What is DevJam?
A developer and packager meeting around coordinating and improving the state of packaging of large scale applications written in the java programming language using the GNU Classpath, gcj and other free java-like tool chains for the various GNU/Linux distributions.
DevJam coordination
- ["Java/DevJam/2005/Oldenburg"]: from 23th to 25th September 2005, Oldenburg, Germany
The next DevJam meeting
The ["Java/DevJam"] developer and packager meeting was held in ["Java/DevJam/2005/Oldenburg"] Oldenburg, Germany from 23th till 25th September 2005. The short notice of date and place precluded some people from attending, particularly those from North America, as arranging to be out of work and out of the country on such short notice was problematic. On this page we will try to coordinate a future meeting on a but a longer timeframe for planning to ensure that those traveling longer distances can adequately make arrangements. There is als a [http://developer.classpath.org/mailman/listinfo/devjam ?DevJam mailinglist] that can be used for coordination.
Lessons learned from Oldenburg 2005
- Take more time preparing and announcing the call for participation so all interested parties can make appropriate arrangements. (8 weeks is too short!)
Background and Goals
See the ["Java/DevJam/2005/Oldenburg"] page for some ideas. A next "worldwide" or "regional" meeting can have different goals of course.
Who
["Java/DevJam"] meetings try to attract the main packagers of the various GNU/Linux distributions, JPackage representatives, traditional java build and packaging experts (ant/maven) and hackers from the various projects around GNU Classpath, gcj and the various [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free Software] groups that are working together to [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Escape the Java Trap]. To make the hackfest as successful as possible we are aiming for a group of 20 to 30 people which will be asked to give a short presentation of their project and packaging efforts. Who are also interested in doing actual hacking during the event to show how the various packaging proposals can/should work out.
Proposed Dates and Places
The place to hold a next "Worldwide" or regional ?DevJam should be in a place central to the hackers interested in attending. A two or three day event around a weekend seems most productive. The location should have working internet connection, preferably wifi, and space for 20-30 people. Blackboards or whiteboards are preferable, as well as a video projector. It should be easy to get to by public transport and close to the majority of people attending, to reduce the cost of traveling .
Propose a place/date:
- place and date (hosted by...)
Budget, Sponsorship and Resources
Travel costs
- As long only "local" people come, the costs will be almost neglectible. One could expect perhaps 10-50E per local participant who is able to come by car or train (since many wont need no support at all). Participants that have to come from a neighbouring country or state can cost more like 200-400Euro, participants needing to travel to/from Americans from/to Europe need around 700Euro and participants needing to travel from/to Japanese or Australians to/from Europe would be around 1300Euro, if they book their tickets in time. With those estimates the current list of people would perhaps end up in the XXX/YYYEuro/Dollar area.
Budget
- The cost of this meeting will depend on the location and travel cost of all the participants. It is estimated to be below XYZ EURO/Dollar. The budget will include
- Travel for the involved/contributing people who need support
- Reasonable lodging
- Meeting venue
Potential sponsors
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Resources
- Instructions for participants seeking sponsorship
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Interested Individuals
- barry (AT bytemason.org)
- nick barryh
[http://www.debian.org/ Debian], [http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org pkg-java] co-maintainer
[http://packages.qa.debian.org/j/java-package.html java-package], [http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lucene.html lucene], [http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tomcat4.html tomcat4]
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
?PetteriRäty
- betelgeuse (betelgeuse AT gentoo.org)
- Gentoo
- general bug squasher and primary Netbeans maintainer
- Espoo,Finland
- Johannes Meixner
- jsmeix (AT suse.de)
- SUSE
- adapt JPackage packages for SUSE's packaging system
- Nuremberg, Germany
- Daniel Bornkessel
- dbornkessel (AT suse.de)
- SUSE
- Will do Java packaging at SUSE (presumably JBoss, Tomcat, Eclipse, etc.)
- Nuremberg
- Jeff Breidenbach
- jeff (AT jab.org)
- Debian
- lucene
- Palo Alto, USA
- karltk (karltk AT gentoo.org)
- Gentoo
- Eclipse, free JVMs, distro-specific Java infrastructure, team management
- Bergen, Norway
- mark (AT klomp.org)
- nick mjw
- GNU Classpath
- None
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Contact address (email address to contact you)
- Project (Either one of the distros Debian, Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc or one of the upstream projects)
- Package(s) (That you maintain for a distribution)
- Location (Where you are normally located)