Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution ison ; ))

2003-12-13 Thread Chris Gray
On Saturday 13 December 2003 12:52, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Make sure that you try to contact the organization about your plans. > http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/contact/ Peter Vandenabeele is the one to whom I have been talking, and who added Java topics to the Embedded room. He's also a very

Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution ison ; ))

2003-12-13 Thread Chris Gray
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 th

Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution ison ; ))

2003-12-13 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 10:37, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > > I think it's really great opportunity for Free Java folks to meet. > I don't mean that we need to separate ourselves from all the rest of the > meeting ;) but it would certainely be good if we had our place. I went last year and it

Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution ison ; ))

2003-12-13 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
W liście z pią, 12-12-2003, godz. 16:49, Mark Wielaard pisze: > 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

Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution ison ; ))

2003-12-12 Thread Mark Wielaard
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.

Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution ison ; ))

2003-12-12 Thread Chris Gray
Guys, The Call for Papers is already out (for 10 days already; it was posted on a couple of mailing lists but not sent to me directly). The deadline is 18 dec 2003 (not 2004 :>), so we need to get something together quite quickly. Given that we have only a part of the Embedded track, I would su

Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution ison ; ))

2003-12-12 Thread Patrik Reali
> How many people want to attend (Brussels, Belgium, the weekend of 21-22 > February 2004)? If I followed the messages and irc discussions correctly > then Arnaud, Chris, Tom, Dalibor, Stephane, Michael and myself will be > there at least. I really want, but cannot tell yet (depends on my army sch

Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution is on ; ))

2003-12-06 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:20, Chris Gray wrote: > I wrote to my contact as follows: > > CG> I understand that Tom Tromey is already scheduled to do a talk on gcj at > CG> Fosdem 2004. There is also considerable interest from the rest of the > open > CG> source Java community, certainly en

RE: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution is on; ))

2003-12-02 Thread Jeroen Frijters
Chris Gray wrote: > > How many people want to attend (Brussels, Belgium, the > > weekend of 21-22 February 2004)? If I followed the > > messages and irc discussions correctly then Arnaud, > > Chris, Tom, Dalibor, Stephane, Michael and myself will > > be there at least. > > Haven't heard from Jero

Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution is on ; ))

2003-12-01 Thread Chris Gray
On Sunday 30 November 2003 22:07, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > [...] > > last week I did email [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the contact page says, to see > if we could get a developer room, but I didn't hear back from them yet. > But if Chris knows one of the organizers that might be a better way to > contact

Re: Revolution Action

2003-11-30 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: It also could be great to announce new releases from SableVM, gcj, kaffe and classpath... all together ;) That would be great! Is there any corporate sponsor, on this list, that would like to finance the travel of one SableVM developer (gadek, belanger, or myself) to attend F

Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution is on ; ))

2003-11-30 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 20:05, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Speaking of our own tracks, do we have an update on the idea of someone > from GUUG's of doing a free software java conference, that popped up > after there were several free java related abstract proposals at Linux > Kongress? Not that I

Re: Revolution Action

2003-11-30 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:09:03 +0100 Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll talk to the organiser, Peter Vandenabeele, about this. We should > be able to get more than just a BOF. Great! It also could be great to announce new releases from SableVM, gcj, kaffe and classpath... all together ;

Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution is on ; ))

2003-11-30 Thread Chris Gray
Ahem. Maybe first type and then send? I'll talk to the organiser, Peter Vandenabeele, about this. We should be able to get more than just a BOF. Chris On Sunday 30 November 2003 20:05, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Chris Gray wrote: > > On Saturday 29 November 2003 13:48, Arnaud Vandyck

Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution is on ; ))

2003-11-30 Thread Chris Gray
On Sunday 30 November 2003 20:05, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Chris Gray wrote: > > On Saturday 29 November 2003 13:48, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > >>Why don't you try to make a keynote at the JavaPolis (maybe next year) > > > > in the Open Source hall. > > > > I'd love to. And the topic would

Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution is on ; ))

2003-11-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Chris, Chris Gray wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2003 13:48, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Why don't you try to make a keynote at the JavaPolis (maybe next year) in the Open Source hall. I'd love to. And the topic would be something like Java is not a proprietary language: and here's the proof: