I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at Open Source Community Day 2025 in Madrid. This two-day event gathered attendees and speakers involved in EU research projects all over Europe. It is not my usual crowd, so it was interesting to see how this community works. I must say that they are an extremely engaged and friendly group of people. There are so much interesting, cool things going on in these projects.
Rosaria Rossini from Eclipse Foundation did a fantastic job hosting the event. In her opening, she emphazied that the objective of the two days were sharing and connecting.
The schedule had ample room for networking in coffee breaks, lunch, dinner, and coctail hours.
I was asked to present something around Java and AI, so I came up with a presentation titled AI in Enterprises – Java and Open Source to the Rescue. During the first day, I realized that most of the projects are evolving around standards and specificaitons, so I changed the narrative a little to include a little history of how Java was open-sourced, and how the standards around it are being developed throught the Java Community Process, OpenJDK, and Jakarta EE.
