Re: Revolution Action (was: Re: [Little Off Topic] Revolution ison ; ))

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:16, Chris Gray wrote:
> Given that we have only a part of the Embedded track, I would suggest that we 
> do a group paper presenting the whole spectrum of Free / open VMs; maybe 
> Classpath should be part of this, maybe we should try for a separate 
> Classpath paper. We could try to get some kind of extended slot for this, if 
> the organisers will agree.

I didn't realize that they still accepted presentations. Sascha and I
made an abstract about a possible GNU Classpath talk which I send to two
people from Fosdem. Since the talks were already announced on the Fosdem
website I hoped to sneak it in as an unofficial talk. Knowing that there
is still time to do a real abstract submission I am happy to discuss the
current abstract and/or submit it properly. But I am not sure that the
embedded track is to correct forum for GNU Classpath related stuff.

Fosdem people are kind of hard to get hold off. Tried sending email to
several addresses, but only yesterday got a small response. I did tell
them that we are expecting at least 10 people already so that it would
be nice to have a developer room were people can meet/hack/discuss. Will
let you know if I get any reply. They said there would be a meeting next
week to discuss Fosdem planning and requests from the community. So
please try to contact them with ideas soon.

> I'd also like to have an item on the 
> standardisation issue : by the time FOSDEM comes, either we will have some 
> positive news or a lot of bitching to do. ;>

Richard Stallman recently asked about the JSPA and the JSR process.
We are still discussing it. If we reach a conclusion I will email the
list. If people have experience with the JSPA or serving on a JSR expert
team and know what to expect from the process in regards to creating
specs and/or software that is free software (friendly) I would like to
hear.

Cheers,

Mark