Archive of JUG Features
 JavaPolis Interview: Stephan Janssen
Juggy has blogged about his interview with Stephan, at JavaPolis. Stephan talks a lot about JUGs, the history of BeJUG, and gives hints for how to maintain a successful, independent group. Some good points on starting a steering group, maintaining continuity, neutrality, and importance of the English language for bridging communities.
 Two meetings in a month at JUG Milano
January 2007 is a special month at JUG Milano: we will have two guests in a week, and two very important guests: Dennis Reedy and Jonas Boner.
January 11, Dennis Reedy will present "Dynamic Services: Architecting for change" and January 18, Jonas Boner will present "Distributed Computing Made Easy: How To Build a POJO-based Data Grid"
(Jan 07, 2007)
 James Gosling Videos for use by JUGs and Champions
The Java Champions project has begun posting a series of James Gosling videos recorded this year. Aaron Houston, Program Coordinator for JUGs and Java Champions, says "the idea is to 'Keep it Simple' and let the Java Champions (JC) and Java User Group Communities use these videos freely at their meetings and other activities to promote interest in Java." —
James Gosling
Jugging in Place
Where can you snack on free pizza, get some freebie books, mingle with other Java knuckleheads, and bone up on the latest fashion trends in Javaland - all these being just a drive away from your home? If you answered JavaOne, then you weren't paying too much attention to the question. Give yourself a wedgie and say "Jumanji".
Atlanta JUG Interview
A new JUG Profile interview is in. Come read Burr Sutter talk about his Users Group in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
JUG Profile: javaBin
After a long pause, we've published a new JUG Profile. Come learn about Norway's Java Users Group: javaBin
Announcing Juggy
The JUGs community is proud to announce its new mascot: Juggy, the Java Finch. Read all about it here.
(Jun 23, 2005)
JUG.RU Profile: an Interview with Yakov Sirotkin
It is my pleasure to feature our first profile of a Java Users Group: JUG.RU! The primary goal of these interviews (and the ones to follow) is to help JUGs across the world to share information about each other, from how a JUG is organized, to interesting tidbits such as local logos and activities. Would you like to see your JUG featured in an upcoming JUG Profile interview? Contact one of the java.net JUGs community contacts (see sidebar)
Eitan Suez and Totto join forces with Bruno as Community Leaders
As of today, Eitan Suez and Totto will assist Bruno in his work to facilitate and incubate Java entusiasts on java.net. This will hopefully provide better service and new ideas and initiatives. We have a few ideas of our own, but are always keen to know what kind of services you all feel are missing on the community dimmension of java.net.
(Mar 01, 2005)
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Eitan Suez and Totto joins forces with Bruno as Community Leaders
As of today, Eitan Suez and Totto will assist Bruno in his work to facilitate and incubate Java entusiasts on java.net. This will hopefully provide better service and new ideas and iniciatives. We have a few ideas of our own, but are always keen to know what kind of services you all feel are missing on the community dimmension of java.net.
(Mar 01, 2005)
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JavaPolis 2004 - Europe
JavaPolis is by far the biggest conference for Java people in Europe.
Last year more than 950 people attended JavaPolis. In 2004 we aim to reach 1.500 Java enthousiasts during 5 days! See more detailed informations at http://wiki.javapolis.com.
 Brazilian JUGs involved in the Java and Open Souce discussion
FISL is the most important event about free software in Brazil. People from different countries come to attend sessions about free software such as Linux, PHP and others. As Java is starting to get more attention from the open source and free software community. SouJava and RSJUG, along with other brazilian JUGs, had a strong presence in the evnet, helping the Java and Free Software community discuss the issues related to Java and open source.
See Simon Phipps comments on :
http://www.webmink.net/minkblog.htm
(Jun 17, 2004)
Hong Kong JUG e PortalJava: the first graduates on the JUGs Community
We're plased to announce the first two JUGs to graduate from the JUG Incubator. The Hong Kong JUG, with their beautiful Duke-Panda logo, and Portal Java, a virtual community in Brazil, have completed in short time the assignments needed to have a nice JUG project in java.net. Taking care in creating a complete project helps our community, and brings more users to your group. Please, visit the Hong Kong JUG and the PortalJava, to see what you can do to improve your project, and visit the jugs-incubator project to see the easy steps you need to complete.
Announcing the jugs-incubator: where JUGs new to java.net prepare their projects for the world challenges
The JUGs Community is launching the jugs-incubator project. JUGs that want to host their project in java.net now have a place and time to better prepare their participation. The incubator will allow for faster approval of JUG projects, since they can be approved right on, before their project is ready. Once JUGs take the time to learn and configure their java.net project, they can then graduate from the incubator. Come visit the JUGs that are right now in the jugs-incubator! You will also learn easy steps the will help you improve your own project.
Making a difference -- Vietnamese developers help changing JDK 1.5
Brian Beck, from Sun, acknowledges that the strong demand received from Vietnamese developers helped "bend the rules" on the release of JDK 1.5.
This is a strong example on how JUGs can help shape the future of Java.
Brian said that:
"[...] by [Sun's] normal rules it would be too late to add
Vietnamese support to 1.5. However, because of the very strong demand
we have received [...], I have received approval to
"bend" the rules some what."
Congratulations to JavaVietnam for the great organizational work, and many thanks to Sun form understanding the importance of Java User Groups.
Import your Mailing Lists into java.net
Java.net offers all the infrastructure to handle your JUG mailing lists, so you can host your announcements, news and discussion lists, and even moderated lists. To help you create and import your existing users, you can use the JavaNet Mailing List Tool, that is targeted for helping JUG Leaders in managing their java.net mailing lists.
JUG Events and Meetings
The java.net Events Calendar has a special place for listing Java User Group events and meetings. If your meeting time isn't already listed fill out the Event Form to add it to the list. Be sure to choose "User Group" as the Event Type.
Java User Groups Wiki
Our wiki is a great way to promote your user group meetings and allow members to share valuable information. Currently the AustinJUG, BeJUG, JavaBahia, SanDiegoJUG, RichmondJUG, and SouJava projects are taking advantage of our wiki space.
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