We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation in the FOSDEM 2017 Free Java DevRoom! This year FOSDEM Free Java DevRoom will take place during one day between the 4th and 5th February 2017 in Brussels [1], Belgium, with the usual events and meetings surrounding the main show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday; please, refer to the FOSDEM website for the schedule of the whole event: https://fosdem.org/2017/ The Free Java DevRoom has become unique in that it has attracted hackers from very different Free Software Java projects, giving the opportunity to bring together companies of various sizes, different project communities, mainstream core Java developers, alternative Java language implementations and runtimes, and everything that form the Free Java Universe, everybody participating to share their knowledge in an atmosphere of cooperation and friendly competition. The Java Community has never been more vibrant than now, and the final preparations of Java 9 with Jigsaw are bringing in more contributions and interesting discussions. A Java 10 project has also just been proposed, those are exciting times! Every piece of the puzzle seems to be falling "in its right place", so, what better opportunity to come and share your experiences than the Java Dev Room at FOSDEM!? As always, check out our wiki for more details on the conference: https://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2017/Fosdem And join the Free Java DevoRoom mailing list: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/java-devroom *** IMPORTANT *** Fosdem organisers have expressed the desire to record and stream everything, and we will do our best to ensure this is respected. We will use the same format as last year, so please submit one (or more) 25 minute talk proposal(s) by the 1st of December 2016, 23.59 CET on the mailing list. If your speech requires more time, and it's of a general importance to warrant that, please state so in the description. A template for submitting a talk can be found at: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2017/Fosdem/CallForParticipation Tracks will be announced around 10th of December on the mailing list. Please join us! --The Free Java DevRoom Committee [1] Please, refer to the website for the exact day of the Free Java DevRoom. -- pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF Java Champion - Blog: http://neugens.wordpress.com - Twitter: @neugens Proud GNU Classpath developer: http://www.classpath.org/ OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/ Please, support open standards: http://endsoftpatents.org/