Devoxx 2008 Newsletter - 02

JaVoxx becomes Devoxx

We regret to announce that BeJUG is forced again to rebrand the conference name because of trademark issue's filed by Sun Microsystems.

Sun did offer a free license agreement for the usage of both JavaPolis and JaVoxx, which we appreciated. However we prefer to remain an independent European conference where great content, a democratic entrance fee and a nice family like atmosphere are more important than a 'restricted' Java branded conference name.

Hand in hand with Parleys.com our JUG organized gathering wants to continue to give an independent voice to the Java developers from all over Europe and beyond!

With this in mind we'll rebrand "JaVoxx" to "Devoxx" and together with 3000+ attendees and 120 speakers we're looking forward to welcome all of you again in Antwerp/Belgium during the 2nd week of December 2008!

Sun Microsystems will fully support Devoxx and again be present as a Premium partner. In addition Sun has committed to deliver a super cool JavaFX keynote...

Devoxx Speakers

Below you can find a first batch of confirmed speakers, many many more will follow in the next months.

Dan Allen - Author of 'Seam in Action'
Charlie Collins - Author of 'GWT in Practice'
Frank Wolff - Founder of Granite
Ivar Jacobson - Father of UML and RUP
Rob Harrop - Spring (Platform) Expert
Frank Wierzbicki - Jython Lead Maintainer
Jim Baker - Jython Committer
Tobias Ivarsson - Jython Committer
John Ferguson Smart - Author of 'Java Power Tools'
Brian Goetz - Author of 'Java Concurrency'
Ross Mason - Founder of Mule
Mike Keith - JPA 2.0 Expert Group Member
Alex Russel - Founder of Dojo
Joe Walker - Founder of DWR
Bill Venners - Founder of Artima
Ted Neward - Author of 'Effective Enterprise Java'
Jonas Jacobi - co-Author of 'Pro JSF'
John Fellows - co-Author of 'Pro JSF'
Bruce Snyder - founding member of Geronimo
Kirk Pepperdine - Performance expert
John Davies - co-Founder Incept5
Guillaume Laforge - Groovy lead
Graeme Rocher - Founder of Grails
Carl Quinn - JavaPosse.com member
Dick Wall - JavaPosse.com member
Martin Marinschek - MyFaces / JSF expert
Peter Kriens - OSGi's Technical Director
Michael Ernst - JSR 308 co-Spec. Lead
Mike Wiesner - Security Expert
Holly Cummins - JVM Expert
Jan Machacek - co-Author Spring Pro 2.5

Call For Presentations

We've automated the submission process for BOFs, Quickies and Tools in Action presentations. So hurry up and submit your potential Devoxx presentation online today.

Maybe your talk could be even one of the few selected for the conference but the number of those slots are limited and very exclusive... but hey you never know!

Submit your talk before October 15th and we'll select the best content and notify you with more info.

Thanks to Peter De Koster, Peter Moorthamer, Dieter D'Haeyere, Tim Torbeyns and Tom Eekman for developing this application during very late nights !

JUG and Speaker Dinner Movie

Every year we organize, as a small token of appreciation, an intimate walking dinner for the 100+ speakers. Last year we even invited 50+ JUG leaders.

Check out our "speakers/JUG dinner" movie from last year and see how many faces you can recognize :)

Partnerships almost Sold Out

The Metropolis exhibition floor is limited and booth space for this years event is almost sold out. So if your company wants to reach over 3.000 European Java developers then make sure you contact us today before it's too late!

Last year JavaPolis was sold out weeks before the event started, so make sure you get your conference ticket and register today ! Don't let us mail you 'we told you so'.

Parleys.com Share in Beta

Now you can share your favorite Parleys.com talks on your own wiki, blog or website !!

How does it work? When you view a talk you can see in the footer "Embed Talk", just click on that link and the rest is very obvious.

Devoxx, The Voice OF Java Developers !

Help promote Devoxx and place one of our web banners on your site... thanks in advance!

DeVoxx Partnerships

If you want to reach 3.000+ developers during Devoxx, announce a product or make your brand known to the European Java Community, then please don't hesitate and contact us for more partnership info (booth space is limited).

Partner Communication

IBM

Jazz is IBM Rational’s new technology platform for collaborative software delivery. Uniquely attuned to global and distributed teams, the Jazz platform is transforming how people work together to build software – making software delivery more collaborative, productive and transparent.

As one of the first solutions to be released on the Jazz platform, Rational Team Concert provides a wide range of tools that will assist you in things like agile planning, process customization and enactment, team awareness, continuous build, source control and many more.

The Rational Team Concert solution comes in different flavors customized to your needs and is free for open source projects and academic use.

Free hands-on-workshops are organised by IBM Benelux to get you acquainted with the Jazz platform, and the capabilities of Rational Team Concert.

For more information check out:
• jazz.net
• ibm.com/be/events or ibm.com/nl/events (look for Rational Team Concert).

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