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

Thu Aug 23 06:58:41 PDT 2007

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 :)
>
> Finally, tell us if you´d prefer to receive this email in text or  
> HTML format, so we can accommodate yourpreferences.
>
> 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
>
> Contributors
>
> Brett Schuchert: Senior Trainer, Mentor and Consultant, Object  
> Mentor — OKCJUG
> Brian Sheldon: Steering Committee — OKCJUG
> Britt King — JetBrains
>
> Part 1: A Quick JetQuestion
>
> In which format would you prefer to receive this newsletter?
> Please click one of the following, to send me a quick email about it:
> I don´t care which format
> HTML
> Text
> I don´t want to receive the JUG Leader Newsletter
>
> 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® Competitor, page 1
>
> Your company has recently acquired another company, which has  
> designed yet another IPod® 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® killer, and produce a customer experience similar to  
> ITunes®.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® Competitor Product Owner, page 2
>
> During 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 Program
>
> We´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 summer is upon  
> us: with it, dreams of vacations. I just got backfrom my trip  
> rafting down the Ottawa River, so I hope you´ve got something great  
> planned for yourself as well!
>
> Develop With Pleasure,
> The JetBrains Team
> jugs at jetbrains.com
> http://www.jetbrains.com/?java_jlj1
>
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