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Free Java Meeting

Let's meet in Brussels

The next meeting of the Free/Libre Open Source Software Java developers will take place in Brussels during [http://www.fosdem.org FOSDEM], February 23 and 24 in Brussels, Belgium.

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 Free Java Meeting will be:

Clearing OpenJDK encumbrances
Increasing Java Ubiquity: working together across projects and platforms
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.

Pointers to previous events

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Program

Day	When	What	Who
Thursday	?	Lunch, sightseeing, dinner	Steph Meslin-Weber, Lillian Angel
Friday	?	?BrandWeg hacking session	Dalibor Topic, Ian Rogers, Andrew Hughes

	17:30	Beer Event

	?	BXL
Saturday	14:00-15:00	Welcome to the Free Java Meeting
		Welcome and introduction to the projects, people and themes that make up the Free Java Meeting at Fosdem.
		After welcoming and introducing the people and projects in the room various people from GNU Classpath, OpenJDK and Sun will look back on the past year and try to look into the future. There will also be a short presentation on the OpenJDK Community Innovator's Challenge.
	14:00	Welcome and Introductions	Tom Marble
	14:10	The State of GNU/Classpath	Mark Wielaard
	14:20	The State of OpenJDK	Mark Reinhold
	14:50	The OpenJDK Community Innovators' Challenge	Rich Sands
Saturday	15:00-16:00	Mobile Java
		Take your freedom to the max! Make your Free Java mobile.
		What if you want to scale up or down your VM or class library. Is it easy to switch between completely different "full" and "small" versions of the core class libraries? How do you make a VM as flexible as possible to adopt to the available resources and core classes? What has the Mobile and Embedded community been up to this last year?
	15:00	VM interfaces: GNU/Classpath vs. OpenJDK vs. PhoneME	Christian Thalinger
	15:15	Midpath	Guillaume Legris
	15:30	Mobile and Embedded Java	Ray Gans
	15:45	Discussion
Saturday	16:00-16:40	Women in Java Technology
		Female programmers are rare. Female Java programmers are even more rare. As female Java programmers ourselves, our interest in this issue led us to start Duchess, an organization to support and promote women in the Java industry and hopefully to encourage more to join.
	16:00	Duchess, Ladies in Java	Clara Ko, Linda van der Pal
	16:20	Discussion
Saturday	16:40-17:00	Break
Saturday	17:00-17:30	Hacking OpenJDK & Friends
		Hear about directions in hacking Free Java from the front lines
	17:00	OpenJDK Experiences	Roman Kennke
	17:10	VM Mashups: ?BrandWeg, ?IcePick	Andrew Hughes
	17:20	Discussion
Saturday	17:30-19:00	VM Rumble, Porting and Architectures
		There are lots of runtimes able to execute your java byte code. But which one is the best, coolest, smartest, easiest portable or just simply the most fun?
		Various virtual machine hackers will each give a short presentation on what makes their runtime special and fun to work with. What cool things they have been doing this last year. What are their plans for next year. What can other runtimes learn from their experiences. And how can YOU help! The session will end with a general VM discussion.
	17:30	Kaffe	Dalibor Topic
	17:40	JamVM	Robert Lougher
	17:50	?HotSpot	Peter Kessler
	18:00	JikesRVM	Ian Rogers
	18:10	CACAO	Christian Thalinger
	18:20	ikvm	Jeroen Frijters
	18:30	Zero-assembler Port	Gary Benson
	18:40	Discussion
	19:00	Break
Saturday	20:00	Dinner	TBD
	?	A La Mort Subite
Sunday	9:00-10:00	Distro Rumble
		So which GNU/Linux distribution integrates java packages best? Find out during this distro shootout!
		How do the various GNU/Linux distributions integrate java based libraries and applications into their packaging systems. How can we improve cross-distro packaging guidelines (filesystem layout, packaging inter-dependencies, browser integration, developer guidelines, etc.) used across GNU/Linux distributions for java libraries and programs?
	9:00	Gentoo	Petteri Raty
	9:15	Fedora	Tom Fitzsimmons
	9:30	Debian	Michael Koch, Arnaud Vandyck
	9:45	Ubuntu	Matthias Klose
Sunday	10:00-12:00	The Free Java Factory
		OpenJDK and ?IcedTea, how are they made and how do you test them?
		In the factory there will be discussions about functional testing and quality, an overview of the work of the client team and an overview of the transformation process that turns openjdk/hotspot into icedtea with some spicy applet, liveconnect and webstart support.
	10:00	Functional testing and Quality	David Herron
	10:20	Brewing ?IcedTea spiced with gcjwebplugin, liveconnect and webstart	Lillian Angel, Tom Fitzsimmons
	11:00	What's going on with the OpenJDK client team	Igor Nekrestyanov

||Sunday|| 11:30-13:00 ||JIT Session: Discussion Topics Dynamically Loaded ||Tom Marble ||

		This block is reserved for elaborating on Free Java issues which have not yet had enough coverage. Want to hear about -- or talk about -- something the Free Java world and don't see a topic on the agenda? This time is reserved for late binding discussion.
Sunday	13:00-14:00	Lunch
Sunday	14:00-15:45	Cool Stuff
		Lots of examples of cool work in progress.
		Real hackers show their work, how they do their work and where it takes Free Java next. Examples are gstreamer integration, graphics through the framebuffer, jnode a full os in java, ?NetBeans for ?HotSpot hacking and Jalimo bringing Free Java to maemo and openmoko devices.
	14:00	Frame Buffer Toolkit	Steph Meslin-Weber, Guillaume Legris
	14:20	Espresso Italiano: GConf integration, Sound and Open Media	Mario Torre
	14:40	Fun with IDE's	Volker Simonis
	15:00	JNode	Fabien Duminy, Levente Santha, Peter Barth
	15:20	Jalimo	Sebastian Mancke, Robert Schuster
	15:45	Break
Sunday	16:00-17:30	Java: Freedom, Compatibility and Community
		How to combine the holy trinity of Free Java? Freedom, Compatibility and Community.
		Java is Free! Now how do we keep it that way? How do we measure compatibity? What about this mysterious and non-free JCK? What is the future of the JCP process? Where does the community come in and how can you help?
	16:00	The JCK: How it works, what it does; and GPL tools: jtharness & friends.	Onno Kluyt
	16:20	Free Software Stack Compatibility Testing	Andrew Haley
	16:40	The Future of the Java Community Process	Onno Kluyt
	17:00	Fixing the JCP for fun and profit	Dalibor Topic
	17:20	Discussion
Sunday	17:40-18:00	JIT Session: Free Java plans for 2008
		Setting the agenda for Free Java 2008: community objectives for the next year, optimized on the fly
	18:00	Break

Food & Drinks

NOTE: Dinner events TBD

Overview map:

http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2007/Fosdem?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=map2.gif

Grand Place area map:

http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2007/Fosdem?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=map3.gif

ULB area map:

http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2007/Fosdem?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=map4.gif

Friday

Beer Event

Dinner (TBD)

Saturday

Lunch: sandwiches in or around ULB.

Dinner (TBD):

Drinks:

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

Sunday