What is the java education learning community JELC

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What is the Java Education &

Learning Community

(JELC)

?

Rob Stephenson Wayne State University

on the Web at: tinyurl.com/2ag47

Open Source Community

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A Special Endorsement from Steve

Ballmer

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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

What Are the Rules?

• Play nice: no abusive language or behavior

• Share: projects and code must be open

• Java rules!: projects must be 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.

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)

Daniel Brookshire

Board Member:

President:

Author: JXTA: Java P2P Programming

Rob Stephenson

Assoc Professor:

Founder and PI:

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JELC Advisory Board

Ira Fuchs

Vice President for Research in Information Technology, Andrew Mellon Foundation

John Gage

Chief Researcher, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Kim Jones

Vice President Global Education and Research, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Mike Keller

University Librarian and Director of Academic Information Resources, Stanford University

Vijay Kumar

Assistant Provost and Director of Academic Computing, IS&T MIT

Scott McNealy

Chairman and CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Alessandro Musumeci

Information Technology General Manager, Ministry of Education, Italy

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