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