This proposal has been circulating on IRC for a while, and I believe it is time it made it to the mailing list.
In debian-edu, we have development gatherings fairly often, both to coordinate the developers and focus the effort, and to increase the motivation among the group of people participating. The d-i people have also had such gathering, and it has proven to be very effective in making sure everyone is pulling in the same direction. The Custom Debian group will meet in Spain in May (if everything goes well), and we expect to improve the state of CDD because of this meeting. Would it be an idea to bring the free java / debian-java community together in a development gathering, to discuss policies and work on packages? The upcoming debconf5 in Helsinki might be a good alternative, but any time/location suiting the people involved would be good as well. The only way to make this happen, is for someone to wish for it to happen, and to arrange it. Is this useful for debian-java to make progress? Anyone interested in making it happen? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]