Hi all, FOSDEM was really, really nice!
There were between 20 and 50 people following the different presentations, talks and discussions in our developer room. And Tom Tromey his talk on gcj in the big room got 120 interested people. There was a surprize talk on JDesktop. And Sascha stayed up till 4am on Saturday night to create a Free Java & Security talk to help out the organisation when at the last minute one of the original talks in the security track couldn't be given. (With thanks to Dalibor and Chris for input and to everybody else who started up their laptops late at night to check various methods to hang and/or crash the various VMs.) This talk also seemed to be well received. And we got a couple of people interested in helping out on the various projects. The presentation that I prepared with Sascha is online at: http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/articles/classpathFeb2004/ It makes nice material when you want to present something on GNU Classpath or on one of the other free java-like projects in the future. If other presentations are also online, please post them to the list. I also made a flyer to attract some people to the talks that can be adapted for future events (but make sure you spell Februari and Saterday correctly on your version... sigh) http://www.klomp.org/mark/classpath/fosdem/ I told the FOSDEM organizers how much all their organisational work was appreciated and especially how nice the buffet on Saturday night was. There was so much energy in the room and so much discussion and interaction between Free Software developers of different groups and projects. (For example Petter Reinholdtsen one of the original Japhar developers was there.) We could have had more in depth technical discussions. Most of the presentations now were more overviews of what was already there. Which is great for attracting new developers and explaining our goals to outsiders. But for next time we must really appoint people that lead some technical issue. Many thanks to Andrew for just standing up and starting the pluggable JIT interface discussion by telling how gcj would like to support it. One thing I completely forgot was organising some key-signing between the developers. That would have been really nice to get a tighter web-of-trust, especially since savannah CVS will in the future support signed commits. Next time hackers meet be sure to have some fingerprints on you so you can sign each others keys. But all in all the meeting was a great success. Thanks all that attended and hopefully we will meet again in the future. There were also some photos taken so you might actually find out how some of our hackers look in the near future :) Some people said that they didn't know that some of us virtually meet from time to time on irc. So please join #classpath, #kaffe or #sablevm on irc.gnu.org or #gcj on irc.oftc.net next time you have internet access. Cheers, Mark
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