Welcome! At long last, registration is open for AJUG’s The Practice of Java in Atlanta - an Open Space event! The details are below.
What?
Our Theme – The Practice of Java in Atlanta
The Java presence in Atlanta is a significant one, and AJUG makes that evident. Our monthly meetings and mailing list include Java champions, authors, committers on key Java projects, and seasoned Java veterans with deep experience and insight. Our desire is to hold a meeting about what we are doing and should be doing with Java. What’s working? What is not working? These are the conversations we wish to have, passionate discussions about where things are going. We hope you’ll join us.
What is Open Space Technology?
Open Space meetings allow a group of persons passionate about a topic or issue to organize their own agenda in a way that is efficient and effective, yielding exceptional results. The following excerpt from the Open Space World wiki briefly describes Open Space Technology:
“Open Space Technology is one way to enable all kinds of people, in any kind of organization, to create inspired meetings and events. Over the last 20+ years, it has also become clear that opening space, as an intentional leadership practice, can create inspired organizations, where ordinary people work together to create extraordinary results with regularity.
In Open Space meetings, events and organizations, participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around a central theme of strategic importance, such as: What is the strategy, group, organization or community that all stakeholders can support and work together to create?
With groups of 5 to 2000+ people – working in one-day workshops, three-day conferences, or the regular weekly staff meeting – the common result is a powerful, effective connecting and strengthening of what’s already happening in the organization: planning and action, learning and doing, passion and responsibility, participation and performance.”
Why Open Space?
Open Space meetings have been around for 20+ years, and have begun to make their way into technology circles. In the past year, Bruce Eckel’s Programming the New Web, Dynamic Web Frameworks Jam, and the Java Posse Roundup 2007 have been a few of the Open Space meetings that have people talking. Members of our AJUG community have attended these meetings, and the consensus has been that these are among the most engaging, beneficial gatherings in which they have taken part.
When?
The event will take place over a Thursday and Friday, 19th April '07 – 20th April '07. It will last from roughly 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day.
Where?
Holiday Inn Select Atlanta Perimeter Dunwoody, 4386 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Atlanta, GA 30341. This is the hotel where AJUG meets each month. For more information, see our Meeting Directions on the AJUG site.
Sign Up!
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Book your place now! You know you want to. The cost is USD$75.00 per person, payable via PayPal.
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