The Open World Forum [1] is a yearly conference about Open Source, of which the fourth edition took place last week in Paris, France. A programming contest was organized during the first two days [2], for which a source code sample could be uploaded to win a few prizes (and exposure).

This was a great occasion to finally write a graphical user interface for the deassembly framework [3], using the library from the asm project. It was called "gdeasm" and pushed into the GEDI project, even though it is not mature yet [4]. Of course, it also allowed for a few bugfixes and improvements to the library.

The actual submission for the contest can be found here [5]. After winning the vote tally, it was awarded the second place of the contest by the jury. Besides an awesome prize from HP (a brand new laptop), I could speak about the project for a few minutes on stage, which is probably the first time this happened while being recorded.

I would therefore like to thank the organizers and sponsors of this event (Microsoft, HP, af83) and for a great conference. Looking forward to the next edition!

[1] http://www.openworldforum.org/
[2] http://www.openworldforum.org/Univers/Code/Awards
[3] http://www.defora.org/os/project/15/asm
[4] http://www.defora.org/os/project/browse/11?file=/Apps/Devel/src/GEDI/tools/gdeasm.c,v
[5] http://openworldforum.cloudapp.net/projects/graphical-cross-architecture-deassembler