Hi Venki -  

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From: Reid Beels <reid@...>
To: svjug-admin@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 11:17:25 PM
Subject: [svjug-admin] SVJUG + Open Source Bridge

Hello!

I'm one of the organizers of Open Source Bridge, a new open source 
developers’ conference being held June 17–19, 2009 in Portland, 
Oregon. We’re aiming to connect people across projects, languages and 
experience and would love to have members of SVJUG involved as 
speakers and participants. Details about the conference are included 
below.

Bridge isn’t a typical conference. It’s entirely volunteer-run, by 
developers, for developers. Session tracks are technology agnostic, 
based instead around shared community experiences and focused on 
similarities between projects, not differences. Plus, we’ll be running 
a 24-hour hacker lounge for code sprints, bug bashes, bouncing ideas, 
starting new projects or just mingling.

We’d be delighted it if you could mention Open Source Bridge at your 
user group meetings, post this email to your mailing list, and get us 
in touch with others in your community interested in participating.

We just extended our call for proposals through April 10th, which is 
fast approaching, so please pass this information on as soon as 
possible.

We don’t expect something for nothing, so we’re giving all of your 
user group members a discounted registration rate of $150. That’s $25 
off the Early Bird rate, and $100 off our regular registration. User 
groups are very important to the chairs of our conference — that’s how 
they both got started in the open source community.

We’re also offering a free conference pass to give away to a member of 
your group. If you’re interested in more ways to promote the 
conference, let us know!

Thank You!
Reid Beels
Open Source Bridge

reid@...
http://opensourcebridge.org/

CONFERENCE PASS RAFFLE INFORMATION:

You get one free conference pass to raffle off to a member of your 
group!

We’ve found the most successful raffles tend to follow these conditions:

1) Let all of your members know about the conference, dates, and URL: http://opensourcebridge.org/
2) Allow anyone in the group to sign up for the raffle.
3) Draw the winner at random, preferably at a public meeting.

When you have selected a winner, email 
usergroups@..., CC the winner, and we’ll register 
them for you.

DETAILS TO SHARE WITH YOUR GROUP’S MEMBERS:

Open Source Bridge
http://opensourcebridge.org

Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with 
open source technologies. It will take place June 17-19 in Portland, 
OR, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages and 
experience to explore how we do our work and why we participate in 
open source. The conference structure is designed to provide 
developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not 
connect with at other events.

Open Source Bridge is run entirely by volunteers who believe in the 
need for an open source conference that focuses on the culture of 
being an open source citizen, regardless of where in the stack you 
choose to code. All proceeds from conference registration and 
sponsorship go directly to the costs of the conference.

Our sessions and events will share in-depth knowledge about using, 
creating and contributing to open source as citizens of a greater 
community. You’ll find relevant information whether you write web apps 
for the cloud, tinker with operating system internals, create 
hardware, run a startup, or blog about technology.

We're still seeking proposals — and just extended the deadline to 
April 10th — so submit yours before time runs out.

Some examples of our proposals so far: Brian Aker on Drizzle, a reboot 
of MySQL designed “for the cloud”; Linux Kernel hacker Greg K-H about 
how Linux manages development; Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, 
about what’s next in collaboration; Amber Case, an anthropologist 
living in both the physical and virtual worlds, about Cyborg 
Citizenship. (You can view all current proposals at http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/)

In addition to regular conference sessions, we will hold an 
unconference day for free-form sessions, and host a 24-hour dedicated 
“hacker lounge” at the top of the Portland Hilton. In addition to 
hosting the hacker lounge, the Hilton has offered Open Source Bridge 
attendees steeply discounted room rates, starting at $139/night.

The city of Portland is a great place to visit. It has a thriving 
technical community, a love of all things open source and offers many 
attractions for visiting geeks, including Powell’s technical books, 
dozens of local brewpubs, and large greenspaces like Forest Park—all 
accessible by mass transit.

Visit http://opensourcebridge.org/ to learn more about the conference, 
see our session proposals, and register to attend.

Thanks!

PS: Interested in taking advantage of the user group discount code 
that will allow user group members to register for $150? Enter 
“osb4228” when you register to receive the discount.

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JBoss RichFaces is a JavaServer Faces (JSF) component library that
makes it simple to build Rich Internet Applications with JSF.
RichFaces provides a large number of out-of-the-box components with
AJAX support and skins (themes) support. The session will introduce
RichFaces and demonstrate how next-generation Web applications can be
built using JSF and RichFaces without any direct JavaScript coding.

Max Katz is a Senior Systems Engineer at Exadel. He has been helping
customers jump-start their RIA development as well as providing
mentoring, consulting, and training. Max is a recognized subject
matter expert in the JSF developer community. He has provided
JSF/RichFaces training for the past four years, presented at many
conferences, and written several published articles on JSF-related
topics. Please register in advance for this meeting here:

http://www.meetup.com/sv-web-jug/calendar/9804456/

Starting with this meeting, we will be using our new Meetup group to
announce meetings and to collect the advance RSVPs. We are shutting
down the java.net SV-WEB-JUG Announcements List at the end of March.
Please be sure to register with our new meetup site by then to receive
future meeting announcements.

If you are new to meetup, it is a free service to participate in as a
member. We do pay a small monthly fee to host our group on the Meetup
site, but, it is worth it for the many nice meetup organization and
community communication features it provides to the group. Even if you
decide not to attend our March meeting, please join our new meetup
group anyway as it will be our primary source for announcing future
meetings.

Thanks, Van

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| Michael "Van" Riper
| mailto:van_riper@...
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Getting Started with WidgetFX
By Stephen Chin
Feb 17 at 6:30pm
http://sv-web-jug-feb09.eventbrite.com/

WidgetFX is a new open-source framework for deploying JavaFX
applications to users' desktops with the simplicity of one click
installation. Unlike other widget frameworks, it is cross-platform,
provides robust security, and can take advantage of existing Java and
JavaFX libraries, making it ideal for enterprise deployments. Widgets
written for WidgetFX can leverage all the rich media capabilities of
the JavaFX platform including graphics, animation, and video. This
session is intended for Java developers who are interested in learning
how to create desktop widgets. No prior knowledge of JavaFX is
required.

Open-Source Developer and Agile Manager, Stephen Chin is founder of
numerous open-source projects including WidgetFX and JFXtras. He has
been working with Java desktop and enterprise technologies for twelve
years, and has a passion for improving development technologies and
process. Stephen's interest in Java technologies has lead him to start
a Java and JavaFX focused blog (http://steveonjava.wordpress.com/) and
coauthor the upcoming Pro JavaFX Platform book together with Jim
Weaver and Weiqi Gao.

I know that JavaFX was announced way too early about a year and a half
ago now at JavaOne 2007. However, things are finally coming together
to make this an interesting new development platform for applications.
Please RSVP in advance here and join us for Stephen Chin's
presentation on Feb 17th:

http://sv-web-jug-feb09.eventbrite.com/

Thanks, Van

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Subject: JCP 10th Birthday Party in Mountain View on Jan 13: RSVP now!
To: SV-WEB-JUG <announce@...>


The folks that are involved in the definition of future versions and
features of the Java platform via the Java Community Process (JCP) are
throwing a party to celebrate their 10-year anniversary, and our JUG
members are invited. This is what Corina Ulescu from Sun says about
this event:

    "It's a free party that the JCP is organizing to mark ten years
of activity focused on developing standards for the Java platform.
Many JUG members are affiliated with the JCP and its Java standards
efforts directly or indirectly and we think their participation would
further encourage the collaboration between JUGs and the JCP, it would
certainly be an opportunity to network with Spec Leads, JCP Executive
Committee members, other Java experts and local JUGs members."

When: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Where: The Computer History Museum
Invitation: http://jcp.eventbrite.com

This event will also serve as our JUG's January meeting. When you
advance RSVP (highly recommended, they could reach venue limit and
close registration) as a local JUG member, please tell them you heard
about this party from the Silicon Valley Web JUG.

Thanks,

Forwarding...
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QCon San Francisco has invited our JUG members 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 such as:

- Rod Johnson: Creator of Spring
- Brian Goetz: Java Concurrency Author and JSR EG Member
- Emmanuel Bernard: JBoss Lead Developer working on Hibernate
Annotations and Entity Manager
- Max Ross: Hibernate Shards Project Lead
- Bill Venners: Author of "Inside the Java Virtual Machine"
- Michael Van Riper: Java Champion and Leader of Silicon Valley Web JUG
- ... and more to be announced

Although this is a free event, we must limit attendance to the first
100 JUG members that register here:

http://sv-web-jug-qcon.eventbrite.com

If you are interested in attending QCon SF 2008, you can save $100 off
the registration price by using the following promotion code:
javagroup_100off. This is a discount of $300 off list price if you
register before November 14, 2008.

We look forward to seeing you at QCon's inaugural Java Community Event
in San Francisco. There is more information about the speakers and
QCon here:

http://www.qconsf.com/

Thanks

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Van Riper <van_riper@...>
To: SV-WEB-JUG <announce@...>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:24:23 PM
Subject: Using the Google Collections Library 1.0 by Kevin Bourrillion on August 6th

This is a cross posting for the Silicon Valley Google Technology User
Group meeting in August. With the topic being the Google Collections
Library for Java, it should be of interest to many of our JUG members.
This is in addition to our August 19th meeting with Rod Johnson. There
will be more about the August 19th meeting posted soon. In the mean
time, you can register now for the Silicon Valley GTUG meeting now:

  http://sv-gtug-8.eventbrite.com/

The full meeting announcement can be found here:

  http://sv-gtug.org/event/2008-08-06.html

The Java Collections Framework is indispensable to nearly every Java
developer. Yet, you may often find yourself searching for a collection
type, implementation, or utility that's nowhere to be found. In this
session, you'll learn how the open-source Google Collections Library
builds on the excellent foundation of java.util, to provide more of
the building blocks you need to do your job. You'll see many examples
of how your code can become simpler, safer, more flexible, and more
powerful by adopting classes like ReferenceMap, Multimap, our
immutable collections and many others.

Kevin Bourrillion is the lead engineer for Google's core Java
libraries, more of which will be open-sourced in the future.  He is a
primary author of the Google Collections Library, and of Google's Java
dependency injection framework, Guice.  He came to Google in 2004
after seven years of fighting for life at a string of Hot Silicon
Valley Start-Ups.

That's All Folks, Van

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| Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group
| mailto:van.gtug@...
| http://sv-gtug.org

The details and registration information are below.  I welcome you to forward this to your Silicon Valley Java User Group members and anyone else who you believe might benefit from this.

Registration for the event is quick and easy:  https://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/spc/events/index.jsp#Emergingtechnologies
Then click on Emerging Technologies.

When:  Wednesday, July 16, 9:30-1pm;   Continental Breakfast and Registration from 9-9:30am Where:  San Mateo IBM Innovation Center for Business Partners; 2929 Campus Drive, 2nd Floor/Suite 275, San Mateo, CA 94403 What: Eclipse: Empowering the universal platform The Eclipse community is constantly working on high level projects that extend Eclipse's functionality. This technical briefing takes a deep dive into some of the most important and feature rich projects under development by the Eclipse community. If you thought Eclipse was merely a Java� development environment, then this technical briefing will expand your definition. From multilanguage support to plug-in development, Eclipse has evolved into a universal platform for anything and everything related to software development and beyond. You now have the ability to do things like geographically distributed collaboration, rich client development, and application runtime analysis within Eclipse. Learn more about Eclipse and Eclipse-based products from IBM. Highlights Introduction to the Eclipse community and an overview of Eclipse projects Multilanguage support in Eclipse Demonstrations that illustrate the functionality of selected Eclipse projects Tools and products reviewed during this briefing include: Eclipse C and C++ development tools Test and performance tools platform Web tools platform including Web services and Java EE applications Eclipse communication framework Plug-in development environment Rich client platform Next steps in learning more about Eclipse and Eclipse-based products from IBM

Register at: https://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/spc/events/index.jsp#Emergingtechnologies or just give me a call at (650) 524-5024.  
Visit us at: ibm.com/partnerworld/iic

I welcome you to forward this to your Silicon Valley Java User Group members and anyone else who you believe might benefit from this.

Registration for the event is quick and easy:  https://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/spc/events/index.jsp#Emergingtechnologies
Then click on Emerging Technologies.

When:  Wednesday, July 16, 9:30-1pm;   Continental Breakfast and Registration from 9-9:30am Where:  San Mateo IBM Innovation Center for Business Partners; 2929 Campus Drive, 2nd Floor/Suite 275, San Mateo, CA 94403 What: Eclipse: Empowering the universal platform The Eclipse community is constantly working on high level projects that extend Eclipse's functionality. This technical briefing takes a deep dive into some of the most important and feature rich projects under development by the Eclipse community. If you thought Eclipse was merely a Java� development environment, then this technical briefing will expand your definition. From multilanguage support to plug-in development, Eclipse has evolved into a universal platform for anything and everything related to software development and beyond. You now have the ability to do things like geographically distributed collaboration, rich client development, and application runtime analysis within Eclipse. Learn more about Eclipse and Eclipse-based products from IBM. Highlights Introduction to the Eclipse community and an overview of Eclipse projects Multilanguage support in Eclipse Demonstrations that illustrate the functionality of selected Eclipse projects Tools and products reviewed during this briefing include: Eclipse C and C++ development tools Test and performance tools platform Web tools platform including Web services and Java EE applications Eclipse communication framework Plug-in development environment Rich client platform Next steps in learning more about Eclipse and Eclipse-based products from IBM

Register at: https://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/spc/events/index.jsp#Emergingtechnologies or just give me a call at (650) 524-5024.  
Visit us at: ibm.com/partnerworld/iic

Feb 28th -- Feel of Java Revisited -- A special evening with James
Gosling
Sun Santa Clara Campus auditorium 6:00pm
Host JUGs: Silicon Valley Web Users Group and Silicon Valley JUG
JUG Leaders: Mike Van Riper, Kevin Nilson, and Venki Sheshaadri.
Special Guest Speaker: James Gosling - Vice President and Sun Fellow
Registration URL: http://feel-of-java.eventbrite.com 
(RSVP's only; Registration Password: Community0)

----- Original Message ----
From: Venki Seshaadri <venki@...>
To: svjug-announce@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:34:31 PM
Subject: [svjug-announce] James Gosling, et,al| RSVP Required, First come, first serve |February 28th at Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium

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Google may blog about this on their developer blogs at some point.
So, I wanted to make sure our JUG members had a head start on
the registration process before that happens. Although this is a free event,
we will be limiting registration to the first 200 people that sign up here:

http://sv-gtug-2.eventbrite.com/

I also blogged about this event on java.net here:

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/2008/01/android_talk_by.html

Please enter your attendee name during the registration process as you
would want it to read on your visitor badge at Google. We are still
working out the details, but, part of the reason for the advance
registration is so that we can submit the attendee names to Google
prior to the meeting. If it looks like we will have a large turnout,
Google may decide to pre-print visitor badges from your advance RSVP
information. The full event details are on the Silicon Valley Google
Technology User Group web site here:

http://sv-gtug.org/event/2008-02-06.html

When you register, you will be asked to choose the breakout session
you plan to attend for the second half of the meeting. You will also
have an opportunity to change your choice at the meeting. There will
be a whiteboard in the meeting room where you can indicate which
technical breakout session you want to attend that night.

That's All Folks, Van

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| Mike "Van" Riper
| http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/
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