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The Norwegian Java User Group Totto president@java.no. javaBin. javaBin - facts. Started 1996 Independent, non-profit organization About 800 members from 180+ companies 2003: 1400+ participants from 130+ companies 2004: 2300+ participants from 150+ companies
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The Norwegian Java User Group Totto president@java.no javaBin
javaBin - facts Started 1996 Independent, non-profit organization About 800 members from 180+ companies 2003: 1400+ participants from 130+ companies 2004: 2300+ participants from 150+ companies 2005: 3200 participants from 180+ companies 2006: 4000 participants from 220+ companies Most activities in Oslo But monthly JUG meetings in Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim too. Deliver about 40.000 hours/year of Java knowledge Member profile Senior/expert developer's Java architects
www.java.no On-line community 2.000.000-3.000.000 visits/month News, discussion's Invitation to events, presentation's and minute's (Podcast&Video) Forum (3k posts/year, increasing 100%/year, very high signal to noise rate)) Java resources Personalized newsletters RSS feeds, Aggregated by 20+ of the partner companies internal webs WAP Own area for javaBin partners Productnews, Company news Job postings
JavaZone 2006 • Aim: best Java conference in Europe • (We were voted best in 2005, and aim to be even better this year) • 13-14.9 2006 • Only 1400 tickets, will sell out • 6 tracks, 100 technical sessions, 20+ BOFs • Method & Business • Enterprise development & Architecture • Java Web technoogies • Experiences • Core technologies, research & Tools • Embedded, Mobile Java & Java gaming
So, whats different? Skill level and decition impact of the members of the JUG The JUG defines the development technologies used in Norway Examples: 85% Maven/M2 80% Spring Framework Struts is dead, WebWork2/Spring MVC 70% 75% using Java 5 Open Source in 93% of projects 45% using AOP 50/50 Eclipse/IntelliJ IDE usage ”All” international hotshots volunteer to speak at javaBin events