Developers Workshop

netlabs.org and the OS/2 User Group Dresden are currently looking into hosting an OS/2 and eComStation developers workshop. We know that there is a Warpstock and a Warpstock Europe every year, but we want to find out if a more developer oriented event could be organized.

We think that the first step is to find out if developers would be interested in such a workshop at all (regardless of where and when it would be held!). To get some feedback from developers in the OS/2 community, we did send out 97 eMails. We asked the developers 6 questions:

Q1 Are you developing for/on OS/2 based systems?

Q2 Are you interested in meeting other developers in person, exchange information and talk about OS/2 and eComStation development methods and tools?

Q3 Would you attend a workshop that only covers OS/2 and eComStation development topics?

Q4 To make it worth attending such a workshop, what topics would you like to see covered?

Q5 Comments.

Q6 Would you like to receive future mailings regarding an OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop?

Here are some statistics. From the 86 good eMails, we got:

Here are the answers to the 6 questions: Note 1: One person made clear that he does not want to receive any further eMails. This person only answered question Q6! Note 2: This data is current as of December 20th. (survey was sent out December 16th)

Q4 Suggested topics:
 * Using IBM OCL (C++, Visual Age)
 * Using OpenWatcom
 * Pascal and all it's compilers and libraries.
 * ODIN
 * XworkPlace development
 * Writing USB drivers and using USBCALLS.DLL
 * Writing USB driver
 * Writing simple GUI applications
 * OS/2 as an OpenSource System (stable core, enhancements at ring 3 possible)
 * Cross platform technologies on OS/2 (XUL, Java, Perl, TCL/TK, X, GTK...)
 * See what the new IBM-Lenovo deal can do for OS/2
 * SOM/WPS/OpenDoc development and object technologies under OS/2
 * Porting to OS/2
 * Overview of projects in the works
 * LibC and GCC setup, features and usage
 * IFS programming
 * TCP/IP programming
 * Device I/O, device driver programming
 * General contacts to other developers
 * Setup and Administration of a CVS Server
 * Porting Device Drivers from Windows/Linux to OS/2

Q5 Comments: If you feel like you have some information about the whole idea of a developers workshop to add, please DO NOT EDIT the numbers above, but rather add you comments below. Thanks.
 * Do online courses.
 * Online proceedings would be most useful