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Hashtag Jakarta EE #323 Welcome to issue number three hundred and twenty-three of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Right now, I am on my way home from Devnexus 2026. It was as busy as always, so I haven’t been able to finish up my post from the event, but I promise that it will be out there shortly. I will only have 24 hours at home this time before I am headed to JavaLand 2026. They have changed venue again and is going to be in Europa-Park in southern Germany. Hopefully this change of venue will be …

Why promising open source projects need support beyond academia Many of the most influential open source projects begin in academic environments. Universities and higher education institutions are well suited to experimentation and have been central to open source for decades. Yet, as open source increasingly behaves like infrastructure, a recurring challenge appears once projects move beyond their original research context. Patrick Masson, Executive Director of the Apereo Foundation and a …