[Steering Committee] Fw: JetBrains JUG Leader Journal, Premier Issue

Thu Aug 23 08:04:44 PDT 2007

Hey Brett, good to hear from you!

I think we should take Brett up on a good concurrency talk for
September.  Jason might be out of town, and I could use an extra month
to prepare my REST talk.

Brett, if the guys go for it make sure to include the hardcore stuff
in this one.  We've been getting a little feedback that our
presentations should be more expert-friendly, and concurrency has been
a hot item on the requested topics list.

--ryan

On 8/23/07, Brett L. Schuchert <schuchert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kewl.
>
> Hey, right now I'm not scheduled to be on the road the JUG week in
> September. I've been writing a new class for Object Mentor on concurrency in
> Java using, among other things, Java 5 stuff (like the Executor Framework
> and Atomic Integers). Teaching it for the first time next week...
>
> Assuming I'm still in town, I'd be happy to do either a Hello Java or a full
> presentation.
>
> Brett
>
> On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Brian Sheldon wrote:
>
>
> We're famous!
>
> Brian
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: David Booth <jugs at jetbrains.com>
> To: Brian <brian_s_sheldon at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:28:14 AM
> Subject: JetBrains JUG Leader Journal, Premier Issue
>
> Hello Brian,
>
> Welcome to the premier issue of the JUG Leader Journal, JetBrains´ official
> newsletter for JUG leaders.
>
> After speaking with JUG leaders from Norway to New York, and Nevada to New
> Zealand, we´ve found that JUG leaders aroundthe globe deal with similar
> issues: organization, attendance, sponsorship, and arranging speakers and
> events. We´veteamed up with supporting JUG leaders to tackle some of these
> issues, as well as provide you with a whole bunch ofuseful information.
>
> Looking for interesting ideas for your JUG meetings? We´ve got you covered.
> Every issue includes a Tips ´n´ Trickssection — with ideas submitted by JUG
> leaders from around the world — devoted to makingyour meetings unique,
> interesting,and more valuable for your members.
>
> Is your JUG giving away free licenses of IntelliJ IDEA? We´re always happy
> to show our support with donations, and sincethe release of IntelliJ IDEA
> 7.0 Milestone 2 (which happened on August 13th) we´re able to give away
> IntelliJ IDEA 6.0licenses that come with a free upgrade to the full version
> of IDEA 7.0. So, if you´re already giving away licenses, feelfree to mention
> that the next licenses you give away come with a free upgrade: and if you´re
> not giving away theselicenses, see below for details. Also, all JUG Leaders
> can receive a license of IDEA for free, so let me know if you´dlike one :)
>
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> Contents in this Issue
>
> A quick, 10-second JetQuestion
> Tips´n´Tricks for interesting meetings — We take a look at the OKC JUG for
> one idea on how to build community interaction and education into a 2-4 hour
> workshop.
> JetBrains JUG Support — free licenses of IntelliJ IDEA, speakers, and more
> We hope you enjoy the premier issue and look forward to your feedback. If
> your JUG recently had an interesting meetingor workshop please let us know
> about it, and we´ll share your idea with the whole community. Write
> tojugs at jetbrains.com, or skype me at davidboothjetbrain.
>
> Develop with pleasure,
> Dave Booth
> Editor-in-Chief, JUG Leader Journal
> jugs at jetbrains.com
>
>
> ContributorsBrett Schuchert: Senior Trainer, Mentor and Consultant, Object
> Mentor — OKCJUG
> Brian Sheldon: Steering Committee — OKCJUG
> Britt King — JetBrains
>
>
> Part 1: A Quick JetQuestionIn which format would you prefer to receive this
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> Part 2: JUG Tips ´n´ Tricks - Spotlight on Oklahoma City JUG (OKCJUG)Brett
> Schuchert and Brian Sheldon of the OKCJUG shared with us a successful and
> interesting JUG meeting they hadrecently over Agile Requirements
> Exploration.
>
> Here´s the original outline:
> http://schuchert.wikispaces.com/Agile+Requirements+Exploration+Workshop
>
> They began the workshop by splitting their JUG into groups of four. Each
> group picked one member to play the role ofproduct owner while the other
> three members played the role of developers. Brett then handed each group a
> two-pagedproblem statement — page one was for the whole group, but only the
> product owner was allowed to see page two. Here´s oneof the various problem
> statements they used:
>
>
> ITunes(r) Competitor, page 1Your company has recently acquired another
> company, which has designed yet another IPod(r) killer. The hardware will
> beavailable for preliminary shipment in 2 months but there is not really any
> kind of support for selling music. Yourcompany has agreements with several
> record labels to be able to sell DCMA´ed versions of songs but not much of a
> webpresence in this arena.
> The marketing department of your company has decided to take these two
> assets, record label agreements and this new, asyet unnamed IPod(r) killer,
> and produce a customer experience similar to ITunes(r).You have approximately
> 2,5-3 months to produce some kind of web presence that will make using this
> new device fun forits target audience.
>
>
> ITunes(r) Competitor Product Owner, page 2During initial discussions with the
> product owner, a few things may become clear (if asked):
>
>
> Size (Gigs) and Style of the players
> The cost
> The target market
> Online Goals of the firm
> Possible Customizations
> Site requirements and goals
> Supported file formats
> External contract information
> They want their client to be able to rip music as well. They have licenses a
> product to do that for both the PC and the MAC.
> In round 1, each group was given a fixed amount of time (9-minutes) to read
> the problem statement and brainstorm"interesting things the system could do
> that would be of value to a user." Nine minutes later, the groupsprovided
> twostories each in a round-robin fashion, one at a time. About his own
> group, Brian said, "my group came up with thefollowing: lyrics to songs as
> they play, VHF pop-up type videos, download music, upload music, sell music
> I wrote,parental controls," etc. "We then tried to fit one of these ideas
> into ´Person x wants to y because z´ — so ´amusicianwants to upload or sell
> his music so he can become rich and famous´ was one of our results."
>
> This exercise has rounds 2,3, and a "user acceptance testing round", but
> it´s way too long for our quicknewsletter. If you´d like to know more,just
> send me an email at jugs at jetbrains.com, and I´ll send you the rest of it. If
> you´ve had an interesting meetingrecently, or would like to share your ideas
> & tips with us, let me know about it at jugs at jetbrains.com
>
>
> Part 3: JUG Support - License Giveaway ProgramWe´re pleased to announce that
> the License Giveaway program has been extended until the end of December
> 2007. All activeJUGs who qualify can give away one personal license of
> IntelliJ IDEA to your speaker each month (as a reward for takinglle time to
> present to the community), and a personal license to a lucky member (as a
> reward for attending the event).If you´re already giving away licenses, you
> can continue to do so until December 2007. If your JUG is not giving
> awayfree Personal Licenses of IntelliJ IDEA yet, or if you are a JUG Leader
> and you don´t have a license of IDEA with thefree upgrade to 7.0, just send
> me an email: jugs at jetbrains.com and I´ll includeyou in the program.
>
> PS — All licenses that we give away from now until December 31st will
> include a free upgrade to IntelliJ IDEA 7.0: that´swhat you guys get for
> being on the edge of innovation!
>
> PS2 (no copyright infringement here... no sir) — Everyone who is using
> IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, can use the IntelliJ 7.0Milestone releases for free until
> December 31st, 2007. For more info, check out the most recent release
> here:http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/index.html?java_JUGnewsletter
>
> New features include: Spring, Hibernate, and Eclipse support, and Milestone
> 2 comes with access to the Groovy and Grailsplugin, JetGroovy, as well as
> upgrades to pretty much everything IDEA is known for. Plus, it´s faster :)
>
>
> Thanks for Reading!It´s been a busy year for the JetBrains team and now
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> for yourself as well!
>
> Develop With Pleasure,
> The JetBrains Team
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