On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:05 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:03 PM, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" > <foss mailinglists gmail com> wrote: > [...] > > Easy dear. Now, have you successfully and emphatically defended your > > procrastination in front of a panel of eminently uninteresting folks ? ;) > > aka, are you ready to join in this fun foss in08 agenda ? > > Yep! :D > > >> If we're talking about getting people contributing, I think we need a > >> set of minimum requirements. Not in the don't-come-if-you-don't-know > >> way. More like > >> read-these-nice-easy-tutorials-before-you-come-so-we-can-really-get-to-the-next-level > >> way. Yes, yes, hyphenation embargo for me. > > > > Good catch. So, that generally means: > > > > + we need to list out what can be demonstrated / talked about > > + we need to hunt around and keystroke in a list of preliminary reading > > + we need names to put to the potential demo-monkeys > > [...] > > > More than mere morsels. A thing I wish to see each time there is a GNOME > > event but don't get is performance-related debugging of GNOME - do you know > > anyone who can start taking IRC sessions leading up to a bling filled > > foss.in talk ? > > This is a fantastic idea. I think this is good enough to make the > theme of the event, and if we can pull that off, we can make a _real_ > impact. I suspect that there is a lot of low-hanging fruit that can be > picked and can make for a really solid contribution, especially w.r.t. > our own context. > > For example, I was looking at these little single-piece Celeron-based > boxes that are being targeted towards rural areas, and the current > footprint of a full-fledged GNOME system would probably bring these > things (~256 megs of RAM) their knees, even though there's no good > reason for this to be so. http://live.gnome.org/LightweightGNOME > > Things to know as prerequisites would include valgrind, memprof, gprof > and gdb (nemiver, anyone?), presumably. Also need a reasonable > understanding of how memory allocation happens, specifically w.r.t. > gobjects, X, etc. (I haven't the faintest, FYI). I think > rasterman/someone had a talk around somewhere. Will try to dig it out. > > The Mono-based apps are a whole different ball game, too, but I think > they could be considered. Mono itself has some decent tools for > memory/runtime profiling. > > Of course, we need people (IRC or in person) to help interested > members bootstrap. I'll ask around for ideas/suggestions. > > Cheers, -- Johnny Jacob http://johnnyjacob.org
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