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: | 70 | 81,40% |
| Reply: | 17 | 19,77% |
Here are the answers to the 6 questions:
| Yes | No | total | |
| Q1 Develops for/on OS/2 | 15 | 1 | 15 |
| Q2 Wants to meet other people? | 16 | 0 | 15 |
| Q3 Would attend OS/2 only Workshop? | 13 | 3 | 15 |
| Q6 Wants future eMails? | 16 | 1 | 16 |
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.