FW: OOPS136 - 6.30pm Wed 1 Dec - OT at the Open Frontier (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:53:06 -0000
From: James Youngman <James.Youngman at centrica.co.uk>
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     "'linux-users at mcc.ac.uk'" <linux-users at mcc.ac.uk>
Subject: FW: OOPS136 - 6.30pm Wed 1 Dec - OT at the Open Frontier

-----Original Message-----
From: HunekeI at Logica.Com [mailto:HunekeI at Logica.Com] 
Sent: 30 November 1999 15:56
To: freenews at rambo.logica.co.uk
Cc: opensource at rambo.logica.co.uk
Subject: OOPS136 - 6.30pm Wed 1 Dec - OT at the Open Frontier


Hello all,

This presentation might be of interest to those with an open mind about open
source. Sorry about the short notice.

Best regards,
Immo.

BCS Object-Oriented Programming and Systems Specialist Group

6.30 pm Wednesday 1st December 1999

IBM Centre, South Bank
76 Upper Ground, London SE1
(next to the National Theatre, closest station Waterloo)
Admission free - no pre-registration required

OOPS-136
Object Technology at the Open Frontier

David Faure, MandrakeSoft
Michael Meeks, Cambridge University

ABSTRACT

Much has been written recently about the Free Software / Open Source
movement. It affects everyone involved in producing, selling or
maintaining software or providing software-related services.

One of the things that the Free Software movement has done is to
establish a quite novel way of collaborating on fast-track software
research projects. As a result, we are seeing a sudden surge of
innovation such as there has not been for a considerable time.

It is invigorating that the projects coming out of these collaborative
research efforts are driven by what users want, not by what corporate
marketing people think they will be able to sell.

Much of the Open Source activity is focused on Linux, the Free Software
operating system that emulates UNIX(R). Linux has succeeded in
establishing a de facto standard for the UNIX API, something that the
Open Group has failed to do. To succeed on the desktop, however, Linux
needed a graphical user interface that is at least as easy to use as
Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) and a suite of Office applications that are
well integrated and extensible under this environment.

At least two efforts are underway to provide Linux users with a
productive and comfortable graphical working environment: KDE and GNOME.
Underlying each of them is a powerful object model, which acts as the
glue between the components of applications and allows the user to
manage the working environment efficiently.

We are excited to be presenting two researchers who are in the thick of
these developments. They will give us their view from the code-face and
provide us with an insight into the relative merits of each object
model. 

KDE, its object model and its office-suite framework
David Faure, MandrakeSoft

After a short introduction on what is KDE (K Desktop Environment), the
speaker will present its object model - which is Qt's object model - and
how it extends C++ for GUI and asynchronous programming. He will then
present the previous CORBA-based embedding framework called OpenParts,
the reasons why it has been redesigned recently, and the new framework,
called Canossa. He will conclude with an overview of KOffice, the
showcase application written under KDE. 

GNOME - GNU Network Object Model Environment
Michael Meeks, Cambridge University

This talk will describe GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit -- GIMP = GNU Image
Manipulation Program), which includes a dynamic type system and a
C-based object system, and ORBit, a high-performance, fair-conformance
ORB (CORBA 2.2), together with the "what and why" of Bonobo, a component
model.

Some discussion about OO programming in C vs. C++ will be included (is
it the answer to incompetent programmers? :-), concluding with an
overview of GNOME Office - what ships now, what works now and what is
coming later.

David Faure [faure at kde.org] is French, aged 23, now living in the UK. He
has been a KDE developer for two years, is the maintainer of the file
manager, and has worked on the KDE libraries and the KOffice framework.
He is a regular speaker at Linux developer conferences
[http://www.europe-inside.com/eurojapan/] and has written a series of
articles on KDE programming for Linux Magazine France. 

Michael Meeks [mmeeks at gnu.org] developed his expertise in real-time
Audio/Visual editing and playback, and hardware and software development
while working for Quantel Ltd. He enjoys creating focused solutions,
particularly the HW side. Since early 1999, he has been involved in
GNOME Office development, especially Gnumeric, Microsoft Office
compatibility and Bonobo. He is currently a 4th year Electrical and
Information Science student at Cambridge University, UK.



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