Community Leaders' Weekend at JavaOne

Please go to the security desk and ask to be buzzed in.

The plan is to do it on Saturday and (if needed) part of Sunday, exactly like last year. See the JavaOne schedule and note that it starts on Tuesday, not Monday, this year. The NetBeans Software Day is on Monday. Set-up in the Pavilion is confirmed to be Sunday and Monday.

• Location: Sun Microsystems (SF07), San Francisco Offices 500 Howard Street, San Francisco (a Sun office with a nice open space, a mile or so from Moscone).

See the notes below about Agenda Ideas for this year, and note the exciting proposed Un-Conference format!

Community Leaders Registration 2006

Please add your name to this list if you will definitely plan to attend for at least 5 hours between 9am and 5pm on *Saturday, May 13, 2006*
(Breakfast starts at 8:00AM)

Confirmed Attendees

Ready to Lead

We will set the agenda as a group on Saturday morning, following the Un-Conference format proposed below. Listing a topic that you plan to propose for the agenda here is an option, not a requirement. If you have passion around a topic but not all the answers, sign up here to lead a discussion on that topic. If you have information you are willing to share, list it here also. If you are looking for ideas of how you might contribute to the day, check the next section.

• Short presentation on Internationalization efforts by the JDK community and the LookingGlass project. (Roger)
• Hands-on how-to: got questions about managing your project space? How about your community page, or any of the other o'reilly tools? This is the session to bring them to! (Sarah and Helen)
• customizing the project space gui (Roger & Helen)
• O'Reilly editorial talkback , possible discussion includes feedback on front page editorial content: what was there, what should be, what is needed from communities (Chris).
• Community lifecycle. (Chris)
• Discussion of how different CLs interact with their projects, use different communications (Helen)

Ideas for Sessions

These ideas have no committed leader for our face-to-face meeting as yet.

• Incorporate a "Lightning Round" introduction from all communities represented. This would include one slide and 5 min presentation with another 5 min discussion.
• Examine the notes from last year's CL weekend to see if we can build upon any initiatives begun or raised there.
• Would like to develop plans for 2-3 deliverables that can come out of the CL weekend meeting
• Roger proposed a session at the CL weekend to present Omniture, the tags, and the reports that we can generate. By then we should have part of the subdomains implemented.
• Invite Dick Gabriel to talk to us about the vision for java.net that he created
• pulling in contributions from our community members such as Dave Walend and Global Knowledge folks. It is good for our CLs to hear voices from the trenches.
• Daniel thought the breakouts where we discussed the needs of communities and projects and the things that java.net can do best for communities and projects was a valuable portion last year and would like to see it repeated.
• do some actual hands-on work together, rather than generating lists of action items we may never get to execute
• Jim Wright could do a talk on extending community principles to free software support

Proposed Format - The Un-Conference!

The Un-conference format has been in the press lately as Open Space or Mashup Camp. General consensus is that this could drive a very dynamic, interactive event, well-suited for our group!

There are some wonderful quotes about this format at the Open Space site but the comments that caught my eye and made me think about our group were:

• ...open space is based on the belief that we humans are intelligent, creative, adaptive, meaning- and fun-seeking. It sets the context for such creatures to come together knowing they are going to treat each other well. When this happens there is no limit to what can unfold.
• Open Space conferences have no keynote speakers, no pre-announced schedules of workshops, no panel discussions, no organizational booths. Instead, sitting in a large circle, participants learn in the first hour how they are going to create their own conference. Almost before they realize it, they become each other's teachers and leaders.
• Open Space is ... more highly organized than the best planning committee could possibly manage. It is also chaotic, productive and fun. No one is in control. A whirlwind of activity is guided from within by a handful of simple Open Space principles.

These principles are defined as:

• Everyone who comes to an Open Space conference must be passionate about the topic and willing to take some responsibility for creating things out of that passion.
• Whoever comes is the right people.
• Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
• Whenever it starts is the right time.
• When it is over it is over.
• The Law of Two Feet: If you find yourself in a situation where you aren't learning or contributing, go somewhere else.

The Proposal

We will run this year's Community Leaders Weekend as an Un-conference. Everyone attending should bring some thoughts on topics. Sign up on this page to attend. The rest of the details, we will work through together Saturday morning!

Looking for the 2005 Meeting? Go to CommunityLeadersWeekend05

-- Main.ejrenaud - 02 Mar 2007