[rules-users] Drools&jBPM Boot Camps 2011 USA and EMEA (Rules, Workflow, Event Processing and Ontologies)

[Mark Proctor]

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 4^th 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 5^th 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

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