I would be happy to sponsor a hotel conference room, ie. FREE room, screen and projector on the 28th, say noon - end of day. (I have paid for an extra room)
I am holding a paid Struts class AM on the same day. Let me know if/how I can assist more. Feel free to fill up the agenda, I could do a FREE 30 minute version of Struts if needed. Vic > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: JakartaOne? > Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 06:15:05 -0500 > From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jakarta General List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 3/4/02 1:25 AM, "James Strachan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>JavaOne is around the corner. Do any Jakarta folks fancy a JavaOne get >>together in a bar somewhere? Maybe Jon's new bar? >> >> > > I was thinking about this earlier in feb, but wasn't sure we had the > time... > > I wanted to call it 'OpenOne' (but 'JakartaOne' is nice...) and use a > space > like Jon's where we could have both a social gathering as well as some > short > technical talks on things that didn't make it into JavaOne (for example, > if > it didn't have anything to do with XML or web services). > > Here's what I had so far as a draft : > > I would like to get a sense of community interest for the following idea > > Proposal > -------- > > Hold an off-site convention during the week of JavaOne to provide a > venue > for topics that didn't make the cut for JavaOne as well as topics that > did, > of course. Examples include (imagination challenged right now...) > > o bastard J2EE technologies > - template engines (could you guess I would suggest this ?) > - publishing frameworks (Cocoon et al) > - web app frameworks (Turbine, Maverick, Struts) > - ? > > o mainstream technologies > - web services (I want to hear Sam talk about Axis :) > - XML-RPC > - ? > > o community discussions > - JSPA issues > - ? > > o other stuff > - how about JDD talking about Objective C > - Gump sociology > - Maven > > > Rationale > --------- > > There are a lot of interesting things in the world that Sun's marketing > crew > doesn't have space or interest for at JavaOne. Many of these things > are in > daily production use by people, and it would be nice to hear about them. > > Many developers will be in the area for this week, and if we could find > a > way to bring us together for both social interaction as well as learning > about some of the topics we work on and are interested in, it seems like > a > win all around. > > Thoughts > -------- > > We have an in with an event space in San Francisco (hey, Jon!) and from > what > I understand, it has two distinct spaces, one of which can serve > alcohol. > So we can divide, cleanly, the social space and the technical space. > Those > in the social space can bring their own, I guess :) > > However, I think if we do this, we should pay for the space (unless > studio.tv wants the publicity :), and there lies a conflict of interest > problem, but I assume that if the rate is competitive, as I am sure it > will > be, we can all look the other way. > > I don't know if we have the time to pull it off - it would be nice to > put > something non-lame together. I think we shouldn't be aggressive about > this > - find a spot in the schedule so people aren't torn between J1 and > this... > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>