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Za prośbą Roberta przesyłam na grupę krótkie opisy związane z tegorocznym
warpstockiem :) Dla ew. niezdecydowanych - dalej można się wybrać z nami
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Warpstock Europe - Session Descriptions

This year's Warpstock Europe offers an extensive set of presentations for
eComStation users and developers.

If you are using eComStation to master your day-to-day computing tasks,
you will be interested in the following sessions:
There is a new way for eComStation users to protect their e-mail
correspondence. Björn Söderström will talk about "E-mail privacy with
GnuPG and Mozilla in eComStation." This will be a very hands-on session
with minimal theoretical background about public key cryptography. It will
focus on how to use and configure the Engimail extension for Thunderbird
and Mozilla Mail to allow for easy encryption of e-mails with the help of
the open source tool GnuPG.
Another session that should definitely be of interest for many eComStation
users is the session called "Introduction to ePDF" by Frank Wochatz, the
author of ePDF. With this tool PDF documents can be created from every
application that prints to a normal OS/2 printer. The session will line
out how to setup a working ePDF distilling system including printer driver
and GhostScript. It will also demonstrate how easy it is to create PDF
documents with advanced features that are supported by ePDF.
WLAN networking is an important topic currently. Christian Langanke will
present the Wireless LAN monitor. This excellent application can be used
to configure WLAN adapters in eComStation. Together with a new WLAN
driver, which supports the fast IEEE 802.11g networks, eComStation users
can now fully utilize the power of wireless networking.
Dave Saville will demonstrate the power of his clipboard enhancement
application package called ClipView. This application suite enhances the
text functionality of the OS/2 clipboard. All the utilities of the suite,
both PM and command line, will be demonstrated and copy/paste operations
over the network will be performed.
More and more eComStation users have to utilize networked printers. One
way of connecting printers to a network are print servers. Uwe Hinz will
show the capability of available print servers and in which way
eComStation users can connect to and use such devices.
A long time presenter at Warpstock Europe is Jan van Wijk, who is going to
give two presentations this year. The first one, called "DFSee
demonstrations and Q&A," will display the most useful features of DFSee,
the Swiss army knife of disk tools.
Quite a number of eComStation users also use devices based on PALM OS.
Problems and solutions when connecting both platforms will be discussed in
the session called "Connecting eComStation and Palm OS Devices" by Robert
Henschel.
Maul Publisher is very powerful desktop publishing application that is
available for eComStation as well as the Microsoft Windows platform. The
author, Peter Koller, will present the new version 3.0. The session will
explore how the application can solve everyday challenges ranging from
photo albums to vector graphics, and deal with flow charts, mail merge,
and clip arts in between.

For developers, the following sessions will be of interest:
Christian Langanke introduces the new System Service Management for
eComStation, which he currently implements as part of the new project
called "netlabs.org Workplace Shell Extensions." This service management
aims to control and monitor all suitable programs in the future as well as
provide a graphical frontend for its configuration via a Workplace Shell
extension. This session provides an overview of the goals of this project
as well as a roadmap and the current status.
The scripting language Perl has been available for the OS/2 platform for a
long time. Dave Saville will give new developers an overview of this
language in his session called "An introduction to Perl." Attendees will
be expected to be acquainted with basic programming principles as it is
not intended to spend half the time explaining what a loop is. REXX
knowledge would be useful although not essential. This session will also
see the introduction of a web interface to PMMail written in Perl.
Dmitry Kuminov will introduce the "Qt GUI Toolkit Version 3 for OS/2." The
session explains and demonstrates how to use the Trolltech QT3 toolkit on
OS/2 to create native Presentation Manager applications with a modern
look.
Developers interested in web development can learn more about this topic
in the session of Dominik Chmaj called "Advanced client/server side www
programming." The presentation will provide an overview of the available
programming methods for the world wide web and show how these can be used
on the eComStation platform.
Peter Kocsis will talk about "Doodle's Screen Saver meets Cairo." Cairo is
a cross-platform graphics library that is also available for eComStation
and that is going to be used for rendering in the Mozilla suite of
applications. The session will explain how to write a screen saver module
for Doodle's Screen Saver and utilize the power of the Cairo library.
As already mentioned above, Jan van Wijk will give two presentations at
Warpstock Europe. One of those is about "Developing multi-platform
text-based programs in C with OpenWatcom and TxWindows." Developers who
need to supply text-mode user-interfaces with their applications can
benefit from using the TxWindows library that Mr van Wijk has developed
for use in DFSee.
For Pascal and Delphi developers, Wolfgang Draxler will introduce his
WDSibyl cross-platform visual development environment for OS/2,
eComStation, and Windows, which has been derived from Speedsoft Sibyl.

Of course, there are presentations that appeal to users and developers
alike:
In "netlabs.org - A perspective for the eCS and OS/2 community," Adrian
Gschwend will line out possible ways to ensure a future for OS/2 and
eComStation.
Christian Hennecke, Editor in Chief of the VOICE Newsletter, does a
session about "Writing articles for the IT press" that provides guidance
and tips for authors.
Evgeny Gorbunov of eCo Software, St. Petersburg intends to motivate people
to start creating applications for the eComStation platform in two
sessions called "Creation of competitive software for eComStation" and
"Base drivers for eComStation."
Jarda Kacer and Jirka Kosek will talk about "DocBook: A gentle
introduction to XML publishing framework running also under OS/2."
And of course, there will be a presentation by Mensys employees about
eComStation.

The presentations mentioned above are just a subset of the presentation of
this year's Warpstock Europe. For a complete list, please visit this URL:
http://warpstock.net/WSE2005/Presentations/Presentations/

Please keep in mind that we are still working on the program for Warpstock
Europe and that additional sessions will be announced later.

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