CommunityOne and JavaOne 2008

At last! The Conference we've been waiting for has started. Rather, the pre-conference CommunityOne started today at Moscone in San Francisco. I just picked up the complimentary T-shirt and had a lunch sandwich. So I'm good!

There are more people coming to this pre-event this year than the previous, 50% more according to Ian Murdock, Sun, who started off the key note. Emphasis is on open source, sharing, i.e. we are moving away from monoliths towards modular architectures. It is also about building communities and keeping those communities active and passionate about the software and technology. But, the community also encompasses users, they actually form the bulk of the community. So, it is not only about code; documentation, tests, etc. are equally important - isn't rather irritating that undocumented (javadoc) part you so dearly want to use?

Anyhow, maybe not that big news, we have heard much about openness on previous events. I think the emphasis on community building is rather new and fresh. We need to get together more and create great software by sharing... what do you think?

P.S. I'll be posting more here during the conference week whenever I do get an opportunity. Maybe I'll manage to get some pictures up here as well. I'll keep you posted....

JavaOne 2007

This year's conference I'll relax and enjoy as many interesting presentations as possible. Myself, and some friends and collegues, submitted a number of papers. As I had a BOF last year I would appereciate holding another this year. Despite the effort required, it is quite fun presenting at a venue as JavaOne. You tend to meet numerous intersting people with bright ideas.

Anyhow, the relax part; none of the submissions this year was accepted. Thus there will be no repesnting this year, less effort as well, but none the less, it will be great fun. Last year I missed a few talks due to some admin around the BOF we, Anders - a friend and collegue who also was co-speaker, held.

After registering I got the usual prompt for adding myself to the Event Connect tool. I do have an account there, but as I've lost my password, I had to re-register - with a new account name (!). Anyhow, this time I've started a OSGi gathering group, so if you would like to meet and discuss OSGi during JavaOne, sign for the "OSGi at JavaOne" group. Just follow the link and you should end up in the group's homepage.