[kaffe] FOSDEM GNU Classpath developer room

[Dalibor Topic]

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dalibor topic

> Hi Hackers!
> 
> The FOSDEM organisation has been so nice to provide us with a developer
> room during the conference during the weekend of February 26 and 27 in
> the beautiful city of Brussels, Belgium. We asked a couple of people to
> give talks and reserved some time to have technical planning and
> discussion sessions.
> 
> Everybody interested in any way in GNU Classpath, gcj, kaffe or any
> other related free software project is invited to join us.
> 
> For more information on FOSDEM see http://www.fosdem.org/
> When we have more details about the program, talks and discussion
> sessions we will publish them here (currently still empty):
> http://www.fosdem.org/2005/index/dev_room_classpath
> 
> 
> Escape the Java Trap! [1] - GNU Classpath Hacker Room
> Fosdem, Saturday/Sunday 26/27 February 2005, Brussels
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
>   Saturday 14:00 - 17:00 - "Building Bridges"
> 
>     Reaching out to other communities.
>     How can GNU Classpath, GCC/GCJ and Kaffe hackers
>     learn from and work together with others?
> 
>     14:00 - 14:50
>     Jeroen Frijters - IKVM.NET
>     -- Motivation & Architecture.
> 
>     15:00 - 15:50
>     Apache Surprise!
> 
>     16:00 - 16:50
>     Jeffrey Morgan - Liberation through Binding!
>     -- Using java-gnome to build desktop applications.
> 
> 
>   Sunday 10:00 - 13:00 - "Demo Time!'
> 
>     Public presentations and overviews of the current state of the
>     GNU Classpath library , GCC/GCJ(X) compiler and Kaffe runtime.
> 
>     10:00 - 10:50
>     Thomas Fitzsimmons - Free AWT and Swing
>     -- The GUI parts of GNU Classpath.
> 
>     11:00 - 11:50
>     Tom Tromey - GCJX
>     -- Writing a new GCC front end.
> 
>     12:00 - 12:50
>     Dalibor Topic - Kaffe
>     -- Past, Present and Future.
> 
> 
>   Sunday 14:00 - 17:00 - "The Future"
> 
>    Technical Planning Session
> 
>    This 3 hour session for hackers will consist of:
>    - A general part explaining what is needed.
>    - Splitting up in groups to discuss specific topics to
>      solve the problems and make development plans.
>    - A short present by each group about the ideas discussed.
> 
> 
> [1] From "Free But Shackled - The Java Trap"
>     http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html
> 
> 
> Hope to see you all in Brussels,
> 
> Dalibor, Tom, Michael and Mark