[SGVLUG] Late Notice: Mono users meeting at the Microsoft PDC(in LA), highlight App Dev Linux

[Greg Stark]

Of might be of some interest to the group.

Full announcement: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2005/Sep-06.html


Mono users meeting at the Microsoft PDC. 

Date:     Tuesday September 13th. 
Location: Sheraton Downtown LA hotel, 
          a short walk (map) from the Staples Conventions Center. 
Time:     The meeting will start at 6pm and will go until 9:30pm. 

Pass the word to other fellow .NET developers. 

On the meeting we will talk about the Mono Project's current state,
milestones, new developments and upcoming releases. Various Mono developers
will be there to answer your questions both members of the community and
Novell employees working on Mono. 

We will showcase some of the Mono-based applications we have built for
Linux: 
     iFolder file sharing and synchronization, 
     the Banshee media player, 
     our new photo management software, 
     the desktop search, 
     the MonoDevelop IDE and 
     the GTK# GUI toolkit which is the API we use to create all of these
applications. 

We will also showcase the new vector-based rendering APIs available for
developers (completely cross-platform) as well as the new OpenGL-based
windowing system. 

We will answer your questions on how to bring your .NET applications to
Linux, MacOS X and Solaris and how to take advantage of the Mono and
Linux-specific APIs. 

Finally, we will demo some of the new Mono software funded by Google's
Summer of Code: 

     XBuild: the open source msbuild implementation for assisting
             you in rebuilding your new projects on Mono.
     Ruby.NET and PHP.NET compilers. 
     The DIVA Movie editor. 
     The new ASP.NET editor. 
     The .NET bug finder. 
     The Cecil libraries for reading and writing CIL images. 
     Mono's XAML compiler.

The evening surprise is the unveiling of the new Mono T-Shirts design by
Finnish artist Tuomas Kuosmanen. We will be giving out t-shirts to the
attendees.