Marla Parker's Weblog

I am really looking forward to JavaOne this year because of the way the community has come together to plan the java.net Community Corner on Mon/Tue/Wed in the Pavilion.

It is a 20x20 booth containing three pods and in the fourth corner, a little 10 seat presentation area where we will be running presentations every half-hour by members of the community!

You can see the schedule of mini-talks, and lower on the same wiki, the staffing schedule for the three pods: java.net in general, JDDAC, featuring Networked Bay Environmental Assessment and Monitoring Stations, and a third pod that will show off different communities at different times, including Global Education and Learning, Embedded Java, Java Tools, our newest community, Robotics, and others. These are four communities on java.net that are lead by non-Sun staff.

One reason for having this Community Corner outside of the larger Sun booth is so that non-Sun staff can volunteer to work in the booth. Other communities that are primarily Sun-lead, such as Java Desktop and the JDK community, will be represented at pods in the Sun booth. Not doubt they will stop by to hang out in the java.net Community Corner some of the time, too.

In between talks, in our mini-theater, we will have a slide show running so that the screen is never blank. We'll be adding pictures all the time, and we'd especially like to put names with faces of community leaders and project owners. See the Picture section of the wiki for information on how to upload your pictures to be considered for the slide show.

Hope to see you at JavaOne.