OpenJDK governing board, constitution

[Geir Magnusson Jr.]

I know some people think I'm joking given my directed and acerbic  
remarks, plus the serious, multi-year battle with Sun to secure a Java  
SE TCK license for Harmony, but I am passionate about the subject :)

Nor is it a conflict of interest - this isn't (well, shouldn't be) a  
zero-sum game : both OpenJDK and Harmony can and should coexist at no  
cost to each other.  Having multiple implementations of the Java spec  
under different licenses with different community models is a *good*  
thing for the world.

geir


On Jan 19, 2009, at 2:41 AM, David Gilbert wrote:

> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Mark Reinhold wrote:
>>
>>> The OpenJDK Governance Board (GB) has not met since last April  
>>> because
>>> Sun has not yet appointed anyone to the two open GB seats.  Sun  
>>> and the
>>> GB considered various candidates early on but then the effort  
>>> faded into
>>> the background over the summer in the face of more pressing issues.
>>
>> More pressing for whom?  the community or Sun?
>>
>> I still volunteer.
> I volunteer also.  I've been a creator and consumer of Free and Open  
> Source Java software for almost 10 years and, like Geir, have a keen  
> interest in the success of the OpenJDK project.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dave Gilbert
> http://www.jfree.org/