One thing that I miss a great deal in South Africa is a choice of good Java developer conferences, demo camps, etc. Okay, drop 'good' and replace it with 'any'.
About once every 3 years Sun hosts the Java Dev Days in Johannesburg, and that is about it.
I started thinking it is time to start creating interest in a Eclipse and/or Java conference just before or after the 2010 Soccer World cup here in SA. To boost the numbers of SA developers with the visiting fundis from overseas.
It seems both the Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse Training Alliance would be keen to support an Eclipse focused event. I'm starting to determine the feasibility of an Eclipse-only event in SA.
A great option for the smallish size of the SA developer community would be to combine Eclipse and other Sun-side Java technologies, but would possible politics between the Sun and Eclipse organisations allow this?
It would be great if you can indicate in a comment or tweet me @hermanlintvelt about your interest in such an event, whether you are interested in Eclipse technologies or not and if you are from South Africa or not.
Would be great to hear from you, Herman.
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I am interested and I would try to come.
Count me in
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