During the last couple of days we've already received over 100 purchases of the JavaPolis DVD.

Java developers from Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, USA, Russia, Singapore, Philippines, South Africa and other have already ordered their own JavaPolis dual DVD box.

We've also received an order of 10 copies from a very special JavaPolis partner

The actual DVD boxes will get shipped this week, if you can't wait you can see a picture of the box below:

I do have to apologize for a few problems within the DVD purchase process, which have/are been resolved in record time by Bart Strubbe... thanks Bart!

I was wondering if any other conference has ever made all presentations available through a DVD box? The DVDs are hopefully an alternative for people who are less fortunate to attend conferences in Europe and/or US, even if the JP entrance fee was only 200 Euro!

Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy the DVD and learn from the JavaPolis presentations as much as we've!

Spread the (Java) word.

Stephan Janssen

Just a quick update on the JavaPolis streams:

Next to the 1.400 attendees and the 170 (until today) ordered JavaPolis DVDs.
We've delivered (in cooperation with JavaLobby) 31.590 JavaPolis stream views from day one until today.
This brings us to a total of 33.160 JavaPolis presentation views ... WAUUUWWW this is pure Rock & Roll

Let's do even better with JavaPolis 2005 !

Stephan

Due to some technical problems with our Merchant, we've migrated the JavaPolis DVD purchase process to paypal.com. This relieves me and Bart from the operational hasle of restarting the server every so often etc.
Anybody can now order the JavaPolis DVD dual jewel-box for 39 Euro's (including shipping) anywhere in the world with your paypal account. Ok, if you don't have one you'll have to create it but it's worth the effort
We might even consider reusing this mechanism for the JavaPolis 2005 registration payments and BeJUG membership fees.

It goes almost without saying that the already succesfully received DVD purchases will get processed as normal.

People who do not have a credit-card or paypal account can send an email to info@bejug.org to purchase the DVD through a regular Purchase Order.

-Stephan

A quick update on the JavaPolis DVDs.

All JavaPolis DVD orders (until yesterday) have been shipped. In total we've almost delivered 300 DVDs including one free DVD for every JavaPolis 2004 speaker and our partners.

Java User Groups get a 25% discount (when ordering more than 10 sets) on the JavaPolis DVD, making it 29,- Euro a set. For example, next month the JUG in the Netherlands (NLJUG) will make the JavaPolis DVD available for its members during the J-Spring seminar.
So feel free to contact us if you want to offer the JP DVDs to your JUG members.

The JavaPolis DVD has already been used by some companies as a customer gift and incentive for employees, other people have use it to setup a Java(Polis) eLearning site on the companies extranet... all good stuff

Cheers,

-Stephan