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Java Education and Learning Community (JELC)

What is theJava Education &

Learning Community(JELC)

?Rob Stephenson

Wayne State University

on the Web at: tinyurl.com/2ag47

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Java Education and Learning Community (JELC)

Open Source Community

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Java Education and Learning Community (JELC)

A Special Endorsement from Steve Ballmer

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Java Education and Learning Community (JELC)

What Is Java.net?• A collaboration platform• A source of Java-based FOSS• A software foundry• An implementation of ProjectFactory design

pattern• A community of communities• 14 communities• 931 projects• 52,079 members

(statistics as of 5/31/04)

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Who Runs Java.net?• Communities are largely self-governed• Elected (in future) Community Leaders• Management Board (the community leaders)• Community Manager & Executive Board• Advisory Board and Fairness Board• Sun Microsystems pays the rent

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What Are the Rules?

• Play nice: no abusive language or behavior• Share: projects and code must be open• Java rules!: projects must be Java-based or Java-

related

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The JELC Community on Java.net

• The academic community on Java.net• Java projects for academic research• Java projects for education• Education projects for Java• …, etc.

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JELC Project Groups

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A Snapshot of the JELC Community

• 62 projects• 284+ members:

– 78 project leaders– 117 developers– 89 observers

• … and growing every day

(statistics as of 5/1/04)

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JELC Community Leaders

Daniel BrookshireBoard Member:

President:

Author: JXTA: Java P2P Programming

Rob StephensonAssoc. Professor:

Founder and PI:

Chief Architect:

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JELC Advisory BoardIra FuchsVice President for Research in Information Technology, Andrew Mellon Foundation

John GageChief Researcher, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Kim JonesVice President Global Education and Research, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Mike KellerUniversity Librarian and Director of Academic Information Resources, Stanford University

Vijay KumarAssistant Provost and Director of Academic Computing, IS&T MIT

Scott McNealyChairman and CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Alessandro MusumeciInformation Technology General Manager, Ministry of Education, Italy

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Join Us!Check out Java.net at:

http://www.java.net/

Check us out at:https://edu-jelc.dev.java.net/

http://community.java.net/edu-jelc/

To submit a new project, go to:http://www.java.net/request_project.csp

To cross-link an existing site with Java.net:

http://www.java.net/linking.csp