The Belgian JBoss User Group organises its next event on Tuesday, October 9th 2012 from 18:30 in Kontich.

Topics of the talks are JBoss Application Server AS7 and the brand-new JBoss Enterprise Application Platform EAP 6.

Presented are these hot topics by Karoly Nagy, EMEA Senior Solutions Architect, Red Hat/JBoss.

Entry is free and no registration is required.

Address:
CRONOS n.v.
Business Park King Square
Veldkant 33A – 2550 Kontich

From October 23 to 25, 2012 the Eclipse Foundation will hold the 6th edition of the annual European Eclipse Conference.

EclipseCon Europe is all about community – learning, exploring, sharing and collaborating on the latest ideas and information about Eclipse. Contributors, adopters, extenders, service providers, consumer, business and research organizations alike, gather to share their expertise and learn from each other.

Networking activities lead to synergies in the community, from giving and receiving help on specific technical issues to generating new business opportunities. Sponsors of Eclipse Summit are an integral part of the entire event, participating in an exchange from all areas of their organizations from technical to management.

Last year we celebrated Eclipse’s 10th anniversary together with more than 550 attendees at EclipseCon Europe. This year the conference theme is open innovation: how enterprises, researchers and other organizations use Eclipse to develop innovative products and solutions.

We are also co-hosting the European OSGi community event and are extending a special welcome to the International OSGi community. And, again we are proud to have a solid technical program, but we won’t just be networking and listening to technical talks. Let us surprise you with our evening program! Details will be published in the early part of October.

For more information, please visit the conference website http://www.eclipsecon.org.

Software Freedom Day 2012 at Hackerspace Brussels, the 22th of September 2012 as of 10:00. A lot of animations, talks, fun and more … to celebrate your freedom!

Join them here: http://www.hackerspace.be/Software_Freedom_Day_2012

Play! Belgium is extremely proud to announce its first Play dojo at the beginning of October 2012, hosted by Cegeka (so you know who to thank for the tasty beverages). In the space of one evening, the goal is to collaborate and produce a full Play application.

When: Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 7:00 PM

Where: Cegeka, Interleuvenlaan 16, 3001 Leuven

Registration: http://www.meetup.com/play-be/events/78580712/

Web: http://www.meetup.com/play-be/

Novices and experts alike are welcome!

Curious?

Click on the logo!

It’s not about Java, but hey… Rails Girls comes to Brussels! :)

Applications are open until the 25th of September.

Location: Betagroup coworking, 4 rue des Pères Blancs, 1040 Etterbeek, Belgium

How much does the workshop cost? Nothing, it’s free! You just need to be excited!

Who is this aimed for? Women of any age with basic knowledge of working with a computer. They’ve had people of all ages taking part. Most of the speeches are given in english, but small group work can be done in Dutch, French or German. Please bring your laptop.

Can men attend? Yes, but you need to be accompanied by an interested lady. Also, girls are given a priority.

I know how to program – How can I help? We’re also looking for people to be coaches. They will have a two-three hour workshop before the event to walk you through the curriculum.

http://railsgirls.com/brussels

FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world.
FOSDEM will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2013.

We invite proposals for devrooms and main track talks:

Main Track Talks

The main tracks host high-quality seminars for a broad and technical audience. Every track is organized around a theme (security, kernel, collaboration, …). They are held in the two biggest auditoria and last 50 minutes. Each of the talks is given by a speaker who gets their travel and accommodation costs reimbursed.

To apply for a FOSDEM Main Track talk, visit call for main speakers.

To suggest a main track speaker that we should invite, mail program<>fosdem.org.

Devrooms

A devroom is a ‘developer room’ in which open source communities can organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects.

Each year we receive more requests than we can host. To better achieve our goals, preference will be given to *proposals involving multiple, collaborating projects*. Projects with similar goals/domains that make separate requests will be asked to co-organize a devroom under their common theme.

To propose organizing a devroom, visit call for devrooms.

Note! Linux distributions should apply to the dedicated distribution mini-conference.

Key Dates

• 1 October: deadline for devroom proposals
• mid October: devroom announcements
• 1 November: deadline main track proposals
• mid November: main track announcements
• 2 and 3 February: FOSDEM 2013

A message from a Genova JUG member…

Hello,
my name is Giampiero Granatella, I am a member of the JUG Genova (Italy) and I work at ManyDesigns.

Our company produces the open source software ManyDesigns Portofino, written in Java. For the upcoming launch of the new version, Portofino 4, we are contacting members of international JUGs to propose the evaluation of our framework as a preview.

Portofino allows to create a complete web application automatically, starting from an existing database schema.
The framework supports CRUD operations, CMS features, an interactive calendar, Groovy actions modifiable on the fly, Liquibase (incremental db schema evolution), security with Apache Shiro and much more.
Programming is performed online and developing new features does not require to continually redeploy like it usually happens with traditional web application development.

We’d like to have your opinion!!!

If you’re interested, you can download Portofino here.

If you want support in using it or if you want to provide us with feedback you can use our mailing list: manydesigns-portofino[at]googlegroups.com

You can follow news and improvements on Twitter.

I remain at your disposal for any clarification.
Goodbye, and I hope to hear back from you soon!

Giampiero

JCertif 2012 Call for Papers Now Open — http://www.jcertif.com!

As some of you already know. The next edition of JCertif is coming and will take place on September 03th-09th in Brazzaville, Congo.

If you have an interesting presentation idea, we want to hear from you! We invite you to share your Java experiences with the industry and community by submitting a proposal for this far from the « classic » event ! JCertif is a mix of technical session, training, life experience and a bit of an adventure !

Many Java evangelists have participated in the past events. If you still hesitating to join us, I just want to mention a few names that we had :

• Arun Gupta (who doesn’t know him?) – Keynote JCertif 2011
• Alexis Mouchine-Pouchkine (Keynote Jcertif 2010)
• Mike Levin (Keynote JCertif 2010)
• Micheal Heinrichs (Oracle JavaFX Prague – Jcertif 2011)
• Max Bonbhel :-)

The full list of speakers for 2012 edition will be published at the end of this month.

We can guarantee:

• a life experience!
• great sessions
• free accommodation (for the speakers)
• free local transportation
• free diner etc…
• free local beer (N’Gok le choc, Primus etc…)
• and that’s not all !

Content – 5 key themes :

• Java, Java EE and Architectures : track for traditional Java, Java EE and Java SE, libraries, tools and architecture.
• Web and Cloud : a track for HTML5, CSS3, Javasript, GWT, Web architecture, Cloud Computing, App Engine, Grid, etc.
• Mobile : Android, Java ME, Web Mobile
• Other Languages on the JVM than Java : a track for Groovy, Scala, Clojure etc…
• Companies, Tools, Software development methods and Technics : Agile, Domain Driven Development, NetBeans, GlassFish, Communities and User Groups etc.

70% French and 30% English delivered by an international team of speakers.

The deadline for submission : 20 July 2012 at 11:59 PM PCT

Attendees :

1000+ attendees

The conference regularly attracts close to 700 Developers and engineers (the one that write some code), and managers/entrepreneurs, senior- and mid-level administrators, government employees, in addition to a significant number of corporate and other educational leaders.

How it will be organized :

• Exhibition floor : 400 m2
• JCertif University : Training/Coding session/User group meet-up : 7 Equipped rooms for 30 participants — 5 full days
• JCertif Conference : Conference and talk : 2 rooms (500 and 200 participants) — 2 full days.

More info, including pictures from the last events: http://www.jcertif.com!

The user group for Play! framework enthusiasts living and working in Belgium has its first meeting the 6th of June 2012 in Brussels.

Tag line: “We don’t focus on Scala or Java, Play 1.x or 2.x, the key is Play, and not a subset of it. Come and have a talk over a good pint of Belgian beer!”

Want to know more? Click this: http://www.meetup.com/play-be/

It’s that time of year again that we ask Java communities worldwide to tell us which people, companies and technologies they believe are having the biggest impact in the Java ecosystem.

The JAX Innovation Awards was a great success last year and we’re looking to reward excellence and innovation again this year.  And it’s through the nominations of everyone in the ecosystem that the process gets started.

There are 3 categories to make nominations in:

• Most Innovative Java Technology
• Most Innovative Java Company
• Top Java Ambassador

Go to http://jax-awards.com to nominate right now!

This award program is all about the Java community; YOU nominate in the 3 categories, a panel of industry stars whittles down the nominations into a shortlist, and then YOU vote on the shortlist to
decide the overall winners. The winner of each category receives $2,500.

Nominations close on May 7th 2012. http://jax-awards.com

If you have any questions please contact Anna Kent at annak <ÄT> sandsmedia <DÖT> com.