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Caravan to Jazoon'08

CEJUG is organizing the Caravan Jazoon'08, a group of JUG members interested in to participate of Jazoon'08. Inspired in similar initiatives by SouJava and other groups, this one has a differential: the JUG serves not only as communication channel, but also as a secure source of information about who are attending the conference - and it is a valuable input for conference organizers. Jazoon'08 is open for business and the goal of the conference administrators is to give fair opportunities for everyone interested in joining the conference, including very low fares for students, discount for JUG members and discount for groups of professionals. One of the main issues of that flexibility is how to control Who is JUG member?. Since the conference is international, it is virtually impossible for the conference organizers to check the information provided by more than two thousand attendees.

The social network strength of Java User Groups

As a JUG leader and also as a professional, I helped Jazoon to organize its first edition in 2007. My task was to provide information about Java community, and put the conference administrators in contact with the community stake holders - not all of them, of course, but I guess I did a good work in helping conference and Java community to get closer to each other. The experience provided me a good feedback on how big conferences are organized and what are the big issues in provide discount vouchers and free passes - basically, the lack of accurate information restricts the ability of conference organizers of thinking about better conditions for the Java community. Jazoon has a very elegant package of benefits for its attendees, but it causes a lot of headache for the organizers, and I can assume this is the same scenario for JavaOne, Javapolis and any other conference with superlative numbers. The good news: JUGs can help conferences to attract more people in a more fair way - JUGs are the local community snapshot, and they are the place you must go if you need information about Java communities all over the world.

How Caravana Jazoon'08 works?

It is simple: we created a home-page, where we publish useful information about traveling to Switzerland, and we also publish the pictures and names of the confirmed attendees. This way, we can identify ourselves, exchange traveling tips and - the most important - guarantee for the conference organizers clear and trustful information about who is asking discount vouchers.

It is our first travel initiative, but we plan to extend it to JavaOne and others. If our group of interested travelers grows up enough, we can start to negotiate with conference organizers, tourism agencies, etc.

* Caravan @ wikipedia

Happy New Year Java Community

2007 was an exciting Java year, and I am sure 2008 will raise with a better life and great success for all Java community. Enjoy your time, stay with your family and friends, and keep your hands off the keyboard for tonight :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR, WELCOME JAVA 2008

Jazoon'08 Call for papers

I am a bit busy these days, but I am planning to return my blog activities in 2008. This blog is just to remind you about Jazoon call for papers. Several big players are already confirmed to the second edition of the conference in Zürich, Switzerland, and this year we will have a special attraction related to the Euro 2008. If you like Java and eventually football, you cannot miss it :)

Click here to check the conference page

The Jazoon'08 conference invites you to share your experience and knowledge in the following categories:

• Technical short talks (20' incl. Q&A) within the technical program
  (Submission deadline 2007-12-31)
• Technical long talks (50' incl. Q&A) within the technical program
  (Submission deadline 2007-12-31)
• Jazoon Labs (2 consecutive slots of 50' with a break of 10' in between)
  (Submission deadline 2007-12-31)
• Birds-of-a-feather sessions (90')
  (Online Submission deadline 2008-06-15)

All abstracts have to be submitted in English using the submission forms.

Jazoon'07: Presentations published

Jazoon'07 presentations

Jazoon organizers have prepared all presentations for download on jazoon.com. Go to http://jazoon.com/en/conference.html and browse the website for the talks you require.

Jazoon'07 videos

The first videos of Jazoon'07 keynote presentations are up and running on parleys: http://parleys.com/label/PARLEYS/jazoon07 * More videos will follow.

Jazoon'08 contribute Do you wish to have a presentation at Jazoon'08? We will publish the call for paper in September. You can then submit your abstract on jazoon.com until the end of November. We are looking forward to receive your proposal.

Demo slots free for OSS @ Jazoon'07

There are still some open opportunities for developers and companies who are thinking about showing their products at Jazoon'07 - the international conference on Java technology of Zürich, Switzerland. Despite the keynote speakers and technical presentations are already selected, you have two opportunities to include your project or company on the spot:

Software Demos: proposal by March 31, 2007 (demo slots are free for non-commercial software) BOF sessions: proposal by April 30, 2007 Early Bird - by 31 March: Another interesting date is about the early bird for Jazoon'07, it ends this week. So, if your company didn't subscribe you at Jazoon'07, you could friendly advise them about that;)

Zürich Logistics for Geeks, Keynote speakers, REST x SOAP, Eclipse Platform and much more...

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.

A trip to Nancy/FR

Life is a movement experience... and one more time the destiny gives me a rare privilege of knowing other countries, other cultures. In the next few months I will live in Nancy / France. My wife received a PhD schoolarship for six months at University Nancy and we are moving to there on April, 1.

Despite Google Earth and other web sites about Nancy, I know almost nothing about that city and less yet about its technological scenario. It will be a new challenge: to observe how french people live, including sports, food, music, etc. And also observe the Java presence over there.

Since I can't get a working visa, I will enjoy this vacation-like period to learn the new trends in Java - such as EJB 3.0, Glassfish, SOA and other topics. It will be a great chance to read a lot, to learn a lot, and asap I will post my new apprentice here.

That's it, I'm going to take a plane now... ;)

Merry Christmas and Java New Year

...somewhere near you, people are enjoying their life. Just go and be happy with your family...

Peace for the world in 2006

Java significance

1. a software technology
2. a tropical paradise in Indonesia
3. a board game
4. a cachaça
5. an antropologic artifact
6. bird trees
7. a coffee

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