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Geir Magnusson Jr.:

Project Harmony
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Motivation
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There is a clear need for an open-source version of Java 2, 
Standard Edition (J2SE) runtime platform, ...

Instead of offering my speculations as to the motivations and the genesis of this effort, let me draw your attention to the people whose names are mentioned in the proposal. I have added hyperlinks to the names based on the I'm Feeling Lucky Google search on the name:

These individuals have expressed an interest in participating in the 
architecture and design work.  The information in parenthesis indicates 
other community participation or relevant experiences of that individual :

  Guy Churchward (individual w/ commercial VM experience)
  Joakim Dahlstedt (individual w/ commercial VM experience)
  Jeroen Frijters (IKVM)
  Geir Magnusson Jr. (Apache)
  Ricardo Morin (individual w/ commercial VM experience)
  Georges Saab (individual w/ commercial VM experience)
  Bruno Souza (SOUJava)
  Davanum Srinivas (Apache)
  Dalibor Topic (Kaffe)
  Tom Tromey (GCJ)
  Weldon Washburn (individual w/ commercial VM experience)
  Mark Wielaard (Classpath)

and the following individuals have expressed interest in participating 
as committers for the Apache-licensed implementation :

  Jeroen Frijters (IKVM)
  Ben Laurie (Apache)
  Geir Magnusson Jr. (Apache)
  Ricardo Morin (individual w/ commercial VM experience)
  Bruno Souza (SOUJava)
  Davanum Srinivas (Apache)
  Dalibor Topic (Kaffe)
  Tom Tromey (GCJ)
  Weldon Washburn (individual w/ commercial VM experience)

These individuals will participate as Incubator Mentors :

  Noel Bergman
  Ben Laurie
  Geir Magnusson Jr.
  Stefano Mazzocchi
  Sam Ruby
  Leo Simons
  Davanum Srinivas

The following Apache Members will be the sponsoring members :

  Noel Bergman
  Jason Hunter
  Ben Laurie
  Ted Leung
  Geir Magnusson Jr.
  Stefano Mazzocchi
  Sam Ruby
  Leo Simons
  Davanum Srinivas

The following community members support this effort :

  Danese Cooper
  Brian Goetz
  Doug Lea