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 7th and 8th 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:

• TBD (your turn - it's a wiki)

Pointers to previous events

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

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

• http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2007/Fosdem

  • Posters: http://www.klomp.org/mark/classpath/fosdem2007poster/

  • devroom page: http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/gnuclasspathopenjdkdevjam

• http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2008/Fosdem

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Pointers to current information

• ?DevRoom request: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2008-November/001360.html

• ?DevRoom approved: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2008-December/001393.html

Program

TBD

Food & Drinks

Each year we try to find a suitable place to host a dinner on Saturday and/or Sunday evenings. Previous places can be found in the archives, new proposals welcome.

Reimbursements

TBD.

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. Who Are You? (Firstname Lastname, maybe a link)
   • Organization
   • Need sponsoring (How much?) (you can remove this line if you don't need)
   • Located in Town, Country (GMap link? ;-))
   • Joining dinner on Saturday (See the bottom of the list for the note about dinner)
2. Dalibor Topic

   • [http://kaffe.org Kaffe], [http://classpath.org Classpath], [http://openjdk.java.net OpenJDK]

   • Sponsoring: Not needed
   • Located: Hamburg, DE
   • Dinner: yes
3. Jeroen Frijters

   • [http://ikvm.net IKVM.NET]

   • Sponsoring: Not needed
   • Located: NL
   • Dinner: yes
4. Andrew Hughes

   • [http://icedtea.classpath.org ?IcedTea], [http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath GNU Classpath], [http://gcc.gnu.org/java GCJ]

   • Sponsoring: Not needed
   • Located: Sheffield, England
   • Dinner: yes

5. [http://wiki.debian.org/DavidHerron David Herron]

   • [http://davidherron.com], [http://openjdk.java.net OpenJDK]

   • Sponsoring: Not needed
   • Location: Mountain View, CA
   • Dinner: yes