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Hi all, |
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Like the last couple of years we want to come together with all the |
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projects around GNU Classpath and the various free runtimes, compiler |
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and tool projects to discuss what has happened in the last year in the |
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Free Software community and what the next year will bring us during |
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FOSDEM. |
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The 6th edition of FOSDEM (Free and Opensource Software Developers' |
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European Meeting) will take place on February 25+26 2006 in Brussels |
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(Belgium), at the Solbosch Campus of the ULB (Free University of |
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Brussels). FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event for the community |
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and organized by the community. See http://www.fosdem.org/ |
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We were thinking of the following setup: |
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- Saturday from 13:00 to 17:30 - "End-User talks" presentations to |
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promote what we all build together to a wider audience that might have |
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heard of what we do, but haven't actually seen it in action/put |
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together. We might also want to have a "lightning" hour with lots of |
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quick Demos of applications running on a completely free stack (5 - 10 |
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minutes per demo). |
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- Sunday from 09:00 to 12:30 - "Developer talks" presentations of things |
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that are in progress and that people want to explain in more depth to |
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get developers of the other projects to join in a share the fun. |
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- Sunday from 13:00 to 17:30 - "The Future" hard core interactive |
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technical hacker discussions on how to integrate the projects more and |
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move forward in the next year. |
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Arnaud Vandyck, Dalibor Topic, Mark Wielaard, Michael Koch and and Tom |
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Tromey will be our "program committee" this year. If you would like to |
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present something, have an idea for a demo or discussion topic please |
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let us know at fosdem-at-developer.classpath.org Please mention the |
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title, a little abstract, which track and whether you want to do a quick |
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demo, a short 30 min talk or full hour talk (we prefer 30 minute talks |
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to give everybody a chance to present something). Deadline for proposals |
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is December 18, so you have a month to think of something cool. Then we |
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make sure to have some kind of "formal program" at the start of January. |
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Examples of presentations and reports from previous years: |
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http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/events/escape_fosdem05.html |
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http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/events/fosdem04.html |
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Some ideas for interesting topics: |
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- Free Swing - The Demo! |
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- Your GNU/Linux distro and the free runtimes - package overview. |
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- From 0 to 100 in 15 Minutes: Getting started with GNU Classpath |
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development using Eclipse, JamVM, Mauve, and the ChangeLog plugin! |
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- Integrating with Objectweb through native-(gcj)-JOnAS |
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- Writing OpenOffice.org plugins using a free software stack. |
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- Using GNU Classpath/gcj/kaffe for games |
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- Using free runtimes on Wine and other win32 environments |
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- Embedding GNU Classpath in web browsers and support for JNLP |
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- Security Auditing! |
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- 1.5 language support in GNU Classpath, gcjx and the free runtimes |
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- GNU Classpath/OSGi/J2ME/Library splitting and trimming |
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- Harmony through interfacing. |
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- Beyond JAPI: what is needed to "really finish" GNU Classpath |
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Or, "Beyond Java" -- what we can do when we finish 1.5. |
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Or more generally some kind of presentation about development |
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metrics: bug rates, rates of change in japi/lines of code/tests, |
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email volume, stuff like that. |
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- Debugging, JDWP development efforts. |
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- etc. |
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Hope to see you in Brussels on February 25 and 26 2006, |
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Arnaud, Dalibor, Mark, Michael and Tom |
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-- |
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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html |
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