Developers Workshop 2005

The OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2005 was held on the weekend of 09. and 10. July 2005 in Dresden, Germany. If you are a webmaster and want to help us tell the OS/2 and eComStation community about this workshop, feel free to use the workshop logo on right hand side. For example, you can place it on your web page and link to the workshop homepage. If you require a larger version of the image, simply send an email to the organizers. An email address can be found in the Contact section. A banner version of the logo is also [available], and a small version is [here]!

News Items
18 Jul 2005    changed the website to reflect that the event took place 14 Jul 2005    added a feedback section (from the feedback form that was filled out by the attendees) 14 Jul 2005    added three photos to the gallery plus a link to more photos 12 Jul 2005    added the first presentations and posters for download 28 Jun 2005    description for the session of Jan van Wijk added 24 Jun 2005    first information about posters available 23 Jun 2005    added Saturday evening information (right under the schedule!) 21 Jun 2005    the Firewire session has a more detailed description now 20 Jun 2005    added a presentation from Stefan Neis about wxWidgets 08 Jun 2005    Description of some presentations are now online 04 Jun 2005    And one more presentation, about GUIs and FORTRAN 01 Jun 2005    Added a presentation by Adrian Gschwend about netlabs.org 26 May 2005    Added workshop location description and how to get there 12 May 2005    Added another presentation on USB WebCams 11 Apr 2005    Developers Workshop Merchandising available through the [netlabs.org shop]! 06 Apr 2005    Online shop opened - you can purchase tickets now! 01 Apr 2005    And another presentation 31 Mar 2005    Two presentations added 22 Mar 2005    Workshop logo as banner added 16 Mar 2005    More information in the registration section 09 Mar 2005    Information about announcement mailing list added 06 Mar 2005    Added another presentation 02 Mar 2005    Workshop logo added 01 Mar 2005    Added the first three presentations 28 Feb 2005    Added some hotels to the accomodation section 26 Feb 2005    First travel information available 25 Feb 2005    Added some information about registration, program and location 22 Feb 2005    Initial website online, the old one used to prepare the workshop is here

Registration
People that want to attend the workshop have to register online. We use the Mensys online shop for registration. This shop is secure and offers a number of different ways to pay the registration fee. (including transferring money to a (German) bank account if you do not have a credit card!) The shop was used for the registration for the last Warpstock Europe and has worked very well. While it will be possible to register at the checkin desk, we strongly suggest not doing this. Why? Because we have to know how many people are attending the workshop! (at least, roughly!) We have the possibility to rent more or larger rooms depending on the number of participants, but this only works in advance! We know that some people make a last minute decision to participate and that is OK with us. However, if you already know that you want to attend, please use the online shop to register! The final prices for the event are: 40 EUR for a two day registration 25 EUR for a one day registration The prices include a limited number of drinks and snacks. Lunch and other meals have to be paid separately. The registration fee is also used to pay the travel costs for at least one developer from the Ukraine. In addition, we offer Workshop Sponsor units that will also be used for that purpose. If it turns out that things are cheaper or that, for whatever reason, we cannot arrange for the visit of the developer from the Ukraine, we will have some money left over! All money that is left over, will be used to pay for lunch at the event! It is simply too difficult to transfer money back to every participant, but we can pay for parts of the lunch. That makes lunch cheaper for every participant!! After all, people have to eat. :-) We do think, that this is fair. We do not intend to make any money with this event! If you have some comments about the registration process or the registration fee, please send us an email! An email address can be found in the Contact section.

Workshop Program
The following presentations were sheduled:

Schedule
It should be noted that we did not have sessions in parallel! Registration started at 8:30 on Saturday and the Opening session begun at 9:00. This was the schedule for Saturday and Sunday: Saturday Evening Participants of the Developers Workshop had the chance to get together on Saturday evening for an informal chat. We had reserved a couple of tables in a restaurant in the center of Dresden.

Download Presentations

 * OS/2 USB Stack Development Guidelines Download Download Driver Template
 * Supporting USB WebCams in OS/2 Download WebCam Demo
 * wxWidgets - a cross platform toolkit and its OS/2 versions Download
 * Developing cross-platform text-based applications in C using the OpenWatcom compiler on OS/2 Download1 Download2
 * FORTRAN/TK: Easy GUI development for OS/2 and Windows Download
 * Porting X Applications to PM with Everblue Download
 * Development roadmap for eComStation Download
 * Translating eComStation Download
 * Creating an OS/2 IEEE 1394 - Firewire driver Download1 Download2
 * Mozilla Compilation and Development Procedures Download

Posters
Developers had the opportunity to submit posters for the Developers Workshop! Those posters were printed (at no cost for the developers!!) in Dresden and were visible to all attendees of the Workshop. In addition, the posters can now be downloaded from this website! We had the following posters: Posters are a great way to inform people about your work or your project! If you are developing an application or driver for OS/2 or eComStation or if you are maintaining a website that is related to a development project, please consider creating a poster for the Workshop. A poster is simply a very large paper, for example in the A2 to A3 format, that contains an overview about a project. While it may not be the ideal tool, OpenOffice could be used to create posters! However, we do recommend Maul Publisher to create a poster. A poster should include the following information: - a short history of the project and a description - the current state - some links to web pages or contact information of the author - some ideas about how other developers could participate - anything else that you think is important or interesting You may also update the posters for later OS/2 events like Warpstock or Warpstock Europe! If you cannot attend the Workshop, but would like to present your project to the community we can make this happen! Here is the deal: Send us an eMail and let us know that you think about preparing a poster. Then send us your poster no later then July 4th. Please use PDF, PS, TIFF or any other ready-to-print format! (no SXW, no PAP, no LWP!!) The Workshop team will print the posters in Dresden and present them at the Workshop. There is no cost for you, except the time that you need to create the poster! Of course, we will also make the posters available via the Workshop homepage. This guarantees that a wider audience can have a look at the them!

Workshop Location
The workshop was held in the beautiful city of Dresden, Germany. Here are a few pictures of Dresden:

The workshop itself was held in the Willers-Bau, a building of the Dresden University of Technology. The university campus is located close to the center, just 5 minutes by bus or tram. The address of the Workshop location is: TU-Dresden Willers-Bau A-221 Zellescher Weg 12 01069 Dresden As you can see on the images, if you are coming by car you should be able to park right next to the Willers-Bau. The parking lot is protected by a gate that should be open on Saturday and Sunday. (If not, let the person on the intercom know that you take part in a workshop in the Willers-Bau and want to park your car.) Next to the Willers-Bau is the SLUB, the "Saechsiche Landes und Universitaetsbibliothek", the university library. If you see signs to SLUB, you can follow them as well. (but do not use the SLUB parking lot, as you have to pay there!!) In addition, any decent route planer should be able to locate the address above. If you want to use public transportation from your hotel to the workshop location, you can use the new DORIS information system. First, add the "Starthaltestelle". This is the station close to your hotel. The easiest way to do this is use the "Karte Start" button on the right side of the entry field. Locate your hotel, and the closest bus or tram station. Second, enter "Fritz Foerster Platz" as the "Zielhaltestelle". Now click the "Verbindung suchen" button and you will be presented with a list of possible connections from your hotel to the workshop location. You should be able to see the Willers-Bau from the "Fritz Foerster Platz". (if not, walk along the "Zellscher Weg" eastwards.

Getting to Dresden
If you plan a trip to Dresden and need any advice or help, do not hesitate to contact the organizers. An email address can be found in the Contact section. By Train Dresden can be reached by train very easy. The following table shows the travel time by train from some european cities to Dresden: For more information please visit http://www.bahn.de. By Car Dresden can be reached by car! :-) By Plane Dresden has an airport with a large number of national and some international connections. If there is no direct flight from your city, a connection via Frankfurt a.M., Munich, Leipzig or Berlin is usually available. Flying to Leipzig or Berlin Schoenefeld is particularily attractive, as there are direct train connections from those airports to Dresden. Cheap flight to Dresden are currently available from:

Accomodation
You can use the following websites to find hotels in Dresden. They are in no particular order and we do list them for your information only! (You are looking for hotels in the south of Dresden.) http://www.hrs.de http://hotel.de/ http://opodo.de/ http://www.expedia.de The following hotels are close to the workshop location. 4-star Hotel Mercure Newa Dresden - http://www.mercure.com/mercure/fichehotel/gb/mer/1577/fiche_hotel.shtml The Mercure Newa Dresden is also located in the city center, and the conference location can be reached by tram in about 4 minutes. (just 3 stops) 2-to-3-star Hotels Ibis Dresden Königstein - link Ibis Dresden Lilienstein - link Ibis Dresden Bastei - link Ibis operates three hotels in Dresden. All are located next to each other and very close to the Mercure Newa Dresden and the city center. The conference location can be reached in about 4 minutes. (same route as from the Mercure Newa Dresden) Youth Hostel Style: City-Herberge Dresden - http://city-herberge.de/ The City-Herberge is right in the center of Dresden. The conference location can be reached by tram in about 5 minutes.(5 stops) Camping Site: There is a nice camping site in Dresden-Mockritz, just 8 to 10 minutes by bus or car from the workshop location. Campingplatz Dresden-Mockritz - http://www.camping-dresden.de/

Gallery
The [netlabs.org shop] has a couple of items for sale that are related to the Developers Workshop 2005: This is only a small selection. For a complete list of items see the [netlabs.org shop]. Here are three images from the Developers Workshop 2005: More Images can be downloaded here.

Contact
If you have comments or want further information about the workshop, you can always reach us by sending an eMail to: DevelopersWorkshop [at] netlabs.org Robert Henschel was mainly responsible for organizing the workshop.

Feedback
At the end of the Developers Workshop, feedback forms were handed out to the attendees. Here are the questions and the answers that were given. See yourself if the developers liked the workshop! Altogether we had 36 attendees and 30 feedback forms were handed in.

Announcement Mailing List
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