XOOPS Cube Developers Meeting #1 Report

Yesterday, the XOOPS Cube Developers Meeting gathered many contributors. We discussed about the feature of XOOPS Cube and decided to begin working for actual comeout.

Section 1

Section 1 was learning time. I explained typical OSS project by using samples --- the OGRE project. After that, I compared XOOPS Cube project with the OGRE project. XOOPS Cube project is "anarchy" than the OGRE project, but the OGRE project governs developers for great development.

XC project is based on the OGRE project system after removing governance rules, but it isn't known well. Documents aren't enough, or documents aren't known.

Contributors wrote on problems to their note for the next discussion.

Section 2

Section 2 was discussion time & group work. We made 4 squads to discuss by 4 people. Each squad discussed about Section 1, list tasks and assign members to tasks. After that, we did general discussions by using each conclusion.
In this section, first, we decided many tasks about Wiki documations mainly --- Developer's manual, Tutorials, Multilingual, User Community Documents and Translations. Second, "XOOPS User Group Japan" has been defined as a kind of end user communities. That's an important decision. Third, we decided to try to open IRC channel as test. I don't know whether we should keep IRC. But there is the worth we'll try.

Section 3

Section 3 is technical time. GIJOE gave a presentation about two new features that bring useful template uses to us. One of them is "Custom Template". Another one is "New Template Override Method".

Technical talk is very interesting. A such talk will be main after the next meeting.

After that, we had Beer Time as Section Ex!

Where are Japanese developers in?

I felt this problem. Sf.net is in English, and XUGJ & xoopscube.jp are a user community. If developers are not a user, any discussion spaces for Japanese developers don't exist. We have another problem that Japanese developers don't visit to .org, but this is also one of problems. I think that someone in Japan will make a such place as like other Japanese open source community.

XOOPS Cube Developers Meeting #1 and others

XOOPS Cube Developers Meeting #1

This event will be held in Tokyo at next Sunday. It gathers active volunteers for exchange of informations. And we will assign to tasks for documents. Japanese developers' network was broken once, because some volunteers were extinguished. That's sad situation of XOOPS Cube development, even if XOOPS Cube is developed in the international space. The purpose of the event is re-ignitions.

If you have messages or questions, leave those to the comment form. I will tell those to the floor.

IDGA Japan AI Seminar #5

I will go to this Seminar at Saturday. Game AI is the core interactivity of some game categories. This conference is fifth of the conference series of this year. The AI of the conference's topic learns strategy and grow itself. That's interesting!

Plus, this seminar will be held in Fromsoftware, which is one of the most famous game development company in Japan.

Xbox 360 price down!

Microsoft cuts Europe Xbox price. No! I have a friend who bought Xbox these days. ･･･But, he enjoyed playing Halo3 early! (^^;

It seems that PS3 is effortful, but Xbox is the best platform now. For the near term, my PS3 is used as BD player, whereas there are NOT good movies in BD.

BTW, Microsoft sells the HD-DVD external drive. The drive will bring TRANSFORMER to me this winter.

(I work, to play)