Mark (and everyone), I happen to know the organiser of the Embedded track at FOSDEM quite well, so I was able to persuade him to [get his committee to agree to] put an extra item on the Call for Papers. Of course the Embedded track isn't the obvious place for a talk on Classpath, but most of the VM projects have a mobile/embedded angle to them, and most also happen to use Classpath ...
Dali was happy to see Kaffe mentioned by name: my aplogies to everyone else for "forgetting" your project. :) It would be good to have as many projects as possible represented, certainly as attendees and better still as [joint] authors. I think we should try to emphasise two aspects: - on the one hand, the diversity of projects and their special features; - on the other, the unifying factors, including the need to comply with a "proprietary" standard. In this Classpath of course plays a major role. If we put on a good show then maybe we'll be able to get more space for Java next time around ... On the JCP/JSPA/JCK thing, I'm also making enquiries quite independently of Mark/RMS (but I will keep Mark informed). So the chances that we'll have something to report by FOSDEM time are rather high. Best wishes, Chris On Friday 12 December 2003 22:49, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:16, Chris Gray wrote: > > Given that we have only a part of the Embedded track, I would suggest > > that we do a group paper presenting the whole spectrum of Free / open > > VMs; maybe Classpath should be part of this, maybe we should try for a > > separate Classpath paper. We could try to get some kind of extended slot > > for this, if the organisers will agree. > > I didn't realize that they still accepted presentations. Sascha and I > made an abstract about a possible GNU Classpath talk which I send to two > people from Fosdem. Since the talks were already announced on the Fosdem > website I hoped to sneak it in as an unofficial talk. Knowing that there > is still time to do a real abstract submission I am happy to discuss the > current abstract and/or submit it properly. But I am not sure that the > embedded track is to correct forum for GNU Classpath related stuff. > > Fosdem people are kind of hard to get hold off. Tried sending email to > several addresses, but only yesterday got a small response. I did tell > them that we are expecting at least 10 people already so that it would > be nice to have a developer room were people can meet/hack/discuss. Will > let you know if I get any reply. They said there would be a meeting next > week to discuss Fosdem planning and requests from the community. So > please try to contact them with ideas soon. > > > I'd also like to have an item on the > > standardisation issue : by the time FOSDEM comes, either we will have > > some positive news or a lot of bitching to do. ;> > > Richard Stallman recently asked about the JSPA and the JSR process. > We are still discussing it. If we reach a conclusion I will email the > list. If people have experience with the JSPA or serving on a JSR expert > team and know what to expect from the process in regards to creating > specs and/or software that is free software (friendly) I would like to > hear. > > Cheers, > > Mark -- Chris Gray /k/ Embedded Java Solutions Embedded & Mobile Java, OSGi http://www.kiffer.be/k/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +32 477 599 703 _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
