Mani Sarkar

There's a ton of stuff going on in OpenJDK, projects, repositories, bug database, experiments. This is a lot of potential fun, but the entrance barrier for newcomers is extremely high, and it's easy to get lost and not enjoy the fun anymore. In order to help people wanting to contribute keep track of this intricate forest of development and find their way out, the Adoption Group was created (http://openjdk.java.net/groups/adoption/).

This session is an exchange between few of the hackers directly involved with the Adoption Group and the public. We will indeed discuss some of the projects we are currently involved with - like the planned global hack days for jsonp, jigsaw and tools that use jigsaw and http 2.0 with language interoperability - but above all we will answer questions the audience may have in relation to getting involved with OpenJDK, both from a technical perspective and a social one, so that next year you can sit together with us helping even more people to jump on the fun!

If you need help organising your next hackday, or you are completelylost tying to get started with OpenJDK, this is the session for you!

Other people: Mario Torre Martijn Verburg Dalibor Topić Daniel Bryant

With the rise of GitHub and the recent move of the Eclipse foundation to a social coding model, more and more people are wondering why participation in OpenJDK isn’t keeping up with the times. A small group of people from the London Java Community (LJC) and Adopt OpenJDK are trying to solve this problem by building Betterrev, a platform that will reduce barriers to entry for participation in OpenJDK: our intent is that all attendees will be excited by the potential benefits that the social-coding philosophy could bring to OpenJDK.

With the rise of GitHub and the recent move of the Eclipse foundation to a social coding model, more and more people are wondering why participation in OpenJDK isn’t keeping up with the times. A small group of people from the London Java Community (LJC) and Adopt OpenJDK are trying to solve this problem by building Betterrev, a platform that will reduce barriers to entry for participation in OpenJDK and also improve visibility of contributions.

This presentation will highlight our motivations for the Betterrev project, the primary goals (and proposed roadmap), and our current progress. Our intent is that all attendees will be excited by the potential benefits that the social-coding philosophy could bring to the OpenJDK, and will be encouraged to generously volunteer their time and skills to help push the development of Betterrev forward, with the ultimate goal of creating a highly social ecosystem around contributions to a free Java.

Other people: Daniel Bryant