dimanche, avril 08, 2007

Mac OS X port WWDC07 : Call for donations

Mac OS X port needs donations to attend the WWDC 2007 (11 -15th June ).

Please donate to Cusoon (there is a paypal button, and we can provide you a receipt, including VAT details, and registration number at french commerce register on demand)

Important : please specify in the subject : donation to Mac OS X port for WWDC. In case of problem, contact me directly


Volunteers wanting to attend :
3 people : Shaun McDonald, Sébastien Plisson and Eric Bachard


Our Objectives for going are :

1) Rendez-Vous : Present our current work to Apple people, easy to meet only during WWDC ( Apple people can give us a face, and keep the contact )

=> There is information difficult to find or ask by email, or IRC or whatever web : direct contact saves a lot of time, and is a very efficient way to progress with code


2) Expertise : define what is expected for User Interface with people from Apple UI project

=> Last year, Apple UI project proposed me to help us, once our native menus will be working.

This is now done, and meet them cannot be a bad idea :)



3) Find Code : ask for code review and find code snippets for :

- HIView
- Printing
- Drag and Drop
+ more if possible

=> More than 1000 Apple engineers are present, and can answer our questions regarding the code, during the whole week

During WWDC2006 we found all the relevant informations for RunApplicationEventLoop() to be implemented . Without this code, we wouldn't have something working at all, because this event loop is the key for everything in OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X ( without X11 ).

4) Social Contract : Discuss and meet new developers and / or american people working for Mac OS X port (like Michael Sicotte, Vijay Venkatraman , other.. )


5) Visibility : make OpenOffice.org project visible in an ocean of other software. This is extremely important because it shows that OpenOffice.org project is alive for Mac OS X platform.


Many many thanks in advance !!


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Contact : ericb at openoffice dot org

publié par ericb @ dimanche, avril 08, 2007