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Conference Roundup: LinuxTag 2009
So, like I said in my last post, I went to LinuxTag again this year, to speak on OpenJDK. I was a bit surprised and flattered to find the talk announced in the regional German press, given that it was a 'regular' talk, rather then a keynote, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect.
Since I had to be in Zürich for Jazoon the day before and after my talk at LinuxTag, I flew in on an early morning flight to Berlin Tegel, arriving at the venue about an hour before my presentation was due to start. After acquiring my speaker badge, I went to listen to the Maven 2 talk right before mine, which allowed me to put the Maven 3 presentation from Jason Van Zyl at Jazoon I heard the day before in context, so it was a really nice experience. Coming up after that myself, I noticed that my notebook's external port and the video system's don't match, so after some brief thinking about solving the hardware compatibility issues, I decided to go slideless for the talk, and turn it into an interactive session. Given that we had around 40-50 people in the room, that's the size for which the slideless approach works pretty well, and as a presenter, is way more fun for me then working with slides.
The talk went well, with questions ranging from 'when will JDK 7 be released' to language feature specifics. To an audience familiar with Linux, the benefits of splitting the JDK into smaller native packages are obvious, so Jigsaw in particular and the modularity features of JDK 7 in general are just an obvious improvement on existing practice in this domain. The small language changes received a lot of attention from the audience, as well as invokedynamic, and its effects on JRuby, Jython, etc. performance.
I spent the early afternoon catching up with friends from other free software projects, like Michal Bielicki from the OpenSolaris community, Marko Jung from the OpenSUSE community, and last but not least, Robert Schuster, Mr. OpenJDK-cross-compilation from the Jalimo and OpenEmbedded projects.
Unfortunately, I missed Ken Gilmer, whose talk on the BugLabs on Wednesday seems to have been cancelled at the last minute, so instead I went to see Matthias Ettrich's very interesting talk on free software development at Nokia, around the example of QtCreator IDE. It's been interesting to compare the approach taken by Nokia in growing the community around Qt after the acquisition - it's similar in some ways to what we've done in OpenJDK, but also quite different in others.
With a head full of new ideas, I went back to Jazoon to talk on OpenJDK there the next day. But that's a matter for a separate blog post.
So, like I said in my last post, I went to LinuxTag again this year, to speak on OpenJDK. I was a bit surprised and flattered to find the talk announced in the regional German press, given that it was a 'regular' talk, rather then a keynote, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect.
Since I had to be in Zürich for Jazoon the day before and after my talk at LinuxTag, I flew in on an early morning flight to Berlin Tegel, arriving at the venue about an hour before my presentation was due to start. After acquiring my speaker badge, I went to listen to the Maven 2 talk right before mine, which allowed me to put the Maven 3 presentation from Jason Van Zyl at Jazoon I heard the day before in context, so it was a really nice experience. Coming up after that myself, I noticed that my notebook's external port and the video system's don't match, so after some brief thinking about solving the hardware compatibility issues, I decided to go slideless for the talk, and turn it into an interactive session. Given that we had around 40-50 people in the room, that's the size for which the slideless approach works pretty well, and as a presenter, is way more fun for me then working with slides.
The talk went well, with questions ranging from 'when will JDK 7 be released' to language feature specifics. To an audience familiar with Linux, the benefits of splitting the JDK into smaller native packages are obvious, so Jigsaw in particular and the modularity features of JDK 7 in general are just an obvious improvement on existing practice in this domain. The small language changes received a lot of attention from the audience, as well as invokedynamic, and its effects on JRuby, Jython, etc. performance.
I spent the early afternoon catching up with friends from other free software projects, like Michal Bielicki from the OpenSolaris community, Marko Jung from the OpenSUSE community, and last but not least, Robert Schuster, Mr. OpenJDK-cross-compilation from the Jalimo and OpenEmbedded projects.
Unfortunately, I missed Ken Gilmer, whose talk on the BugLabs on Wednesday seems to have been cancelled at the last minute, so instead I went to see Matthias Ettrich's very interesting talk on free software development at Nokia, around the example of QtCreator IDE. It's been interesting to compare the approach taken by Nokia in growing the community around Qt after the acquisition - it's similar in some ways to what we've done in OpenJDK, but also quite different in others.
With a head full of new ideas, I went back to Jazoon to talk on OpenJDK there the next day. But that's a matter for a separate blog post.
