History of the DevJam and Free Java
There is much to be said about the long road to Free Java. I do hope others who recall all the history will update this page with important milestones.
At the very least we can chronicle the meetings leading up to the modern day Free Java devroom at FOSDEM
Free Java meetings
2003: ?LinuxCongress in Saarbrücken
- 2004: The "Start"
Classpath at FOSDEM 2004
- 2005: "Escape the Java Trap!"
GNU Classpath Hacker Room at FOSDEM 2005
2006: GNU Classpath & friends "Building bridges"
GNU Classpath and friends meeting at FOSDEM 2006
- 2007: The Liberation
GNU Classpath+OpenJDK ?DevJam Developer Room at FOSDEM 2007
- 2008: Porting, Distros
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2008
2009: OpenJDK futures, IcedTea hacking, Graphics and Sound, VMrubmle
- Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2009
- 2010: Packaging, Groovy, Web development
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2010
- 2011: Java Sans Frontières
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011
- 2012: Free Java Momentum
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2012
- 2013: 10 Years of Free Java!
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2013
- 2014: JVM melting pot
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2014
- 2015: 20 years of excellence
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2015
- 2016: Participation
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2016
- 2017: Everything in its right place
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2017
- 2018: Jigsaw falling into Place
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018
2019: Duke McRelease and the Alien Mindbenders
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019
- 2020: 25 for 25
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020
- 2024: Bring a Friend
Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2024