Michael Phipps writes in with his
WalterCon 2005 experience:
WalterCon 2005 was a completely new experience. Where WalterCon 2004 was a very "sit and listen to the lectures" experience, WalterCon 2005 was much more a BeGeistert style "get together and hang out" sort of experience. I think that we all had a lot of fun.
I had a great conversation with a company who is currently doing BeOS development for embedded solutions. I built from scratch a BeOS machine, downloaded the Haiku source, built it and demo'ed it. We witnessed, together, the "White Screen Of Death". We oohhed and aahhed over the gorgeous font rendering and the coolness of seeing OpenTracker and OpenDeskbar running on Haiku. We looked at the apps that were running, those that weren't and even demo'ed the debugger. Over all, people seemed to be very impressed with the state of Haiku; it is certainly vastly improved over last year.
There was a lot of time for Q&A and the questions were very interesting and insightful. I had a chance to do a little coding, personally, something that I don't get the chance to do very much of at home. Bryan and Andrew showed off the state of the Java port (but I still didn't see any Yahoo games!). The t-shirts were a big hit, and I want to thank both Chris Pallace (www.chrispallace.com) and Mugs 'N' More in Rochester for their ultra-fast turn around on the design and the printing.
We may well have another (very cool, if I do say so myself!) application coming - one of the attendees and I have designed a simple, lightweight calendaring program in the spirit of BeMail that a good piece of work has gone into. I very much look forward to using it - one of the features that we talked about is peer to peer calendar sharing.
It was a lot of fun. I am already looking forward to next year - maybe somewhere on the East Coast.
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