[ajug-members] DevCon 2009: March 10 & 11

[Jason Chambers]

How about atl4j

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On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:21 PM, "Burr Sutter" <burrsutter at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are under contract with the Cobb Galleria for a big event on  
> March 10th and 11th!  We have interested sponsors & speakers already  
> lining up like Sun, JBoss/Red Hat, SpringSource, MuleSource and  
> Thoughtworks.   I plan to make a call into Oracle as well and if  
> anyone has a contact at IBM we'd welcome their involvement.
>
> In any case, one of the biggest to do items is coming up with a NAME  
> for the event.  JavaPolis recently became Devoxx (www.devoxx.com)  
> and is our "model" for this kind of event, we hope to grow up to be  
> like the Belguim JUG one day. ;-)  I have also spoken at a similiar  
> event in Brazil (TheDevelopersConference - http://www.globalcode.com.br/index.jsp?pagina=Boletim200825 
> ) and numerous JUGs around the US.  We can do this very well here in  
> Atlanta due to our airport (it is tough to get to the Belguim  
> location) and quality of facilities.  All we need is the creativity  
> & energy to pull it off.
>
> It all starts with branding, we are looking for creative suggestions  
> for a "brand" name for our event.  Ideally one where we can have  
> access to the domain name to aid in the future growth and success of  
> the event.  Our goals are to always keep the quality of the speakers  
> high, the topics relevant, Atlanta-based location, the costs low and  
> targeted at professional software developers.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Burr
>
> PS. The previous name of Java DevCon includes Sun's ticker symbol  
> "java" so we'll wish to avoid its usage going forward, especially as  
> this event grows. I hope to avoid this situtation:
> http://bsnyderblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/javapolis-javoxx-devoxx.html
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2008/09/javapolis_javox.html
>
> This does not mean "Atlanta Java Users Group" needs to change its  
> name/branding - just the conference which we'll eventually operate  
> as a separate event from the day to day operations of the JUG.
>
>
>
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