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June 2004 Archives
java.net Quarterly Advisory Board Meeting.
Posted by jbob on June 25, 2004 at 11:52 AM | Permalink
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The java.net Advisory Board is a group of well-known and well-respected academics and industry experts who advise the communities, projects, and participants of java.net on issues related to Java™ technology and community building. This panel of experts operates in a purely advisory role. They communicate with the java.net community both directly and through the Community Manager.
Our governance allows for 10 initial seats on our Advisory Board to be filled by invitation. We currently have 5 Advisory Board seats filled and the members are:
- Mike Bellissimo
- Dick Gabriel
- Tim O'Reilly
- Jack Serfass
- Ingrid Van Den Hoogen
The java.net Advisory Board meets quarterly to discuss java.net and to provide recommendations to the Community Manager. Meeting notes get published to the file sharing area of the java-net project.
On June 3, 2004, the Advisory Board had their quarterly meeting via concall and the meeting notes have been posted. Some highlights of the discussion include:
- A review of java.net's accomplishments over the last quarter, including a review of the May monthly report.
- A review of a recent java.net planning offsite.
- java.net plans for Java One 2004 and other events that java.net should participate in.
- Whether or not it would be appropriate to allow limited commercial content on java.net
Please read the meeting notes for more information and to read the Boards recommendations.
You can find a complete listing of all members on all java.net boards on our Board Members page. For more information on the Advisory Board, please review our Governance.
Questions and comments for the Advisory Board should be directed to the Advisory Board discussion forum located in the java-net project.
java.net welcomes our 1,000th project.
Posted by jbob on June 21, 2004 at 01:16 PM | Permalink
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java.net celebrates another milestone with the approval of our 1,000th project. The javafirmware project became # 1,000 when it was approved for the linux.java.net incubator.
javafirmware is self-described as a specification and reference implementation consisting of the J2ME MIDP/CLC and a subset of the Java Realtime runtime environment. The project owner explains that the framework will be influenced both by JNode and the requirements of the Linux kernel.
You can find javafirmware in the linux.java.net community incubator. Incubators are areas where communities allow new projects to mature and gain momentum. Please visit the linux.java.net community and check out this new project.
The java.net Fairness Board
Posted by jbob on June 17, 2004 at 10:35 AM | Permalink
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Nominations begin this Sunday for a seat on the java.net Fairness Board. Here is a description of the Fairness board and how the election process works.
What is the Fairness Board?
java.net's governance defines several Boards to help ensure the community runs smoothly and fairly. One of them is the java.net Fairness Board.
The java.net Fairness Board consists of three (3) members and provides oversight for critical java.net activities to ensure that java.net operates in a fair way and follows the java.net Guiding Principles. Their responsibility and authority includes:
- Settle any dispute between members of java.net regarding the application of the Guiding Principles.
- Review java.net processes and policies to make sure they are consistent with the Guiding Principles.
- Review all changes to java.net Governance.
- Manage an appeals process for members who dispute a decision made by the Community Manager.
One seat on the Fairness Board is appointed by Sun and is currently filled by Ron Goldman. The remaining two seats each have two year terms and are elected by the community. The terms of the elected seats are staggered so that only one of them is up for election each year. Rob Clark and Ken Arnold were invited to fill these seats when java.net launched last June.
As announced in a previous weblog, one of the two elected seats is up for election this year.
How will the election be run?
This is the first election on java.net and here is some important information on how it will run:
- java.net Elections will follow this time line:
- Week 1: Election Announcement (Week of June 14)
- Week 2 & 3: Nomination Period (June 20 - July 3)
- Week 4: Candidates Announced (Week of July 5)
- Week 5: Election (July 11 - July 17)
- Only java.net members can vote and be nominated. Any java.net member can be nominated and all java.net members are encouraged to vote.
- A voting project has been created to facilitate all elections.
- Nominations will be done by posting the name and java.net ID of the nominee to a specified forum in the voting project during the nomination period.
- java.net Members will vote for candidates by emailing the name and java.net ID of a candidate to the vote mail list.
- The candidate that receives the most votes during the Election period will be declared the winner.
- Election results will be announced the week after the Election period has passed.
More information on the upcoming election can be found in the voting project. You can also learn more about the Fairness Board in our governance.
Visit our Voting on java.net page to understand more about voting.
java.net Election Announcement
Posted by jbob on June 15, 2004 at 01:35 PM | Permalink
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One of our Fairness Board seats is up for election this year. The seat has a two year term and we will start the nomination process next week. We have created a voting project to facilitate the election. You can find details and instructions on this election there.
All members are encouraged to get involved in this election. If you are interested in being on the Fairness Board, then you may nominate yourself. All members should mark their calendars for the election to make sure they remember to vote.
Next week will begin a two week nomination process, from June 20 - July 3, and all members are eligible. The 2nd week of nominations will be during Java One. The candidates will be announced during the week of July 5th. The election will take place from July 11 to July 17.
We will use a forum for public nominations and a mail list for a private ballot.
Complete information, along with the schedule of the election, can be found in the voting project. More information on the role of the Fairness Board and voting on java.net can be found in our governance.
Rob Clark currently holds the seat that is up for election. We want to thank Rob, and all of the Board members for being actively involved in java.net's governance and their service to the community. There are currently no restrictions on multiple terms, so Rob can be nominated for re-election if he chooses.
A strong community is built upon active participation of it's members. This election presents a great opportunity for java.net members to get more involved.
What a difference a year makes.
Posted by jbob on June 10, 2004 at 07:35 PM | Permalink
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On a personal note, June 10th represents two major milestones. java.net turned 1 year old and my first child turned 6 months old. They are the two most rewarding and challenging experiences of my professional and personal life.
What a great year we've had at java.net and look at how far we've come.
- Zero to 54,000 members in our first year
- Over 900 projects
- 111 active bloggers
- 14 Communities
- Countless original articles
- A fresh homepage every day
Since I started writing monthly reports in April, it became apparent how much we continue to accomplish and grow every single month. The collaboration and involvement of all of our members, bloggers, project owners, community leaders, and contributors is what makes java.net a great community.
Hopefully, a lot of our members will make it out to Java One this year so we can all meet in person and celebrate a successful first year. If you are attending, make sure to stop by the java.net booth as well as attend our many java.net events at Java One and introduce yourself.
Again, Happy Birthday java.net and thanks to all who contributed to our first year.
java.net Monthly Report - May 2004
Posted by jbob on June 04, 2004 at 01:20 PM | Permalink
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The May monthly report has been posted in the java-net project's file sharing section in the Monthly Reports folder. Here are some highlights:
The May monthly report also includes other statistics, news, events, and a look at the month ahead. Please check it out.
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