Developers Conference 2002

QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference. To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference activities, you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

Below are some general topics - beside each, please give me an idea of how
important you think the topic is by giving each a grade from 1-5, with 5
being the most important. Please feel free to add to the list as well and
expand on any of the topics…Keep in mind there will be a ‘new user’ and an
‘expert user’ track and the conference would be 2.5 days in length - the
content will also be as hands-on as possible.

If you also would like to participate in a conference advisory group, send
me an email - hblentic@qnx.com and let me know. This way we can work
closely together to create a true developer conference…

some topics:
Embedding Issues - IPL, BSPs,startup
Code development/debug on QNX
Architecting Applications Using QNX
Cross development
PhAB and User Interfaces
Writing Portable POSIX Apps.
DDKs (network, audio,MOST)
HAT
SAT
Migration to QNX 6
Netcom development - IONet,Qnet,SMP
Target HW Considerations for QNX porting


best regards
Haris

Haris Blentic
QNX Developer Community
hblentic@qnx.com

Just wanted to avoid confusion and expand on some acronyms…

SAT - System Analysis Toolkit (DejaView)
HAT - High Availability Toolkit (High Availability Manager)

thanks
Haris




“Haris Blentic” <hblentic@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:9v5tgp$gsj$2@nntp.qnx.com

QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference. To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference activities,
you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

Below are some general topics - beside each, please give me an idea of how
important you think the topic is by giving each a grade from 1-5, with 5
being the most important. Please feel free to add to the list as well and
expand on any of the topics…Keep in mind there will be a ‘new user’ and
an
‘expert user’ track and the conference would be 2.5 days in length - the
content will also be as hands-on as possible.

If you also would like to participate in a conference advisory group, send
me an email - > hblentic@qnx.com > and let me know. This way we can work
closely together to create a true developer conference…

some topics:
Embedding Issues - IPL, BSPs,startup
Code development/debug on QNX
Architecting Applications Using QNX
Cross development
PhAB and User Interfaces
Writing Portable POSIX Apps.
DDKs (network, audio,MOST)
HAT
SAT
Migration to QNX 6
Netcom development - IONet,Qnet,SMP
Target HW Considerations for QNX porting


best regards
Haris

Haris Blentic
QNX Developer Community
hblentic@qnx.com

\

“Haris Blentic” <hblentic@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:9v5tgp$gsj$2@nntp.qnx.com

QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference. To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference activities,
you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

What is timeframe? I’ve never been to any of those places, so I would not
care much but season-wise considerations might apply. Las Vegas sounds like
fun and it might be cheaper to attend with all those deals targeted at
hard-core gamblers :wink:

Below are some general topics - beside each, please give me an idea of how
important you think the topic is by giving each a grade from 1-5, with 5
being the most important. Please feel free to add to the list as well and
expand on any of the topics…Keep in mind there will be a ‘new user’ and
an
‘expert user’ track and the conference would be 2.5 days in length - the
content will also be as hands-on as possible.

If you also would like to participate in a conference advisory group, send
me an email - > hblentic@qnx.com > and let me know. This way we can work
closely together to create a true developer conference…

some topics:
Embedding Issues - IPL, BSPs,startup

That should get 5. And have few PDA-oriented examples to get people started
with toys they bring with them :slight_smile:

Code development/debug on QNX

Vague.

Architecting Applications Using QNX

It is 5 for newbies and 1 for seasoned people :slight_smile:

Cross development

This is very important to some people and not important at all to others.
I’d mark is as 4, but again we might mean different things. I think to make
it most interesting it should be about creating custom cross-environment,
not using existing ones. Remote debugging is quite interesting subject too
which involves many implications such as visibility of source for debugging
(off version control systems).

PhAB and User Interfaces

GUI style guidelines would be nice. That has little to do with PhAB (imho).
I say 4.

Writing Portable POSIX Apps.

This is interesting subject if you really dig into it and rather dull if you
make it shallow. Covering real life examples/caveats of porting between QNX
and couple of most widely used Unixes would be much better than just
abstract sentiments which everyone can read in POSIX book himself. Solaris
and Linux are good choices I think. It is probably 3.

DDKs (network, audio,MOST)

This is 5 of course. I’d really appreciate if the focus was made on
approaches allowing to use open-source driver sources as ‘documentation’. Of
course DDKs were not designed exactly for that, but in real life people
using them often don’t have specs and often there’s a free driver source for
another OS.

To make it clear what I mean, I’d like to see an example of ‘mapping’ of a
driver in each category from Linux to QNX. Some of them map quite easily
(like audio) and I’ve done that myself. Some might be harder, but in any
case there’s more or less stable framework for each category. Such framework
includes general organisation of driver, principal data structures, etc. For
someone experienced in certain class of hardware and both Linux & QNX
drivers of that class, it would be relatively easy to show how to ‘map’ such
structures, low-level routines and other elements. If there was an example
of doing that with Xfree video driver, I’d write Photon driver for my laptop
(and share it with others, of course).

HAT

HAT does not exist. Well it does, but for very small number of people. And
it does not do much of what one would need (for me anyway). This subject
really requires something more like a brainstorming than a workshop. QNX
architecture is lacking severely in area of PCI dynamic configuration
support and high-availability storage. It would be nice to discuss that with
interested people. To be more specific:

  • there is no way to discover a PCI device inserted into CompactPCI chassis,
    if carrier card has PCI-to-PCI bridge (which most of them do), because
    there’s no concept of ‘PCI chipset driver’ in QNX;
  • there’s no support for hot-swapable hard drives;
  • there’s no support for RAID;

This has rating 5 in my priorities. Not many OSes have satisfactory
solutions, it would be fun to make QNX the one. But if all they gonna tell
is how you can nicely monitor/respaws processes, that’s old news too. We had
such solution long before HAT.

SAT

That will probably be most exciting new feature, except as with HAT not many
people will have their hands on it. It is 4 for me.

Migration to QNX 6

Migration from what? If from QNX4, that’s old news, 1 :wink:

Netcom development - IONet,Qnet,SMP

Cool, but out of my field, 1

Target HW Considerations for QNX porting

Vague.

I’d say that given plans with Eclipse, the list is sorely missing
Java-related stuff. Developiong Eclipse plugins for QNX would be very
interesting addition. Progress/status on realtime Java specs/implementation
is also very interesting.

Another thing is doing custom installations. OSes like WinNT and Solaris
have specially designed tools and procedures for doing that. For QNX we had
to develop our own and so far we see each new major release being
progressively harder to manage in terms of field installations. What is
needed is hands-free automated solutions with parameters/feature sets
selectable through floppy or network server.

regards,

  • igor

Haris Blentic wrote:

QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference. To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference activities, you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

Why in NA ??

There are still 4 other continents where never was held an international
QNX Conference…

BTW, do you plan a big one again ?
I’m asking because of QNX 2000 should be the last big one AFAIK.
For future was talked about smaller QNX Conferences on different
continents.

Do you have checked how many non American guys attended the
international
QNX 2000 ?

BTW, is the QNX 2002 planed as pure conference or additional with a
small exhibition, a table top exhibition e.g.?

How many weeks or may be monthes before the Conference will be fixed the
date and location? Please have in mind that companies are planning
normally 1 year in advance…

Best regards,
Jutta

“Haris Blentic” <hblentic@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:9v5tgp$gsj$2@nntp.qnx.com

QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference.

Great news.

To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference activities,
you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

Montreal sounds interesting :wink: Because of the Canadian dollars
exchange rate that would probably be cheaper for QNX and
visitors.

Las Vegas could be nice and hotel rate can be cheap if availability
of room is high (low season and/or while no other main event
is schedule). Even if you don’t gamble Las Vegas is something
to see. However if you’ve already seen it, don’t gamble and don’t
go to stripers I guess it can be boring :wink:

What about Honolulu or Waikiki ?

What about Europe, will it have its own conference . If not
then you could consider a European country where rates
are low. Igor said something about Spain a while ago I beleive.

Alex C. would surely like something in South Africa :wink:

Below are some general topics - beside each, please give me an idea of how
important you think the topic is by giving each a grade from 1-5, with 5
being the most important. Please feel free to add to the list as well and
expand on any of the topics…Keep in mind there will be a ‘new user’ and
an
‘expert user’ track and the conference would be 2.5 days in length - the
content will also be as hands-on as possible.

If you also would like to participate in a conference advisory group, send
me an email - > hblentic@qnx.com > and let me know. This way we can work
closely together to create a true developer conference…

Embedding Issues - IPL, BSPs,startup

5 - To add to Igor comments I also think embedding
software ( such as Photon) should be high on the list. This process
should be made easier, I guess first through better documentation
and then via Tool Set. I’ve just tried the Windows XP embedded
image builder tools, God I wish there was something like that
on QNX.

Code development/debug on QNX

3 -

Architecting Applications Using QNX

2 -

Cross development

5 - I’d like to see a presentation , mainly a comparaison,
betwen native and cross development tools set. I’m getting sick
and tired of setting up a PC to run QNX6 on, compability issue,
lack of hardware support etc. Not to mention short list of
available software. Hence I’m contempling the idea of starting
to cross develop. I’m kind of doing this now since I always
work through Phindows.

PhAB and User Interfaces

1 - have no real interest. Unlike Igor I don’t care about UI
guideline because all company I worked with design there
own look and feel (to differentiate themselves)

Writing Portable POSIX Apps.

1 -

DDKs (network, audio,MOST)

5- what’s MOST?

HAT

4 - I’d like to see something in action… I find
the documention that comes with HAT very good. I don’t
feel the need for more technical info. However case study
would be interesting. Something to trigger the imagination.

SAT

4 - This is very basic, I don’t know how someone could
talk for 1 hour about it :wink: That being said it would be
interesting to see example how one is to integrate the
facility in a program to do performance measurement.

Migration to QNX 6

1 - If from QNX4
3 - If from Unix/Linux

Netcom development - IONet,Qnet,SMP
5



Target HW Considerations for QNX porting

3

Suggestion

5 - One of the think i’ve seen in ALL place I worked is
the need for some kind of redundant software package.
A mean to be able to recover from HD or Flash
corruption or to fall back to a previous version (package manager?).
This issue is not really address by the OS itself, but
I’d like to see QNX talk about how the OS can
help dealing with these issues.

General Comments:

I think the last conference had too much non technical bla bla.
How technicaly usefull where the talk from IBM, 3COM,
I-Opener, etc… They surely have some great usefullness
marketing wise, but I think that seminars could be scheduled
at the same time as these talks. That could help technicaly
starving people to attend more seminars.

Mario Charest <mcharest@clipzinformatic.com> wrote:
: 5- what’s MOST?

Media Oriented Systems Transport. It’s a European optical bus system for
multimedia in cars. See:

www.oasis.com
www.mostcooperation.com

(Amazing what you learn when you write the docs…)


Steve Reid stever@qnx.com
TechPubs (Technical Publications)
QNX Software Systems

Mario,

Thanks for the response. I do like your choice of locations as well :slight_smile:
I certainly want to have this conference be as technically driven as
possible - otherwise we would be defeating the whole point of a ‘developer’
conference…

Keep sending me any suggestions/comments as we go further…

thanks!
Haris

Haris Blentic
Developer Community Specialist
hblentic@qnx.com





“Mario Charest” <mcharest@clipzinformatic.com> wrote in message
news:9v7lh5$mup$1@inn.qnx.com

“Haris Blentic” <> hblentic@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:9v5tgp$gsj$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference.

Great news.

To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know
what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference activities,
you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

Montreal sounds interesting > :wink: > Because of the Canadian dollars
exchange rate that would probably be cheaper for QNX and
visitors.

Las Vegas could be nice and hotel rate can be cheap if availability
of room is high (low season and/or while no other main event
is schedule). Even if you don’t gamble Las Vegas is something
to see. However if you’ve already seen it, don’t gamble and don’t
go to stripers I guess it can be boring > :wink:

What about Honolulu or Waikiki ?

What about Europe, will it have its own conference . If not
then you could consider a European country where rates
are low. Igor said something about Spain a while ago I beleive.

Alex C. would surely like something in South Africa > :wink:

Below are some general topics - beside each, please give me an idea of
how
important you think the topic is by giving each a grade from 1-5, with 5
being the most important. Please feel free to add to the list as well
and
expand on any of the topics…Keep in mind there will be a ‘new user’
and
an
‘expert user’ track and the conference would be 2.5 days in length - the
content will also be as hands-on as possible.

If you also would like to participate in a conference advisory group,
send
me an email - > hblentic@qnx.com > and let me know. This way we can work
closely together to create a true developer conference…

Embedding Issues - IPL, BSPs,startup

5 - To add to Igor comments I also think embedding
software ( such as Photon) should be high on the list. This process
should be made easier, I guess first through better documentation
and then via Tool Set. I’ve just tried the Windows XP embedded
image builder tools, God I wish there was something like that
on QNX.

Code development/debug on QNX

3 -

Architecting Applications Using QNX

2 -

Cross development

5 - I’d like to see a presentation , mainly a comparaison,
betwen native and cross development tools set. I’m getting sick
and tired of setting up a PC to run QNX6 on, compability issue,
lack of hardware support etc. Not to mention short list of
available software. Hence I’m contempling the idea of starting
to cross develop. I’m kind of doing this now since I always
work through Phindows.

PhAB and User Interfaces

1 - have no real interest. Unlike Igor I don’t care about UI
guideline because all company I worked with design there
own look and feel (to differentiate themselves)

Writing Portable POSIX Apps.

1 -

DDKs (network, audio,MOST)

5- what’s MOST?

HAT

4 - I’d like to see something in action… I find
the documention that comes with HAT very good. I don’t
feel the need for more technical info. However case study
would be interesting. Something to trigger the imagination.

SAT

4 - This is very basic, I don’t know how someone could
talk for 1 hour about it > :wink: > That being said it would be
interesting to see example how one is to integrate the
facility in a program to do performance measurement.

Migration to QNX 6

1 - If from QNX4
3 - If from Unix/Linux

Netcom development - IONet,Qnet,SMP
5

Target HW Considerations for QNX porting

3

Suggestion

5 - One of the think i’ve seen in ALL place I worked is
the need for some kind of redundant software package.
A mean to be able to recover from HD or Flash
corruption or to fall back to a previous version (package manager?).
This issue is not really address by the OS itself, but
I’d like to see QNX talk about how the OS can
help dealing with these issues.

General Comments:

I think the last conference had too much non technical bla bla.
How technicaly usefull where the talk from IBM, 3COM,
I-Opener, etc… They surely have some great usefullness
marketing wise, but I think that seminars could be scheduled
at the same time as these talks. That could help technicaly
starving people to attend more seminars.

\

Igor,

Thanks for the feedback. The conference timeframe is Fall/2002 (seasonally
appropriate for all the possible locations). I’ll certainly be letting you
know the specifics as we move forward. Eclipse will definitely be a major
component of the conference - specific topics on the subject weren’t
included in my original email, but let me know what you’d like to hear about
and we’ll go from there.

thanks!
Haris





“Igor Kovalenko” <kovalenko@home.com> wrote in message
news:9v7b23$g11$1@inn.qnx.com

“Haris Blentic” <> hblentic@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:9v5tgp$gsj$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference. To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know
what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference activities,
you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

What is timeframe? I’ve never been to any of those places, so I would not
care much but season-wise considerations might apply. Las Vegas sounds
like
fun and it might be cheaper to attend with all those deals targeted at
hard-core gamblers > :wink:

Below are some general topics - beside each, please give me an idea of
how
important you think the topic is by giving each a grade from 1-5, with 5
being the most important. Please feel free to add to the list as well
and
expand on any of the topics…Keep in mind there will be a ‘new user’
and
an
‘expert user’ track and the conference would be 2.5 days in length - the
content will also be as hands-on as possible.

If you also would like to participate in a conference advisory group,
send
me an email - > hblentic@qnx.com > and let me know. This way we can work
closely together to create a true developer conference…

some topics:
Embedding Issues - IPL, BSPs,startup

That should get 5. And have few PDA-oriented examples to get people
started
with toys they bring with them > :slight_smile:

Code development/debug on QNX

Vague.

Architecting Applications Using QNX

It is 5 for newbies and 1 for seasoned people > :slight_smile:

Cross development

This is very important to some people and not important at all to others.
I’d mark is as 4, but again we might mean different things. I think to
make
it most interesting it should be about creating custom
cross-environment,
not using existing ones. Remote debugging is quite interesting subject too
which involves many implications such as visibility of source for
debugging
(off version control systems).

PhAB and User Interfaces

GUI style guidelines would be nice. That has little to do with PhAB
(imho).
I say 4.

Writing Portable POSIX Apps.

This is interesting subject if you really dig into it and rather dull if
you
make it shallow. Covering real life examples/caveats of porting between
QNX
and couple of most widely used Unixes would be much better than just
abstract sentiments which everyone can read in POSIX book himself. Solaris
and Linux are good choices I think. It is probably 3.

DDKs (network, audio,MOST)

This is 5 of course. I’d really appreciate if the focus was made on
approaches allowing to use open-source driver sources as ‘documentation’.
Of
course DDKs were not designed exactly for that, but in real life people
using them often don’t have specs and often there’s a free driver source
for
another OS.

To make it clear what I mean, I’d like to see an example of ‘mapping’ of a
driver in each category from Linux to QNX. Some of them map quite easily
(like audio) and I’ve done that myself. Some might be harder, but in any
case there’s more or less stable framework for each category. Such
framework
includes general organisation of driver, principal data structures, etc.
For
someone experienced in certain class of hardware and both Linux & QNX
drivers of that class, it would be relatively easy to show how to ‘map’
such
structures, low-level routines and other elements. If there was an example
of doing that with Xfree video driver, I’d write Photon driver for my
laptop
(and share it with others, of course).

HAT

HAT does not exist. Well it does, but for very small number of people. And
it does not do much of what one would need (for me anyway). This subject
really requires something more like a brainstorming than a workshop. QNX
architecture is lacking severely in area of PCI dynamic configuration
support and high-availability storage. It would be nice to discuss that
with
interested people. To be more specific:

  • there is no way to discover a PCI device inserted into CompactPCI
    chassis,
    if carrier card has PCI-to-PCI bridge (which most of them do), because
    there’s no concept of ‘PCI chipset driver’ in QNX;
  • there’s no support for hot-swapable hard drives;
  • there’s no support for RAID;

This has rating 5 in my priorities. Not many OSes have satisfactory
solutions, it would be fun to make QNX the one. But if all they gonna tell
is how you can nicely monitor/respaws processes, that’s old news too. We
had
such solution long before HAT.

SAT

That will probably be most exciting new feature, except as with HAT not
many
people will have their hands on it. It is 4 for me.

Migration to QNX 6

Migration from what? If from QNX4, that’s old news, 1 > :wink:

Netcom development - IONet,Qnet,SMP

Cool, but out of my field, 1

Target HW Considerations for QNX porting

Vague.

I’d say that given plans with Eclipse, the list is sorely missing
Java-related stuff. Developiong Eclipse plugins for QNX would be very
interesting addition. Progress/status on realtime Java
specs/implementation
is also very interesting.

Another thing is doing custom installations. OSes like WinNT and Solaris
have specially designed tools and procedures for doing that. For QNX we
had
to develop our own and so far we see each new major release being
progressively harder to manage in terms of field installations. What is
needed is hands-free automated solutions with parameters/feature sets
selectable through floppy or network server.

regards,

  • igor

1st choice - Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California

2nd choice - San Fransisco

I finally live near San Fran and it seems like the conferences aren’t coming
here now. :slight_smile:

Jim

“Haris Blentic” <hblentic@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:9v5tgp$gsj$2@nntp.qnx.com

QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference. To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference activities,
you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

Below are some general topics - beside each, please give me an idea of how
important you think the topic is by giving each a grade from 1-5, with 5
being the most important. Please feel free to add to the list as well and
expand on any of the topics…Keep in mind there will be a ‘new user’ and
an
‘expert user’ track and the conference would be 2.5 days in length - the
content will also be as hands-on as possible.

If you also would like to participate in a conference advisory group, send
me an email - > hblentic@qnx.com > and let me know. This way we can work
closely together to create a true developer conference…

some topics:
Embedding Issues - IPL, BSPs,startup
Code development/debug on QNX
Architecting Applications Using QNX
Cross development
PhAB and User Interfaces
Writing Portable POSIX Apps.
DDKs (network, audio,MOST)
HAT
SAT
Migration to QNX 6
Netcom development - IONet,Qnet,SMP
Target HW Considerations for QNX porting


best regards
Haris

Haris Blentic
QNX Developer Community
hblentic@qnx.com

\

Aren’t you planning to include skiing into after-time activities Jim? :slight_smile:

Jim Lambert wrote:

1st choice - Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California

2nd choice - San Fransisco

I finally live near San Fran and it seems like the conferences aren’t coming
here now. > :slight_smile:

Jim

“Haris Blentic” <> hblentic@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:9v5tgp$gsj$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference. To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference activities,
you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

Below are some general topics - beside each, please give me an idea of how
important you think the topic is by giving each a grade from 1-5, with 5
being the most important. Please feel free to add to the list as well and
expand on any of the topics…Keep in mind there will be a ‘new user’ and
an
‘expert user’ track and the conference would be 2.5 days in length - the
content will also be as hands-on as possible.

If you also would like to participate in a conference advisory group, send
me an email - > hblentic@qnx.com > and let me know. This way we can work
closely together to create a true developer conference…

some topics:
Embedding Issues - IPL, BSPs,startup
Code development/debug on QNX
Architecting Applications Using QNX
Cross development
PhAB and User Interfaces
Writing Portable POSIX Apps.
DDKs (network, audio,MOST)
HAT
SAT
Migration to QNX 6
Netcom development - IONet,Qnet,SMP
Target HW Considerations for QNX porting


best regards
Haris

Haris Blentic
QNX Developer Community
hblentic@qnx.com

\

LOL! Busted? :slight_smile:

Jim

“Igor Kovalenko” <Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> wrote in message
news:3C1816B5.D0E141CC@motorola.com

Aren’t you planning to include skiing into after-time activities Jim? > :slight_smile:

Jim Lambert wrote:

1st choice - Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California

2nd choice - San Fransisco

I finally live near San Fran and it seems like the conferences aren’t
coming
here now. > :slight_smile:

Jim

“Haris Blentic” <> hblentic@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:9v5tgp$gsj$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference. To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to
your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know
what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference
activities,
you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

Below are some general topics - beside each, please give me an idea of
how
important you think the topic is by giving each a grade from 1-5, with
5
being the most important. Please feel free to add to the list as well
and
expand on any of the topics…Keep in mind there will be a ‘new user’
and
an
‘expert user’ track and the conference would be 2.5 days in length -
the
content will also be as hands-on as possible.

If you also would like to participate in a conference advisory group,
send
me an email - > hblentic@qnx.com > and let me know. This way we can work
closely together to create a true developer conference…

some topics:
Embedding Issues - IPL, BSPs,startup
Code development/debug on QNX
Architecting Applications Using QNX
Cross development
PhAB and User Interfaces
Writing Portable POSIX Apps.
DDKs (network, audio,MOST)
HAT
SAT
Migration to QNX 6
Netcom development - IONet,Qnet,SMP
Target HW Considerations for QNX porting


best regards
Haris

Haris Blentic
QNX Developer Community
hblentic@qnx.com

\

Then it gotta be Ski Heaven. Southern shore, Half of lifts in Nevada, half
in California, highest vertical drop on Lake Tahoe.
I am just not sure if they have any conference-oriented facilities at all,
lol :slight_smile:

  • igor

“Jim Lambert” <jlambert@futurex.com> wrote in message
news:9v9al1$sdf$1@inn.qnx.com

LOL! Busted? > :slight_smile:

Jim

“Igor Kovalenko” <> Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> > wrote in message
news:> 3C1816B5.D0E141CC@motorola.com> …
Aren’t you planning to include skiing into after-time activities Jim? > :slight_smile:

Jim Lambert wrote:

1st choice - Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California

2nd choice - San Fransisco

I finally live near San Fran and it seems like the conferences aren’t
coming
here now. > :slight_smile:

Jim

“Haris Blentic” <> hblentic@qnx.com> > wrote in message
news:9v5tgp$gsj$> 2@nntp.qnx.com> …
QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference. To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to
your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me
know
what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference
activities,
you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

Below are some general topics - beside each, please give me an idea
of
how
important you think the topic is by giving each a grade from 1-5,
with
5
being the most important. Please feel free to add to the list as
well
and
expand on any of the topics…Keep in mind there will be a ‘new
user’
and
an
‘expert user’ track and the conference would be 2.5 days in length -
the
content will also be as hands-on as possible.

If you also would like to participate in a conference advisory
group,
send
me an email - > hblentic@qnx.com > and let me know. This way we can
work
closely together to create a true developer conference…

some topics:
Embedding Issues - IPL, BSPs,startup
Code development/debug on QNX
Architecting Applications Using QNX
Cross development
PhAB and User Interfaces
Writing Portable POSIX Apps.
DDKs (network, audio,MOST)
HAT
SAT
Migration to QNX 6
Netcom development - IONet,Qnet,SMP
Target HW Considerations for QNX porting


best regards
Haris

Haris Blentic
QNX Developer Community
hblentic@qnx.com



\

Hi Jim,

the QNX Conference is called “international” and took place in USA or
Canada until now. Visitors are mainly from NA although QNX customer base
is round the globe.

What about a questionaire where everyone who would attend could propose
3 preferred locations, but each one has to be in a different country,
… and preferred sport could be included, too :wink:

It could also be interesting for Haris to see how representative is the
online Community compared with the existing Community…

BTW, I would like to see an overview of the percentage of distribution
of QNX worldwide. Does anyone know if such an overview is available?

Regards,
Jutta


Jim Lambert wrote:

1st choice - Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California

2nd choice - San Fransisco

I finally live near San Fran and it seems like the conferences aren’t coming
here now. > :slight_smile:

Jim

Haris Blentic wrote:

QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference. To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference activities, you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

Haris, why not Tokyo, Cape Town, Sidney, Nuremberg (e.g. after the
Embedded Systems for the QNX 2004 :wink:, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Budapest,
Vienna ??

Mickey Mouse must not to be around the conference location …


Below are some general topics - beside each, please give me an idea of how
important you think the topic is by giving each a grade from 1-5, with 5
being the most important. Please feel free to add to the list as well and
expand on any of the topics…Keep in mind there will be a ‘new user’ and an
‘expert user’ track and the conference would be 2.5 days in length - the
content will also be as hands-on as possible.

Would be nice to see a presentation about a nice (ported?) graphical
news-reader from QSSL …


If you also would like to participate in a conference advisory group, send
me an email - > hblentic@qnx.com > and let me know. This way we can work
closely together to create a true developer conference…

some topics:
Embedding Issues - IPL, BSPs,startup

Embedded Issues??
‘IPL, BSPs, startup’ are not limited to embedded systems.

Regarding to your recent survey … there are for QNX not only
developers for embedded systems and drivers.

The majority of the QNX developers are developing APPLICATIONS for
generic QNX targets afaik… most of them are not embedded applications.

The market for ‘small devices’ (like PDAs, Cell Phones, Internet
Appliances) is a mass market … but it doesn’t represent the whole
developer’s scene.


Code development/debug on QNX

Code development: C++ support for Photon!

Debug: would be nice to hear something about
new and more efficient tools


Architecting Applications Using QNX

Could be interesting for newbies …


Cross development

LINUX based cross development … ?


PhAB and User Interfaces

User interfaces: Qt/wxWindows support for Photon?


Writing Portable POSIX Apps.

I thought POSIX means portability ?


DDKs (network, audio,MOST)

MOST is an old in-device multi-media bus … not so interesting


HAT

What’s new with it?
HAT may be new for QNX6 … but the concept is as old as QNX4.


SAT

Do we have a released product??


Migration to QNX 6

Just an old hat if you mean QNX4 to QNX6 migration.
What about of LINUX or M$-Windows migration?
(It would show how important is support of system
independent GUI APIs for these types of migrations …)


Netcom development - IONet,Qnet,SMP

Would be nice to hear something about network transparent
IPC based on Qnet!

What about support of multimedia protocols for the Internet??
e.g. RTP, RSVP, IP telephony, IP multicast protocols, IPv6.
What about fire walls, the Opera browser and a useful Opera front-end?
handling of cookies ??

QNX6 + the distributed file system is an ideal platform for
computing clusters. Isn’t PVM, MPI or MPI/RT an issue ???

Does Qnet support real-time capable communication?
Does Qnet offer predictable behavior??
Would be nice to see here performance numbers …


Target HW Considerations for QNX porting

We should know the restrictions of QNX …

Best regards,
Armin

The conference is planned for Fall 2002 timeframe - the location and the
precise date will be determined soon… A combination of conference/small
exhibition is also in the planning.

/Haris



“Jutta Steinhoff” <j-steinhoff@web.de> wrote in message
news:3C175472.AB4BAAEA@web.de

Haris Blentic wrote:

QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference. To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know
what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference activities,
you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

Why in NA ??

There are still 4 other continents where never was held an international
QNX Conference…

BTW, do you plan a big one again ?
I’m asking because of QNX 2000 should be the last big one AFAIK.
For future was talked about smaller QNX Conferences on different
continents.

Do you have checked how many non American guys attended the
international
QNX 2000 ?

BTW, is the QNX 2002 planed as pure conference or additional with a
small exhibition, a table top exhibition e.g.?

How many weeks or may be monthes before the Conference will be fixed the
date and location? Please have in mind that companies are planning
normally 1 year in advance…

Best regards,
Jutta

Previously, Jim Lambert wrote in comp.os.qnx:

1st choice - Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California

2nd choice - San Fransisco

I finally live near San Fran and it seems like the conferences aren’t coming
here now. > :slight_smile:

Jim

I vote for San Jose/Silicon Valley.

  • Pete

You might indeed consider a European location this time. FYI, airfares from
NA to Europe are usually considerably cheaper than same route other way
around. I am not sure but I’d think travel from Australia, Asia and South
Africa is also shorter/cheaper to major european hubs than to NA. I’ve heard
hotel rates are very high in Europe compared to NA, but not sure if that’s
true or not.

London seems like good choice because country is english-speaking, sort of
:slight_smile: And it is known to be fun city too, plus it is practically ‘driving
distance’ from France and even Germany. OTOH, weather will probably suck
there in fall, so again I’d suggest Spain or Alps if Jim insists on skiing
:slight_smile:

  • igor

“Haris Blentic” <hblentic@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:9vah33$pf6$1@inn.qnx.com

The conference is planned for Fall 2002 timeframe - the location and the
precise date will be determined soon… A combination of conference/small
exhibition is also in the planning.

/Haris



“Jutta Steinhoff” <> j-steinhoff@web.de> > wrote in message
news:> 3C175472.AB4BAAEA@web.de> …
Haris Blentic wrote:

QNeXperts,

I’ve begun putting plans together for the next years’ QNX Developers
Conference. To make sure we deliver the content most appropriate to
your
needs, I’m going straight to the source and asking you to let me know
what
you’d like to see covered. Plus, for those after-conference
activities,
you
also get to tell me where you’d like to see the conference
held…(Montreal/San Diego/Las Vegas/?)

Why in NA ??

There are still 4 other continents where never was held an international
QNX Conference…

BTW, do you plan a big one again ?
I’m asking because of QNX 2000 should be the last big one AFAIK.
For future was talked about smaller QNX Conferences on different
continents.

Do you have checked how many non American guys attended the
international
QNX 2000 ?

BTW, is the QNX 2002 planed as pure conference or additional with a
small exhibition, a table top exhibition e.g.?

How many weeks or may be monthes before the Conference will be fixed the
date and location? Please have in mind that companies are planning
normally 1 year in advance…

Best regards,
Jutta

Igor Kovalenko wrote:

You might indeed consider a European location this time.

I’m sure that there would be much interest of European attendees who
never have been at a QNX Conference.

FYI, airfares from
NA to Europe are usually considerably cheaper than same route other way
around.

That’s dependent how you book.

I am not sure but I’d think travel from Australia, Asia and South
Africa is also shorter/cheaper to major european hubs than to NA.

NA is smaller than Russia but big enough that you have at least to
decide between West and East Coast :wink:
But I think you are right that in many cases distance to Europe is
shorter.

I’ve heard
hotel rates are very high in Europe compared to NA, but not sure if that’s
true or not.

Igor, that’s not true.
Most Americans are always surprised about low rates in European hotels.
You can check at http://www.hrs.de … the prices are incl. taxes!

London seems like good choice

… but not regarding prices. London is extreeemely expensive and
service is crazy.

because country is english-speaking, sort of
:slight_smile: > And it is known to be fun city too, plus it is practically ‘driving
distance’ from France and even Germany. OTOH, weather will probably suck
there in fall,

better choice would be Amsterdam or Brussel. Benelux countries are used
to speak English, but Scandinavian countries, too. Is Helsinki a choice
for you? :wink:

so again I’d suggest Spain or Alps if Jim insists on skiing > :slight_smile:

It should be at least an airport in the near or a good connection with
an Eurocity (highspeed train)

What European locations are preferred from non Europeans ??
Any suggestions?

Jutta

“Jutta Steinhoff” <j-steinhoff@web.de> wrote in message
news:3C193173.90BCF3F2@web.de

for you? > :wink:

so again I’d suggest Spain or Alps if Jim insists on skiing > :slight_smile:

It should be at least an airport in the near or a good connection with
an Eurocity (highspeed train)

What European locations are preferred from non Europeans ??
Any suggestions?

Germany/Munich/October ? :slight_smile:

ps: West Siberia dosn’t belong to Europe so i may answer this question :slight_smile:

Jutta

// wbr

ian zagorskih wrote:

“Jutta Steinhoff” <> j-steinhoff@web.de> > wrote in message
news:> 3C193173.90BCF3F2@web.de> …

What European locations are preferred from non Europeans ??
Any suggestions?

Germany/Munich/October ? > :slight_smile:

If Canadian Spring should be October, why not? :wink:

ps: West Siberia dosn’t belong to Europe so i may answer this question > :slight_smile:

hmm, are you talking from postal or geographical point of view ??
Yesterday I leaned that Sibiria “belongs” to Europe :wink:

I had a package for Novosibirsk and wanted postage for “World” (we have
for small packages 3 standard fees: Germany, Europe and rest of the
world). The clerk looked to the package and told me that it’s Europe.
Hmm… I tried to make clear that Europe is Western of the Ural and not
Eastern… and he told me that it doesn’t matter, from postal point of
view Russia “is” Europe…

any comments ?

Cheers,
Jutta