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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The 4<sup>th</sup> 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.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The 5<sup>th</sup> 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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
The event will again be free for
attendance. We are thinking of opening it up for sponsorship to
help
towards food and drink.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
<br>
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