Successful DevoxxUK / "Hack the Tower" OpenJDK hackday

[Martijn Verburg]

Nice one - looking forward to catching up on Jame's comments!  Pretty
typical for J1 events to get shifted to BoFs..

Cheers,
Martijn


On 22 June 2014 17:48, Daniel Bryant <daniel.bryant at tai-dev.co.uk> wrote:

> Related to the P.S. note on my previous email, I've just noticed that the
> J1 OpenJDK session has been accepted as a BOF, but I submitted it as a
> Conference Panel session... I wonder if it was changed, or if the Oracle
> website is reporting this incorrectly?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On 22/06/2014 17:45, Daniel Bryant wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just wanted to mention that last Saturday we hosted a successful OpenJDK
>> hackday in combination with the Devoxx UK conference and Salesforce "Hack
>> the Tower" event.
>>
>> We had 15+ attendees in the OpenJDK section of the event, and
>> approximately a third were new (and so we got them building the OpenJDK via
>> Mani's instructions), a third were more experienced (and so they
>> experimented with fixing Sonar warnings), and the remainder worked on
>> Betterrev.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/danielbryantuk/status/477801211492847616
>>
>> We were also fortunate to have James Ward of Typesafe/Play fame with us
>> at the event, and he offered some great feedback about the architecture and
>> code within Betterrev.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/danielbryantuk/status/477856972650602496
>>
>> We also ran an OpenJDK BOF session at the DevoxxUK conference, and Mani
>> manned the OpenJDK booth at the associated Hackergarten. We received some
>> good feedback on this event, and also some suggestions on how to make this
>> better; the primary comment/question was 'what have the community
>> contributed to OpenJDK', and 'what can we reasonably expect to contribute
>> if we join up...'
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> P.S. Last week we received good news that we have an OpenJDK BOF accepted
>> again at JavaOne this year, and the LJC also have a related Panel/BOF
>> session about how JUGs can contribute to the future of Java :-)
>>
>>
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