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

[Mauricio Salatino]

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 <mproctor at codehaus.org>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
>
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