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Hi all, |
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On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 16:02 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: |
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> Various Debian packagers and developers are interested in coming |
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> together to improve the Free Software tool chain, the programs and |
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> the free runtime environments for software written in the java |
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> programming language. |
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> For such a meeting we would like to include packagers from various |
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> distributions to coordinate on library names, dependency and |
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> versioning. And to share experiences on how to integrate and map |
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> dependencies of tools like ant and maven when creating traditional |
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> GNU/Linux distribution packages. |
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> So we are proposing a developer and packager meeting around |
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> coordinating and improving the state of packaging of large scale |
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> applications written in the java programming language using the GNU |
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> Classpath, gcj and other free java-like tool chains for the various |
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> GNU/Linux distributions. |
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> Please see DevJam wiki for details: |
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> http://java.debian.net/index.php/DevJam |
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> We hope to get together a group of (20 till 30) people wanting to do |
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> some hands on hacking to show the state of the art in packaging. |
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> Resulting in the availability of several new packages, improvements to |
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> the free tool chains and cross-distribution packaging conventions |
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> quickly after the meeting. |
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We got a lot of interest for this meeting and would like to announce |
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that we will have a gathering in Oldenburg, Germany on Friday 23 till |
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Sunday 25 September. |
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To reduce the costs the meeting will be shared with the Oldenburg Linux |
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Developers Meeting 2005 group: http://meeting.ffis.de/Oldenburg2005/ |
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There will be cheap accommodation for those that bring their own |
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sleeping bags and mattress. See for more information on Oldenburg and |
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how to get there by car, train or plane: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldenburg |
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http://meeting.ffis.de/Oldenburg2004/routing.html |
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If you haven't added your name to the interested people list on the wiki |
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please do so soon: http://java.debian.net/index.php/DevJam |
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We hope people can arrive on Thursday evening so we can start fresh and |
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early on Friday 23th of September. |
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Since we know that there has also been a lot of interest of people |
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outside Europe we would like to make this our "European" meeting and |
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schedule a "Worldwide" or "Regional" DevJam++ meeting in a couple of |
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months to give more people the opportunity to attend. If you are |
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interested in helping to organize that please add suggestions to the |
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Wiki: http://java.debian.net/index.php/DevJam++ |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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