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Wednesday February 28, 2007
The Magic of FOSDEM
Before I attended FOSDEM
mjw told me that there is
magic when people get together that
makes distrust disappear.
Here Mark and I are with Simon Phipps answering questions about
Classpath and OpenJDK following Simon's
keynote.
Simon gave a fantastic overview of our work on open sourcing Java
as well as several important meta issues such as Sun's role in
open source software and the software patent
situation in Europe (and the United States).
![[mjw tmarble webmink]](http://lh3.google.com/image/stephanemw/ReLiNKTkggI/AAAAAAAABZc/ppsqIZQdtd0/IMG_0178.jpg?imgmax=720)
Photo courtesy of Steph Meslin-Weber (I can't wait to check out all
the other great photos from Steph, Mario and Sarah)!
Saturday afternoon was the
Classpath Runtime Rumble
which included technical presentations from several VM developers
about the amazing work they've been doing.
Sunday morning mr
led an excellent discussion of our OpenJDK roadmap
which included awesome comments, questions and feedback
from the audience.
I think the sheer size of the OpenJDK project was impressive
to many. We learned that there are many meta issues in
making an open source project like OpenJDK succeed and fostering
collaboration at many levels (technical and social) will be
essential for success.
Sunday afternoon Tom Fitzsimmons,
Matthias Klose, and I gave introductions to the
DevJam. Lively discussion ensued about the role of packaging and
how Java can be profoundly integrated with Linux.
And this only skims the surface of the coolness of FOSDEM.
I have taken many notes and intend on publishing various slides,
pointing to fun photos, documenting the cool ideas we
discussed, setting up an OpenJDK packaging Wiki page and even
have an idea of an (IRC) nick secret decoder ring.
Some people I met at FOSDEM I've been chatting
with for nearly 9 months, others I only recently got to know,
and some I had never met (online) before.
Mark is definitely on to something: seeing everyone face-to-face
really solidified our relationships.
There are several significant discussions that I will
blog about in the coming days.
You have all humbled me with your enthusiasm and brilliant insights.
In fact we had so much fun that we often ended up enjoying
Belgian beer until all hours of the night!
More soon...
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Please be patient if your comment which includes HTML is
not displayed immediately. I will ensure it gets published the
next time I check e-mail.
Posted by tmarble
( Feb 28 2007, 10:59:16 PM CST )
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Wednesday February 21, 2007
OpenJDK Ambassador
Today I take on a new role: OpenJDK Ambassador.
Ever since the announcement of open sourcing Java at
JavaOne 2006
and then the
early launch of
HotSpot and
compiler source code
the OpenJDK Community has been eagerly anticipating
the
availability of the
entire
JDK under an open source license.
I'm very excited about my new role because I can combine my
passions for
Free Software
and the promise of Java.
I will facilitate growth of the OpenJDK Community
to promote Java ubiquity, compatibility, innovation and adoption.
I must earnestly thank the
Java Performance Team
for indulging my contributions to Sun's open source efforts starting
with the
DLJ last year.
I have learned so much about how the JVM works, advanced statistics,
testing automation, data visualization and putting the entire
stack (Applications/Java/Operating Systems/Hardware) together
from the whole group, notably
Dave Dagastine,
Brian Doherty,
Charlie Hunt,
Robert Strout,
Menasse Zaudou,
Scott Oaks, and
Eileen Loh.
I will continue to be a strong proponent of
open source performance benchmarking tools and look forward
to continued collaboration with the javaperf team.
Working on the jdk-distros
project has been an awesome experience for me because I have been able to
participate in
helping the Java organization and GNU/Linux distros collaborate on
making Java more available and better integrated. Now I will continue
the liberation with expanded focus on Sun's
rich portfolio of Java libraries.
I love learning and what I love about open source is that
I learn so much from many different people.
My experience with open source software is that
that quality exceeds that of closed
alternatives. More importantly the trajectory of open source
projects is frequently more compelling.
My experiences with
open source developers suggest that in sharing common
values and being humble enough to learn new things I
can multiply my productivity and, hopefully, return
the favor as well.
So my new day job is all about helping the OpenJDK organization
respond to this big change to open source -- and I can't wait
learn as much as I can from you!
![[It Takes...]](http://mediacast.sun.com/share/tmarble/DukeCommunityTango.png)
Growing the OpenJDK Community will take more than just two!!!
Posted by tmarble
( Feb 21 2007, 12:24:46 PM CST )
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Wednesday February 14, 2007
Gmane for OpenJDK
NOTE: updated March 4, 2007
It took a while 
but you gave us the tip:
<mjw>: See how cool Gmane is. You want that for OpenJDK!
<tromey>: Gmane is indispensible to my work
And we tried it... and liked it!
So thanks to some
diplomacy on the part of
mr and
awesome help from
Lars to import old posts by hand (Thank You!),
we now have OpenJDK fully available through the Gmane gateways.
Here's the secret decoder ring:
![[About Gmane]](http://gmane.org/img/arot.gif)
![[About Gmane]](http://gmane.org/img/mane-rot.png)
Posted by tmarble ( Feb 14 2007, 09:27:17 AM CST ) Permalink Comments [2]