3rd Mac porters meeting

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When

2 days in the end of April or first half of May. At least 10 days notice is required prior to the date being set for our VIP.

Use Meet-o-matic to find the best date.[1]

The following dates are not possible (chronological order):

  • 19/20th April [2]
  • 8-11th May [3]

Where

Sun's Hamburg Offices Nagelsweg 55, 20097 Hamburg [4]

How to get there?

The 3rd Mac porters meeting will be held at the Sun office in Hamburg. A german description to get there can be found here: [5]


What

This is a meetup of all the main Mac port developers in Sun's Hamburg offices. With the help of someone very knowledgeable on developing Mac OS X applications, in particular porting from Carbon to Cocoa.

Where to stay

Lodging Proposals

These examples are from http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Hamburg_2008_-_F2F_Meeting

Who

Please add to the list anyone who is looking to attend.

  • Apple VIP
  • Shaun McDonald (Depends on work)
  • Florian Heckl (if we find a more suitable weekend or via video conference)
  • Stephan Schaefer
  • Philipp Lohmann
  • Herbert Duerr

What to Fix

This is a list of things that need to be fixed. Links to issues are useful. As many "stuck" or no Apple developer documentation things as possible. You may well want to take a look at Mac_OS_X_Porting_-_Roadmap for ideas

  • Compile on Intel for PPC (if time UB)
  • Proxy icon in the title bar
  • Use of the apple remote, especially for presentations
  • Printing to PDF to keep links in the same way as iWork does it. [6]
  • Translating the native dialogs to the Community supported languages (that Apple doesn't support).
  • Compiling on Leopard to run on Tiger/Compiling the QuickLook plugin on Tiger [7]
  • Import/Export of iWork documents [8]
  • Signing OpenOffice.org .app bundle.
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