21 Jul
2023
21 Jul
'23
12:31 p.m.
Folks,
As you may have noticed, we haven't been making any plans for WineConf
this year. Jeremy has been busy preparing his retirement, and I haven't
been pushing it either, mostly because I'm not convinced that we want to
continue the traditional WineConf model.
Even though we skipped a few years because of the pandemic, attendance
at last year's WineConf wasn't great. We also suggested meeting at
FOSDEM in February, like we did in previous years, but essentially no
one showed up.
So I'm wondering whether there is still enough interest for a
traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to
maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream
uses of Wine in general.
I'd like to hear your thoughts. Should we do a Proton conference, or
join some kind of gaming-related event? Do people even want to travel
to conferences anymore? What kind of event would you be interested in,
particularly those of you who don't show up to the traditional WineConf?
--
Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.org
22 Jul
22 Jul
4:46 p.m.
Hi,
Let me make sure there's a reply :-)
Am 21.07.2023 um 15:31 schrieb Alexandre Julliard
<julliard(a)winehq.org>rg>:
So I'm wondering whether there is still enough interest for a
traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to
maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream
uses of Wine in general.
I'll come to whatever event, I just skipped 2022 due to urgent family concerns.
I am all for changing the setup though - it has mostly turned to preaching to the choir
with mostly the same people all the time. Of course we tried to extend the attendees, with
mixed results. I think integrating with FOSDEM worked well, and I'd advocate for
repeating that every now and then. (Actually showing up at FOSDEM, not making it an excuse
to drink beer)
25 Jul
25 Jul
5:41 p.m.
On 7/22/23 18:46, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
Hi,
Let me make sure there's a reply :-)
I'll concur to Stefan. I'll go to whatever event.
The 2022 WineConf I had to skip due delays with the visa.
Am 21.07.2023 um 15:31 schrieb Alexandre Julliard
<julliard(a)winehq.org>rg>:
So I'm wondering whether there is still enough interest for a
traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to
maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream
uses of Wine in general.
I'll come to whatever event, I just skipped 2022 due to urgent family concerns.
I am all for changing the setup though - it has mostly
turned to preaching to the choir with mostly the same people all the time. Of course we
tried to extend the attendees, with mixed results. I think integrating with FOSDEM worked
well, and I'd advocate for repeating that every now and then. (Actually showing up at
FOSDEM, not making it an excuse to drink beer)
To attract users like the Proton users we would probably need to go to one of
the games conventions. But I doubt we can afford that.
bye
michael
28 Jul
28 Jul
7:29 a.m.
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 12:43 PM Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani(a)winehq.org>
wrote:
On 7/22/23 18:46, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
I'm in the same boat.
Hi,
Let me make sure there's a reply :-)
concerns.
I'll concur to Stefan. I'll go to whatever event.
Am 21.07.2023 um 15:31 schrieb Alexandre Julliard
<julliard(a)winehq.org
:
So I'm wondering whether there is still enough interest for a
traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to
maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream
uses of Wine in general.
I'll come to whatever event, I just skipped 2022 due to urgent family The 2022 WineConf I had to skip due delays with the
visa.
I've noticed that our EU conferences tend to have more people, and I
suspect that not having to deal with US visas is a factor in that.
--
-Austin
GPG: 267B CC1F 053F 0749 (expires 2024/02/17)
1 Aug
1 Aug
1:18 p.m.
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 at 09:31, Austin English <austinenglish(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've noticed that our EU conferences tend to have
more people, and I suspect that not having to deal with US visas is a factor in that.
In case it helps, I'll point out that the 2019 conference in Toronto
was quite possibly the best attended WineConf in North America;
certainly in the time since I started contributing to Wine.
9:44 p.m.
Hi everyone, just throwing my two cents in here. I was invited to WineConf
last year by Jeremy but was unfortunately not able to attend due to
family-related conflicts.
I would still very much like to attend given the dates don't conflict with
current travel plans. Ubuntu Summit takes place November 3-5 this year
which would be my only current restriction.
I would also be interested in attending future WineConfs given the
opportunity. I agree here that the pandemic really put a damper on things
from 2020-2022 and would be glad to
see some normalcy return.
- Tom/Eggy
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 7:20 AM Henri Verbeet <hverbeet(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 at 09:31, Austin English
<austinenglish(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
In case it helps, I'll point out that the 2019 conference in Toronto
was quite possibly the best attended WineConf in North America;
certainly in the time since I started contributing to Wine.
I've noticed that our EU conferences tend to
have more people, and I
suspect that not having to deal with US visas is a factor
in that.
28 Jul
28 Jul
10:12 a.m.
Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2023, 20:41:45 EAT schrieb Michael Stefaniuc:
To attract users like the Proton users we would
probably need to go to one
of the games conventions. But I doubt we can afford that.
Do you have something like Gamescom or Dreamhack in mind here? It would be an
interesting experiment, even if we just stay in some Hotel in the same place
the days before/after the big show.
4:56 p.m.
On 7/28/23 12:12, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2023, 20:41:45 EAT schrieb
Michael Stefaniuc:
Yeah, I had Gamescon in mind as knew about that one.
But I'm not a gamer so no clue what else is there.
bye
michael
To attract users like the Proton users we would
probably need to go to one
of the games conventions. But I doubt we can afford that.
Do you have something like Gamescom or Dreamhack in mind here? It would be an
interesting experiment, even if we just stay in some Hotel in the same place
the days before/after the big show.
24 Jul
24 Jul
9:21 a.m.
I really don't want WineConf to end. If you want to hold a conference on Proton, then
that would be very cool!
Regarding the place of providence, I think the best option would be to do everything
online, through Telegram, and in principle to gather a community of developers in a chat
so that they can communicate with each other and better adapt their games through
communication between themselves, how do you look at this option?
(Sorry for possible errors in the text, I do not know English well, so I translated
through Google Translate)
30 Jul
30 Jul
12:47 p.m.
Am 21.07.23 um 14:31 schrieb Alexandre Julliard:
Folks,
As you may have noticed, we haven't been making any plans for WineConf
this year. Jeremy has been busy preparing his retirement, and I haven't
been pushing it either, mostly because I'm not convinced that we want to
continue the traditional WineConf model.
Even though we skipped a few years because of the pandemic, attendance
at last year's WineConf wasn't great. We also suggested meeting at
FOSDEM in February, like we did in previous years, but essentially no
one showed up.
So I'm wondering whether there is still enough interest for a
traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to
maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream
uses of Wine in general.
I'd like to hear your thoughts. Should we do a Proton conference, or
join some kind of gaming-related event? Do people even want to travel
to conferences anymore? What kind of event would you be interested in,
particularly those of you who don't show up to the traditional WineConf?
Hi,
I think it still might be that last year was still a bit special.
The pandemic wasn't "over" that long and I noticed quite high flight
prices to Minnesota for the WineConf dates. Maybe there was some other,
bigger event?
The original plan for this year was Japan, which would be really
interesting, but I guess flight prices would be high as well from USA
and Europe at least.
Am 28.07.23 um 09:29 schrieb Austin English:
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 12:43 PM Michael Stefaniuc
<mstefani(a)winehq.org <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The 2022 WineConf I had to skip due delays with the visa.
I've noticed that our EU conferences tend to have more people, and I suspect that not
having to deal with US visas is a factor in that.
I also think so. ESTA is not for everyone.
31 Jul
31 Jul
8:21 a.m.
On 30/07/2023 13:47, André Zwing wrote:
I think it still might be that last year was still a
bit special.
The pandemic wasn't "over" that long and I noticed quite high flight
prices to Minnesota for the WineConf dates. Maybe there was some other,
bigger event?
Last year's event was scheduled for midweek rather than the usual
weekend slot, and I found that flight prices from the UK at least were
really expensive unless you stayed a Saturday night.
A midweek event would also likely mean people needing to take holidays
from work, which may not be the case at the weekend, and could also have
an effect on attendance I imagine.
Cheers,
Owen
21 Aug
21 Aug
6:30 p.m.
On Friday, July 21, 2023 7:31:23 AM CDT Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Folks,
As you may have noticed, we haven't been making any plans for WineConf
this year. Jeremy has been busy preparing his retirement, and I haven't
been pushing it either, mostly because I'm not convinced that we want to
continue the traditional WineConf model.
Even though we skipped a few years because of the pandemic, attendance
at last year's WineConf wasn't great. We also suggested meeting at
FOSDEM in February, like we did in previous years, but essentially no
one showed up.
So I'm wondering whether there is still enough interest for a
traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to
maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream
uses of Wine in general.
I'd like to hear your thoughts. Should we do a Proton conference, or
join some kind of gaming-related event? Do people even want to travel
to conferences anymore? What kind of event would you be interested in,
particularly those of you who don't show up to the traditional WineConf?
I do have my doubts about the current formula of WineConf. I think it's been
well-recognized by now that the most valuable thing about it is the parts that
aren't presentations, i.e. the conversations between Wine developers in the
hallway and at bars and so on.
I suppose this is largely because Wine as a project is just too small for
people to be unaware of what's going on. I find that most of our presentations
are not news to me. That may be because I personally pay attention to what
people are working on in many different parts of Wine, though, so maybe this
isn't universal.
Even if this is true more generally, though, I don't know how to resolve this.
WineConf without the talks seems kind of silly, and I don't know what to
replace them with.
It's also true that some talks really are valuable. In the conferences I've
been to I've quite appreciated the talks from the SFC (Karen Sandler in 2019,
and Bradley Kuhn in 2018 and 2022), as well as the talk from Snorri Sturluson
in 2018 (which, for reference, was basically about the experience of using
Wine as a porting tool for a large piece of software). I found that these
talks provided an interesting perspective that I am not usually exposed to.
[Perhaps the same is true in reverse—that non-developers may appreciate
developer presentations—but I have a hard time seeing any of these talks,
especially my own, as particularly interesting; most of them end up being
bland descriptions of features we have implemented.]
I am not sure that merging with another conference really makes sense, mostly
because I don't really see what we are trying to accomplish by doing that. The
idea seems to be "raising awareness of Wine", but to what end?
On the other hand, if the answer is just looking for a place to have
developers meet without actually trying to hold a conference, that may make
sense. I.e. if FOSDEM were *the* yearly event for Wine developers, then I
would definitely attend, regardless of location.
--Zeb
8:41 p.m.
On 8/21/23 19:30, Zeb Figura wrote:
On Friday, July 21, 2023 7:31:23 AM CDT Alexandre
Julliard wrote:
I think the problem here is more of one of the choice of topic and not
one with the conference itself.
At XDC, many of the talks were about things I didn't know about and went
into great depth of specifics of eg. a piece of hardware or software I
had never touched before.
I think WineConf could benefit from more talks that are discussing not
"what was achieved"/news but rather how and in great depth.
I would absolutely love to see talks from either you or Gofman, or
whoever doing deep dives into whatever crazy shit that I know nothing
about, random crazy stuff games do, ancient stuff like dshow, all the
weird red-herrings to fixing a bug.
- Joshie 🐸✨
Folks,
As you may have noticed, we haven't been making any plans for WineConf
this year. Jeremy has been busy preparing his retirement, and I haven't
been pushing it either, mostly because I'm not convinced that we want to
continue the traditional WineConf model.
Even though we skipped a few years because of the pandemic, attendance
at last year's WineConf wasn't great. We also suggested meeting at
FOSDEM in February, like we did in previous years, but essentially no
one showed up.
So I'm wondering whether there is still enough interest for a
traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to
maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream
uses of Wine in general.
I'd like to hear your thoughts. Should we do a Proton conference, or
join some kind of gaming-related event? Do people even want to travel
to conferences anymore? What kind of event would you be interested in,
particularly those of you who don't show up to the traditional WineConf?
I do have my doubts about the current formula of WineConf. I think it's been
well-recognized by now that the most valuable thing about it is the parts that
aren't presentations, i.e. the conversations between Wine developers in the
hallway and at bars and so on.
I suppose this is largely because Wine as a project is just too small for
people to be unaware of what's going on. I find that most of our presentations
are not news to me. That may be because I personally pay attention to what
people are working on in many different parts of Wine, though, so maybe this
isn't universal.
Even if this is true more generally, though, I don't know how to resolve this.
WineConf without the talks seems kind of silly, and I don't know what to
replace them with.
It's also true that some talks really are valuable. In the conferences I've
been to I've quite appreciated the talks from the SFC (Karen Sandler in 2019,
and Bradley Kuhn in 2018 and 2022), as well as the talk from Snorri Sturluson
in 2018 (which, for reference, was basically about the experience of using
Wine as a porting tool for a large piece of software). I found that these
talks provided an interesting perspective that I am not usually exposed to.
[Perhaps the same is true in reverse—that non-developers may appreciate
developer presentations—but I have a hard time seeing any of these talks,
especially my own, as particularly interesting; most of them end up being
bland descriptions of features we have implemented.]
I am not sure that merging with another conference really makes sense, mostly
because I don't really see what we are trying to accomplish by doing that. The
idea seems to be "raising awareness of Wine", but to what end?
On the other hand, if the answer is just looking for a place to have
developers meet without actually trying to hold a conference, that may make
sense. I.e. if FOSDEM were *the* yearly event for Wine developers, then I
would definitely attend, regardless of location.
--Zeb
23 Aug
23 Aug
8:22 p.m.
On Monday, August 21, 2023 3:41:43 PM CDT Joshua Ashton wrote:
On 8/21/23 19:30, Zeb Figura wrote:
It sounds like what you're looking for is entertainment, at least primarily.
And while I think there's certainly value in that, and also that an
informative talk which is not engaging lacks something important, I also can't
help but feel like it's not worth holding a conference for talks which for the
most part aren't going to impart some valuable and useful information.
I imagine that the scope of XDC is much broader, too, and so it is easier to
find new information. Or, alternatively, the number of XDC contributors is
much higher, so whereas one can get a pretty holistic picture of what's
happening in the Wine world just from watching wine-devel, that's not possible
with Mesa and all its related projects.
(And, to be quite frank, I get the impression that there are many XDC
presenters who are much more charismatic than I am, or experienced at making
engaging presentations. It's only a vague impression, since I didn't actually
attend any such XDC presentations. Regardless, there's only so much effort I
can put into presenting.)
On Friday, July 21, 2023 7:31:23 AM CDT Alexandre
Julliard wrote:
I think the problem here is more of one of the choice of topic and not
one with the conference itself.
At XDC, many of the talks were about things I didn't know about and went
into great depth of specifics of eg. a piece of hardware or software I
had never touched before.
I think WineConf could benefit from more talks that are discussing not
"what was achieved"/news but rather how and in great depth.
I would absolutely love to see talks from either you or Gofman, or
whoever doing deep dives into whatever crazy shit that I know nothing
about, random crazy stuff games do, ancient stuff like dshow, all the
weird red-herrings to fixing a bug. Folks,
As you may have noticed, we haven't been making any plans for WineConf
this year. Jeremy has been busy preparing his retirement, and I haven't
been pushing it either, mostly because I'm not convinced that we want to
continue the traditional WineConf model.
Even though we skipped a few years because of the pandemic, attendance
at last year's WineConf wasn't great. We also suggested meeting at
FOSDEM in February, like we did in previous years, but essentially no
one showed up.
So I'm wondering whether there is still enough interest for a
traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to
maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream
uses of Wine in general.
I'd like to hear your thoughts. Should we do a Proton conference, or
join some kind of gaming-related event? Do people even want to travel
to conferences anymore? What kind of event would you be interested in,
particularly those of you who don't show up to the traditional WineConf?
I do have my doubts about the current formula of WineConf. I think it's
been well-recognized by now that the most valuable thing about it is the
parts that aren't presentations, i.e. the conversations between Wine
developers in the hallway and at bars and so on.
I suppose this is largely because Wine as a project is just too small for
people to be unaware of what's going on. I find that most of our
presentations are not news to me. That may be because I personally pay
attention to what people are working on in many different parts of Wine,
though, so maybe this isn't universal.
Even if this is true more generally, though, I don't know how to resolve
this. WineConf without the talks seems kind of silly, and I don't know
what to replace them with.
It's also true that some talks really are valuable. In the conferences
I've been to I've quite appreciated the talks from the SFC (Karen
Sandler in 2019, and Bradley Kuhn in 2018 and 2022), as well as the talk
from Snorri Sturluson in 2018 (which, for reference, was basically about
the experience of using Wine as a porting tool for a large piece of
software). I found that these talks provided an interesting perspective
that I am not usually exposed to.
[Perhaps the same is true in reverse—that non-developers may appreciate
developer presentations—but I have a hard time seeing any of these talks,
especially my own, as particularly interesting; most of them end up being
bland descriptions of features we have implemented.] 
29 Aug
29 Aug
7:58 a.m.
Hi,
Il 23/08/23 22:22, Zeb Figura ha scritto:
I can't answer for Joshua, but I didn't read his answer as primarily
oriented to entertainment. I think there are a lot of valuable lessons
and knowledge in the kind of topics he mentions, and of course some
entertainment too.
I also would like to have more in-depth content about Wine (and related
projects) at WineConf (or in whatever other form: any other conference
event, blog posts, developer screen casts). For example, I would like to
know more about the internals of WoW64, ARM emulation and all the glue
that does or will make Wine working on foreing architectures, but there
is basically no content around. I could spend a lot of time reading the
code and recovering the intentions from it, but it would be globally
more efficient if somebody who already knows spent a modest amount of
time giving a presentation about that, which would allow me and possibly
other interested folks getting up to speed quicker.
(and yes, I realize that could go in the other way too: even while being
relatively young in Wine I probably have something to share that is not
so obvious yet interesting for somebody else; that was my main
motivation for contributing my talk to WineConf 2022, though I'm not
sure the final result was really in the right direction)
I think
WineConf could benefit from more talks that are discussing not
"what was achieved"/news but rather how and in great depth.
I would absolutely love to see talks from either you or Gofman, or
whoever doing deep dives into whatever crazy shit that I know nothing
about, random crazy stuff games do, ancient stuff like dshow, all the
weird red-herrings to fixing a bug.
It sounds like what you're looking for is
entertainment, at least primarily.
And while I think there's certainly value in that, and also that an
informative talk which is not engaging lacks something important, I also can't
help but feel like it's not worth holding a conference for talks which for the
most part aren't going to impart some valuable and useful information. I imagine that the scope of XDC is much broader, too,
and so it is easier to
find new information. Or, alternatively, the number of XDC contributors is
much higher, so whereas one can get a pretty holistic picture of what's
happening in the Wine world just from watching wine-devel, that's not possible
with Mesa and all its related projects.
(And, to be quite frank, I get the impression that there are many XDC
presenters who are much more charismatic than I am, or experienced at making
engaging presentations. It's only a vague impression, since I didn't actually
attend any such XDC presentations. Regardless, there's only so much effort I
can put into presenting.)
From my view point, the technical presentations are precisely those
where I really care about the content, much less about the presenter's
charisma. Indeed it's not unheard of, for me, that a presenter being
excessively funny feels annoying or gets in the wat of understanding the
content.
Gio.
9 Sep
9 Sep
1:13 a.m.
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 2:42 PM Joshua Ashton <joshua(a)froggi.es> wrote:
I think WineConf could benefit from more talks that
are discussing not
"what was achieved"/news but rather how and in great depth.
I would absolutely love to see talks from either you or Gofman, or
whoever doing deep dives into whatever crazy shit that I know nothing
about, random crazy stuff games do, ancient stuff like dshow, all the
weird red-herrings to fixing a bug.
I would also appreciate hearing a talk about how some difficult and
inscrutable bug was diagnosed and fixed. Ideally the presenter would
start with an old version of Wine and walk the audience through the
debugging process step by step. Debugging closed-source applications
is difficult for the best of us, and being far from the best myself, I
could learn a lot by example. That's the sort of thing that I've
gotten out of WineConf in the past by talking with people outside of
the presentations, but there's no reason why the knowledge couldn't be
shared in a presentation.
-Alex
25 Sep
25 Sep
5:48 p.m.
So practically speaking, should I be planning to travel to Brussels to
meet Wine developers this February?
Henri
30 Oct
30 Oct
10:50 a.m.
Henri Verbeet <hverbeet(a)gmail.com> writes:
So practically speaking, should I be planning to
travel to Brussels to
meet Wine developers this February?
Yes, for now the plan is to use FOSDEM as a substitute for the social
part of WineConf.
A number of Wine developers will be there in February. We'll walk around
the conference, but since finding people at FOSDEM proper is not exactly
easy, the plan is to organize an event at a local bar on Saturday
evening. Anybody who'd like to hang out will be more than welcome to
join us there.
--
Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.org
11:12 a.m.
On 30 Oct 2023, at 10:50, Alexandre Julliard <julliard(a)winehq.org> wrote:
A number of Wine developers will be there in February.
We'll walk around
the conference, but since finding people at FOSDEM proper is not exactly
easy, the plan is to organize an event at a local bar on Saturday
evening. Anybody who'd like to hang out will be more than welcome to
join us there.
I've booked a table at the BrewDog [1] for 18:30 on Sat 3rd Feb.
Looking forward to seeing folks there!
Huw
[1] https://www.brewdog.com/usa/brewdog-brussels
27 Jan
27 Jan
12:09 p.m.
On 30 Oct 2023, at 11:12, Huw Davies <huw(a)codeweavers.com> wrote:
On 30 Oct 2023, at 10:50, Alexandre Julliard
<julliard(a)winehq.org> wrote:
Note that this is next weekend. It looks like there will be
~15 of us going.
If anybody else feels like joining us, we'll be coordinating social
gatherings via wineconf's matrix room. You can reach out to me privately
if you have problems finding that or want further details of where we'll
be.
Huw
A number of Wine developers will be there in
February. We'll walk around
the conference, but since finding people at FOSDEM proper is not exactly
easy, the plan is to organize an event at a local bar on Saturday
evening. Anybody who'd like to hang out will be more than welcome to
join us there.
I've booked a table at the BrewDog [1] for 18:30 on Sat 3rd Feb.
[1] https://www.brewdog.com/usa/brewdog-brussels
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