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Jazoon 07 Call for Papers

From 24 to 28 June 2007, Jazoon, the European industry conference on Java technology, is set to take place. Jazoon'07 brings together experts and professional users of Java and open source technologies from all over Europe. Featuring a comprehensive range of topics, renowned speakers, a varied program of social and cultural events, parallel exhibition with integrated career platform and optimal logistics, Jazoon'07 provides young professionals and established specialists with a unique live experience of the field that is unequalled, even in the age of the Internet.

Submission deadline for Jazoon

“Call for Papers” extended to 31 December 2006

click here for more information about the event.

Comments

• Thank you very much for bringing to our attention another european java event initiative. Well done!

  As all european developers, we are wondering and 'worry' about pricing!
  We hope that the pricing would not be very aggresive and the Javapolis standards can be met. Please have in mind that any Comparison with JavaONE on pricing IHMO leads to mistakes since JavaONE indeed is very expensive. So we hope some more information on this one and we will try to spread the word...to our local JUGs and communities!

  Well done again!

  Posted by: javaneze on November 02, 2006 at 05:30 AM

• Dear javaneze,the event is being organized rigth now. I guess it is a good time for all suggestions in order to help the event to become a nice opportunity from people of all Europe and also from the overseas countries. I am not directly involved with the event, but I will forward your suggestions to the organizers.The sponsors and the organizers of Jazoon includes traditional europeean software companies, I am sure they will attend the EU Java community expectations and we all will get a wonderfull event.

  Posted by: felipegaucho on November 02, 2006 at 05:51 AM

• On Jazoon Pricing:

  First of all I'd like to mention that Jazoon'07 has not intended to
  compete with the existing Java conferences world-wide such as JavaOne
  (which we see as our older sister maybe, but we're not related) or the
  European ones such as JavaPolis or JAX. Rather, we want to establish
  an opportunity for all those developers for whom attending JavaOne or
  one of the others is impossible for economic reasons, language or for
  the specific dates. With JavaPolis for example, we see ourselves more
  as of a complement in the other half of the year. And the timing of
  Jazoon short after JavaOne was intentional to allow some of the hot
  topics from JavaOne to continue at Jazoon.

  
  So it was one of our goals to make attending Jazoon also economically
  feasible for developers in Europe etc. The pricing, however, has not
  yet been fixed, but a full-entry (without early-bird discount) will be
  most probably in the order of magnitude of about EUR 1300-1500 for the four-day conference.

  
  But there are many ways to reduce the expenses on attending Jazoon:

  
  Submit a good proposal for a technical session: Accepted
  presenters/speaker have free entry to the conference.

  Have a colleague join your proposal as co-author: The first co-author
  also benefits from a 50% reduced fee.

  Convince your employer to send a group of people: There will be
  bundles at a substantially lower price. (Details are begin discussed
  right now)

  Convince your local Java User's Group or similar organization to pool
  interests and do a group registration for their members which will
  also be at substantially lower rates.

  Propose a good tutorial: If a tutorial has enough subscriptions and
  will be held, the tutorial speaker has free entry and plus the
  possibility to even earn some money if there are enough participant
  sin his/her tutorial.

  We are also setting up a grant-program (hopefully with the help of
  some sponsors) that should help developers form transition countries
  to attend, but the details are not yet fixed. Subscribe on jazoon.com
  to be notified on any announcements.
  
  Register early: There will be an early-bird discount

  In addition to the conference fees, travel expenses are always another
  cost factor for a participant. Jazoon has therefore also pre-reserved
  rooms in various price categories including budget hotels.

  
  So in general I think that, especially for Europeans, Jazoon will be a
  cost-efficient way to attend such a conference. But of course, we're
  welcoming colleagues from all over the world.
  

  Posted by: vckovski on November 03, 2006 at 06:40 AM

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