Hi, DevJam will be in less then 2 weeks (September 23 till 25) and we would like to have a full list of people who will attend and a priority list of subjects to discuss/tasks to hack on. Attached you will find two forms (participants and topics). Please return the first one to me and Martin Schulze (joey@infodrom.org) and the second one just to me (mark@klomp.org) (I will then update the wiki). Even if you cannot make it, please do fill in the "topics" form, so we have a good priority list. And please add your name to the list of interested people for the next "worldwide" DevJam meeting at http://java.debian.net/index.php/DevJam++ Also note that the Debian Project, Sun and HP have offered (a small) sponsorship for this meeting. If you are in need of travel aid to get to Oldenburg please get in contact with Kurt Gramlish (kurt@lugrav.de). Details at http://java.debian.net/index.php/DevJam under "Budget, Sponsorship and Resources: Reimbursements". The budget is tight and some money will obviously be needed for the Oldenburg organisation (breakfast, etc), but please let Kurt know of any sponsoring needs you might have as soon as possible. Here is some extra information from Martin 'Joey' Schulze who organizes the Oldenburg meetings: http://meeting.ffis.de/Oldenburg2005/ University of Oldenburg, science building in Oldenburg Wechloy We will have dedicated working and sleeping rooms in the university. We are allowed to use the shower facility of the sports department nearby where we can sleep as well this year. We will have dinner together in a restaurant in the evening. I'll put a plan will be on the web soon. If you prefer to stay at the university and not go out having a dinner, please let me know in time as this affects restaurant space requirements. We will have a never-ending breakfast in one of the working rooms. I'll get rolls each morning and try to ensure that there will be enough butter, cheese, sausages, jam, Nutella and stuff. I will also take care of non-alcoholic fluids. Beside machines, equipment and documentation you'll need to take with you a sleeping bag, maybe a camping mat or cot, towels, shower stuff, personal toilet accessories, maybe medicine, clothes. A mug, plate and cutlery are optional but helpful. Don't forget enough power chords, extenders and network cables. You'll find routing information on the website mentioned above. Cheers, Mark -- participants --- [Note that the Oldenburg meeting is from 21st till the 25th, but the DevJam meeting is from the 23rd till the 25th. We expect most people to arrive Thursday night (Kurt and I will be there to welcome people). Please feel free to add any extra details or questions about the organisation to this form.] To: Mark Wielaard , Martin Schulze Subject GNU Classpath disto DevJam participation Name ................: Date of arrival .....: ( ) Wednesday, Sep, 21st ( ) Thursday, Sep, 22nd ( ) Friday, Sep, 23rd ( ) Saturday, Sep, 24th Date of departure ...: ( ) Friday, Sep. 23rd ( ) Saturday, Sep. 24th ( ) Sunday, Sep. 25th ___ usable seats in my car, once arrived (only if you come by car) (four usable seats --> one driver, three guests) Special requirements for food: ______________________ (Vegetarian should be covered with 10% of all, vegan people will need special attention) ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<---- -- topics -- [I will update the wiki page and prepare a full schedule based on this.] To: Mark Wielaard Subject: GNU Classpath disto DevJam topics The goal of DevJam is coordinating and improving the state of packaging of large scale applications written in the java programming language using the GNU Classpath, gcj and other Free Software java-like tool chain for the various GNU/Linux distributions. Please indicate whether you think the following topics are interesting and/or whether you can/want to give a short presentation on it. If you cannot attend, but do have ideas/opinions on one of these topics please add them here, or provide a URL on the topic that you think should be discussed during the meeting. * A common packaging system (possibly based on JPackage). [ ] Interested [ ] Can give a (short) presentation about it/my ideas on it. [ ] I already have made a presentation, look at it here: * Cross-distribution package naming and versioning conventions. [ ] Interested [ ] Can give a (short) presentation about it/my ideas on it. [ ] I already have made a presentation, look at it here: * Common practices for gcj-dbtool ahead of time compilation registry for libraries (while retaining traditional byte code support). [ ] Interested [ ] Can give a (short) presentation about it/my ideas on it. [ ] I already have made a presentation, look at it here: * (Prioritized) List of missing features in the free toolchains (plus workarounds for the most urgent items). [ ] Interested [ ] Can give a (short) presentation about it/my ideas on it. [ ] I already have made a presentation, look at it here: * Creating work items for deploying safe applet support (how to prevent to get listed on bugtraq) [ ] Interested [ ] Can give a (short) presentation about it/my ideas on it. [ ] I already have made a presentation, look at it here: Please indicate which packages and/or (high-priority) bugs/issues you feel should be looked at/cleaned up/polished (can be either a specific distribution package/bug, or an upstream bug). Where possible please provide URLs for the packages/bugs. - Packages: ... - Bugs: ... Additional thoughts/ideas/things to discuss: [... Anything goes ... Please say whether or not you can give a short presentation on the topic and how long you expect that to be.]