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 _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
