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Roger Brinkley is the JavaDesktop Community Leader and a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has been at Sun for over 10 years and was the chief architect of the JavaHelp API and is still actively involved in online help system delivery mechansims.

Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days Early Bird Pricing ends December 5

This years conference features a Keynote by Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing and a Mobility Roadmap presentation by Craig Gering, Director of Java ME Development. Following that will be 25 technical sessions that will equally cover implementations on phones, media (TV, Blu-Ray, Cable boxes) and embedded devices. Interspersed within the technical sessions are 13 lighting talks of five to seven minutes in length. Then twice a day we'll break for poster session times when you can get some one on one time with the various technical poster presentations.

You might have noticed that Java FX was announced today. Of course that didn't include a release for Mobile devices. The conference will be one of the first times for Mobile developers to hear what will be happening with Java FX in the first session that follows Craig Gering's Mobility Roadmap address.

Last years attendees comments included

• "Speaking as my company, it was an outstanding help you give us and a huge access to Sun's people, and Java ME developers community. We will do our best to optimize these contacts and talks as much as possible and to find out all the ways we can help each other."
• "The event was really excellent, and I hope, when you're recovered, that you consider ways to run it again next year."
• "Thanks again for the great conference last week. I thought that the participants got a lot out of the conference."
• "That was a GREAT conference. I hope it will happen again next year...with many more people. I really like the location and the conference hall, especially the layout (instead of theater-seating)."
• "This was a VERY successful event. The live video stream with irc chat allowed people from all over the world to directly participate as well. The content was quite deep - very technically meaty, and the developers who attended were treated to some very good presentations. Coverage was excellent for a conference this size."

So the only thing left to do is for you to take advantage of the Early Bird pricing and register by December 5. You can register by clicking the registration tag on the M3DD home page

M&E Community Member on JCP ME EC Board

A big thanks to everyone in the community who voted for Sean. We look forward to his three years on the board representing the community and the individual developers in

• Bridging the communication gap between developers and the manufactures
• Representing developers as Java ME evolves.
• Representing open source methods.

So join me in giving Sean a hearty congratulations and don't forget to look at the upcoming JSRs and let him know what you think. Developers now have a real voice on the EC.

Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days Schedule Set

Like last year this is an action packed two intense days for intermediate to advanced Java ME application developers. As it stands right now there are twenty six technical sessions, thirteen lightning talks, and four poster sessions.

This years Keynote address will be given by Jeet Kaul, Vice President Client Software Group and Eric Klein Vice President of Java Marketing. Craig Gerig, the Director of Java ME Development will follow them with a Mobility Roadmap.

From there on the diversity of Java ME will become immediately apparent in the technical sessions. Media talks on Tru-2-Way, The New Java TV Stand for Digital TV in Brazil and Creating Blue-Ray Disc^TMGames and Menus using Open Source Tools are balanced against embedded talks on Effective Energy Management Through Java, Squawk for Java ME for Embedded Devices and Swarm of Brian. Traditional Java ME talks are highlighted in Does Your Mobile Speak Java FX, MIDP-3 - What it Brings to Developers, LWUIT, and Mobile Widget Development and Project Cupuchin - Energizing Rich Mobile Media. We'll also cover the traditional tools topics of Java ME Platform SDK, Eclipse and special session on The Heart of Parameteric Development as well as new JSRs like JSR 290: Web UI for Java ME Applications. Finally we'll show off a couple of the community projects like Diamond Powder and Floggy.

It's worth noting that while we have thirteen slots for lighting talks not all of the lightning talks have been selected. These 7 minutes talk will give you a glimpse into a particular topic and in some cases will give you an lead in for further discussions that you can have with the presenters during the four poster session times.

And of course we're planning another dinner just like last years at the end of the first night at Maria Elana's Mexican Restaurant. It's the perfect ending to the first day's activities.

So right now you've got enough information now to pull the trigger and sign up for the conference. No more I'll wait till the schedule comes out before I commit. Early Bird pricing of $175.00 is available through November 22 and is a $75 savings over the standard conference price. Seating is limited and if we sell out with the Early Bird Special pricing we won't make any additional seats available (the building is only so big and being a historical building expansion is discouraged). You can register now at http://developerdays.dev.java.net

Early Bird Registration for Developer Days is Open

The keynote speakers for the event his year will be Jeet Kaul and Eric Klein. Jeet is the Vice President of Developer Products and Programs at Sun Microsystems. As vice president of the Client Software Group, Jeet Kaul leads the global team which produces Sun's key user-oriented software technologies and platforms, including Java FX, Java ME, Java SE, Java Card and Content Delivery Server.

Eric Klein is the Vice President of Java Marketing at Sun Microsystems. His team is responsible for both product management and product marketing across the myriad of market segments Java is deployed in. Vision, roadmap, strategy, requirements, partner management, messaging, and go to market are all implemented by the Java Marketing team.

Additionally the conference organizers have preselected the following sessions:

Technical Sessions
• Do It with LWUIT! (Sun)
• MIDP3 – What it brings to Developers (Motorola)
• The Tru2way Roadmap (OpenCable)
• Sprint Titan Platform for Mobile Java (Sprint)
• Dating Tips for Developers (WIP)
• New Java TV Standard for Digital TV in Brazil (Sun)
• How to use the JavaFX SDK and JavaFX Mobile Emulator (Sun)
• Effective Energy Management through Java (Sentilla)

Lightning Talks
• JSR 290: Web UI for Java ME applications (Sun)
• Open Mobile Development Frameworks - A Web 2.0 based approach to the future of Mobile Computing (Ramesh Mandyam)
• Education and the Mobile & Embedded Community (Sun)

Panel:
• Java ME UI Toolkits (Nokia)

M3DD - Call for Papers Closed (softly)

Right now we have 36 technical sessions; 13 lightning talks, and 3 poster sessions. Like last year we have presentations submitted from Europe, the Middle East, Brazil, the US and Canada. You can see a full list of presentations here and look at the entries for September and August. Anyone who submitted a proposal should check to make sure we have their submission. We've done our best but something might have slipped though the cracks. If so let us know.

Alright, so what do you do if you missed the September 30 deadline? Get your act in gear as quickly as possible and submit your proposal immediately. As I said earlier the team will start reviewing Monday morning and the later you wait the more difficult it is to consider your proposal. Even if all you can do right now is provide us with placeholder do that.

This is shaping up to be another great conference and we look forward to everyone's participation. Early Bird registration will be beginning soon. Keep watching my blog, the Mobile & Embedded Community Home page and the conference web site for registration details.

Mobile & Embedded now on Twitter

Community Leaders could post snippets on our travels and other events that are happening in the community. We will also post highlights from the community front page and other sources.

Community members or other interested Mobile, Media, & Embedded developers could allow us to follow their happening with their twitter accounts. Keep us up on the professional happenings of others. Let us know about a JUG meeting or what you are working on. If we get enough information flowing I will see if we can get the RSS feed published on the M&E community main page.

How well will it work? No idea, but it seems like it is at least worth a try so I either wisely or foolishly, only time will tell, created a Mobile & Embedded Community twitter account.

You can find the twitter account at http://twitter.com/mobile_embedded. Follow what's happening and ask us to follow you as well. We can leverage twitter to make the Mobile & Embedded Community even large and more interactive (I hope).

Or as I use to say when I did the radio show back in high school, "It will keep you up on what is coming down on the campus of...er..ah..I mean...in the Mobile & Embedded Community." Yeah, that was a LONG time ago, wasn't it!

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