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BeGeistert 028 impressions

Blog post by humdinger on Tue, 2014-10-28 07:01

After a nice short walk through the light drizzle of the slowly condensing mist that completely shrouded the top of Düsseldorf's landmark Rhine Tower, I arrived pretty early at the Youth Hostel. Entering our conference room I was greeted by its single occupant: Matthias, who I haven't seen at a BeGeistert for some years. We were chatting while I was setting up my gear and one by one more people entered our conference room. Most of them coming from breakfast; they already arrived the day before. I was glad to see most of the regular core developers did manage to come to BeGeistert after all!

Videos of BeGeistert 026 are up

Blog post by humdinger on Thu, 2012-12-06 18:00

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A bit late, but finally I managed to process my recordings of the talks at BeGeistert 026 "Marathon". The quality isn't terrific, looks like the picture was much better last time at BG 024, when we apparently didn't darken the room so much. Audio might be slightly better, as I have used compression and a bit of filtering following advice from Haikollegue Sean Collins.
I used Avidemux under Linux for de/muxing the audio track and encoding the final AVIs, and Audacity for processing the audio. The extensive video editing (j/k) was done with Clockwerk and WonderBrush under Haiku, which isn't at all bad, just very unpolished...

Anyway, if you haven't already, check out DaaT's sheepish report of BeGeistert 026 at IsComputerOn.

Now, on to the videos. All hosted on youtube, you can watch them with a few apps even under Haiku (shamefully plugging UberTuber)...

BG026 - The Auckland Layout Editor (ALE)
Clemens Zeidler presents his new ALE, a GUI editor that helps building constraint based layouts.
BG026 - Haiku Debugging Tools
Ingo Weinhold demonstrates the state of the new graphical Debugger and shows other interesting tools like the profiler to hunt down those bottlenecks.
BG026 - The Future of WonderBrush
Stephan Aßmus reveals his plans for a next generation Wonderbrush, with a snappy multi-threaded backend and, dear Lord, a Qt-Port courtesy of Ingo Weinhold.
BG026 - BeOS Software Classics for Haiku
Adrien Destuges introduces us to his project to resurrect classic BeOS software for Haiku and invites everyone to join his efforts. (Slides as PDF, 183 KiB)
BG026 - Haiku on PowerPC - Sam460ex
François Revol shows the latest developments of the port to a PowerPC architecture. (Slides as PDF/ODP, 106/93 KiB)

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A Short BeGeistert 025 Report

Blog post by humdinger on Fri, 2012-04-06 05:05

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As this was one of the smallest BeGeistert meetings, this report will be quite short as well...

I arrived at the airport on Saturday morning at about 9:15 and made it to the nice location at Düsseldorf's youth hostel at 10 o'clock. After weeks with temperatures up to 20 °C, the good weather took a day off and I made the 10 minute walk from the station "Luegplatz" to the hostel in a very fine drizzle and shivering 10 °C...

BeGeistert 023 - Prime Time

Blog post by humdinger on Thu, 2010-09-23 13:05

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On behalf of the Haiku Support Association (HSA), we'd like to invite you to our 23rd BeGeistert meeting on the weekend of 23./24. of October 2010. It will be held as usual in the nice conference rooms of the youth hostel in Düsseldorf, Germany.

BeGeistert is an excellent opportunity to mingle with and learn from other users and developers from all over Europe (and beyond: this year we're happy to be joined by Rene Gollent, flying over from the US, and Christof Lutteroth and Clemens Zeidler from New Zealand!). Hear about other people's projects or present your own, meet many of Haiku's core developers and discuss the future of Haiku. Or present your favorite KDL and see if our gurus can successfully debug it...

Preceding the BeGeistert weekend, there will be the usual weeklong Code Sprint (18.-22. of October 2010). The additional rent for the needed room is partly financed by Haiku Inc., so many thanks for that!

If you want to join the gang and help bring Haiku another big step forward, contact Stephan Aßmus as soon as possible.

As last BeGeistert, we'll have a separate workshop day on Monday, 25. of October 2010. This time Axel Dörfler will host the tutorial. It's planned to program a simple game, showing off multi-threading, messaging and queries; all tailored to the participants' coding skills of course. A perfect opportunity to pick the brains of one of Haiku's major architects.

The workshop has to be booked separately from the BeGeistert weekend and since places are limited, it's recommended to do so quickly!

Prices:

Per night, incl. breakfast:	24,80 EUR
BeGeistert weekend, incl. lunch:	35,00 EUR
Programming workshop on Monday:	75,00 EUR

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BeGeistert 022 Report

Blog post by humdinger on Thu, 2010-04-15 13:45

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I'd like to give a short account of the 22nd BeGeistert conference that was held on the weekend 10./11. of April 2010 in Düsseldorf/Germany. By now, also the event following Code Sprint is winding down, where Adrien Destugues, Clemens Zeidler, Axel Dörfler, Ingo Weinhold, Oliver Tappe, Michael Lotz and Stephan Aßmus had a week of hardcore Haiku hacking, nicely illustrated by a flurry of commits.

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