Hi guys,
I'd have liked to come to this years WineConf but am travelling this weekend so cannot be there :( If people could take notes/write up what is discussed etc then that'd be fabuloso.
A few topics that might prove fun to discuss:
- What happened to the ISV centre that was talked about in previous WineConfs?
- When (if ever) will WineHQ start committing to supporting apps CodeWeavers style?
- Has recruiting Windows developers to work on the outlying DLLs been given up on? - The idea here was to market our ole/msi/etc to Windows devs who might be constrained by bugs or missing features in Microsofts own implementations - However, git does not work (well?) on Windows - Nothing has been done to push this forward even if it did
- Ever since Microsoft lost the plot and started building "10 year frameworks" a la Avalon, the Win32 API we all know and love to hate has been largely abandoned. Yet, millions of developers are still writing software on this framework and aren't going to rewrite for .NET any time soon.
The Wine project has an unprecedented opportunity here - to take over from Microsoft as the maintainers of the de facto API; fixing bugs and adding new features (potentially for phat consulting sums).
Discuss.
- Students working via the SoC programme have made some good contributions, and I know a few are wanting to stay on (Matt is at any rate). Could more developers be recruited by organising some kind of permenant equivalent in which students donate their spare time and we match them with mentors who give some kind of formal training?
I know from doing it myself that working on Wine is about a zillion times better at teaching real world computing than a degree ever will be, so there is untapped potential here.
- Let Dimi take you guys to a decent club this year! I expect Rob can show the way ;)
Have fun! Take photos! Get completely blatted on student-priced beer, and hopefully I'll see you all next year.
thanks -mike