I would like to participate helping with organization and logistic and also I can do a talk about drools grid and some examples using the RIO impl. Let me know if I can start helping with something.
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Mark Proctor <[email protected]>wrote: > We are looking into an end of February date to do the next week long Boot > Camp, location to be decided - proposals for USA so far are Chicago, Austin > and Miami. The EMEA one will be Berlin, probably overlapping with the 2011 > JudCon. > > The last boot camp had a medical focus and was a huge success. We have more > budget this year so hoping to build on that. > > We are thinking of doing a Monday optional 1 day pre-conference "basics" > day, to avoid repeating the "what is a process, what is a rule, what is an > event" type talks. This also means we don't bore returning people with > repeated content and that everyone there has the basics. > > Then follow up with 2 days of applied industry talks split into "vertical > tracks". Because of the high level of interest and success last time, we > will run a dedicated 2 day Medical/Healthcare track again. Whether we run > dedicated or mixed tracks for other verticals depends on interest and > people's willingness to present or organise and lead other verticals. I > imagine initially we'd probably do mini tracks, say half a day per vertical. > Some target verticals would be telecoms, commercial finance (trading), > consumer finance (mortgage/insurance/loans), logistics. > > The 4th day would then be an organised workshop day. We'll provide > bootable USB keys for all in attendance, so that we have a quick start off > (previously we wasted hours getting everyone up and running with virtual > images). The workshops will allow people to go through the very basic > examples or the more advanced examples and infrastructure set-up with us on > hand. Those that have their own projects and just want to work on that with > us on hand to offer help can do so too. > > The 5th day will be more of an open floor. Some people will leave early, > others will want to continue working through the basic examples and making > sure they can configure and set everything up. Others will want dedicated > discussion time to work on their own problems and ideas. In general it's the > day where the developers will be on hand for what ever anyone wants – you'll > get out of it what you put in. > > If you would like to present or even run and organise a vertical let me > know. In the past I've found for a vertical to work it needs a well > connected industry person to chair it, so we definitely need community > people to take up the mantle here. Talks can either be "What we did with > Drools and/or jBPM" or "This is an industry problem use case that could be > solved with Drools and/or jBPM" or just something that we think will be of > interest to the audience. The range of technologies covers (but not limited > too) rules (expert systems and other derivatives domains), workflow, event > processing and ontologies. > > The event will again be free for attendance. We are thinking of opening it > up for sponsorship to help towards food and drink. > > So if you are interested in talking, organising, sponsoring or just have > some general input then let us know - we want to progress in moving these > events to a more industry focus and not pure technology, for that to happen > we need YOU the community. > > Mark > > > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev > > -- - CTO @ http://www.plugtree.com - MyJourney @ http://salaboy.wordpress.com - Co-Founder @ http://www.jbug.com.ar - Salatino "Salaboy" Mauricio -
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