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["Chira, Valentin" <Chira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

make it in Europe and we will..

regards, 
  Valentin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: m.jacob@xxxxxx [mailto:m.jacob@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Freitag, 1. November 2002 10:30
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: BeGeistert 9 from my point of view
> 
> 
> 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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