July 13, 2011 6:00 PM - 63 attended

Java 7 and JavaFX

Please see here for a photo and directions: http://www.oracle.com...

Event Description

We are pleased to have Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro to talk about the new Java 7 release. This is an official Java 7 launch event, so we should have plenty of goodies and swag to celebrate the release. We also have a guest appearance by Nicolas Lorain to talk about how JavaFX works with Java 7.

Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro
Aurelio is a Principal Product Manager for the Java Platform Group at Oracle. Aurelio has been in charge of managing the product requirements for Oracle's JDK since joining Oracle through the Sun acquisition in 2010. Before that he worked on Sun Microsystems for the Java Product Management team. Holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and Bachelor degree in Systems Engineering from the Universidad de Lima.

Watching the Live Stream Online

  • To be eligible for prizes (see below), please register for this meetup.
  • For the live video feed, please go to the SvJugFx page on my blog: http://steveonjava.co...


IMPORTANT : We also will have a raffle of electronic book coupons for online attendees, so please register if you plan on watching the stream!
Agenda

  • 6:00-6:45pm Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Oracle
  • 6:45-7:00pm Group introduction & announcements
  • 7:00-8:30pm Main Talk followed by Q&A
  • 8:30-9:00pm Raffle and additional networking time


Prizes and Sponsorship
We also have some great prizes to give away, including:

  • An IntelliJ Ultimate Edition license ($249 value)
  • Technical books including Pro JavaFX Platform
  • Premium Java 7 swag for everyone who walks in the door!

This event is brought to you with support from the following sponsors:

  • Oracle supports our meetup by providing a venue and prizes.
  • Linode provides open source hosting.
  • JFrog Artifactory supports our meetup membership and gives prizes.
  • Ubivent provides our JavaFX streaming event platform..
  • JavaPassion.com gives discounts for JUG members.
  • Parleys.com provides free streaming of our videos.
  • Jetbrains gives out free IntelliJ licenses at our meetings.
  • Apress gives free books as prizes.
  • O'Reilly gives free books as prizes.

If you are interested in having your company appear here, please let me know!

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Oracle

Provides the venue, refreshments, and contributes prizes.

Linode

Provides hosting for JFXtras, the open-source JavaFX Toolkit

Ubivent

Provides our JavaFX streaming event platform

JFrog

JFrog supports our meetup membership and gives free prizes.

Devoxx

Join us in Belgium for the 10 year anniversary!

Parleys.com

Parleys.com provides free streaming of our videos.

JavaPassion.com

Discount for JUG members and prize giveaways.

JetBrains

Gives away a copy of IntelliJ IDEA at our meetings.

Apress

Provides free book prizes and discounts

O'Reilly

Provides free book prizes and discounts

Manning

Provides free book prizes and discounts

Pearson

Provides free book prizes and discounts

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