Arianne Project Meeting 2010

In order to celebrate the 5th birthday of Stendhal (and the 10 1/2 birthday of Arianne) we are going to have a meeting in real life.

When

13th and 14th of March, 2010

Where

Hannover, Germany

Collecting of Ideas

• have some talks during the day (suggested by kymara)
• and party at night
• Planning type meetings? (e.g. on Administration, proposed features, how to promote the project, etc?)

Ideas and suggestions for Talks

In this section suggestions and ideas about talks are collected. Those are just first ideas that may be adjusted. This includes the speaker, so if you are interested in giving a talk on a subject, just add your name. And if you want to listen to a talk on a subject just suggest it.

The target group is split into Developers, Contributors and Players/Users. This may change based on feedback of who is going to join us.

Concepts of Marauroa and how to use it

Speaker

Hendrik Brummermann (Germany)

Language

English

Target group

Developers

Abstract

In this talk I will present the basic ideas of the Marauroa engine (Actions, Perceptions, Messages, Events, Objects and Classes) and explain how to use them for your own games and programs. I will start with a very short introduction to UML class diagrams as they are a handy tool to describe object oriented structures.

Marauroa's Future

Speaker

Hendrik Brummermann (Germany)

Language

English

Target group

Developers

Abstract

There is a number of very interesting and complicated things on the feature wish list for Marauroa. As you are probably aware of, KISS (Keep it simple, stupid) is one of the main principal of Marauroa. This of course does not mean that we cannot do complicated things. But it means that complicated things have to be well thought of and be broken into small parts. In this talk I will present ideas on how to archive the following "feature" and ask for you feedback and suggestion on the issues:

• No more lag caused by MySQL: A totally asynchronous approach to database access
• How to tunnel the Marauroa protocol over https and why it is more difficult than it seems to be on first glance (e. g. multiplexing with normal web traffic, not wanting to have 127.0.0.1 as client address in the logs)
• How to map a dynamic object model into a database table structure instead of a blob, so that we can use SQL for queries and updates (Yes, i know that Marauroa 1.0 failed and I will present a meta model approach that avoids those pitfalls)
• Integration of production and test system
• Steps toward cluster-support

History of Arianne from 1999 to present day

Speaker

Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin (Spain)

Language

English

Target group

All

Abstract

tbc

How to contribute

Speaker

Language

Target group

Contributors

Abstract

This talk will explain how you can contribute without knowing how to write computer programs.

The GPL license - what is it and why does Arianne use it?

Speaker

Language

Target group

All

Abstract

JUnit testing - how and why?

Speaker

madmetzger

Language

Target group

Developers

Abstract

What does Sourceforge.net offer Arianne?

Speaker

Language

Target group

All

Abstract

Skills session: Using GIMP to create Stendhal graphics

Speaker

Kiheru

Speaker

Language

Target group

All

Abstract

More Ideas (to be formatted):

• Using Tiled to create Stendhal maps
• Using Eclipse to develop Arianne projects
• JUnit testing
• Quest contribution for all skill levels