[Steering Committee] Session Topics and Speakers

[Jason Lee]

Despite the near tragedy, I think we were able to salvage our time and  
have a pretty decent session.  Dan Mavis did a great job on the fly.   
I went to lunch with him and the Objectstream group afterwards and had  
a good conversation with him.  He said he'd be willing to do a more  
formal presentation on what he covered today (formal in the prepared  
presentation sense, with some concrete source examples).  He and I are  
going to talk and work out a when on that.

That got me to thinking about presenting, and I even have a couple of  
topics.  Brent Vaughn is considering a JSF 2 lightning talk for next  
month (which I failed to mention at the meeting today.  Drat! :), so  
I'll leave that to him, but I'd like to do one on "advanced" Maven  
usage (common plugins, custom mojos, etc), and another on Applied  
Mercurial (going beyond the whys of a DVCS into more complicated  
topics, specifically branching and merging).

Like Dan, I don't know *when* I'll be able to do those, but they're  
something to keep in mind. If we get in a bind, I can whip up the  
presentation a little sooner than I had planned. :)

Jason Lee, SCJP
President, Oklahoma City Java Users Group
Senior Java Developer, Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.steeplesoft.com