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 JCP Executive Committee Meeting Minutes: 13 August 2024

Executive Committee Meeting Minutes for August 2024

Date


August 13, 2024

Location


Teleconference

    Agenda

  • PMO presentation
  • Personnel changes
  • EC Stats
  • EC Elections
  • JavaOne 2025
  • Java in Education Update
  • Java Ecosystem Working Group Update
  • Logistics and JCP Calendar

Attendance

Tuesday 13 August
PMO
  • Heather VanCura
Executive Committee
  • Amazon.com Services - Volker Simonis - present
  • Alibaba - Sanhong Li - present
  • ARM - Stuart Monteith - present
  • Azul Systems - Gerrit Grunwald - present
  • Bellsoft - Aleksei Voitylov - present
  • BNY - Rodrigo Graciano, Victor Grazi, Sirisha Pratha - present
  • Eclipse - Ivar Grimstad - present
  • Ken Fogel - present
  • Fujitsu - Kenji Kazumura - present
  • IBM - Tim Ellison, Gireesh Punathil - present
  • Intel - Steve Dohrmann - present
  • Japan JUG - Maaya Ishida - present
  • JetBrains - Mala Gupta - present
  • Microsoft - Bruno Borges - present
  • MicroDoc - not present
  • Oracle - Luke Kowalski, Machiel Bolhuis - present
  • SAP - Martin Doerr - present
  • SouJava - Otavio Santana - present
Total attendance: 17 of 18 voting members
Since 75% of the EC's voting members were present, the EC was quorate for this session

Minutes


The EC Standing Rules state the following penalties for non-attendance at EC meetings (note that those who participate in face-to-face meetings by phone are officially counted as absent):
  • Missing two meetings in a row results in a loss of voting privileges until one meeting has been attended.
  • Missing five meetings in a row, or missing two-thirds of the meetings in any consecutive 12-month period results in loss of the EC seat.
There are no changes in voting privileges as a result of this meeting.

Personnel changes/EC Elections


Additional Bellsoft alternate added, Pasha Finkelshteyn. Heather reviewed the dates and JCP EC Seats expiring in the upcoming JCP EC Elections. EC Nominations open in September.

EC Stats


Heather presented the usual EC stats (see the PMO presentation for details).

JavaOne 2025


Chad Arimura presented updates on plans for the upcoming JavaOne being held in March 2025 in Redwood City, California (see presentation for details).

Java in Education


Heather reviewed the summary of discussions in the Java in Education - we reviewed some updates to the materials for JUG leaders focused on how developers are utilizing Java in industry, published on the GitHub wiki.

Heather leads a monthly discussion with Java User Group (JUG) leaders to discuss the workshops they are organizing in their local communities and provide guidance and best practices; the next discussion is September 24.

Java Ecosystem Working Group


Heather reviewed the Java Ecosystem Working Group wiki page and the next meeting date, September 17. Don Raab presented on his experiences as a library maintainer of the project he started, Eclipse Collections (see presentation for details). Mala Gupta will present a case study discussing how JetBrains supports new versions of Java at the October EC Meeting.

Logistics and JCP Calendar


Heather reviewed a few upcoming events and dates in the JCP calendar. We will meet in Seattle in October 2024, hosted by Amazon. The tentative hosts for our 2025 face to face meetings are Microsoft in the Bay Area on Friday, March 21 and ARM in Cambridge sometime in October/November 2025.

Next Meeting


October 16, 2024 9 AM - 5 PM Pacific Time (in person only)