lundi, juin 18, 2007

Back from WWDC 2007 / Part 1 : agenda

Still no bagages .. :-/

Back from WWDC 2007 ( San Francisco California ). Arrived on saturday night.

3 attendees represented Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org project : Sebastien Plisson, Philipp Lohmann, Eric Bachard

On sunday afternoon, I met Philipp and Sebastien for the first time.
We discussed a lot, and finally, we worked/discussed a bit ( 3 hours .. ) about the Mac port :-)

But I won't forgot to mention I was very pleased to meet Johann Henselmann for true. Unfortunaly, I was so tired I couldn't follow him and Sebastien in San Francisco nights :)

Of course, we met a lot of other people, and discussed a lot with them. More kind, I even installed the last version of Aqua OpenOffice.org on demand several times in the week.

The feedback we received from other people was very positive for the Mac port. Of course the first development snapshot was not perfect, but people encouraged us : this is true, an aqua version really exists, and works. More on part 2.

During the week, we had conferences, and Labs with Apple engineers. The hotel was nice (wifi for free !! ), and very close to the Moscone Center. Always nice to walk for attending.



The Agenda was :

Monday 11th June : Keynote (morning), and introduction conference.

Glad to see John Karmack for true. The other parts of the keynote were more "marketing" (IMHO)

The most important point of the day was : no 64 bits for Carbon. This means Carbon will probably be binary compatible for 10.5, and deprecated for 10.6. Waiting for more infos, I'll comment more in the part 2.

Mess wit Sebastien and Johann for the dinner. We tried to find a restaurant with Philipp, but was too late. Was hamburgers and fries ..

Tuesday 12th June : conferences for Sebastien, Philipp and me

Nothing too important in the confs. Dinner with frenchies, Sanraku Restaurant, 704 Sutter street (yes, the name is the good one ;-) )

Philipp tested Japanese food :-) Return to the hotel, tested some code for Window background. Sent the patch to Ismael for his Googl SoC.

Wednesday 13th June First Lab with John Geleynse postponed to Thursday afternoon. We decided to assist some confs, and later, continued to work for code with Philipp.

Restaurant with Johann, Sebastien and Philipp. Good wine.

Thursday 14th June

Because of the appointments, no confs : all the day on Labs.

first appointment : Deric Horn / David Mc Leod and another. 1h30 to ask questions and discuss.

After the lunch, we assisted some conf, and then prepared the second appointment, with John Geleynse.
Very constructive discussion, we learned a lot with John, about all the work we have to do before to reach Apple Software level of quality.

Dinner : was the bash. To avoid hours of buses, and spare time, the bash was not organized in Cuppertino, but close to the Moscone Center, in a park. Lot of music, noise and food. I met other frenchies ( Jacques Foucry , Dominique Baillon and Franck Lefevre).

We finally preferred Marriot bar ... more quiet before to return at the hotel.

Friday 15th June

Other labs, and questions XCode, thread issues and HI* issues.
Last appointment with Ernest Prabahkar, during the lunch (more easy for all).

Continued with weekly IRC meeting

Friday afternoon : annoying conferences + a bit tired -> at hotel at 5h30 pm

Saturday 16th June Time to return

Thanks to all the donators, Cusoon, OpenOffice.org project and Apple for the help we received to make it true, and Christian Hardy, Cusoon treasurer for all his time

To come : part 2, technical analyse about the benefit of WWDC for Mac OS X port.

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publié par ericb @ lundi, juin 18, 2007