http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/ en-us 2009-06-01T22:53:56-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/06/jugusa_happenin_1.html This is the first JavaOne for JUG-USA and we are holding our first national JUG-USA Summit on Tuesday night in conjunction with the Java Community Process (JCP) Party. JUG-USA also won the JUG Registration contest for this JavaOne. As a result, JUG-USA members attending the conference will have a special meeting with James Gosling on Wednesday. See the full blog post for further information and links to these JUG-USA event details. Community: Java User Groups van_riper 2009-06-01T22:53:56-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/05/tips_and_tricks.html At CommunityOne West, Kevin Nilson and I are leading a session on Tips and Tricks for Starting and Maintaining a Successful User Group. Of particular interest to the JUG Leadership Community, we will be discussing the synergy we are seeing between our Silicon Valley Web JUG and the much younger Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group. Community: Java User Groups van_riper 2009-05-31T00:11:14-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/03/spring_fling_co.html NO EXCUSE for missing JavaOne this year. Even if you can't swing the registration fee for JavaOne, a FREE CommunityOne West registration will still give you access to the JavaOne General Sessions and the JavaOne Pavilion during the main conference. On top of that, you also get full access to CommunityOne West Sessions on the day before JavaOne gets started. Your cost: ZERO. The networking opportunities and access to latest news about all things Java: PRICELESS!]]> van_riper 2009-03-08T14:32:21-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/02/benefits_of_jug_1.html The opportunities afforded by affiliating together all the JUGs residing in the United States as part of an umbrella JUG-USA organization seem self-evident to me. In my efforts to bring JUGs around the country on board, I am learning that this is simply not the case. So, please read the full blog entry for my thoughts on this matter. Community: Java User Groups van_riper 2009-02-19T00:40:19-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/01/jugusa_the_whol.html We are officially launching JUG-USA today. It is an umbrella Java User Group (JUG) which local JUGs from all over the United States can affiliate with. It is my hope that a true synergy will emerge from this undertaking. Please see the full post for more information and the pertinent links. Community: Java User Groups van_riper 2009-01-12T20:06:59-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2009/01/the_audacity_of_1.html December 2008 marks the 10th Birthday of the Java Community Process (JCP) Program. Java developers in Silicon Valley are invited to join the JCP Executive Committees and the Program Office in celebrating ten years of collaborative work from companies, academics, individual developers and not-for-profits from all over the world. The party will be at the Computer History Museum on January 13th in Mountain View, California. See the full post for registration information. Community: Java User Groups van_riper 2009-01-05T18:17:39-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2008/11/qcon_san_franci.html QCon San Francisco has invited bay area Java Developers to a Java Community Event on Thursday November 20th, 2008. This free event will be a one-hour long panel on the State of Java with well known Java luminaries and QCon SF speakers. Although free, an advance RSVP is required and space is limited. See the full blog entry for a list of speakers and the advance registration link. Community: Java User Groups van_riper 2008-11-14T16:58:09-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2008/10/silicon_valley_2.html For the third year running, this Code Camp will be held at Foothill College in Los Altos, California. This is my second year organizing the Java Speaker Track at Code Camp with the help of Kevin Nilson. We have 115 sessions lined up and 850+ developer signed up to attend this free code camp. Read the full entry to learn about the camp twitter feed, Hackathon4Kids, lightning talk opportunities and more. Community: Java User Groups van_riper 2008-10-27T22:32:43-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2008/09/rod_johnsons_sv.html Rod Johnson gave a free talk to the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG at the Googleplex in Mountain View on August 18, 2008. It was a standing room only event with more than 200 local Java developers in attendance. If you missed it, the entire talk was recorded by Google and the video is now available on YouTube. The slides are a bit blurry on the video, but, Rod was kind enough to give us a separate copy of the talk slides. Please see the full blog entry for links to the video and slides. Community: Java User Groups van_riper 2008-09-10T18:57:49-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2008/08/sentilla_labs_a.html Sentilla Labs, a recently launched community website, offers developers a step-by-step guided tour through the project development process, allowing visitors to download code and illustrations and rapidly bring projects to life. Some projects at Sentilla Labs can be created with fewer than 100 lines of code. In addition, developers can upload and display their own projects with confidence because they retain all rights to their code. Community: Java User Groups van_riper 2008-08-24T21:20:11-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2008/08/using_the_googl.html JUG that we run, Kevin Nilson and I also run the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group (SV-GTUG). Sometimes, we have joint meetings like this one where the topic intersects Java Development and Google Technology. Kevin Bourrillion gave this talk at a recent SV-GTUG meeting. The talk is available for viewing on YouTube.]]> Community: Java User Groups van_riper 2008-08-15T23:11:46-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2008/07/call_for_speake_1.html For the third year running, this Code Camp will be held at Foothill College in Los Altos, California. This will be my second year organizing the Java Speaker Track at Code Camp with the help of Kevin Nilson. Community: Java User Groups van_riper 2008-07-06T23:26:54-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2008/06/community_wonde.html After seeing the latest updates on Project Wonderland during JavaOne combined with the great memories of hanging out recently at the java.net Community Corner in the Pavilion, I keep thinking about a year round virtual Community Corner implemented using Project Wonderland software on Sun hardware. A place where Java User Group (JUG) Leaders, Sun Java Champions and others from the Java developer community can gather virtually anytime. Community: Java User Groups van_riper 2008-06-11T21:53:37-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2008/05/javaone_day_two.html Helping a high school student get a Sun SPOT from Sun for his school computer club has to be number one. The Java Champions BOF was pretty interesting. I wonder how many people know you don't have to be a Java Champion to attend this BOF. Bob Brewin, the Sun CTO, was taking questions from the Java Champions for the first half of this session. I was also fortunate to receive an invite to attend the NLJUG meeting with James Gosling at noon. On the party front, The Eclipse party at the Thirsty Bear was my favorite. However, I only attended 3 of the many parties going on that night. =) van_riper 2008-05-08T09:36:05-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2008/05/javaone_day_one.html Seeing JavaFX application running on Android. Attending the JavaFX overview session by Christopher Oliver. Seeing Neil Young talk about the project to make his vast archive of musical work available using Java and Blue Ray technologies. He had been waiting since the 80's for the right combination of hardware and software technology to do this. van_riper 2008-05-07T08:44:18-08:00