We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation in the FOSDEM 2016 Free Java DevRoom! This year FOSDEM Free Java DevRoom will be 30th and 31st January 2016 in Brussels, 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/2016/ 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 ongoing preparations of Java 9 is bringing in more contributions than ever before. "Participation" is really shaping a better future. Those are indeed very exciting times, and we are all part of it! So, come and share your experiences at the Java Dev Room at FOSDEM! As always, check out our wiki for more details on the conference: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2016/Fosdem And join the Free Java DevoRoom mailing list [java-devroom at lists.fosdem.org]: 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 record the sessions by default. 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 2015, 23.59 CET on the mailing list. We will also select a small number of 45 minutes talk. If you wish to submit a 45 minutes talk please state this in the proposal, all proposals will be considered to be of 25 minute by default otherwise. A template for submitting a talk can be found at: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2016/Fosdem/CallForParticipation Tracks will be announced around 10th of December on the mailing list. Please join us! --The Free Java DevRoom Committee -- 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/ -- 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/