Re: Eclipse on gcj

[Fernando Lozano <fernando at lozano dot eti dot br>]

Hi Dalibor,

> > > On a side note, is anyone sending trap-smashing talk proposals to next
> > > year's JavaOne?
> > >      
> > Hm. Up to now I've studiously ignored JavaWhat? on the grounds that it's not a 
> > serious conference, just a Sun marketing/self-adoration binge. Is there a 
> > real chance of turning it into something else, at least within the confines 
> > of our own BOF?
> I've never been there, so I can't really say. It does seem to be heavily
> marketing oriented, so I doubt it can be turned into a GCC summit :)
>  
It is very marketing oriented, but it is also an event with great 
techinical content and where you can find many of the influences of IT 
in general, both techinical and management. So I think we should strive 
for a presence of the free software Java developers (not just people 
from eclipse, apache and jboss, but also classpath, java-gnome and free 
software jvms) because most people there has no idea on what's availabe 
from the free world and the advantages of using it.

On a side note, it would be nice to have people on the Linux.Java.Net 
comunity. I know there a lot of nice (and much better) sites about F/OSS 
Java, but Java.Net has a high visibility among people who don't know (or 
have the wrong ideas) about the free software movement and so it could 
help a lot changing this perception. We have web space for projects, 
file serving, CVS, mailing lists and the like. But the main advange is 
that people who would not visit planet.classpath.org do visit Java.Net 
regularly and anything I post on the Linux community pages makes 
Java.Net headlines. And I definitely need a lot of help making the 
Linux.Java.Net community to grow up. Id had suffered from managers 
without real commitment to Java + free software in general and Linux in 
particular.


[]s, Fernando Lozano