Mark your calendars! Free Java @ Fosdem will be in less than 3 weeks. Saturday 5, Sunday 6 February 2011, Fosdem, Brussels, Belgium. Room AW1.125. We got a very good selection of very diverse talks, all around core java implementation issues, integration, community and the future of Free Java as platform. Full program, talk abstract and speakers bios at: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2011/Fosdem/TalkSchedule Saturday 13:00 - 13:10 Welcome to Java Sans FrontiÃres Tom Marble 13:10 - 14:00 State of OpenJDK Mark Reinhold, Joe Darcy 14:00 - 14:30 IcedRobot, the GNUlization of Android David Fu, Mario Torre 14:30 - 15:00 break + group picture 15:00 - 15:20 Why Linux distributions hate Java Thierry Carrez 15:20 - 15:40 The Java Packaging Nightmare Torsten Werner 15:40 - 16:00 Guide to packaging for developers Stanislav Ochotnicky 16:00 - 16:25 break 16:25 - 16:30 What makes IcedTea tick? Mark Wielaard 16:30 - 17:00 What in the world is this 'IcedTea-Web' project? Deepak Bhole 17:00 - 17:30 The Free javaws Implementation in IcedTea Omair Majid 17:30 - 18:00 break 18:00 - 18:30 Lessons open sourcing Java taught me Simon Phipps 18:30 - 19:00 The Rise and Fall and Rise of Java Steve O'Grady evening LibreDinner Sunday 09:30 - 10:00 The Free Java Jigsaw Puzzle Tom Marble 10:00 - 10:30 The Modular Java Platform Mark Reinhold 10:30 - 11:15 Project Coin - Language Evolution in the Open Joe Darcy 11:15 - 11:30 break 11:30 - 12:00 Observing HotSpot with SystemTap Mark Wielaard 12:00 - 12:30 JamVM Gets a New Flavour: Porting JamVM to OpenJDK Robert Lougher 12:30 - 13:00 IndyDroid - JSR 292 on Android RÃmi Forax 13:00 - 14:00 lunch and keysigning 14:00 - 14:30 Free Java - Reasons to be cheerful! Ben Evans, Martijn Verburg 14:30 - 15:00 PHP.reboot a dynamic language as fast as Java (almost!) RÃmi Forax 15:00 - 15:30 Rhino and RingoJS - server-side JavaScript on the JVM Hannes WallnÃfer 15:30 - 16:00 break 16:00 - 16:30 AltosUI - Rocket Telemetry Ground Station Bdale Garbee 16:30 - 16:55 Low latency in Gervill and JavaSound Karl Helgason 16:55 - 17:00 Garbage Collection (wrap-up) Tom Marble Please join the freejava-devroom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx list for general discussion about the event. http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/freejava-devroom Hoping to see you all there, Andrew Haley GCJ Maintainer, GNU Classpath, IcedTea & OpenJDK Developer. Andrew John Hughes IcedTea Maintainer, GNU Classpath Maintainer, OpenJDK & GCJ Developer Christian Thalinger OpenJDK developer, former CACAO Maintainer Mark Wielaard GNU Classpath Maintainer, GCJ, IcedTea & OpenJDK contributor. Tom Marble Java Libre hacker, Former OpenJDK Ambassador
