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Six Month Report: Projects and Progress In OpenJDK and Mobile & Embedded Communities
Its been nearly six months since Sun kicked off the open sourcing of its Java SE and Java ME implementations by opening the Mobile & Embedded and OpenJDK communities, and establishing development projects. What has happened in the last six months? What new projects, ports, research, and contributions have come in to these projects? Learn how developers have taken the JDK in new directions already, even while awaiting the release of the entire code base. Find out how free software and open source developers have reacted to the license choice and are collaborating with Sun to build a vibrant OpenJDK community. Discover how the phoneME project in the Mobile & Embedded community has fired the imagination of developers and how the community is helping to guide innovation.
Getting Started in the OpenJDK and Mobile & Embedded Communities
Ever wanted to be involved in improving something used by nearly everyone on the planet that touches information technology? The OpenJDK and Mobile & Embedded Communities are where developers from around the world come together to directly influence the future direction of Sun's Java SE and Java ME implementations. Learn how these communities work - their governance models, participation opportunities, licenses, and the tools and techniques for building them. Discover how you can explore the architecture and code underlying one of computing's most important platforms. Contribute your bug fixes, your implementation ideas, and your creativity to improving the Java platform itself and making it even more relevant to you. Find out why you might want to join these communities and get involved, and how working on the Java Platform itself can help you with your own projects.
How to Open Source a Widely Adopted Technology in 6 Months or Less - The Java Platform Case Study 
On May 15, 2006 at JavaOne, Sun announced plans to open source its Java SE platform implementation. Soon after JavaOne, Sun decided to add Java ME to the mix, and established teams to explore alternatives, and execute on this plan under a very aggressive timeline.
On November 13 2006, almost exactly 6 months later, Sun launched the OpenJDK and Mobile & Embedded Communities for Java SE and ME, announced the surprising and widely acclaimed choice of GPLv2 as the license, and changed the history of computing. What happened inside Sun during those 6 months to make this sea change possible?
This talk will discuss both the operational details of how Sun scrubbed and prepared the code to be open sourced, decided on initial governance, contribution processes, and infrastructure, and reveal some of the considerations that the team faced in making the hard decisions around license, branding, and community. Balancing the diverse and often conflicting needs of the communities, Sun's licensees and partners, and Sun's own business imperatives, while respecting the decade-long commitment of Sun's engineering team, made finding an answer that completely satisfied all of the stakeholders impossible. How the team worked through these issues to come to a workable compromise makes for a fascinating case study in technology management, open source community and business models. We'll look back at how these decisions have played out over the past year and look forward to opportunities opened up by this initiative.
OpenJDK and Mobile & Embedded Fishbowl
Come swim in the fishbowl and join an exciting interactive conversation about OpenJDK and phoneME, Sun's open source Java SE and Java ME implementation projects and communities. In a fishbowl, five participants at a time discuss a topic together. Audience members wanting to join in form a line, and when someone in the bowl finishes their thought, they're replaced by the next person in line. So bring your questions, your hopes, your gripes, your creative ideas, and your passion for open source Java, and dive in!
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