Lets meet in Brussels

The next ?DevJam will take place in Brussels during [http://www.fosdem.org FOSDEM], February 24 and 25 in Brussels, Belgium. We have been allocated [http://fosdem.org/2007/devrooms/rooms 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

This is just the prelimenary program. Details to be filled in later. The talk by Simon Phipps is actually a keynote in the main track, the other events are in the shared developer room.

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

Reimbursements

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

This is the reimbursement procedure:

• 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 ([http://www.ffis.de/Verein/Erstattungen.ps german] or [http://www.ffis.de/Verein/Reimbursement.ps 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:donation@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. The entries are numbered to make them easier to count.

1. [http://www.hungry.com/~pere/ Petter Reinholdtsen] (pere at hungry.com)

   • Organizing devjam
   • Need sponsoring (400 EURO)
   • located in Oslo, Norway

2. TomMarble

   • coordinating Sun's OpenJDK participation
   • hoping Sun will sponsor

3. DavidHerron

   • Representing OpenJDK Qualtiy team
   • No sponsoring needed

4. [http://www.klomp.org/mark/ Mark Wielaard] (mark at klomp.org)

   • GNU Classpath
   • No sponsoring needed
   • located in Enschede, The Netherlands

5. [http://robilad.livejournal.com/ Dalibor Topic] (robilad at kaffe.org)

   • Kaffe
   • No sponsoring needed
   • located in Saarbrücken, Germany

6. [http://fitzsim.org/blog/ 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
8. Tom Tromey (tromey at redhat.com)
   • Red Hat, GCJ, GNU Claspath, Fedora
   • No sponsoring needed
   • Boulder, Colorado, USA

9. [http://jroller.com/page/neugens/ Mario Torre] (neugens at limasoftware.net)

   • GNU Classpath
   • No sponsoring needed
   • Salerno, Italy

10. [http://kennke.org/blog/ Roman Kennke] (roman at aicas dot com)

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

    • [http://harmony.apache.org/ Apache Harmony]

    • No sponsoring needed
    • Wilton, Connecticut, USA

12. [http://blog.fuseyism.com Andrew John Hughes] (gnu_andrew at member dot fsf dot org)

    • [http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath GNU Classpath]

    • Sponsorship would be helpful (~250 GBP)
    • Sheffield, England

13. [http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/betelgeuse Petteri Räty] (betelgeuse at gentoo dot org)

    • [http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/ Gentoo Java project]

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

    • [http://www.jpackage.org/ JPackage Project]

    • [http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/JavaPackaging 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)

    • [http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath GNU Classpath]

    • [http://qtopia.net/modules/devices/ Qtopia ?GreenPhone]

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

    • [http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/ 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
18. Joshua Nichols (nichoj at gentoo dot org)

    • [http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/ 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)

    • [http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/ 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)

    • [http://www.cacaojvm.org/ CACAO]

    • No sponsoring needed
    • Vienna, Austria

23. [http://www.wolfram-rittmeyer.de Wolfram Rittmeyer] (wolfram DOT rittmeyer AT jsptutorial DOT org)

    • [http://www.jsptutorial.org/ JSP-Tutorial (in German only)]

    • [http://www.visualproxy.org/ ?VisualProxy]

    • No sponsoring needed
    • Münster, Germany

24. [http://weblog.ikvm.net/ Jeroen Frijters] (jeroen at frijters dot net)

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

    • [http://en.opensuse.org/ openSUSE projekt]

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

    • [http://jikesrvm.sf.net/ The Jikes RVM], [http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt/projects/jamaica The University of Manchester, Jamaica project], [http://pearcolator.sf.net/ ?PearColator], [http://parakeet.sf.net/ Parakeet]

    • No sponsoring needed

    • [http://www.morrissey-solo.com/ Manchester], UK