The standard Fedora presentation is to show:
- what is Fedora?
- who is Fedora?
- why does Fedora matter?
- how do you join the open source movement?
I’m going to give a variation of that at CommunityOne in a few weeks, and be prepared to answer questions on those topics plus others in the “Operating System Community Panel.†However …
- what do we want to say to the developers in that audience?
- who are they?
- Java/J2EE developers
- other languages?
- interested in open communities
- already contributing somewhere
… and so I am going to include/emphasize:
- OpenJDK6 in Fedora 9 (and F8?)
- Fedora as best of what is now and …
- how Fedora feeds into the best of seven years future (RHEL, EPEL)
- why jboss.org is changing to that model and …
- how cool is that! ponder …
- JBoss Tools and, oh, yeah, we have Eclipse packages too
- IcedTea 7 in Fedora 9 (and F8?)
- … and don’t talk about JDK5
Let me know if you have any other ideas of what I should add. When I get a first pass at a revised presentation up, I’ll publish and post and all that.
As a Java developer and Fedora user, I’d be interested to hear about Fedora’s current relationship with JPackage.org and where it sees it going. JPackage is my choice of Java package repositories simply because they use java bytecode compiled code instead of gcj ones. Unfortunately, i’ve found several conflicting things throughout the years. One that’s still there is the jpackage-utils conflict in the two. Others are package naming and versioning.
Good suggestion, thanks. There actually is stuff happening with JPackage and Fedora, trying to solve these issues. I’ll look into this further.