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.

Mails send out:	97
Undeliverable:	11

From the 86 good eMails, we got:

No reply:	69	80,23%
Reply:	17	19,77%

Here are the answers to the 6 questions:

	Yes	No	total
Q1 Develops for/on OS/2	15	1	16
Q2 Wants to meet other people?	16	0	16
Q3 Would attend OS/2 only Workshop?	13	3	16
Q6 Wants future eMails?	16	1	17

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
• NdisWrapper for OS/2

Q5 Comments:

• Do online courses.
• Online proceedings would be most useful

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.