Patrick Curran, JCP

Patrick Curran is Chair of the JCP. In this role he oversees the activities of the JCP Program Office including driving the process, managing its membership, guiding specification leads and experts through the process, leading the Executive Committee meetings, and managing the JCP.org web site. Patrick has worked in the software industry for more than 20 years and at Sun for 15 years. He has a long-standing record in conformance testing, and most recently led the Java Conformance Engineering team in Sun's Client Software Group. He was also chair of Sun's Conformance Council, which is responsible for defining Sun's policies and strategies around Java conformance and compatibility.

Patrick has participated actively in several consortia and communities including the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (member of the W3C's Quality Assurance Working Group, co-chair of the W3C Quality Assurance Interest Group), and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)(co-chair of the OASIS Test Assertions Guidelines Technical Committee). Patrick maintains a blog at http://blogs.sun.com/pcurran/

Presentation: "Panel: Open Source and Open Standards"

Track: Solution Track - Wednesday

Time: Wednesday 17:00 - 18:00

Location: Rutherford Room

Abstract:

This panel discussion will focus on the synergies and tensions between open source and the standards process. Why and when should open-source developers get involved in the standards development? How do standards-developing organizations such as the Java Community Process (JCP) need to change in order to accommodate individuals and open-source groups? What lessons can each group learn from the other?

The participants in this discussion have direct and practical experience in the open standards and the open source worlds.

Join us for a stimulating discussion, and bring your questions and comments.