More Than a Blog: How Foojay Connects, Sustains, and Evolves the Java Community (#94)

Foojay.io, the website for the Friends of OpenJDK, is turning six years old. To celebrate, Frank Delporte headed to JCON in Cologne, Germany, and sat down with twelve members of the Java community to talk about what Foojay means to them, what they learn from each other, and how the community is evolving.Foojay is more than a blog. It is a Mastodon server, a Slack community, the Disco API, a book on sustainability, a podcast, and now an education catalog. Six years in, it is still growing, still community-driven, and still very much a place where anyone who works with Java is welcome.00:00 Introduction02:16 Sharat Chandarhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sharatchander/Java community and historyWhat you can learn from conferences and articles05:37 Markus Westergrenhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/markuswestergren/https://foojay.io/sustainability-for-java-developers/https://foojay.io/today/join-slack-com-t-foojay-signup/Book "Sustainability for Java Developers"How to "sustain yourself" in this strange-AI-changing-world09:46 Iryna Dohndorfhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/iryna-dohndorf/https://foojay.io/today/author/iryna-dohndorf/Mentoring about sustainability as a developer + groundness + robustness skillsHigh performance without crushing your soul13:59 René Schwietzkehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/reneschwietzke/https://foojay.io/today/the-curious-case-of-different-runtimes-with-different-training-data-jit/Diving deep into the runtime, JITWatchAbout the broad mix of topics handled on Foojay18:28 Gerrit Grunwaldhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/gerritgrunwald/ https://foojay.io/today/author/gerrit-grunwald/https://foojay.io/today/disco-api-helping-you-to-find-any-openjdk-distribution/https://sdkman.io/The Disco API, the source with all the available OpenJDK distributions, is used by SDKMAN, Gradle, and many other toolsAbout the many distributions that are available, even ones that are mainly (and only) used in Asia27:45 Catherine Edelveishttps://foojay.io/today/author/catherine-edelveis/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytdo8OGEYFIhttps://foojay.io/today/which-java-runtime-should-you-use-in-production-comparing-openjdk-distributions/Reducing Docker sizes improves security and performanceMany distributors provide builds of OpenJDK31:16 Jago de Vreedehttps://foojay.io/today/author/jago-de-vreede/About the Java community and the place of Foojay in it. What is good, what are we missing?SDKMAN, creating an UI for it, and using the many OpenJDK distributions35:05 Annelore Eggerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/anneloredev/https://foojay.io/?s=eggerJava community, conference volunteering, mentoringHow to become a conference speakerLearn by teaching38:03 Buhake Sindihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/buhake-sindi/https://foojay.io/today/author/buhake-sindi/https://github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j-cdiJakarta EE, LangChain4J CDI, Agent to AgentImpact of AI on developer life and sustainability44:03 François Martinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/fran%C3%A7oismartin/https://foojay.io/today/author/francois-martin/https://foojay.io/today/eliminating-flaky-tests-to-end-world-hunger/https://foojay.io/today/five-ways-to-use-gradle-enterprise-to-identify-and-manage-flaky-tests/Learn from mentoring, for example, how to earn from opensourceFoojay author, just published an article about Flaky tests48:18 Dominika Tasarz-Sochackahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dominikatasarz/https://foojay.io/today/author/dominika-tasarz/https://foojay.io/today/join-slack-com-t-foojay-signup/https://foojay.io/today/how-to-submit-your-next-article-on-foojay-io/The future of Foojay, how can we get the community even more involvedWhat you can learn from the community51:18 Geertjan Wielengahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/geertjanwielenga/https://education.foojay.social/Java communities are everywhereHow Foojay started and grewHow can contributing to the community influence your career58:15 Conclusion