Welcome to issue number three hundred and six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have been home a couple of days now since my trip to Auckland for ChurConf. Next week, I will be participating in two events. First stop is Aveiro, Portugal where I will speak at Aveiro Open Source Connect together with my colleagues André and Rosaria…

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ChurConf is the a kid on the block when it comes to conferences. CurConf 2025 was the first edition. The single track conference, arranged by some of the folks behind JPrime, took place on Sunday, November 2 in Auckland, New Zealand. If was a full day of excellent talks presented by top class speakers for an enthusiastic crowd. The benefit of a single-track conference is that all attendees are present in all talks since there aren't really a hall betwen sessions to get lost in time in.

Welcome to issue number three hundred and five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am currently in Auckland, New Zealand to talk about Jakarta EE at the inagural ChurConf 2025. I will write more about ChurConf after the conference. The Jakarta EE Platform project has set a date for Milestone 2 of Jakarta EE 12 to be December 9…

Welcome to issue number three hundred and four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week started with a trip to Kraków to present Jakarta EE at JDD 2025. After that, I stopped by the {code and compliance} 2025 event organized by the Open Regulatory and Compliance Working Group. It is very rewarding and interesting to experience events organized by the other working groups at Eclipse Foundation.

I got the opportunity to attend {code and compliance} 2025 in Brussels. The event was organized by the Open Compliance and Regulatory working group at Eclipse Foundation. It was an interesting day with presentations, workshops, and panels with topics about and around the Cyber Resillience Act (CRA). Since this is not my usual type of topics, some of the terminology and discussions where a little hard to follow (for me), but it certainly is a valuable experience to follow what's going on in these forums.

JDD was one of my first international conferences I spoke at when I started my conference speaker journey. I presented here in 2013 and 2014 before returning this year. This was the 19th edition of JDD, so the conference is definitely among the long running ones. With a little over 600 attendees it is a decently sized event located in beautiful Kraków.

In my talk at Come To Code 2025 about Advancing Your Career with Open Source, I mentioned the SKILLAB Project. Afterwards, I started thinking that this project is worth some more attention in form of a blog post. This is the result. I hope you will like it. SKILLAB is a project funded by the European Union. It is aiming to map the skills in supply/demand for job seekers in the EU.