CommunityOne Open Source Developer Conference
CommunityOne is a gathering of many open source communities which precedes the JavaOne conference that begins Tuesday here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. This year’s event has 50% more attendees that last years, with double the number of sessions and triple the number of communities involved. That’s about 4000 attendees including several hundred students from 80 different countries, according to Sun.

The opening session consisted of three main parts, the first of which saw Ian Murdock, Sun’s VP of Developer and Community Marketing, talk about how Sun is trying to be a leader of Open Source communities and help aggregators and innovators of products find a better way of working together. The strap-line for his talk was ‘Innovate. Collaborate. Integrate.” This was about encouraging communities of open source projects and enterprises and big companies to work more closely with each other. It led in to an interactive session with a panel of six speakers with representation from Red Hat, Google, SAMBA, MySQL and others.
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Groovy / Grails Update from G2One at the NFJS Meetup
This gathering was put on by the people who take the excellent NFJS series around the United States throughout the year. I was fortunate enough to attend my first one just a few weeks ago in Seattle and am happy to say that in the course of one weekend, the symposium reminded me of so many reasons why I got into developing software. With that kind of introduction you might think I would have high hopes for the session here tonight and you are right! Fortunately for the 250 or so people, we weren’t to be disappointed.
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JavaOne 2008 Opening Keynote
The main theme of years conference is “Java + You” and it looks like that could be a big advertising play for Java for the next little while. What does it mean? Well, it is basically a way to highlight the ubiquity of Java technology because it is now running in billions of devices, computers, sensors and more around the world.There was a big push of JavaFX, a technology that Sun wants to become the way people choose to build and deliver Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s).

Rich Green, EVP of Software for Sun, demonstrated a number of products and features that in his words ‘are going to enable developers and businesses provide a richer more emotive user experience to everyone’. He used a term that will no doubt gain some more airtime in the next year when referring to all the devices that we use, calling them the “screens of our lives”.
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