The Mono Developers Meeting is a place for users and developers of the open source Mono project to get together. We plan on having informative sessions on the project status from different maintainers in the project and also on projects related to Mono.

Important: We are trying to determine how many people would be able to attend the meeting so we can book a venue that would properly accomodate the audience.

To help us plan this event, please list your name in the registration page.

The event will be held on the 23rd and 24th of October.

If contributors can stay longer, we will try to find space at the Novell offices for joint development sessions after the 24th.

Talks and Topics

We will organize talks on various areas of Mono by the maintainers and contributors to those components.

Core

• Mono project Roadmap (Miguel de Icaza, Novell).
• Grasshopper: running .NET code on Java (Noam Lampert, Mainsoft).
• ASP.NET status (Mainsoft, Novell joint presentation).
• Runtime developments and optimization.
• Sandboxing discussion (Sebastien Pouliot, Novell).
• State of 2.0 API support.
• Compacting Garbage Collector (Paolo Molaro, Novell).
• Gtk#, roadmap, applications, plans (Mike Kestner, Novell).
• Windows.Forms development and plans (Chris Toshok, Novell).

Applications

• Debugging in Mono (Martin Baulig, Novell).
• MonoDevelop IDE and Stetic GUI designer (Lluis Sánchez, Novell).
• F-Spot (Larry Ewing, Novell).

Plans and Future

• Crimson Project (Sebastien Pouliot, Novell).
• Olive and Olive+ Projects (Atsushi Enomoto, Novell).
• Visual Studio integration.

Community

The plan is to have an open discussion with all the contributors to the Mono project and its users about a number of topics and lingering topics:

• Increasing the number of contributors.
• Documentation efforts.
• Internationalizing Mono.
• Things that we can improve, what to improve.
• Prioritize the most important components.

If you have a suggestion for a talk on Mono or a Mono-related technology, please email mono@novell.com.

Attendance

Currently we are planning for having about 100 to 200 people attend the event, please register to help us plan the venue size and ensure that we have room for you.

Location

The Mono Meeting will be held in Marriot Hotel in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA in the US.

For travel tips, see the Traveling to Boston page.

If you have contacts at a University that might be interested in hosting the event, please send us an email mono@novell.com