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Lets meet in Brussels

The next ?DevJam will take place in Brussels during FOSDEM, February 24 and 25 in Brussels, Belgium. We have been allocated room H2213, capacity 100 people.

We are organizing a meeting which is a merger of two events and what we hope will be the start of a close collaboration of the free software community with the new Sun OpenJDK project.

In the past several years there were two main events around libre java for the GNU/Linux platform. The Fosdem "Escape the Java Trap" event organized by the GNU Classpath community, coordinating technical issues around implementing core libraries, compilers, tools and free runtimes. And "?DevJam", a GNU/Linux distro packaging conference organized by Debian, but meant as a cross-distribution coordination meeting to set common guidelines for packaging java programs and libraries.

The goals of the shared Fosdem/DevJam/OpenJDK meeting will be three fold:

• Refocusing the technical collaboration and planning around GNU Classpath, gcj, kaffe, jamvm, cacao, ikvm and other libre java projects that are working together to provide a free JSE JRE/JDK to see how to incorporate and collaborate with the new OpenJDK project now that Sun has released and is going to release their implementation under the GPL (GNU Classpath's Mark Wielaard will coordinate this session).
• Getting insight from, and giving feedback to, the new OpenJDK community on how to collaborate on shared goals (Sun's Tom Marble will coordinate this session).
• Improve the distro packaging guidelines (filesystem layout, packaging inter-dependencies, browser integration, developer guidelines, etc.) used across GNU/Linux distributions for java libraries and programs (Fedora's Tom Fitzsimmons will coordinate this session).

Pointers to previous events

• http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2005/Oldenburg

• http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/events/fosdem06.html

Program

Posters of the talks available at: http://www.klomp.org/mark/classpath/fosdem2007poster/

The talk by Simon Phipps is actually a keynote in the main track, the talk by Tom Tromey is in the Fedora+CentOS room next to ours.] The other events are in the shared developer room. Full schedule of developer room at http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/gnuclasspathopenjdkdevjam

There will many more talks and events during Fosdem that you can find at the Fosdem site http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/days

Food & Drinks

NOTE: We haven't confirmed the locations yet, so consider it to be currently reservation pending, preliminary schedule, check back again to know for sure.

Please add Interested in joining dinner below in the list of people for the days you can make it so we can reserver enough seats.

Overview map:

Grand Place area map:

ULB area map:

Friday

Dinner (proposed)

• 18:00
  [1] "Ricotta & Parmesan"
  Rue de l'Ecuyer 31 (Schildknaapsstraat)
  +32 2 513.78.81
  

Drinks

• [2] FOSDEM beerevent (starts at 17h30, we may arrive around 20h?)
  http://www.fosdem.org/2007/beerevent
  at http://www.roydespagne.be/en/en_galery_2.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Place
  [4] Le Roy d'Espagne
  

  • Grand Place 1 (Grote Markt)
    +32 2 513.08.07
    

Saturday

Lunch: sandwiches in or around ULB.

• [3] Fosdem: ULB Campus Solbosh
  http://www.fosdem.org/2007/practical/transportation
  Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 50, 1050 Bruxelles
  

Dinner (proposed):

• 19:00
  [4] "L'Element Terre"
  Chée.de Waterloo 465 (Waterloosesteenweg)
  +32 2 649.37.27
  

  http://www.brusselnieuws.be/site/rubrieken/1106728009/page.htm?&newsID=1138193052
  Or if you speak French the chef's depiction is quite nice:
  http://www.resto.com/lelementterre/
  http://www.resto.be/ware/details.jsp?businessid=733
  

Drinks (proposed):

• [5] "A La Mort Subite"
  7 rue Montagne aux Herbes Potageres
  +32 2 513.13.18
  http://www.alamortsubite.com/ENG/History/fr.htm
  

Sunday

Lunch: sandwiches in or around ULB.

Dinner (proposed):

• 19:00
  [6] "Apocalypse"
  Adolphe Buyllaan 20
  +32 2 647.07.18
  http://www.resto.be/ware/details.jsp?businessid=88
  

Drinks:

• Undecided.

Reimbursements

Reimbursements will be done by SPI international (for the us-american participants (do we have any, now?) and by ~SPI-de (aka ffis)for the europeans.

This is the reimbursement procedure. It is based on the procedure from last time. Please check those instructions for more details.

• Register your sponsoring needs on this wiki page. Deadline has passed.
• A group lead by Mark Wielaard made a priority list after the deadline and passed it on to Petter Reinholdtsen.
• The people apprived for sponsoring are notified.
• The list of people is passed on to FFIS.

• Those receiving sponsoring should please print and fill in this form (german or english version), preferably ahead of time.

• Please use printed letters to fill in the form.
• Make copies of all your receipts.
• Send the form and the original receipts to
  • ffis e.V. Christian Weerts Hofstraße 6 D-26676 Barßel
• Do only send copies of the receipts if you communicated about that with Christian Weerts ahead of time.

• For clarity, send all data relevant for the money transfer again per e-mail to mailto:kasse@ffis.de.

Interested Individuals

Add your name here if you are interested in joining. Please include your full name, email address, affiliation, if you need travel sponsoring (and estimated amount) and where you are traveling from. Please do indicate on which days you would be interested in joining dinner. The entries are numbered to make them easier to count.

1. Petter Reinholdtsen (pere at hungry.com)

   • Organizing devjam
   • Need sponsoring (400 EURO)
   • located in Oslo, Norway
   • Interested in joining dinner on Friday, Saturday and perhaps Sunday (plane leave 19:50)

2. TomMarble

   • coordinating Sun's OpenJDK participation
   • will attend
   • Interested in joining dinner on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

3. DavidHerron

   • Representing OpenJDK Qualtiy team
   • No sponsoring needed

4. Mark Wielaard (mark at klomp.org)

   • GNU Classpath
   • No sponsoring needed
   • located in Enschede, The Netherlands
   • Interested in joining dinner on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

5. Dalibor Topic (robilad at kaffe.org)

   • Kaffe
   • No sponsoring needed
   • located in Saarbrücken, Germany
   • Interested in joining dinner on Saturday and Sunday, arriving too late on Friday.
   • +49 177 26 64 192

6. Thomas Fitzsimmons (fitzsim at redhat.com)

   • Red Hat, GCJ, GNU Classpath, Fedora, JPackage
   • No sponsoring needed
   • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

7. Andrew Haley (aph@redhat.com)

   • Red Hat, GCJ, GNU Classpath, Fedora
   • No sponsoring needed
   • (+44) 7776 208373
8. Tom Tromey (tromey at redhat.com)
   • Red Hat, GCJ, GNU Claspath, Fedora
   • No sponsoring needed
   • Boulder, Colorado, USA
   • Interested in joining dinner on Friday, Saturday and Sunday

9. Mario Torre (neugens at limasoftware.net)

   • GNU Classpath
   • No sponsoring needed
   • Salerno, Italy

10. Roman Kennke (roman at aicas dot com)

    • Aicas GmbH, GNU Classpath
    • No sponsoring needed
    • Mahlberg, Germany
11. Geir Magnusson (geir at pobox dot com)

    • Apache Harmony

    • No sponsoring needed
    • Wilton, Connecticut, USA

12. Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew at member dot fsf dot org)

    • GNU Classpath

    • Sponsorship would be helpful (~250 GBP)
    • Sheffield, England
    • Interested in joining dinner on Saturday and Sunday (will miss Friday as I arrive too late).
    • +44 7757 806489

13. Petteri Räty (betelgeuse at gentoo dot org)

    • Gentoo Java project

    • Sponsorship would be helpful (Flight tickets are ~200-250 euros)
    • Helsinki, Finland
14. David Walluck

    • JPackage Project

    • Mandriva Linux Java Packaging Policy

    • Need sponsorship (plane tickets alone are $700)
    • Currently located in Storrs, Connecticut, USA
15. Steph Meslin-Weber (steph at tangency.co.uk)

    • GNU Classpath

    • Qtopia GreenPhone

    • Sponsorship not required (I'll fit inside gnu_andrew's luggage)
    • London, England
16. Karl Trygve Kalleberg (karltk at gentoo dot org)

    • Gentoo Java project

    • Sponsorship would be helpful (~250 euros for airfare)
    • Bergen, Norway
17. Michael Koch (mkoch at debian.org)

    • http://wiki.debian.org/Java

    • No sponsoring needed
    • Bremen, Germany
    • Interested in joining dinner on Friday, Saturday
18. Joshua Nichols (nichoj at gentoo dot org)

    • Gentoo Java project

    • No sponsoring necessary
    • Boston, Massachusetts, USA
19. Matthias Klose (m at klose.in-berlin.de)
    • Debian / Ubuntu
    • Sponsoring to be determined
    • Berlin, Germany
20. David Gilbert (david dot gilbert at object-refinery dot com)

    • JFreeChart / GNU Classpath

    • No sponsoring needed
    • London, United Kingdom
21. Arnaud Vandyck (avdyk at debian.org)

    • http://wiki.debian.org/Java

    • http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/

    • No sponsoring needed
    • Liege (Luik, Luttich), Belgium
22. Christian Thalinger (twisti at complang.tuwien.ac.at)

    • CACAO

    • No sponsoring needed
    • Vienna, Austria

23. Jeroen Frijters (jeroen at frijters dot net)

    • No sponsoring needed
    • Rotterdam, Netherlands
24. Daniel Bornkessel (dbornkessel AT opensuse.org)

    • openSUSE projekt

    • No sponsoring needed
    • Nuremberg, Germany
25. Ian Rogers (ian.rogers AT manchester.ac.uk)

    • The Jikes RVM, The University of Manchester, Jamaica project, PearColator, Parakeet

    • No sponsoring needed

    • Manchester, UK

26. Rene Engelhard

    • Debian OpenOffice.org maintainer

    • Sponsoring needed
    • Nuremberg, Germany / Ulm, Germany

27. HenningSprang

    • Silpion GmbH, interested in getting an overview of free java and work needed here
    • Hoping on sponsorship by Silpion
    • Hamburg, Germany

28. Rémi Forax (forax AT univ-mlv.fr)

    • Kitchen Sink Language

    • No sponsoring needed
    • Interested in dinner Saturday
    • Paris, France

29. ?OnnoKluyt

    • Community Dabbler
    • No sponsoring needed
    • Interested in joining dinner Saturday and Sunday
    • Rochester, NY

30. Jeroen van Wolffelaar

    • Debian
    • No sponsoring needed
    • Interested in joining dinner, one or two times
    • Utrecht, NL
31. Peter Kessler
    • Peter.Kessler (at) Sun.COM
    • No sponsoring needed
    • Located in Santa Clara, California, USA

    • Interested in HotSpot, dinner Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and chocolate shopping

32. Simon Phipps (webmink (at) Sun.COM)

    • Sun's FOSS strategist
    • No sponsoring needed
    • Located in Southampton, UK, and in Menlo Park, CA
    • Interested in some subset of dinner Friday, Saturday, Sunday
33. Chris Gray
    • chris dot gray (at) kiffer dot be
    • No sponsoring needed
    • Located in Antwerp, Belgium
    • Interested in dinner Saturday
34. Robert Lougher (rob at lougher.org.uk)

    • JamVM

    • No sponsoring needed
    • Chepstow, Wales
35. Rich Sands (richard.sands (at) sun.com)
    • OpenJDK Community Marketing Mgr at Sun
    • No sponsoring needed
    • Boston, Massachusetts
    • Interested in dinner all nights - I like to eat!

36. KurtGramlich (kurt at skolelinux.de)

    • It was nice to meet you

    • planning next debian free java hacking perhaps in Guetersloh Germany http://wiki.skolelinux.de/TestZentrum

    • planning next devjam
    • Bielefeld Germany

37. MarkReinhold (mr(at)sun.com)

    • Java SE Chief Engineer at Sun
    • Santa Clara, CA
    • Thanks for a great meeting!

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