Hello dear community, I thought you might enjoy participating in this. There should definitely be some TomEE voices!
Do subscribe to the jakarta.ee-community if you haven't already. -- David Blevins http://twitter.com/dblevins http://www.tomitribe.com > Begin forwarded message: > > From: David Blevins <dblev...@tomitribe.com> > Subject: Jakarta EE Community Interview for CodeOne/EclipseCon > Date: October 9, 2018 at 8:07:10 PM PDT > To: Jakarta EE community discussions <jakarta.ee-commun...@eclipse.org> > > Hello everyone, > > EclipseCon and CodeOne (formerly JavaOne) are coming up on the 22nd of > October. Normally at these events there are keynote statements dedicated to > Java EE which usually included messaging around technical goals, roadmap, > focus area. In addition there are panels were people ask questions and look > for information. News outlets write articles, quoting people and hint at > what may come. > > All these things should happen, but they should come from voices in the > community. That's what this long email is about. > > I've created a document where everyone can contribute. It's an interview > style so people can potentially reuse the material in articles or blog posts > to further support Jakarta EE. Ideally you both contribute to the document > and maybe write a blog post or two your own. Consider it a community > interview of sorts. > > The goal is not hard commitments, but to get people excited and help bring > contributors in to add more muscle to fuel our "truly open source Java EE" > dreams. If you want people to come help you get something done, use this to > write to them and motivate them. > > - > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-Vs4d9Iotw0HqsiTxG5UCm7ua0w35vJZkGVmS_hFrw/edit# > > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-Vs4d9Iotw0HqsiTxG5UCm7ua0w35vJZkGVmS_hFrw/edit#> > > There are four questions. Answer one or all four. Whatever you want. You > are encouraged to share it and help get participation. > > There are two goals: > > - Get this in front of the Jakarta EE Steering Committee as the "voice of > the people" > > - Get this in front of the press. > > I have two deadlines to make sure all the best things can happen: > > DEADLINE for inclusion any officially prepared Working Group statements: > Friday, October 12th, 11pm Pacific > > DEADLINE for realistic inclusion any third party Jakarta EE news coverage > Friday, October 19th, 11pm Pacific > > The first deadline is with the idea that if people get me content by Friday, > I could prepare something over the weekend and have some potential text to > share with the Steering Committee meeting that Tuesday morning. The Tuesday > 16th meeting will be our last meeting before CodeOne/EclipseCon so that's my > last chance to get something in front of everyone for any sort of > pre-conference approval. "Approval" really means making sure we get up on > stage and say the same thing, despite half of us will be at EclipseCon and > the other half at CodeOne. Your thoughts should be presented. > > The second deadline is with the thought that our friends and allies in places > like JAXEnter would at least have the weekend to come up with any articles > they might want to publish when the conferences start the following Monday. > > Of course, this could all be too ambitious and no one participates, in which > case, I'm ok being the guy with egg on his face. You miss 100% of the shots > you don't take. So I'm fine going for it. > > That said, I think we can do it and I'd love to see as many voices as we can > possibly get. > > I can't stress enough -- all voices are welcome. If for a second you think, > "I'm nobody, no one wants to hear from me." Bury that thought, yes we do. > How does a community of 10 become a community of 100? Only through the > bravery of 90 people in your shoes. When we get to 1000, it will be because > of you. > > If you want that future for us, now is the time to ignore the butterflies and > take that risk. Make Jakarta EE the place you believe it can be. You don't > have to speak confidently, just speak. The confidence comes with time. You > are surrounded by a community who wants you and us all, to succeed. Let's > take the first of many brave steps. > > > -David >
