Back when we started OpenSolaris in 2005 at Sun Microsystems, I remember there was great confusion throughout the market, the media, and the development community about what we were doing with the project. People asked us and kept asking us, “What’s OpenSolaris?” This issue was expected, though, and it was a perfectly normal reaction given the history…

Duke’s Corner Java Podcast: Nate Schutta: I Just Love to Learn! Here’s my interview with Nate Schutta, an author, a teacher, a software architect, and Java Champion. Nate lives in the United States and teaches computer science to university students. He loves teaching and he loves learning, and he specializes in exploring the big picture of…

Duke’s Corner Podcast with Francisco Contreras, who is a Java developer and a co-organizer at Nicaragua JUG. Francisco has been a Java developer for over 15 years and he runs his own consulting business with customers around the world. He’s passionate about Java the technology and also Java the community. “When I learned Java at university…

Here’s the view from the conference room at Sun’s Youga office in Tokyo we used for developer meetings. Cool, eh? We held Java, Linux, NetBeans, OpenSolaris, and Barcamp un-conference events up there.

I’m doing a session on building community using photography at Barcamp Tokyo in 2009. I was also on the organizing team that ran the event. My images here.

Here is Sharat Chander during his speech at the speaker dinner during JavaOne 2025.

My session on contributing to Java on the OCYatra tour of India in 2022. This one below is in Bengaluru.

We had a lot of t-shirts at Sun. This one was my favorite by far. It was understated in color with the dark blue and black but overwhelming and bold with all the FOSS project logos Sun was contributing to at the time. It remains the standard.

Session from Delhi. Talked about building FOSS networks and communities and building career based on contributing.

This was from Nanjing University in China in November 2007. It was still pretty early for OpenSolaris so we used to tag along like a little brother on the Java tours because they were big and we were small. I was nervous at that event. I had to follow James Gosling and he was a…

Stephen Chin, Cassandra Chin, and Venkat Subramaniam at JavaOne 2025.

Bernard Traverstat and Brian Goetz at JavaOne 2025 in Redwood Shores, California.

Cameron Purdy and Cliff Click at JavaOne 2025 in Redwood Shores, California.

Olga Gupalo, Andres Almiray, Nicolai Parlog, José Paumard, Аlina Yurenko, Jim Grisanzio. JavaZone 2024 in Oslo, Norway.

Аlina Yurenko at JavaOne in Redwood Shores California. March 2025.

Venkat Subramaniam at JavaOne in March 2025 in Redwood Shores, California.

Duke’s Corner Podcast with Ivar Grimstad, who is a Java Champion, a JCP Executive Committee Member, and a Jakarta EE Developer Advocate. Ivar is based in Sweden but travels to over 40 events a year talking about Java and Open Source with thousands of developers. He feels passionately about contributing to Java projects as the best…

I was shooting with two cameras at JavaOne (my own A9 and Oracle’s A7R5). My good friend Chandra Guntur grabbed one of my cameras and shot this. That’s what ya get when your friend steals your camera on a job. Thanks, buddy!

Message from JavaOne 2025 in March from Java developer Apostolos Giannakidis. (Greek) Transcript Καλησπέρα. Ονομάζομαι Αποστόλης Γεννακίδης. Μόλις έδωσα μία ομιλία στο Java One για runtime security σε Java. Καταπληκτική εμπειρία. Προτείνω ανεπιφύλεκτα σε όλους να έρθουν στα Java One, αν μπορούν, όποτε μπορούν, θα συναντήσουν καταπληκτικούς ανθρώπους, ανθρώπους που διαμορφώνουν την τεχνολογία της Java.…

Message from JavaOne 2025 from Japan Java User Group (JJUG) member and Java engineer Daishi Tabata. Transcript 初めてJava 1に参加したんですけれど、長年参加されている日本の方々が温かく迎えてくれてとても楽しめています。セッションも実際の機能を作った方々が話されているのを聞くことができるというのは貴重な機会で良かったと思います。 ただ今回は初めて来て英語がやっぱり結構苦労しているので、また次回以降も参加してたくさん学べるようになるためには、いっぱい勉強がいるなというふうに思っています。また次回もぜひ参加したいです。ありがとうございました。