JavaOne11 - The Bad, the Good and the Very Good

As a member of the volunteer JavaOne advisory committee, I got a special invitation for the briefing Call Monday April 25th 8:30am PT before the public announcement by Oracle.
Several Java leaders aroun the world attended the conference such as Bruno Souza (SouJava), Stephan Janssen (Devoxx), Jim Bethancourt (Houston JUG leader)...

There are some key points :

The bad :

• - Yes : This year again JavaOne will happen during Oracle Open World in the same 3 hotels like last year.

The so-so:

• - All JavaOne 2011 sessions, including keynotes, will take place exclusively in "The Zone" at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, the Hotel Nikko and the Parc 55.

The good:

• - JavaOne will be a separate, standalone conference (bye bye Oracle Develop !)
  
• - More sessions, the number of sessions will be increased
• - Bigger room, the size of many session rooms
  
• - Popular sessions wiil be repeated throughout the week.
• - More networking and vendor space, there will be a number of enhancements to The Zone from 2010
• - More maps, signage and onsite staff to answer questions.

The very good :

• - 4 room dedicated to the User Group Sunday
• - Java leaders to participate in planning sections
• - Glassfish and MySQL community will be in the Zone too
• - Some number of passes for Java Leaders

The track :

• - Core Java Platform
• - Java SE, Client-Side Technologies and Rich User Experiences
• - Enterprise Service Architectures and the Cloud
• - Java EE Web Profile and Platform Technologies
• - Java ME, Mobile, Embedded, and Devices
• - The Java Frontier
• - And Emerging Languages, Tools and Techniques.

The call for papers :

• - Open Wednesday, April 27, 2011
  
• - Close : Monday, May 23, 2011

JavaOne 2011 URL: http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html
Content tracks listed at http://www.oracle.com/javaone/063296.html

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