Over the the past week or so I've harassed some folks about the agenda for
WineConf. At this point there's a lot that remains to be filled in, but I
need some feedback. Also, I need more ideas for presentations. Does anyone
want to present something? It'd be great if someone would volunteer. I
think what we're shooting for is a presentation followed by discussion
all contained within about one hour. In total we'll have 10 - 12 different
topics.
Here's the items that are definitely …
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WRS intro
Keynote - Alexandre
Road to .9 and 1.0 - Dimi
ReactOS update - all the ReactOS guys
Wine / networking / Samba issues - Juan Lang
We've also got some other items, but I need feedback as to whether any of
you find this stuff interesting. (So reply and tell me if any of these
items sound interesting.)
Windows authentication - Andrew Bartlett (um.. haven't asked him yet though)
Something else Samba related? - Samba guys
Commercial port of a Winelib app and using Wine - an enterprise user
CXTest and regression testing - someone from CodeWeavers
Version control - Mike Hearn wearing a fire retardant suit
DCOM work - Mike or Rob
DirectX update - ?
Also, if you need to make hotel reservations, there's just a few weeks left
to do that. Check out the WineConf page for details:
http://www.winehq.org/site/wineconf
As people begin to figure out travel plans, the wineconf mailing list will
pick up. How to join:
http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wineconf
Let me know if you have any questions.
-Brian
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I sent some emails this week to get a preliminary agenda together. I'd say
it's about half complete. So we've got:
Keynote - Alexandre
Road to .9 and 1.0 - Dimi
ReactOS demo - all the ReactOS guys
Version Control - Mike Hearn
Something related to RPC + Wine + Samba - Juan Lang
We've got a few other items as well, but I think we need to make sure
we're not overlooking other topics. I'd hate to put something on the
agenda and then pull it back off. I think 10-12 different topics is the
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[View More]goal. Last year we had 12, so I'd say that's definitely an upper bound;
we couldn't have squeezed another in.
As far as other topics, I'd really like to see something fun on there -
maybe DirectX eye candy. Also, Andrew Bartlett is the Samba authentication
systems guru and will be there. I'm not sure if he'd be willing to present
anything, nor am I sure anything would be relevant to Wine. However, it
seems to me it could be interesting (of course, since it's an area of
Windows and Wine I know nothing about I could be way off base.)
At this point I think we just need to fill in the gaps. I'm not sure if
there's a lot of people who want to present something or not, but I think
it's time to ask on wine-devel. First, however, does anyone on this list
have any ideas? (If I've already asked you, don't worry - I made a note.)
I'm not sure how many WineConf attendees have subscribed to this list so
far, but I bet it's less than half.
The next step after finalizing the agenda will be putting together a short
email outlining presentation guidelines and what equipment will be available.
Someone asked if there would be a community laptop containing all of the
presentations so we didn't spend time shuffling equipment around. I think
that's an excellent idea, what do you guys think?
-Brian
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Hi Folks,
Okay, it looks like we've got about 41 people RSVP'd. About 5 from
CodeWeavers that are going haven't RSVP'd, and a number RSVP'd to say no,
and there were 1 or 2 dups.
So I would make a WAG (wild ass guess) that we're going to have about 50
when the dust all settles.
It looks like a pretty eclectic mix, too. A lot of Samba, a lot of
ReactOS, really quite a mix.
So I have no idea how we want to structure an agenda.
We need an agenda, and someone (or multiple someones) to serve …
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At this point, I think the only givens are a short intro and welcome
to Stuttgart by WRS and then a keynote by Alexandre.
Last year, we ended up having no shortage of speakers. At first,
I was panicked because we were short, but it filled up
(and we even had to cram people in a bit).
Personally, I think we should try to be pretty severe in
limiting the number and length of presentations. In fact,
I think the ideal may be a short (< 30 minutes) presentation followed
by a 30-45 minute break. Everyone can come to the start to be
polite, and people really interested can stay and discuss further.
Everyone else can head back to the other room for general
topics.
I had one ISV that was using Wine express an interest in
presenting; I've emailed him just now to see if he's still
interested.
I'd like to present (and pitch) the cxtest visual regression
stuff we're doing, but that's my personal agenda, and could
take a back seat to something else.
Anyone else have something they'd like to present? Or something
they'd like to see covered?
We tried last year to have a session on Games and a session on COM
(aka InstallShield); any other hot topics that are obvious?
Cheers,
Jer
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