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(blog entry quoted below)<br>
<p>The Drools Boot Camp has the go ahead, a big thank you to <a
href="http://thirdpillar.com/">Third Pillar</a> for sponsoring the
meeting room.<br>
<br>
The
Drools team meeting forms the basis of the week long event, but we make
it open to the public, free of charge, to participate as an informal
boot camp. You may attend as little or as much of the event as you
wish, there is no commitment, just please give us notification of when
you wish to attend as there are limited spaces ( mproctor at redhat d0t
com ).<br>
<br>
We will provide some dedicated seminars, including a
Drools 5.0 primar on the first day for those that want to know what's
new in Drools 5.0.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Location</span><br>
The location is San Francisco, during the JavaOne period, at the<a
href="http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/SFOFDHF-Hilton-San-Francisco-Financial-District-California/index.do">
Hilton Hotel (750 Kearny Street)</a>. Expedia have rooms from $103 per
night, at the booking time for my team and I.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Dates and Times</span><br>
Start : Monday 1st of June 09.30<br>
End : Saturday 7th of June 17.00<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Time Tabled Sessions</span><br>
We
plan to do a few time tabled sessions. The current proposals are
subject to change, and suggestions are welcome - we don't plan to do a
"getting started" or "best practice" session. Other than the primer the
sessions will be in BOF casual discussion style seminar with an
emphasis on audience particitation for Q&A and suggestions, not
dedicated slides with pre-made material, beyond useful illustrations,
so expect lots of walking through code and white board use :) It can
also be a great time to give feedback and suggestions for those topics.<br>
<br>
Drools 5.0 Primer : Monday 1st of June 10.00 to 13.00<br>
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<ul>
<li>The
new features in Drools 5.0 will be covered at an end user level. This
includes all the drools projects, Guvnor, Flow, Fusion and Expert. This
is suitable for anyone with minimal previous Drools experience who just
want to know "what's new".<br>
</li>
</ul>
Drools 5.0 Guvnor Internals : Tuesday 10.00 to 12.00<br>
<ul>
<li>The
internals of Guvnor will be discussed and how all the parts come
together and current issues and directions we wish to take the project.
This is suitable for anyone with minimal previous Drools experience,
but ideally you should be aware of GWT, JCR and Guvnor in general. This
is targetted at people who wish to extend Guvnor with new features or
re-use/embed existing aspects of Guvnor.<br>
</li>
</ul>
Drools 5.0 Advanced Engine : Wednesday 10.00 to 13.00<br>
<ul>
<li>This
will be a deep dive for the technical on Rete enhancements. We will
cover the asymmetrical Rete implementation, as compared to the
traditional symmetrical approach, and how we enhanced it for event
processing and workflow. This is targetted at experienced people, who
already have an understanding of Rete and wish to understand the latest
research and innovations - not for the feint hearted.<br>
</li>
</ul>
Drools 5.0 Domain Specific Workflow : Thuresday 10.00 to 12.00<br>
<ul>
<li>We
will show how Drools Flow can be extended for domain specific workflow,
with a focus on the pluggable Work Items and Eclipse. We will also
cover the pluggable workflow framework for customised execution
behaviour, such as is used to provide OSWorkflow compatability. This is
suitable for anyone with a java and eclipse background, ideally you
should have some understanding of what Drools and especially Drools
Flow is.<br>
</li>
</ul>
If you are using Drools in a novel or interesting
way and wish to do a short presentation, that is very much welcome,
just please email me for confirmation so we can make sure we are
prepared and even promote that. If a few people wish to do this, we can
make a dedicated end-user speaking session.<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Agenda and what goes on</span><br>
While
we have the time tabled sessions, there is no formal agenda beyond
that. The Drools team will be there planning their next road map,
hacking on new features and fixing some bugs - this will be a continous
process throughout the week. We encourage you to participate and
ideally contribute and we will provide lots of hand holding and
mentoring. Outside of the time tabled sessions you'll probably feel out
of place if you aren't coding away on a laptop.<br>
<br>
Ideally, but not
essential, you will already have ideas on areas you wish to improve and
we'll assist. Last year we got great contributions to Guvnor from Joe
at Recondo Technologies and Michael at Franklin American, neither had
any prior experience on hacking Drools, although both turned up knowing
what it was they needed added to Drools for their companies.<br>
<br>
Limited
time will be given to those just wishing to discuss how to use Drools
in their applications and best practices, but not looking to do any
coding. The basis of this time will be on how interesting it is to the
Drools team, and whether their is a knowledge exchange that is useful
to us - i.e. interesting and uncommon use cases. This event really is
summarised as "Don't ask what it is Drools can do for me, but what I
can do for Drools" :)<br>
<br>
Here are two pictures from last year, where we fitted everyone out with
Drools T-Shirts :)<br>
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