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You'll be glad to know that the CommunityOne registration is now open to the public!

For those that don't know, CommunityOne is a conference sponsored by Sun Microsystems that focuses on open source innovation and implementation. It brings together developers, technologists and students for technical education and exchange. In 2009, CommunityOne will focus on the free and open platforms, tools and services that can be found powering the Internet, running enterprises, and enabling high-performance computing.

The conference runs just before JavaOne (June 1-3, 2009 @ The Moscone Center in San Francisco), and your free registration for CommunityOne will get you complimentary access to the one-day conference program, including technical sessions and the Pavilion (June 1 - 4), plus access to JavaOne general sessions (June 2 - 4). That's even better than C1 2008, which was great!

If you live in the Bay Area, attending C1 is a no-brainier - not only because it is well-organized, very technical, and super educational, but also because you'll get to network with some of the smartest folks in the Java and open-source communities!

We here at Marakana are fortunate enough to be able to host a presentation on WidgetFX framework, which in turn runs on Sun's shiny new JavaFX platform on February 9th in San Francisco. This is part of The San Francisco Java User Group that I help run.

The presentation will be conducted by Stephen Chin who founded the WidgetFX framework and the folks from Sun's JavaFX team will be doing the intro. It should be fun!

For those of you that don't know, WidgetFX is a new open-source framework for deploying JavaFX applications to users' desktops with the simplicity of one click installation. WidgetFX ships with several configurable and skinnable widgets and has a growing repository of user created widgets from Performance Monitors to Streaming Video.

Unlike other widget frameworks, WidgetFX is cross-platform, provides robust security, and can take advantage of existing Java and JavaFX libraries, making it ideal for enterprise deployments. Widgets written for WidgetFX can leverage all the rich media capabilities of the JavaFX platform including graphics, animation, and video.

Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG has invited Rod Johnson to give a presentation on Spring Framework on Monday, August 18th starting at 6:30pm at Google.

The registration is free but the seating is limited!

I will definitely be there.

The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is coming to San Francisco's Moscone's Center on August 4-7, 2008, and you could register for many free community sessions (on Moblin.org, PostgreSQL, OpenSUSE), Ubucon, and get a free pass to the Exhibit Hall.

Of course, you could also register for the full conference ($400-1500), featuring over 100 top-tier, educational sessions covering seven tracks that go deep into Linux and open source industry trends.

Sun's open-source community conference, CommunityOne 2008, is now open for free registration!

This one-day event, happening on May 5th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, conveniently prequels Sun's flag-ship conference, JavaOne 2008, which runs from May 6th to 9th at the same location.

While the JavaOne conference is very structured and is meant to serve the entire Java community, CommunityOne 2008 on the other hand is driven (or at least defined) by the open-source community itself. Attendees are encouraged to come and discuss their own projects or open-source efforts, though Sun does invite speakers to talk about some of the more specific topics, including: Projects and Strategy, Operating Systems, Web Servers and Databases, Scripting Languages: Content Authoring and RIAs, Tools and Integrated Development Environments, Next Generation Web Applications, Web Scale Computing, and Chip Multithreading (CMT).

While the registration is free, space is limited. There is only room for 2,500 attendees, so register sooner rather than later!

We are kicking off the San Francisco Agile Software Meetup. Someone had to do it and after searching for an appropriate group, we decided to do it ourselves.

The first event will be on Tuesday January 29th at Marakana San Francisco Center, 1081 Mississippi Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. Event starts at 6:30. Come and join us!

After much delay, I decided to start The San Francisco Java Meetup group. Granted, this meetup existed in the past, but never really caught on. I guess the chemistry wasn't there, but the Java community is not only strong, it is growing! I feel that there are enough people in the Bay Area who are eager to meet other like-minded Java professionals and exchange ideas on hip'n'cool Java technologies.

To get things started, I will give a short talk on TestNG at the first Java meetup event on February 11th 2008 in San Francisco. I hope to see you there!

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