Dear Wicket community, We are announcing a special Wicket community event: on Tuesday April 8th 2008 the next Apache Wicket Community Meetup will be held in Amsterdam just prior to ApacheCon.
This Meetup will be a low-barrier community driven event and free to attend, thanks to the generous sponsoring by Hippo and Topicus. With the Apache Wicket Community Meetup we like to bring together not only project committers from Apache Wicket but also our community users and other interested parties. You are hereby invited to attend and to propose a relevant subject you'd like to hear more about or even present yourself. We've already talked to several people who definitely would like to come, so now is the time to sign up! http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/wicket-community-meetups-amsterdam.html Register on the Wiki page to let us know you are interested, or even better: tell us you will come for sure! Note: registering for the meeting doesn't require attendance, but we like to have a good indication who might be coming. And if you have a good idea for a talk, presentation, demo, discussion, or whatever you feel like, be sure to add it to the Wiki page as well. The meetup takes place during the second Hackaton day at the ApacheCon EU 2008, April 8th. Whereas this Meetup is purely about Apache Wicket, run by the community, ApacheCon gives you a much bigger overview covering the entire Apache stack. There's no obligation to attend ApacheCon, but we're trying to get a good deal for this Meetup attendees that want to visit ApacheCon too. For more info about ApacheCon EU 2008, take a look at http://www.eu.apachecon.com/ The Wicket specific session at the ApacheCon you might want to attend is: Apache Wicket - web development with just Java by Gerolf Seitz, Wednesday April 9th http://eu.apachecon.com/eu2008/program/talk/2407 Arje Cahn, as member of the ApacheCon EU planners (and also co-organizer of the Wicket Meetup and serveral Cocoon Meetups in the past), is actively helping with facilitating additional community Meetings during the ApacheCon, and so far Portals and JackRabbit already have opted for this. We will have a room and essential infrastructure (wireless network, free drinks) nearby the same building as where the ApacheCon is held, to organize our mini-conference about anything of interest for the Apache Wicket Community. On the Wiki page you'll find already a few topics we think will be interesting, like: - web framework shoot out: jsf vs tapestry vs wicket vs spring mvc - JAMon - what's next for Wicket - etc. Check the Wiki page at http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/wicket-community-meetups-amsterdam.html for the latest information, and you can also subscribe on the Wiki page to get notified when it is updated. Anyone willing to discuss this Meetup or specific topics by mail is invited to do so by responding to this message on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Or you may contact myself directly (see email address below). If you or your organization is interesting to helping out with this event (and get some sponsoring coverage/display too), please contact Arje Cahn, a.cahn(at)onehippo[dot]com Thanks for your interest and see ya all in Amsterdam this April. Regards, Martijn Dashorst
