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[ReBorCon 2011] REBOL & Boron Conference

Pekr
27-Feb-2011
[349]
BrianH - from end user's perspective, you might not be right - missing 
pop, smtp, ftp, sqlite, mysql, postgress in official distro, just 
to name the few, GUI's not useable yet too, hence ppl keep tied to 
R2 ....
Gregg
27-Feb-2011
[350]
That's why I'm tied to R2 Petr, and CALL is important to me as well.
Dockimbel
27-Feb-2011
[351]
Pekr: Interpreted as well and written in C, so no possible code re-use 
for Red. But I must admit that if I hadn't choosed the compilation 
path, I would have jumped into Boron to contribute. There's some 
good potential there for a serious R2 open source clone.
Pekr
27-Feb-2011
[352]
someone should get the info to Carl, maybe he will stop breeding 
chicken and start coding R3 again :-) (just a joke - I have nothing 
about breeding animals :-)
BrianH
27-Feb-2011
[353]
Agreed, Pekr, but my situation is different. I don't use most of 
that stuff, and when I do I have R2, or many other languages. Most 
of my apps have no UI.
Pekr
27-Feb-2011
[354]
Gregg - right, I forgot that one - 'call, and very bad console, which 
did not serve initial purpose - being usable via ssh etc connection 
anyway ...
Gregg
27-Feb-2011
[355]
Red's forward-thinking view on parallelism is very welcome too.
GrahamC
27-Feb-2011
[356]
R3 also does not have a 64 bit path mapped for it
Pekr
27-Feb-2011
[357]
Gregg - well, we have odbc for R3, as well as libCurl for networking 
(or Graham's networking protocols), call is here, it just does not 
wait nor does it read the output ....
Gregg
27-Feb-2011
[358]
Yes, Graham, also important.
nve
27-Feb-2011
[359]
Today, the best way is to open sourced R2 and merge with Boron effort.
As R3 is different from R2.
Gregg
27-Feb-2011
[360]
We're a bit OT here, don't want to hijack the group.
GrahamC
27-Feb-2011
[361]
well, the group purpose is completed!
BrianH
27-Feb-2011
[362]
Can't merge with Boron while it has a *GPL license.
GrahamC
27-Feb-2011
[363]
the reborcon is over ..
nve
27-Feb-2011
[364]
Winter edition, but Kaj talks about fall edition !
GrahamC
27-Feb-2011
[365]
( wish people would stop using seasons ... !  it's summer here! )
Andreas
27-Feb-2011
[366]
Pekr, CALL in R3 is waiting (on Win32, at least).
Gregg
27-Feb-2011
[367]
That's why you're always early for the confrerences Graham.
GrahamC
27-Feb-2011
[368]
or late !
nve
27-Feb-2011
[369]
( Summer ! Cool ! )
Kaj
27-Feb-2011
[370x4]
Yes, there will be an autumn conference, to finish this one
The name is already outdated, though :-)
Doc will try to be there to report on Red progress
Graham, if you were here, you would have felt it was the winter edition 
;-)
GrahamC
27-Feb-2011
[374]
Looks like Rebol is undergoing a renaissance via open source forks
Kaj
27-Feb-2011
[375x4]
I hope so
Added the Red link to the site
Karl has published the 3D Boron demo, including OpenGL Boron builds 
for Linux and OS X:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/urlan/wiki/BoronFiles
Henrik
28-Feb-2011
[379]
How do you run the demos?
Pekr
28-Feb-2011
[380]
Kaj - you could adapt RebCon, because official REBOL conferences 
are no more, so .....
Rebolek
28-Feb-2011
[381]
so?
Pekr
28-Feb-2011
[382]
so the name is free to use, does not contain REBOL name (trademark), 
so free to use, and "REB" indicates it is rebol related ...
Ladislav
28-Feb-2011
[383]
Pekr, I would expect you to pick a more decent and constructive approach. 
How did you find out you had the right to decide? Did you ask anybody?
Pekr
28-Feb-2011
[384]
Ladislav - what are you talking about here? What is decent and constructive 
about the conference name? Are we going to be censored here, or what? 
This is really starting to be crazy. Look at the Amiga - there is 
AmigaOS, Aros, MorphOS, UAE, there was Amithlon .... and I expect 
ppl meeting at various accassions, to share the spirit of the Amiga, 
although there were some infights between the groups.


Now to REBOL. Last DevCon (Italian Devcon was not even called RebCon 
- http://www.colellachiara.com/devcon05/) was held in 2007 in Paris? 
Then there was one online meeting coordinated by Nick (?), and there 
was an attempt to organise DevCon in Prague, in two consecutive years. 
Carl decided not to attend, from various reasons, so we decided not 
to push the idea of the conference forward.


Then I remember the chat of the community about the topic, thinking 
about organising some REBOL related conference in Amsterodam, simply 
to allow ppl to meet, not necessarily being dependant upon RT attending 
the conference.


And now guys organised ReborCon. I know it was initially related 
to Syllable, and REBOL clones. But - if you read the website carefully, 
the topics are much broader - it already mentions topics for R2, 
R3, Boron, Red. So - what is the problem here? To abandon non official 
REBOL topics on conference, which is called RebCon, because somehow 
imaginary, RT might have the right to "own" the conference name?


Shouldn't we be in fact gratefull, that Doc did not abandon REBOL 
ultimately, but starts his own project he believes in, which in the 
end can benefit for both sides - Red and R3? Is there really NO right 
for me to even not suggest a possible conference name?


The Rebcon conference name was just first out-of-my-head suggestion. 
I can come-up with some others - ReClone, ReCon, or even ReDCon (Rebol 
Developers Conference), and if you give me some time, I might come 
with something even more sophisticated marketing-wise ...
Ladislav
28-Feb-2011
[385]
Kaj picked a name he found appropriate. I wrote my opinion. You did 
not do anything I could consider constructive.
Pekr
28-Feb-2011
[386]
Did he? "Kaj: The name is already outdated, though :-)". That's why 
I suggested that he just could use RebCon name. First - no trademarks 
involved. Second - RT is not actively doing conferences anyway. Third 
- I had not intention to steal the name. I can easily imagine various 
RebCons around the world, related to REBOL related topics. Of course, 
if you think about big inventions like PMA, CeBit, then I can understand, 
that you can't just borrow the name ....
GrahamC
28-Feb-2011
[387x4]
As I recall there was going to be a Rebol3 demo too ..until Robert 
pulled out
Do you change a name because some one pulls their talk??
I think we should be glad for any advertising that includes rebol 
...
Were there any conferences actually organized by RT?  My recollection, 
faint as it is, and having never actually been to one in person, 
was that they were all community organized.
Pekr
28-Feb-2011
[391x3]
I would like this topic being settled, because we are getting into 
advocacy here, and the strange reaction came from RMA guys, while 
I ABSOLUTLY don't insist the conference being called RebCon. It was 
just quick suggestion, nothing more :-) We can as well pick-up another 
xy names. My idea was really open, I thought that even RT could inform 
about such an event in the community section. Of course it depends 
if Carl feels threatened by projects like Orca, Boron, Red ....
The only thing I remember from various meetings/conferences is, that 
it gets ppl more closer together, especially due to after-party in 
the evening :-) I prefer 10 ReborCons, instead of 0 RebCons :-)
And if I look into Genesi company for the inspiration, BBRV are flying 
around the world, attending meetings of local user-groups. They imo 
know why they are doing it - to motivate ppl.
Kaj
28-Feb-2011
[394x4]
Henrik, you need two main archives for the Boron demo. Pick the boron-gl 
archive for your system and use the boron-gl executable to start 
demo/present.b in the demo archive
You need to have OpenGL 2.1 and OpenAL installed in your system
Sorry, it's present/demo.b
You need to run that from the present/ directory
Ladislav
28-Feb-2011
[398]
Disclaimer: I presented neither Carl's, nor RMA opinion. (It should 
have been obvious from "I wrote my opinion." above) Pekr immediately 
misinterpreted it by stating "reaction came from RMA guys".