Minutes for the LJC/JCP Committee Meeting on 6th December

Hi all,

Minutes for Dec 6th, as always, questions, comments etc are welcome!

Attendees

• Ben Evans
• Martijn Verburg
• Trisha Gee
• Michael Barker
• Somay Nakhal
• Richard Warburton

Minutes

Carried over from last meeting

• JSR-331 – BE to send to SE/EE list saying we’re going to vote no and here’s why. Before he does, check with Werner Kiel.
• We need to update our voting record on Java.net (BE/MB)
• Accept 351 invitation for webinar (BE)
• JCP.next.next solicit comments before the vote (BE to ask Patrick)

From this meeting

• Set up a shared calendar for early JSR reviews and dissemination of our reviews (TG)
• Get a volunteer to introduce Raoul-Gabriel Urma to the right people in the OpenJDK or his Relationships in Java prototype (MB)
• BE reported that the proposed Currency JSR was still dormant.
• MB reported that the tuples JEP this was very long term work
• JSR 335: Lambda Expressions for the Java Programming Language – Early Draft Review – (RW to lead the Adopt a JSR for this one)
• JSR 344: JavaServer Faces 2.2 – Early Draft Review – (Committee to seek volunteers)
• JSR 339: Java API for RESTful Web Services – Early Draft Review – (Committee to seek volunteers)
  
• JSR 346: Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE 1.1 – Early Draft Review – (Committee to seek volunteers)
  
• JSR 342: Java EE 7 – (BE to investigate EG composition further)
• Jigsaw: – Committee to investigate progress of JEP
• Adopt a JSR materials for JUGs:
  1- The overview presentation. 5 minutes on what the JSR is about and what it means for the regular developer
  2- Technical deep dive – 10-60 minutes on how to use the result of the JSR, implementation details, best practices… All a developer needs to get from “Haven’t heard about” to “Almost Guru” (MV/JG)
• MB to lead OpenJDK Adoption and set up a monthly regular session – find a venue via BC
• MV to investigate with Oracle about access to statistical analysis tools.
• Committee had a discussion on licensing in preparation of JCP.next.next, conclusion was that until the lawsuit is settled, we have to wait.
• MV to ask JUG leaders list to assist with further JSRs

Cheers,

Martijn (On behalf of the LJC JCP Committee)

A year in the LJC

The LJC actually had its 4th birthday on Tuesday and in just 4 years we have established one of the most active and rapidly growing Java User Groups in the world. When opening last weekend’s Open Conference I discussed some of the things we had achieved over the last year within the LJC.

– We now have over 2000 members including 600 that have joined over the last year.

– Over the last year we have had 40 events promoted through the LJC, including 25 of our own events. We have also been able to use the great reach of the LJC to help other user groups and communities such as JBUG and GGUG reach members that may otherwise not have been aware of events.

– We have had over 20 competitions through the group including software licenses, books and free conference passes to 6 different conferences.

Most importantly over the last year we have expanded our community into many new and exciting directions.

– We have given over 20 of our members their first chance at public speaking as part of the new pre-event lightning talks.

– Thanks to Brendan Quinn, we launched the LJC Aggrity site as a way to enable people to follow the personal blogs of all the different LJC organisers and members.

– Thanks to Ged Byrne we have launched the LJC Book club, which is starting to pick up momentum

– Ged and Dave Snowdon have started the regular code share events at Queen Mary University, enabling graduates and senior developers to come together in new ways.

Arguably our greatest milestone was to become part of the JCP and win an open seat on the Java SE/EE executive committee. This has really put us on the map globally and thanks to some great work from the LJC, the JCP committee has launched the ‘adopt a JSR’ program, which has been engaging other Java user groups around the world.

It has been a super year for our community and we should all be very proud. None of this would be possible without an active group of organisers behind the LJC. Thanks to everyone that has got involved over the last year, we have even bigger plans over the coming year and look forward to sharing our journey with you.