Bruno Souza: My Greatest Pride is the Community

About this episode

Jim Grisanzio interviews Bruno Souza about his contributions to the Java community and the importance of user groups.

Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations talks with Bruno Souza, who is a Java Champion, leader of the SouJava User Group in Brazil, and a member of the JCP Executive Committee. Bruno received the first Java Community Lifetime Achievement recognition in October 2022 at JavaOne in Las Vegas. "I was totally surprised! I was jumping up and down! I was so honored! It's an honor to be a member of that group." he said. Bruno Souza is known as the "JavaMan" from Brazil and that nickname started back at Sun when Java was announced and Bruno started evangelizing the technology. Bruno's message to the community was "Open Standards and Open Source" as he began his community building efforts around Java. He continually brought to Brazil FOSS and Standards experts for community discussions, and he advocated for a standards-based Open Source implementation of Java that would pass the TCK. Bruno left Sun and then returned, and he also joined the JCP (Java Community Process). Now all these years later we have OpenJDK, and open JCP, and hundreds of independent JUGs that can participate in community building and also Java development. "Maybe my greatest pride, I think, is the idea of the Java…

People in this episode

Host: Jim Grisanzio

Guest: Bruno Souza

Topics covered

• Java
• Community Building
• Open Standards
• Open Source
• User Groups
• Technology Advocacy

Keywords

• Java Champion
• SouJava
• Java User Groups
• OpenJDK
• Java Community Process
• FOSS
• Standards

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SouJava User Group, Java Community Process, OpenJDK, JavaOne

Places: Brazil

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