Warpstock Europe 2013: 2-nd day

2013-05-25 13:34:36 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We continue listen to Warpstock Europe 2013:

WSE2013 report

• Yes, the topics are the same, as in 2008 year. On other side, you can see the changes, monitor the progress.
• Yes, less visitors. It's clear that Warpstock should change.

Warpstock Europe - How to improve the conference?

2013-05-24 19:27:23 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We all expect that the next confrence to attract more visitors, more speakers. How to change Warpstock conference and make it successful, make it "grow"?

Step 1: The conference starts in 12 monthes before D-Day. The developers declare what they will make during the year. And declare what presentations they will show.

The conference is not simple meeting of people, this is the meeting of people which were working during the whole year and preparing materials for the conference.

// The speakers don't describe something what exist and was created by other people. They make work by themselves and then present the results of own work.

Conclusion: the list of presentations should be available in advance, in 6 monthes. So the visitors can prepare for the trip, prepare questions. And the speakers have time to make efforts to complete the projects for D-Day.

Fix 2: It's very-very hard listen the presentations in the second part of day. All people are tired, sleepy and go away too early. How to fix this? It's necessary make other kind of meetings. For example, workshops with the developers. No slides, alive chat only. Everybody can make the questions and discuss the detailes. Let's say, the workshops are organized in 2 rooms and five developers sit there.

More fixes -- Other suggestions how to improve the conference were mentioned in the previous messages: WSE 2011/2012 announcements

Warpstock Europe 2013 report

2013-05-24 14:46:40 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Warpstock Europe started in The Netherlands (3 days: FR, SAT, SUN)

Report from the conference (russian language)

Useful links:

• Homepage of WSE2013
• Announcements (before) of the conference
• Conferences related to eCS / OS/2 in the past

eComStation: green grass

2013-05-23 21:16:48 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Mix of eComStation news:

1) Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3

2) You can post bug-reports to the developers of SATA-driver (AHCI) http://svn.ecomstation.nl/ahci/report/1, Register at netlabs.org to get password for trac.

3) ACPI: If you have installed ACPI driver, no need to use switches. If ACPI doesn't work, try /VW - Virtual Wire Mode

4) eComStation.RU Forums, usually the users contact our support service and we post the reply as news announcements.

5) Collecting bug-reports related to OpenOffice.org: forum.ecomstation.ru

6) Discussion of WiFi adpaters in genmac forum: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user

Picture of the week: OS/2 Aerobatic Kite

pic 1, pic 2, pic 3

Warpstock Europe 2013 (May, Netherlands)

2013-05-08 00:07:08 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

(Unofficial message)

Official web-site: http://www.warpstock.eu

The conference is related to eComStation / IBM OS/2 Warp operating systems, industry solutions and new software. Impulse given to OS/2 Warp by IBM corporation allows use the platform on modern hardware today. History of OS/2 conferences starts from 1997, list of previous events

Welcome to Heemskerk (NL), May 24-26, 2013. What is the topic of your presentation?

Why visit Warpstock Europe? Additional arguments:

1) Please visit the conference and make photos for eComStation.RU from the presentations.

2) Visit the Netherlands to become "becycle fan":

Doctor, It hurts here - Don't touch there

2013-04-26 01:45:16 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

1) Realtek Ethernet problems still here - the drivers were improved, there are troubles: forum.ecomstation.ru, current state: www.os2world.com/forum

2) OpenOffice.org troubles - forum.ecomstation.ru, new version 3.4 (?) is under development.

3) If you have recovered eCS, please share info what was broken and how did you recovered it? It's important to simplify the process of eCS reanimation.

4) eComStation FAQ database should be updated again. We are collecting new Q & A.

Warpstock Europe - no advertisement

2013-04-11 12:49:41 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eCo Software started the promotion of the conference several monthes ago: WSE 2013 news. We didn't received a "license" to continue promotion of the event. As result, you don't see announcements of the conference during the last few monthes.

What what the plan?

• We were going rotate banners related to Warpstock Europe (similar to WSE2011 banners)

• Collect and exchange ideas, what topics to discuss, what reports to present.
• Promote the conference at other IT sites (not OS/2 only)

Some facts

• It's clear that the conferences are very important, and give impulse for work during the next 12 monthes
• It's clear that the conference needs advertisment, people should prepare for the trip, make investments.
• eCo Software is participating in all WSE conferences, we made many presentations and published many reports.

Warpstock Europe 2014, 2015: eCo Software starts to prepare promotion materials for the next conferences.

What animal would be the choice for a mascot for eCS?

2013-04-01 02:01:55 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Here is new mascot:

Previous discussions:

• 2007
• A dozen of lost threads
• ~ 2004

Reminder: IBM about OS/2

2013-03-23 14:03:22 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

You have read this book in the past:

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround
Louis V.Gerstner, Jr.

OS/2 is mentioned in chapters: Chapter 3, Chapter 15, Chapter 17

Bundling of Microsoft Windows

2013-03-20 01:33:13 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

You know this link: Bundling of Microsoft Windows

We have collected stories of users in Russia: review #269 (russian text)

Check this announcements one more time

2013-01-30 00:54:49 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Check this announcements one more time

• Zippy archiver, 7zip and EA
• How to change kernel of eComStation (eCo Market)
• How to setup school class? Article plus discusson

New eComStation/OS/2 Warp web-sites

2013-01-09 23:58:37 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eComStation.RU is interested to support *new* eCS/OS/2 web-sites.

Are you going found new web-site related to eComStation and IBM OS/2 Warp? We have collected some recommendations:

1) Always use pictures, logos and screenshots. Major part of old OS/2 sites show text information only. Today people need full-features sites: with good editorial text, with pictures and videos. Conclusion: add picture to every article to attract the visitor read the details.

2) Exchange links and banners with other eCS/OS/2 sites. Support small sites, show links to this sites. Support the developers of shareware software (the foundation of eComStaion market), show banners with Ad of eCS software. // The sellings of shareware for eCS don't increase because there is no exchange of commercial banners

3) What is your foundation? Do you have a "generator"? If you build the site alone, without foundation, copy&paste news from other sites then your site doesn't attract the readers. You should manufacture some unique products (applications, services or video product) and use the web-site as add-on to your product, the channel of promotion. // Several sites closed because couldn't offer unique news

4) Always allow comment the news and articles of your site so the visitors have interest to return and read the replies posted by other users. // Several new sites with articles were closed because the visitors couldn't comment reviews

5) Don't try to sort the data manually. Post the messages day by day, add tags and keywords to every publication. // Several OS/2 sites died because the authors have spent all efforts to re-organization.

eComStation: ski season!

2013-01-07 02:53:30 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Mix of eComStation news:

1) All good users received a message from Santa (super-messages with news about eComStation / OS/2 Warp), all bad users stay without presents.

2) All users want install eCS from USB Discussion

3) Interesting article: 7 Reasons that Rexx Still Matters discussion: www.linkedin.com

4) Paul Smedley is discussing the porting of Gimp using Odin libraries.

5) Web-site related to Java apps and eComStation: http://joopn.home.xs4all.nl

6) New feature in old zip archiver - it it able to create unnamed directories, not visible from FC/2. Start command: zip arc .//dir/* and look at results

One more toy from the past:

eComStation.RU rules

2013-01-06 21:45:24 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Let's verify the rules of eComStation.RU site: Frequently asked questions and answers

• Q1: Does eComStation.RU has censorship
• Q2: Removing articles, reviews by request
• Q3: Right of quotation
• Q4: What streams of news does eComStation.RU generate
• Q5: What is the budget of eComStation.RU site?

eComStation.RU - tons of joy

2013-01-02 20:43:31 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eComStation.RU site is the largest site dedicated to eComStation and OS/2 Warp today (20 000 pages). All articles and databases published at the site - is the result of interoperability with the users, replies to their questions and requests. The whole community is participating in the building of eComStation.RU web-site.

What can you find on eComStation.RU site?

• All news related to eComStation and IBM OS/2 Warp since 2001. Every message (may have) has comments so it works like local mini-forum.
• All reviews and articles about eCS and apps since 2001.
• Announcements of software updates - in separate APeCS database
• Many pages are related to the history of eComStation and IBM OS/2 Warp.
• Here is additional forum forum.ecomstation.ru
• The lists of tested hardware
• There are many pages with software projects
• Polls to collect the statistics
• Additional site with video clips: eComStation.TV
• eCo Shop - the catalogue of software (RUB)
• Web-site for developers -- DevCon
• eCo Shop - ThinkPad notebooks for eComStation users (RUB)
• Frequently asked questions and answers -- FAQ

We add additional information to the sites every hour.

eComStation.RU - is the largest storage of knowledge about eComStation and OS/2.

We are ready share our success

You can publish reviews/articles on the site.

Sponsor units

Sponsor to eComStation.RU site

Warpstock Europe 2013 - bicycles

2012-12-31 02:15:25 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Official site of the conference: warpstock.eu
More information about the coming conference: http://ecomstation.ru/wse

The conference is successful

• IF we attract more visitors (that's why we talk about the program, the presentations, Haarlem city, ..),
• IF the visitors and speakers work all 3 days and don't run away (that's why we are discussing chairs, length of presentation, the order, ..),
• IF the visitors take memories and come to the next conference (that's why we talk about souvenirs, photo stands and walls, social events, ..)

What topics to discuss?

For example,

• How to automate internet shop using eComStation
• How to build web-server based on eCS
• Mobile internet and eComStation, usage of communicator as access point
• How to configure WPS for special purposes
• (your idea?)

Haarlem Bike Parking (source)

Haarlem and bicycle

Q: Can I come to the conference on bicycle? A: Yes, of course. Bicycle, motocycle, .. don't forget take the helmet.

• Colorful bikes in Haarlem
• bicycle underpass Haarlem, The Netherlands
• GoPro HD cycle around Haarlem, Netherlands 15 April 2010
• // useful video for tourist: Haarlem Netherlands