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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Brett L. Schuchert <schuchert@yahoo.com><BR>To: OKC JUG Steering Committee Mailing List <sc@lists.okcjug.org><BR>Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:58:41 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [Steering Committee] Fw: JetBrains JUG Leader Journal, Premier Issue<BR><BR>Kewl.
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<DIV>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...</DIV>
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<DIV>Assuming I'm still in town, I'd be happy to do either a Hello Java or a full presentation.</DIV>
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<DIV>On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Brian Sheldon wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Forwarded Message ----<BR>From: David Booth <<A href="mailto:jugs@jetbrains.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow>jugs@jetbrains.com</A>><BR>To: Brian <<A href="mailto:brian_s_sheldon@yahoo.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow>brian_s_sheldon@yahoo.com</A>><BR>Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:28:14 AM<BR>Subject: JetBrains JUG Leader Journal, Premier Issue<BR><BR>Hello <B>Brian</B>,<BR><BR>Welcome to the premier issue of the JUG Leader Journal, JetBrains´ official newsletter for JUG leaders.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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 :)<BR><BR>Finally, tell us if you´d
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<H3>Contents in this Issue</H3>
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<LI><A href="http://us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?action=welcome&YY=717946550&.rand=a76b8iibdchc4#part1" target=_blank rel=nofollow>A quick, 10-second JetQuestion</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?action=welcome&YY=717946550&.rand=a76b8iibdchc4#part2" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Tips´n´Tricks for interesting meetings</A> — 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. </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?action=welcome&YY=717946550&.rand=a76b8iibdchc4#part3" target=_blank rel=nofollow>JetBrains JUG Support</A> — free licenses of IntelliJ IDEA, speakers, and more</LI></OL><BR>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 to<A href="mailto:jugs@jetbrains.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow>jugs@jetbrains.com</A>, or skype me at <B>davidboothjetbrain</B>.<BR><BR>Develop with pleasure,<BR>Dave Booth<BR>Editor-in-Chief, JUG Leader Journal<BR><A href="mailto:jugs@jetbrains.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow>jugs@jetbrains.com</A><BR><BR>
<H3>Contributors</H3>Brett Schuchert: Senior Trainer, Mentor and Consultant, Object Mentor — OKCJUG<BR>Brian Sheldon: Steering Committee — OKCJUG<BR>Britt King — JetBrains<BR><BR>
<H3><U>Part 1: A Quick JetQuestion</U></H3><A rel=nofollow name=part1></A>In which format would you prefer to receive this newsletter?<BR>Please click one of the following, to send me a quick email about it:<BR>
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<H3><U>Part 2: JUG Tips ´n´ Tricks - Spotlight on Oklahoma City JUG (OKCJUG)</U></H3><A rel=nofollow name=part2></A>Brett Schuchert and Brian Sheldon of the OKCJUG shared with us a successful and interesting JUG meeting they hadrecently over Agile Requirements Exploration.<BR><BR>Here´s the original outline:<BR><A href="http://schuchert.wikispaces.com/Agile+Requirements+Exploration+Workshop" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://schuchert.wikispaces.com/Agile+Requirements+Exploration+Workshop</A><BR><BR>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:<BR><BR>
<H3>ITunes® Competitor, page 1</H3>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.<BR>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.<BR><BR>
<H3>ITunes® Competitor Product Owner, page 2</H3>During initial discussions with the product owner, a few things may become clear (if asked):<BR>
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<LI>Size (Gigs) and Style of the players </LI>
<LI>The cost </LI>
<LI>The target market </LI>
<LI>Online Goals of the firm </LI>
<LI>Possible Customizations </LI>
<LI>Site requirements and goals </LI>
<LI>Supported file formats </LI>
<LI>External contract information </LI>
<LI>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.</LI></UL><BR>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."<BR><BR>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 <A href="mailto:jugs@jetbrains.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow>jugs@jetbrains.com</A>, 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 <A href="mailto:jugs@jetbrains.co" target=_blank rel=nofollow>jugs@jetbrains.com</A><BR><BR>
<H3><U>Part 3: JUG Support - License Giveaway Program</U></H3><A rel=nofollow name=part3></A>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: <A href="mailto:jugs@jetbrains.co" target=_blank rel=nofollow>jugs@jetbrains.com</A> and I´ll includeyou in the program. <BR><BR>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!<BR><BR>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:<A href="http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/index.html?java_JUGnewsletter" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/index.html?java_JUGnewsletter</A><BR><BR>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 :)<BR><BR>
<H3>Thanks for Reading!</H3>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 <A href="http://www.wildernesstours.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>rafting</A> down the <A href="http://www.raidthenorth.com/images/2006/SAC/OttawaRiver/FAR%20FTC%200905T_3339.JPG" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Ottawa River</A>, so I hope you´ve got something great planned for yourself as well!<BR><BR>Develop With Pleasure,<BR>The JetBrains Team<BR><A href="mailto:jugs@jetbrains.co" target=_blank rel=nofollow>jugs@jetbrains.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.jetbrains.com/?java_jlj1" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.jetbrains.com/?java_jlj1</A> </DIV>
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