See the first official photos of all the PureBasic team members! I want to tell you some stuff about the meeting and of course give you also some impressions...
On 11-12th August 2007 Fred invited his friends Timo, Benny, Rings and André to his parents home in Fegersheim (France). As Fred is living in Paris since several years we had the possibility to stay at their house during this weekend. So here we go...
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On the way to the meeting point I came to the small town Fegersheim in the south of Strassbourg and shot my first pictures... |
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| As such a meeting took place for the first time in 2003 this year was the first chance for me (André) to meet the other guys personally. At least Fred and I know us through internet since nearly 10 years (at this time from the BlitzBasic Mailing-List for Amiga), but now was the first time we could see us. |  |
So I want to show you a picture of the complete team first. You can see (from left to right): André, Timo, Fred, Benny (with his childrens*) and Siggi *They are the junior developers, who will create the Wii-RemoteLib for PB ;) |
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The goal of such a meeting is not to work on new
PureBasic features - it's instead for having fun, know everyone
a bit better than before, and of course discuss about current PureBasic
development, planned features (don't ask - you know the rule "...
when it's done") and about the life beside PureBasic. At first
we also relaxed & satified us in the warm sun of
August in Fred's garden. We also watched & examined
all the animals / enemies in real, which you can meet
later in Paul's
pacman-clone:
LadysGarden
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So now is the time to show you, who are the people behind PureBasic:
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Frédéric 'AlphaSnd' Laboureur France
Inventor and Main developer of PureBasic |
Timo 'fr34k' Harter Germany
Second developer of PureBasic. Libraries, IDE and many other things (including evil takeover plans for the PureBasic empire... ;) |
André Beer Germany
PureBasic docs and support
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Benny 'Bericko' Sels Belgium
"Father" of the Visual Designer
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Siegfried Rings Germany
... is not a real team member, but suggested a PureBasic lib and always helpful ideas, experiences, ...
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On this pictures you can see us discussing new PB features, showing what was already done (not only for PureBasic, also with it: e.g. Rings showed us for the first time his private "MediaCenter" written in PB). Some
pizza, beer and coke always by the side. But note: Pizza
and beer were only decoration to keep the "geek"
image alive on the pictures. Nothing of it was for eating...
People knowing him longer from IRC will get the point: this is always the time, when Timos nick will transform from 'fr34k' to 'f00d' ;) |
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If sometimes there wasn't an agreement about what
new PureBasic features to do first, we just decided
this by a duel... 
Rings lost every match against Fred. So there will be no wishes of him realized for next versions (until he train his Wii sport skillz), ha ha :) Ok, this was a joke. But of course we had a lot of fun with the Wii console. Below you see the "professionals" Fred and Rings in action. |
Timo beated the highscore by throwing the remote-stick 8.5 m from livingroom to kitchen, only a wall stopped it (and Rings got shoked 50 cm beside the bullet hole... ;) |
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| Finally here you see a photo of the current active PureBasic team: André, Fred and Timo. |  |