Conference Roundup: FrOSCon
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Aug. 24th, 2009 | 05:05 pm
At the JAX conference this spring, I met with Marc Guillemot, who told me about the Java track at the FrOSCon conference in Sankt Augustin, Germany he was putting together.
My MySQL-hacking colleague Lenz Grimmer told me a lot of good things about FrOSCon, so I took the chance and submitted sessions on OpenJDK (slides) and the Da Vinci VM (slides).
I had an engaged audience for both sessions, in particular on the second day when we were talking about the Da Vinci VM, and had Arno Haase (Scala!) and Matthias Schmidt (Groovy/NetBeans!) in the audience to give us the complementary alternative JVM language user/implementer perspective, as well.
In a word, Lenz was right, FrOSCon is pretty awesome.
It's the only conference I've been to that comes with a bouncy castle, and a kids area for the next generation of 'kernel developers 2.0' - a great idea! And there are a lot of nice touches, from the frogs sprayed on the way to the conference venue, to recordings of most talks getting posted in their unedited form almost immediately after the conference ended on the web. It's a really well-executed event.
Accordingly, there is a lot going on, with 6 tracks of sessions happening in parallel, and another half a dozen of developer rooms on Perl, PHP, Zend and even an OpenSQL Camp, with plenty of large free software projects on display, like Debian, and smaller, but very important ones, like Skolelinux. So I enjoyed catching up with a lot of people from the German free software community that I had not met in a while, and hearing how Skolelinux adoption in schools is progressing, what Tarent has been up to with OpenJDK on ARM, how Maven support is coming along in Debian, how Eclipse's e4 project is opening new opportunities for Eclipse to shine, how the Tomcat project is pushing ahead toward their big 7 release, and having many more small and big conversations during the two days.
See you next year at FrOSCon!
My MySQL-hacking colleague Lenz Grimmer told me a lot of good things about FrOSCon, so I took the chance and submitted sessions on OpenJDK (slides) and the Da Vinci VM (slides).
I had an engaged audience for both sessions, in particular on the second day when we were talking about the Da Vinci VM, and had Arno Haase (Scala!) and Matthias Schmidt (Groovy/NetBeans!) in the audience to give us the complementary alternative JVM language user/implementer perspective, as well.
In a word, Lenz was right, FrOSCon is pretty awesome.
It's the only conference I've been to that comes with a bouncy castle, and a kids area for the next generation of 'kernel developers 2.0' - a great idea! And there are a lot of nice touches, from the frogs sprayed on the way to the conference venue, to recordings of most talks getting posted in their unedited form almost immediately after the conference ended on the web. It's a really well-executed event.
Accordingly, there is a lot going on, with 6 tracks of sessions happening in parallel, and another half a dozen of developer rooms on Perl, PHP, Zend and even an OpenSQL Camp, with plenty of large free software projects on display, like Debian, and smaller, but very important ones, like Skolelinux. So I enjoyed catching up with a lot of people from the German free software community that I had not met in a while, and hearing how Skolelinux adoption in schools is progressing, what Tarent has been up to with OpenJDK on ARM, how Maven support is coming along in Debian, how Eclipse's e4 project is opening new opportunities for Eclipse to shine, how the Tomcat project is pushing ahead toward their big 7 release, and having many more small and big conversations during the two days.
See you next year at FrOSCon!