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[m.jacob@xxxxxx]

Fellows,

I can only second this report! It was my first BeGeistert after quite some
timeout from everything which had to do with BeOS and I must admit, that I
felt at home the minute I arrived. BeGeistert has gone a long way from the first
BeGeistert, back in December 1998, shortly before R4 was released ;-) and
the mood and spirit of the community hasn't changed since that time. It was
great to see a lot of people again, whom I've met during the times when I still
worked for Be.

If you haven't been there you seriously should consider to attend the next
event, especially since there are some very promising outlooks for the
beginnig of next year, as far as significant progress in various OBOS projects -
commercial and open-source alike! I'm looking forward to whatever will end up on
my harddrive in the future.

Let's hope for many more BeGeistert events in the future!

Cheers,
Rossi

> BeGeistert 9: Bad weather - but a quite good atmosphere
> 
> Just to allow everyone, who couldn't attend, to get an idea,
> what they might have missed: a review from my point of view.
> 
> ***************************************************************
> 
> To the 3 mostly asked qustions
> 
>     - how many were there
>     - what happened
>     - what was shown
> 
> there is exactly one answer:
> 
>     quite a lot ;)
> 
> BeGeistert 9 had
> 
>     - with the "French Invasion" (consisting of 10 French in
>         2 cars) the biggest group arriving together.
> 
>     - with a "Flug-BeGeisterten" ( ???? ) and his 300 $ flight
>         probably the most expensive journey.
> 
>     - with Marcin from Poland and his 12-hour-train-trip
>         probably the longest lasting journey.
> 
> Altogether there were 50 visitors, most stayed for both.
> 
> I noticed, that from the beginning (when it was a hard time to
> guide Chis to the event) to the end
> (after the feared check up of the cash)
> (after doing the dreaded figures)
> the mood was definitely good.
> 
> For shure, that the reason for this weren't the problems and
> misunderstandings of a linguistic nature that caused general
> amusement; lots of visitors were really glad to see the faces
> belonging to the guys they knew from email or IRC quite long.
> 
> And orders at the Greek for about 106 $ and 200 $ at the pizza-
> taxi also made sure, that both body and soul were kept in spirits.
> 
> **********
> 
> Over all there were 5 presentations/talks, and I hope, someone
> else will tell more about the ones I couldn't attend or have
> only followed partly.
> 
> -----
> 
> Nicholas Blachford[1], who released Aural illusion[2] for BeOS,
> now works as a software-engineer for Thendic France[3].
> 
> Together with Bertrand Presles und Sebastien Lokhamkhouak, he
> gave a look inside the Pegasos-system[4], currently running with
> the operating system MorphOS[5]
> 
> MorphOS is a commercial OS, quite close to AmigaOS 3.9
> Pegasus is a PPC-machine, currently based on a dual G3/G4 ATX
> motherboard.
> 
> This hardware might become interesting to those guys, who want
> a PPC for a BeOS successor.
> 
> Petra Struck from the German site Amiga-News[6] made an interview
> (in German) and released some pics[7].
> 
> -----
> 
> Frank Scholl from the German site BeOSonline[8] gave an overview
> on the upcoming changes to this community-site and what can be
> expected from the "Developer Edition" in furure.
> 
> After a re-design, the site will not only host German contents,
> but also parts in other languages, AFAIR English, French and
> Dutch were mentioned.
> 
> As a transitional edition (available as a burnable image), the
> "Developer Edition" should make it easy for BeOS-newBees to jump
> on board without searching the whole net for drivers and apps.
> Depending on the legal situation, it might evolve to a distribution
> like the ones in the Linux-world.
> 
> ------
> 
> >>From the OpenBeOS community, about a dozen guys were there and
> Axel Dörfler und Philippe "I dont sign french" Houdoin talked
> about 45 minutes not only about the project itself, but also the
> network-architecture of OpenBeOS (or whatever it will be called ;)
> Not being a developer, I didn't attend, so I hope someone else
> jumps in to give additional infos if neccessary.
> 
> ------
> 
> Stephan Assmus of yellowbites[10] had a 90 minutes presentation
> to the curreent state of Exposer[11] and Coldcut [12].
> 
> Missed it, perhaps someone else wants to tell more ?
> 
> ------
> 
> Bernd Korz of YellowTab [13] had a presentation on a pre-release
> of "Zeta" [14], a commercial successor to BeOS.
> 
> It is planned to be released as 4 different distributions on CD,
> DVD and Compact Flash, aiming at different groups of users.
> 
> The most interesting part _for me_ was the way they implemented
> localisation in Zeta.
> Not only that it seems to make it VERY easy vor developers to
> localize their apps, also the every-day-user seems to get an
> easy way to make changes to his needs or contribute localisation
> for strange languages.
> 
> Naturally, there are lots of improvements and innovations compared
> to BeOS R503 - IMHO a product that is worth to have your eyes on.
> 
> ***********
> 
> Between all the presentations and talks, you could see Chris
> Simmons of BeOSjournal[15] scurrying arroung, picking one or the
> other for an interview that might be released there or aired by
> BeOSradio[16].
> 
> I deeply hope, that not only Chris, but also some others (yes, my
> French friends, I'm pointing at you ;) pull themself together
> und write a review from THEIR point of view - I have attended
> BeGeisterts too often and lots of things are too usual to me to
> mention them for the ninth time ;)
> 
> You will find links to the numbers in brackets [] below, and IF
> you have released a review, report or pics about the event, it
> would be nice to send that URL to the BeGeistert-Team [17].
> 
> Apart from that, I hope, that BeGeistert X, April 2003, will see
> as much people having the same fun at the same place.
> 
> see you there...
> scholly
> 
> ps:
> yes, English is not my mother-tounge but it should be good enough
> to be understood, even if not all jokes come through ;)
> 
> ================================================================>
> Footnotes:
> 
> [1] http://www.blachford.info/blachtech/index.html
> [2] http://www.blachford.info/blachtech/index.html
> [3] http://www.thendic-france.com/
> [4] http://www.thendic-france.com/TECH/GE/products/pegasos/pegasos.htm
> [5] http://www.morphos.de/
> [6] http://www.amiga-news.de/
> [7] http://www.amiga-news.de/archiv02/pegasos/index.html
> [8] http://www.beosonline.de/
> [9] http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/news.php
> [10] http://www.yellowbites.com
> [11] http://www.yellowbites.com/exposer.html
> [12] http://www.yellowbites.com/downloads.html
> [13] http://www.yellowtab.com
> [14] http://www.yellowtab.com
> [15] http://www.beosjournal.org/
> [16] http://www.beosradio.com
> [17] mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> 

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