Call For Participation
Welcome to the Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011 Call For Participation!
We encourage you to submit a talk idea for Java/DevJam/2011/Fosdem
Submit one (or more) 5, 25 or 50 minute talk proposal(s) by 3 December.
We will notify all those submitting proposals about acceptance by 10 December.
This year's theme is Java Sans Frontières. In particular we are looking for talks that cover:
- Why Free Java technology is awesome
- Virtual Machine
- Universality: porting to new operating system / architecture combinations
- Specialized hardware (e.g. large, mobile or embedded)
- Standing on the Shoulders of Free Java
- Extending the language/platform (invokedynamic, lambda, fork/join, jigsaw, etc.)
- Dynamic languages such as Ruby, Scala and Clojure
- Applications built on dynamic languages such as Rails, Lift, Ring
- The future of Free Java
- Building and growing the Free Java community
The role, governance and state of Free Java projects such as OpenJDK, IcedTea, GNU Classpath, Apache Harmony, etc.
- Experiences with the JCP
To submit a talk proposal (and yes you may submit more than one), please compose an e-mail with the following information:
- Title
- Funny titles appreciated, but please do include the name of your project.
- Abstract (at least two paragraphs)
- If possible describe why Free Java is helpful or perhaps even essential to your project.
- What the audience will learn from the talk.
- How will people be able to help out with the project, what feedback are you looking for?
- Desired length: 5, 25, 50 min
- Please state if your talk could be shorter or longer (in case the organizers need to adjust the schedule)
Sponsorship request (note: we do not yet have any sponsors)
- I do not need sponsorship
- I would appreciate sponsorship, but it is not required for me to attend
- I need sponsorship to attend (travel amount requested in Euros)
- Interest in video:
- Yes please record the talks
- I don't mind if you record the talks
- I don't think the talks should be recorded at all
- Brief Bio (pointers to your microblog, blog and/or projects)
And send it to fosdem@developer.classpath.org by 3 December.
Please note: FOSDEM is a FLOSS community event, by and for the community, please insure your topic is appropriate (i.e. this isn't the right forum for commercial product presentations)