I'll try to come too. David. On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 22:50 -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > I'll definitely be there - thanks for the note, Mark. > > Will you let us in the GNU Classpath hacker room though? :) > > geir > > On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Like the last couple of years we want to come together with all the > > projects around GNU Classpath and the various free runtimes, compiler > > and tool projects to discuss what has happened in the last year in the > > Free Software community and what the next year will bring us during > > FOSDEM. > > > > The 6th edition of FOSDEM (Free and Opensource Software Developers' > > European Meeting) will take place on February 25+26 2006 in Brussels > > (Belgium), at the Solbosch Campus of the ULB (Free University of > > Brussels). FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event for the community > > and organized by the community. See http://www.fosdem.org/ > > > > We were thinking of the following setup: > > > > - Saturday from 13:00 to 17:30 - "End-User talks" presentations to > > promote what we all build together to a wider audience that might have > > heard of what we do, but haven't actually seen it in action/put > > together. We might also want to have a "lightning" hour with lots of > > quick Demos of applications running on a completely free stack (5 - 10 > > minutes per demo). > > > > - Sunday from 09:00 to 12:30 - "Developer talks" presentations of > > things > > that are in progress and that people want to explain in more depth to > > get developers of the other projects to join in a share the fun. > > > > - Sunday from 13:00 to 17:30 - "The Future" hard core interactive > > technical hacker discussions on how to integrate the projects more and > > move forward in the next year. > > > > Arnaud Vandyck, Dalibor Topic, Mark Wielaard, Michael Koch and and Tom > > Tromey will be our "program committee" this year. If you would like to > > present something, have an idea for a demo or discussion topic please > > let us know at fosdem-at-developer.classpath.org Please mention the > > title, a little abstract, which track and whether you want to do a > > quick > > demo, a short 30 min talk or full hour talk (we prefer 30 minute talks > > to give everybody a chance to present something). Deadline for > > proposals > > is December 18, so you have a month to think of something cool. > > Then we > > make sure to have some kind of "formal program" at the start of > > January. > > > > Examples of presentations and reports from previous years: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/events/escape_fosdem05.html > > http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/events/fosdem04.html > > > > Some ideas for interesting topics: > > - Free Swing - The Demo! > > - Your GNU/Linux distro and the free runtimes - package overview. > > - From 0 to 100 in 15 Minutes: Getting started with GNU Classpath > > development using Eclipse, JamVM, Mauve, and the ChangeLog plugin! > > - Integrating with Objectweb through native-(gcj)-JOnAS > > - Writing OpenOffice.org plugins using a free software stack. > > - Using GNU Classpath/gcj/kaffe for games > > - Using free runtimes on Wine and other win32 environments > > - Embedding GNU Classpath in web browsers and support for JNLP > > - Security Auditing! > > - 1.5 language support in GNU Classpath, gcjx and the free runtimes > > - GNU Classpath/OSGi/J2ME/Library splitting and trimming > > - Harmony through interfacing. > > - Beyond JAPI: what is needed to "really finish" GNU Classpath > > Or, "Beyond Java" -- what we can do when we finish 1.5. > > Or more generally some kind of presentation about development > > metrics: bug rates, rates of change in japi/lines of code/tests, > > email volume, stuff like that. > > - Debugging, JDWP development efforts. > > - etc. > > > > Hope to see you in Brussels on February 25 and 26 2006, > > > > Arnaud, Dalibor, Mark, Michael and Tom > > > > -- > > Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html > > > > Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ > > > -- David Tanzer, Haghofstr. 29, A-3352 St. Peter/Au, Austria/Europe http://deltalabs.at -- http://dev.guglhupf.net -- http://guglhupf.net My PGP Public Key: http://guglhupf.net/david/david.asc -- Meet John Brain Episode: Brain: Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Pinky: I think so, Brain, but this time, you put the trousers on the chimp.
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