[kaffe] Program Free Java Meeting at Fosdem - Brussels, Belgium on 7 and 8 February 2009

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi all,

We finally have a preliminary program for our libre java meeting at
Fosdem. There were a lot of submissions and we tried to do our best to
make an interesting schedule to discuss the wide spectrum of work that
is being done. Hope you like it:

Preliminarily Fosdem Libre-Java developer room program
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Fosdem 2009, Brussels, Belgium
ULB Campus Solbosh - room AW1.120

Saturday, 7 February:

12:15 - 13:45 - OpenJDK status and future (1.5 hours, 30 min/talk)
Mark Reinhold & Joe Darcy
- The state of OpenJDK, OpenJDK6
- Project Jigsaw
- Small Language Changes

(15 minute break)

14:00 - 15:30 - IcedTea, Plugin and Jalimo (1.5 hours, 30 min/talk)
Lillian Angel, Deepak Bhole, Robert Schuster
- The state of IcedTea
- The IcedTea Plugin
- Jalimo: Cross-compiling OpenJDK using IcedTea and OpenEmbedded

(15 minute break)

15:45 - 17:45 - Graphics & Sound (2 hours, 30 min/talk)
Roman Kennke and Mario Torre, Guillaume Legris,
Clemens Eisserer, Karl Helgason
- Caciocavallo
- OpenGL ES to boost embedded Java
- XRender Java2D Pipeline
- Gervill Software Synthesizer

Sunday, 8 February:

10:00 - 11:30 VM Rumble (1.5 hours, 20 min/talk)
Guennadi Liakhovetski, Nicolas Geoffray,
Ian Rogers, Terrence Barr
- Porting a Java VM to a Hardware Accelerator
- VMKit
- Jikes RVM 3
- PhoneME CLDC and CDC VMs

(15 minute break)

11:45 - 13:15 It ain't Java (yet) (1.5 hours, 30 min/talk)
Matthias Schmidt, Remi Forax, Alex Buckley
- Groovy Grails for NetBeans
- JSR292 - Supporting Dynamically Typed Languages
- Towards a Universal VM

(45 minute lunch break)

14:00 - 15:30 - VMRumble continued (1.5 hours, 20 min/talk)
Robert Lougher, Michael Starzinger,
Levente Santha, Gary Benson
- JamVM
- Cacao
- JNode
- Zero/Shark

(15 minute break)

15:45 - 17:00 Distros/Community/Infra/Legal (1.25 hours, 24 min/talk)
Petteri Raty, Ray Gans, Terrance Barr
- Recruiting people to FOSS Java projects (distros/Gentoo)
- OpenJDK Community Priorities
- Pure GPL - Is it still up to date


We will soon publish the full final program with the abstracts of each
talk. Hoping to see you all there, your friendly ad hoc Fosdem meeting
committee,

Dalibor Topic,
Andrew John Hughes,
Andrew Haley,
David Herron
and Mark Wielaard