I won't be there. But I think you can do this without reducing
transparency. Do this as a brainstorm and bring the results back to the
wider community as a blog for them to comment on.
Transparency is not equality.
On 22 Jul 2013 19:17, "Bill Shannon" <bill.shannon_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> It's worth considering as a brainstorming session. I'll talk to Linda
> about it
> and see what we can do.
>
> Since we won't have an EE 8 JSR or EE 8 expert group by then, and all
> current or
> future expert group members won't be able to attend, we need to be careful
> that
> this isn't seen as making decisions that would exclude the EE 8 expert
> group.
> We want this to increase transparency, not reduce it!
>
> Antonio Goncalves wrote on 07/22/13 06:05:
> > Bill, and what about the idea of using a few hours at JavaOne to
> quickoff Java
> > EE 8 ? I'm not talking about a BOF with a few chairs on stage and a few
> > hundred people listening, but I'm more thinking of a room with chairs,
> > whitboards, stickers... where we (spec leads, expert members, Java EE
> > enthousiats) could think and talk about the direction we want Java EE 8
> to go ?
> >
> > Antonio
>
>