OpenJDK in Sheffield

[Andrew John Hughes]

2008/5/2 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>:
> 2008/4/9 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>:
>
>
> > Dear OpenJDK people,
>  >
>  >  Allow me to put on a different hat for this mail.  I currently have
>  >  the role of being Sun's Campus Ambassador at the University of
>  >  Sheffield.  The idea is basically to try and get students and staff
>  >  interested in Sun stuff, and there's a particular focus on Sun's FOSS
>  >  work, which is what interested me.
>  >
>  >  http://developers.sun.com/students/
>  >
>  >  Technical demos/talks form a major part of this.  We already host one
>  >  on OpenSolaris and ZFS last month, and have plans for ones on Xvm and
>  >  Sun SPOT by the end of this month.  Of obvious interest to me is to
>  >  get one in on OpenJDK before the end of the semester (mid-May),
>  >  especially as this is not being as strongly promoted in the programme
>  >  as e.g. OpenSolaris and NetBeans.
>  >
>  >  The purpose of this mail was to see if there was any OpenJDK/IcedTea
>  >  people located in the UK (or around next month) who would be
>  >  interested in being involved.  The idea is basically to have a session
>  >  that introduces students and staff to the OpenJDK project and current
>  >  developments like IcedTea, the porters project and the Innovation
>  >  Challenge.  Given that all the students are taught Java from their
>  >  first year, there's a good chance some of the more talented  ones
>  >  might be interested in contributing.  At the very least, they should
>  >  be aware of how the Sun JDK is transitioning to a new Free Software
>  >  world.  I'll probably put a few more general points on Free Software
>  >  and community to back this up.
>  >
>  >  Anyway, feel free to e-mail me if you have something to contribute,
>  >  even if it's just resources rather than your own time.  I'd be
>  >  grateful for any input.
>  >
>  >  Thanks,
>  >  --
>  >  Andrew :-)
>  >
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>
>  This is now organised for the 14th:
>
>  http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~andrew/ambassador/demos.html
>
>  All welcome to attend.
>

Forgot to add: thanks to Tom Marble for the image of Duke wearing a
RedHat and sipping an IcedTea :)
-- 
Andrew :-)

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