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Mono at FOSDEM 2012: Schedule announced!

Ruben — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:00:19 +0000

The schedule for the Mono devroom at FOSDEM 2012 has been finalized:

(11:00 – 11:45) Enough Debian packaging knowledge to hurt yourselves slightly less than you do already (Jo Shields)
(12:00 – 13:00) Mono – State of the Union (Miguel De Icaza)
(13:00 – 14:00) *** Lunch break ***
(14:00 – 14:30) Gluon (Federico Di Gregorio)
(14:40 – 15:25) Banshee: Past, Present, Future and the Crazy stuff (Bertrand Lorentz & Olivier Dufour)
(15:40 – 16:25) IronPython: Bringing the dynamic world to the CLR (Carlos Alberto Cortez Guevara)
(16:40 – 17:30) MonoGame (Dominique Louis, Dean Ellis & Kenneth Pouncy)
(17:45 – 18:15) XWT (Lluis Sanchez)
(18:30 – 19:00) MonoMac (Miguel De Icaza)

Full details (with talk abstracts) should be available on the FOSDEM website. As always, if you want to see a talk, show up early, once the room is full, you’re out of luck!

Date to put in your agenda: Feb 4, 2012.

Mono @ FOSDEM 2012: we still need talks!

Ruben — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:40:26 +0000

Mono hackers of the world, if you are planning on attending FOSDEM 2012, be aware that there is still a call for presentations up for the Mono Devroom. Go submit your talks now, you have until the end of the year to do so.

Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2012: CFP

Ruben — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:38:54 +0000

Great news! There will be a third edition of the Mono devroom @ FOSDEM. The event will take place on Feb 4 and Feb 5. We have the devroom the entire afternoon, for 6 hours (from 13:00 till 19:00). As I am not planning to fill up all that stage time on my own, we need your talks and presentations to make this day extra interesting.

Talks on any topic are fine, as long as it’s related to Mono and open-source. These do not need to be life-changing project announcements either: deeply technical things or pet projects that will make us all giggle with hacker joy are just as desired.

Please send your talk proposals using this form: http://bit.ly/vK2WC6

You have until Dec 31 to send in talks. A final schedule will be made available on Jan 10.

Not that we get more talks than we can schedule each year, so we’ll unfortunately have to make a selection.

If you have any more questions, feel free to contact me.

FOSDEM 2011 Mono room slides

Ruben — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:18:46 +0000

As promised, here are the slides from the Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011. Unfortunately no video recordings this year.

Welcome F# to the MonoDevelop family (Tomas Petricek) [Slides] [Examples]
Manos: web apps for the lazy hacker (Jérémie Laval) [Slides]
The Web Objects Kitchen (Federico Di Gregorio) [Slides]
Mono packaging in Debian and Ubuntu – why we’re always right (Jo Shields) [Slides]
Mono C++ Interop (Andreia Gaita) ) [Slides]
Mono’s new garbage collector (Mark Probst) [Slides + Audio Recording]
A common graph database access layer for .NET/Mono (Achim Friedland) [Slides]
CloudB: a distributed hybrid storage system for the Mono framework (Antonello Provenzano) [Slides]

Post-FOSDEM 2011 / The Trollcat experiment

Ruben — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:00:43 +0000

The Mono Developer Room
The second edition of the Mono Developer room was once again a great success. Good talks, nice atmosphere and some interesting discussions. Slides will be online soon, unfortunately no video recordings this year.

The trollcat experiment
A couple of months ago while sending out the call-for-papers for the 2011 Mono room, I added this question to the submission form:

The majority ticked "Yes".

Looking back at my statistics from last weekend, over 90% of the speakers did in fact include some imagery of opinionated animals or cartoon figures, often comically yet clearly strengthening the discourse. I would like to present this observation as a data point in the ongoing research on the finer points of trollcats in contemporary society which is being carried out by Miguel for some time now.

Mono @ FOSDEM 2011: Schedule announced

Ruben — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:20:31 +0000

I’ve just published the schedule for the Mono @ FOSDEM 2011 Developer Room. Full schedule (with biographies and abstracts) should be up soon on the conference website. For the impatient, here’s what it looks like:

(13:00 – 13:10) Opening (Ruben Vermeersch)
(13:10 – 13:50) Welcome F# to the MonoDevelop family (Tomas Petricek)
(14:00 – 14:25) Manos: web apps for the lazy hacker (Jérémie Laval)
(14:30 – 14:55) The Web Objects Kitchen (Federico Di Gregorio)
(15:00 – 15:20) Making happy developers (Rodrigo Kumpera)
(15:30 – 16:00) Mono packaging in Debian and Ubuntu – why we’re always right (Jo Shields)
(16:00 – 16:20) *** Coffee Break ***
(16:20 – 16:50) Mono C++ Interop (Andreia Gaita)
(17:00 – 17:40) Mono’s new garbage collector (Mark Probst)
(17:50 – 18:20) A common graph database access layer for .NET/Mono (Achim Friedland)
(18:30 – 19:00) CloudB: a distributed hybrid storage system for the Mono framework (Antonello Provenzano)

Sat, February 5 is the date to remember, put it on your calendars!

CFP deadline for Mono @ FOSDEM 2011 nearing!

Ruben — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:48:22 +0000

Heads up everyone!

If you would like to present in the Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011, it is time to send your talk now! The deadline for doing so is in a bit over a week: Dec 25 (that’s christmas indeed, but don’t wait until that day to send in your presents).

More info about how to submit your talk here.

Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011: It is on!

Ruben — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:37:14 +0000

For the second year in a row, there will be a Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM. We had a very nice edition last year and we are looking to improve on that.

We are looking for speakers to fill up the room, which we have on Saturday, February 5 (13:00 – 19:00). If you have made nice and cool things with or related to Mono and you want to show it to the world, this is your chance!

Fill in the form now!

Do it before Dec 25, as we’ll need some time to handle confirmations and finalize the schedule in time before the deadline imposed to us by the FOSDEM organizers.

Hope to see everyone there!

Mono @ FOSDEM 2010: Slides + Videos

Ruben — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:43:53 +0000

A couple of weeks ago we had a great day of talks during the first Mono @ FOSDEM Developer Room. What’s even more awesome is the fact that Andrius Bentkus took the effort to record all talks. Here they are, together with the slides (the ones I have). Enjoy!

09:15 – 10:00 MonoDevelop
Lluis Sanchez Gual | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

10:00 – 11:00 The Ruby and .NET love child
Ivan Porto Carrero | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

11:00 – 12:00 Mono Edge
Miguel De Icaza | MP4 | YouTube

12:45 – 13:15 The evolution of MonoTorrent
Alan McGovern | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

13:15 – 13:45 Image processing with Mono.Simd
Stéphane Delcroix | MP4 | YouTube

13:45 – 14:15 ParallelFx, bringing Mono applications in the multicore era
Jérémie Laval | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

14:30 – 15:30 Building The Virtual Babel: Mono In Second Life
Jim Purbrick | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

15:30 – 16:00 Moonlight and you
Andreia Gaita | MP4 | YouTube

16:00 – 16:30 OSCTool – learning C# and Mono by doing
Jo Shields | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

16:30 – 16:45 Smuxi – IRC in a modern environment
Mirco Bauer | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

Buy Andrius a drink if you happen to run into him. He deserves it.

Update: All videos are now on YouTube too. The MP4 ones are of much higher quality though.

Mono @ FOSDEM 2010: Round-up

Ruben — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:51:31 +0000

Last weekend, during the tenth edition of FOSDEM, we had the joy of organizing the first ever Mono developer room. While there had been talks about Mono before (including Miguel’s great presentation at FOSDEM 2007), it was still a rather underrepresented topic. For that reason, Stephane and I requested a developer room and gladly we got it.

Plenty of Ruperts could be spotted at FOSDEM 2010

I was very happy to see the response we got from the call for talks: a very nice selection of talks was submitted. Clearly there was great interest to present at FOSDEM. The big question though was whether we would draw a crowd or if the presenters would have to talk to an empty room.

Sorry, you're too late!

It turned out that we had nothing to fear: we already had to close the room before 11:00 in the morning to avoid crowding. For the entire rest of the day, we had between 2/3 and full occupancy. Visitors were greeted by a nice selections of talks.

Miguel abandoning his slides and becoming a computer science professor at the chalkboard.

Not only did we have interesting talks, there was a good dialog going on in the room, which I enjoyed even more than the talks. There were some very interesting discussions going on and there was a general feeling of excitment.

Overall (and I think many share this feeling), we can say that the Mono room was a great succes, something we will certainly try to repeat next year. One more reason to attend FOSDEM!

Discussion after the ParallelFx talk.

An even nicer set of photos, made by Stephane Delcroix (the ones above are my photos), can be found over here: Picasa. Additionally, the awesome Andrius Bentkus took the effort to record all the talks. These videos should become available soon.

Hope to see you all next year!