:
Below is an up to date agenda for wineconf 2002. Things are coming together great and it should be a information filled event. Thanks to all the attendees who are going to make this event worthwhile through their valuable presentations. Be sure and get that haircut before coming because my sources tell me there will be 3 video cameras capturing this event for later broadcasting.
Michael, So if I understand correctly only invited Wine people are welcome at the conference? Or else people experienced enough to be able to give a presentation?
For Wine attendees coming to San Diego for the first time send me an email if you want to know where things are around town or anything like that.
Jason Phillips
Jason,
So if I understand correctly only invited Wine people are welcome at the conference? Or else people experienced enough to be able to give a presentation?
It is open to anyone who wants to attend, but the heavy technical focus makes it best suited for people that are interested in that kind of stuff. We're going to close registration on Tuesday so that we can plan for the specific number. So people who have not registered yet should right away.
We are asking attendees to give presentations and the vast majority are. It's not a pre-requisite though.
-- MR
On Thursday 07 March 2002 07:17 pm, Michael Robertson wrote:
Jason,
So if I understand correctly only invited Wine people are welcome at the conference? Or else people experienced enough to be able to give a presentation?
It is open to anyone who wants to attend, but the heavy technical focus makes it best suited for people that are interested in that kind of stuff. We're going to close registration on Tuesday so that we can plan for the specific number. So people who have not registered yet should right away.
We are asking attendees to give presentations and the vast majority are. It's not a pre-requisite though.
-- MR
Michael,
Okay, in that case I'd like to go since the both the technical and business aspects of it are interesting to me.
What would the intended audience be for the presentations? Would it be presented to all invited participants, small groups, web-cam only or any of the above depending on the presentation?
Considering the crowd attending and my lack of experience programming Wine I'd pass on the presentation unless it was geared towards programmers who were also just beginning. For example, maybe explain fairly thoroughly what "wineclipsrv" is and how it works. That's small and I've already looked at that code. Would anyone be interested in something that narrowly defined? Maybe some kind of overview or reference to "wineserver" too, but only from the context of "I'm new to this too so don't take anything I say too authoritatively". Would that be of value?
Jason Phillips
I'd like to propose a slight change in format, Michael.
Rather than an emphasis solely on presentations, I think we would do well to have more of a mix of presentations and working groups.
For example, I think it would be great to have a working group tackle the issue of performance in Wine.
I'd be happy to spark a 'What should be in Wine 1.0?' discussion group on Friday (can't make it on Saturday).
Also, I think that Francois's topic might sensibly be shifted into a discussion of how best to do regression testing.
Of course, this implies that white boards and laptop power will be a key ingredient...
Thoughts? Comments? Other working group topics we should address?
Jer
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 13:50, Michael Robertson wrote:
Below is an up to date agenda for wineconf 2002. Things are coming together great and it should be a information filled event. Thanks to all the attendees who are going to make this event worthwhile through their valuable presentations. Be sure and get that haircut before coming because my sources tell me there will be 3 video cameras capturing this event for later broadcasting.
We have two full days planned (March 15th-16th). The sessions will go from 9-5 on both Friday and Saturday. I think all of the international attendees are coming in on Thurs, so they'll be rested up to start at 9am Friday morning. Both days, breakfast pastries will be provided at the conference premises along with lunch. Dinners will be within walking distance on Friday and Saturday.
We're also planning on providing transportation from the airport to hotels on Thurs for our out of town guests. So a rental cars may not be necessary unless you're planning on extra activities on Sunday that aren't part of the conference.
As for the conference sessions, the attendees are the speakers, so we're asking those in attendance to prepare a 30-45 minute presentation meant to educate and inform as well as spur on discussion. If you don't see your name on the list below, please send me a topic you would like to give a presenation on. I've heard from nearly everyone.
We have a great conference venue lined up which will have plenty of meeting rooms and state of the art presentation capabilities along with internet access. To give a presentation, you can either bring a laptop to plug into the video projection system or you can email to me your presentation and I will insure that it is on a computer plugged into the projection system for your presentation.
There are 2 areas that we'll be focusing on:
Business issues - This will be a combination of presentation from companies talking about their business experience with WINE as well as talks on the non-technical issues facing WINE.
Wine Technology - There will be some advanced topics as well as some more general overviews. Since (http://www.lpbn.org) will be on hand to shoot video of all the session, our goal is to have a video series that those newer to wine can view at anytime via the net to get up to speed. Alexandre's keynote will set the tone and provide a roadmap for many of the discussions. Alexandre's keynote will kickoff the conference.
NOTE: Presentations listed below with a * designate a Friday presentation. If there's no asteric, then the presentation will be on Saturday. For maximum diversity, we will be alternating between technology presentations and business. There will be two technology presentations and then one on a business topic. Repeat.
Wine Technology
WINE Past, Present and Future [Julliard]* Supporting Drag and Drop between Wine and non-Wine windows [Weigland]* How To Make Fonts Look Great In Wine [Davies]* Package streamlining of WINE [Meissner]* DirectX [Kaaven]* IActiveScript, or how jscript.dll was reimplemented using the Mozilla JScript engine, lots of glue, and a little bit of luck". [Hatheway]* Beyond Trial And Error, Alternative Ways To Insure Quality Code [Stridvall] A Howto For Regression Testing [Gouget] Winedoc and Automated Verification [Paun] Wine/Windows bootup handling and documentation/end user representation [Mohr] Package streamlining of WINE [Meissner] TBD [Czekalla]
Business Talks
Macadamian - Making It As A Software House [Boulanger]* An Unique Commercial Application for WINE [Cadlink Technology/Hawkes]* Gaming and Beyond [Transgaming/State]* ReactOS - Where it's at, where it's going [ReactOS/Filby] Corel, A Look Back [Xandros/Tranter] Lindows.com And WINE [Robertson]
Jeremy White writes:
I'd like to propose a slight change in format, Michael.
Rather than an emphasis solely on presentations, I think we would do well to have more of a mix of presentations and working groups.
For example, I think it would be great to have a working group tackle the issue of performance in Wine.
I'd be happy to spark a 'What should be in Wine 1.0?' discussion group on Friday (can't make it on Saturday).
Also, I think that Francois's topic might sensibly be shifted into a discussion of how best to do regression testing.
Of course, this implies that white boards and laptop power will be a key ingredient...
Thoughts? Comments? Other working group topics we should address?
We can provide the white boards and laptop power, if the attendees can provide the brain power, this sounds like a great idea.
Several have talked to me about more discussion formats which I did think some of the presentations would evolve to. But if we want to explicitly do this that would be great.
Your broad technical understanding and knowledge of the community make you ideally suited for such a task. Feel free to coordinate online discussions to arrive at such a format for part of the time. If attendees which to slightly alter their talks to the proposed format, that's fine. Just coordinate through Jeremy.
I've had several comments from attendees about how focusing on debugger discussions would be of tremendously value.
-- MR
On 11 Mar 2002, Jeremy White wrote:
I'd like to propose a slight change in format, Michael.
Rather than an emphasis solely on presentations, I think we would do well to have more of a mix of presentations and working groups.
For example, I think it would be great to have a working group tackle the issue of performance in Wine.
I'd be happy to spark a 'What should be in Wine 1.0?' discussion group on Friday (can't make it on Saturday).
Also, I think that Francois's topic might sensibly be shifted into a discussion of how best to do regression testing.
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I would propose a workgroup about: 'How to get more Wine volunteers and how to make it easier for them to get started?' A workgroup about debugging techniques can always be useful too.
-- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable -- Paul Dean
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