Interview with Bruno Souza of SouJava on the upcoming JCP elections, SouJava's involvement in the JCP, Adopt a JSR program, transparency, andJuggy..

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Show Notes

News

• Java SE 8: Lambda Quick Start
• JCP Executive Committee Elections start Oct 15
• Java EE 7 Certification Survey - Participants Needed

Events

• Oct 28-30, JAX London, London
• Nov 4-8, Oredev, Malmö, Sweden
• Nov 6, JFall, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Nov 11-15, Devoxx, Belgium

Feature Interview

Bruno Souza is a Java Developer and Open Source Evangelist at Summa Technologies, and a Cloud Expert at ToolsCloud. Nurturing developer communities is a personal passion, and Bruno worked actively with Java, NetBeans, Open Solaris, OFBiz, and many other open source communities. As founder and coordinator of SouJava (The Java Users Society), one of the world's largest Java User Groups, Bruno leaded the expansion of the Java movement in Brazil. Founder of the Worldwide Java User Groups Community, Bruno helped the creation and organization of hundreds of JUGs worldwide. A Java Developer since the early days, Bruno participated in some of the largest Java projects in Brazil.

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