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JavaPolis 2005 kickoff meeting
This week we had our JavaPolis 2005 kick-off meeting at the offices of the "Christelijke Mutualiteiten" where  Robin Mulkers works.
First erwin van den brande presented the current list of JavaPolis partnerships, followed by Karolien Van Geldre and Daniel Schots whom explained the JavaPolis marketing campaign, which will start with the announcement of our new theme around May.
Once everybody had eaten their dinner (thanks Robin), see picture below, the steering members were ready to discuss the tracks and our wish list of speakers. |
JavaPolis 2005 Tracks
This year we'll use the last day for Methodology and Architecture presentations (instead of a business day). So during that day the Project Leaders and Architects will get more information on how other companies are using RUP, XP or other approaches to guide their projects and you'll hear from other Java-addicts how their J2EE or J2SE architecture looks like.
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The content for the Architecture track will be driven by Jo Wyns and Robin Mulkers and hopefully the Methodology track will again be guided by Vera Peeters (who was excused that evening). Our working title for the last day is 'Solutions' but maybe it should be called something else... suggestions are welcome.
The University and Conference days have the same concept like last year, University will host sessions of 3 hours where basic topics are explained in more detail. The Conference will host 50 talks of one hour and 4 keynotes. By the way the 'Solutions' day will not have any keynotes.
During these 4 days we'll cover the following tracks:
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L-R: Robin, David, Daniel, Karolien, Dieter
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L-R: Dirk, Jo, Frederik, Sven and Robin
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Of course every evening we'll have multiple BOF sessions and on December 15th we'll have again a movie and a networking evening.
The more business related people amongst our members will get treated with a round-table event. Typically during such an event one-on-one sessions are possible with different JP speakers, more information will follow.
Track hosts
This year we'll also allow other people to host a track, this includes introducing a speaker, keeping your eye on the clock, making sure the 'recording' paper is signed and handing out our speaker gift. We're looking for 16 track hosts, each person needs to host one day but in return you'll receive a free 5 day conference pass and an exclusive track host t-shirt  If interested drop me an email at sja at bejug dot org. |
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The Catering challenge
An important (financial) problem we had to solve this year is the catering cost. Different people selected 5 days on the registration form but some only showed up for 3 or 4 days, which resulted in too much food being ordered (paid and thrown away  ). This year we want to anticipate this problem by allowing people to pay only for the days they show up. This means that JavaPolians will be able to register for 3 different conference packages :
- University (2 days) = 150 Euro + VAT
- Conference + Solutions (3 days) = 150 Euro + VAT
- Full week = 300 Euro + VAT
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If people only want to attend the Conference + Solutions days, which are 3 days, then attendees will pay only 150 Euro. The same approach is valid for the University days, which is also only 150 Euro. However for the people who want attend the full 5 days will pay 300 Euro + 21% VAT.
As I type, Bart and Frederik are working on a revamped registration form for both BeJUG and JavaPolis and will be very straight forward to use  |
Stephan
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BeJUG Members
The BeJUG membership fee will get reduced from 200 to 100 Euro from May 2005 onwards!! 
With this fee, BeJUG members can attend 3 workshops and in addition get a reduction of 50 Euro for the University and another 50 Euro for the Conference + Solution days.
Cheers,
-Stephan
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Hmmm, it looks like Robin's catering for the steering meetings was not just our usual pizza dinner
Anyway, I've taken note of my J2EE-web track leak role. I have some ideas already, but if anybody has suggestions, just feel free to post them here.