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Topics of Interest[edit]
2012[edit]
- Free Software and Java: anything relating to Java and libre software.
- Dispelling the FUD around Java in some free software communities (a debate perhaps)
- Software patents, Oracle, Google - implications for free software development in Java and programming in general.
- Some of those below in 2011.
2011[edit]
- Free Software and Java: anything relating to Java and libre software.
- Dispelling the FUD around Java in some free software communities (a debate perhaps)
- Software patents, Oracle, Google - implications for free software development in Java and programming in general.
- Creating (fun to do) libre/open educational resources for aspiring Java developers
- Possible activities in Crete:
- Enhance "Become a Guru" on WikiEducator.
- Co-produce a tutorial on some aspect of Java programming (e.g. to inspire beginners, programmers from languages other than Java, ...)
- Co-develop an (optionally "JavaSpecialists"-branded) area on WikiEducator for aspiring career programmers ("pragmatic programmers" :-)
- Note: some educational institutions have created branded areas: see Featured Institutions.
- Possible activities in Crete:
- Agile methodologies for hybrid co-located/distributed teams (something similar to this topic has already been suggested).
- Developing distributed P2P Java applications (JavaSpaces, JXTA, Jini, etc.). for example, developing software which addresses concerns of user freedom with software as a service (see also: Who does that server really serve?).
- Discussion (pre-event, or on day 1): Brainstorming the theme
- Why do we need to put the fun _back_ into Java (looking at the topics suggested so far, it seems Java is still fun :-).
- Why is Java not fun now? Fun for whom? (new/seasoned developers?)
- Why was it fun?
- Is Java less fun than Ruby? Python? ...
- Identify parts of the Java development process regarded as drudgery or not-fun
- share stories of how some people managed to make these activities fun
- design learning activities to skill people in the strategies to enhance the fun factor or reduce the pain.
- e.g. maintenance is not fun, ..., unit testing can reduce maintenance, refactoring can make it easier.
- design learning activities to skill people in the strategies to enhance the fun factor or reduce the pain.
- share stories of how some people managed to make these activities fun
- Why is it important to resurrect the fun factor in Java?
- Where to from here?
- a curriculum for Java specialists on WikiEducator?
- streamlining and enhancing the fun factor of parts of the development process which are typically not fun.
- a curriculum for Java specialists on WikiEducator?
- JavaFunPatterns (of human fun creation behaviours): pattern development, anti-pattern identification, classification and pattern language
- Template: context, problem, forces, solution (structure, strategies), consequences, case study/example, related patterns.
- Pattern relationships diagram (see Core J2EE Patterns book Fig 6.2 p 141 in 1st edition, Fig 5.2 p132 in 2nd ed).
