Hi Libre Java Hackers, We are trying to organize a meeting for all free java hackers at Fosdem in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2011) http://fosdem.org/2011/
We have applied for a developer room, but we don't know yet if there will be enough free space this year (Fosdem is getting very popular). "Every request will receive an email around 2010-10-23 with an approval or reject of your Developer Room proposal. Details on further proceedings will then be communicated swiftly." So we will know for sure in two weeks. For those that want to start thinking about attending, or even submitting a talk proposal, here are the details of the devroom proposal. The organisation committee can also be reached at fos...@developer.classpath.org devroom name: Free Java developer room The Libre Java community goes well beyond a single project. In this devroom, we intend to provide a forum for many related core java projects to exchange ideas and plan for the future of implementations of Free Java on GNU/Linux and other free operating systems. This coming year, with JDK 7 due to make an appearance, our goal is to provide a venue for the developers and users of the Free Java projects (listed below) to collaborate and discuss on a range of topics from virtual machines through to deployment on FOSS operating systems. While our main focus is traditionally on the JDK, we are excited about hearing from new and exciting Free Java projects from across the spectrum. In particular we would love to see submissions about porting Java to small spaces or different architectures (e.g. ARM, MIPS, etc) and how to implement alternate languages on the JVM (e.g. Clojure, JRuby, Scala, etc.). The "Libre Java" developer room will be a collaboration between: - OpenJDK http://openjdk.java.net/ - IcedTea http://icedtea.classpath.org/ - GNU Classpath http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath - GCJ http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ And other projects around Free Java. preferred day: Saturday from 12:00 to 18:00 comments/remarks: Over the past several years, we have used FOSDEM as a unifying conference to bring the various communities around Free Java closer together, and it has become a central point in our calendar for us to meet, share ideas and plan for the future. We are very grateful for the opportunity that FOSDEM gives us to unite our respective projects and work towards a Free Java for everyone. Over the years, our developer room has proved very popular, among both developers and interested users alike, across both days of the conference and if possible, we would like to come together again at FOSDEM and have a gathering in a developer room. Organisers: - Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> GCJ Maintainer, GNU Classpath, IcedTea & OpenJDK Developer. - Andrew John Hughes <gnu_and...@member.fsf.org> / <ahug...@redhat.com> IcedTea Maintainer, GNU Classpath Maintainer, OpenJDK & GCJ Developer - Christian Thalinger <christian.thalin...@oracle.com> OpenJDK developer, former CACAO Maintainer - Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org> GNU Classpath Maintainer, GCJ, IcedTea & OpenJDK contributor. - Tom Marble <tmar...@info9.net> Java Libre hacker, Former OpenJDK Ambassador
