The JavaOne Call for Papers deadline always sneaks up on me. It's like jet lag; one minute you're productively cranking out code, then suddenly you're asleep on the keyboard, drooling on the spacebar.

Like previous years, we want to encourage as much external participation in the conference as possible. We know there are great Desktop Java applications being written and deployed out in the real world; we'd like you to come talk about them at the conference. Case studies, techniques, tricks, in-depth discussions of technologies, frameworks and architectures for productive development, whizzy cool effects - anything that others want to learn about is fair game.

You only have until November 16th (that's next Friday for anyone currently time-confused by the Daylight Savings Time switch last weekend), so get your abstracts in now. Submitting a proposal isn't that much work - you just need to put enough information in the abstract and the outline in order for the track team to be able to understand what you're covering, how your going to do it, and why people would want to attend the talk.

So wake up, wipe the drool off the keyboard, and submit that proposal. Help us create and present a great Desktop track this year!