Fosdem

Gnome Developer Experience Hackfest 2013

Ooops, Is It FOSDEM Time Already?

I guess it is! As always, FOSDEM is great fun, and once again we had a Mono room with lots of great talks! Especially enjoyed Mark Probst and Jo Shields talks, now I know what happens when the deb folks get a hold on our packages, and why we never get our finalizers called in order in Moonlight!

As for my talk, the important bits were that I didn’t go over the time, nobody snored, and I made sure there were plenty of lolcats! Get the slides here.

A small Fosdem wrapup

The other weekend I was in Brussels for FOSDEM. As you know, this year we had a Mono room on sunday, thanks to the amazing efforts of Ruben Vermeersch and Stéphane Delcroix. The conference was great, as it always is, although as usual as didn’t get to see much of the talks on saturday - busy preparing my own talk about Moonlight, and meeting people, which is one of the parts I enjoy most at FOSDEM. Sunday was awesome, full of Mono talks in a nicely packed room. People were very interested, we had great feedback, and everything went very well, including my demos - it was a very good day, and all in all, a great event. On monday we had a special Mono hackday, where we got together and, well, hacked. I sat down with Lucas Meijer of Unity and we went through some of the issues they have embedding Mono, similar to what Moonlight has to do. Lucas decided to stay an extra day just for the Mono hackday, after a lot of chatting and quite a few beers the day before, and I’m so glad he did, it was a very productive, if somewhat short, day.

Mono Developer Room for FOSDEM 2010!

Some excellent news out of Brussels today, there is going to be a Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2010! Call for participation is now open, so come and join us put together an awesome Mono day at FOSDEM! 

Thank you so much to Ruben Vermeersch for spearheading this effort, together with Stéphane Delcroix. You guys rock!

Don’t forget, send in your talk!