classpath
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: FOSDEM report


From: Michael Koch
Subject: Re: FOSDEM report
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:27:08 +0100
User-agent: KMail/1.5.4

Am Montag, 23. Februar 2004 17:42 schrieb Mark Wielaard:
> Hi all,
>
> FOSDEM was really, really nice!
>
> There were between 20 and 50 people following the different
> presentations, talks and discussions in our developer room. And Tom
> Tromey his talk on gcj in the big room got 120 interested people.
> There was a surprize talk on JDesktop. And Sascha stayed up till 4am
> on Saturday night to create a Free Java & Security talk to help out
> the organisation when at the last minute one of the original talks in
> the security track couldn't be given. (With thanks to Dalibor and
> Chris for input and to everybody else who started up their laptops
> late at night to check various methods to hang and/or crash the
> various VMs.) This talk also seemed to be well received. And we got a
> couple of people interested in helping out on the various projects.
>
> The presentation that I prepared with Sascha is online at:
> http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/articles/classpathFeb2004/
>
> It makes nice material when you want to present something on GNU
> Classpath or on one of the other free java-like projects in the
> future. If other presentations are also online, please post them to
> the list.
>
> I also made a flyer to attract some people to the talks that can be
> adapted for future events (but make sure you spell Februari and
> Saterday correctly on your version... sigh)
> http://www.klomp.org/mark/classpath/fosdem/
>
> I told the FOSDEM organizers how much all their organisational work
> was appreciated and especially how nice the buffet on Saturday night
> was. There was so much energy in the room and so much discussion and
> interaction between Free Software developers of different groups and
> projects. (For example Petter Reinholdtsen one of the original Japhar
> developers was there.)
>
> We could have had more in depth technical discussions. Most of the
> presentations now were more overviews of what was already there.
> Which is great for attracting new developers and explaining our goals
> to outsiders. But for next time we must really appoint people that
> lead some technical issue. Many thanks to Andrew for just standing up
> and starting the pluggable JIT interface discussion by telling how
> gcj would like to support it.
>
> One thing I completely forgot was organising some key-signing between
> the developers. That would have been really nice to get a tighter
> web-of-trust, especially since savannah CVS will in the future
> support signed commits. Next time hackers meet be sure to have some
> fingerprints on you so you can sign each others keys.
>
> But all in all the meeting was a great success.
> Thanks all that attended and hopefully we will meet again in the
> future.
>
> There were also some photos taken so you might actually find out how
> some of our hackers look in the near future :)
>
> Some people said that they didn't know that some of us virtually meet
> from time to time on irc. So please join #classpath, #kaffe or
> #sablevm on irc.gnu.org or #gcj on irc.oftc.net next time you have
> internet access.

Thanks for the report.

I heard you all had much fun, even with one bed missing ...


Michael





reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]