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Due to large number of registrations the Texas Rules Fest has had to
move location from the Addison to the Sheraton Dallas:<br>
<a href="http://www.rulesfest.org/OctoberRulesFest/Location.html">http://www.rulesfest.org/OctoberRulesFest/Location.html</a><br>
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As a reminder entire Drools team will be at the <a
href="http://rulesfest.org/"><b>Dallas Rules Fest</b>, </a>this
October 22nd to 24th. This is a <b>must attend</b>
non-profit event, with $150 registration fee, for hands on rule
training on a variety of products and disciplines with some top
industry <a
href="http://rulesfestregistration.dallasrulesgroup.org/Speakers">speakers</a>
and a fantastic <a
href="http://rulesfestregistration.dallasrulesgroup.org/Agenda">agenda</a>
- <b>just stuff, not fluff</b> ;) Gary Riley will be there, author of
the rules "bible" <a
href="http://www.allbookstores.com/book/9780534937447/Gary_Riley/Expert_Systems.html">Expert
Systems</a>, talking about his rule engine the venerable <a
href="http://clipsrules.sourceforge.net/">Clips</a>.
Charles Forgy, the inventor of Rete and "father" of rule engines, will
be there talking about his break through research in parallel executing
rule engines. Daniel Selman from Ilog will be there giving tutorials on
the ilog engine and tooling.<br>
<br>
The organisers have asked me to remind everyone thinking of going to <a
href="http://www.rulesfest.org/OctoberRulesFest/Register.html">register</a>
sooner, rather than later, as they may actually sell out if the rate of
registrations continues.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Come Join the Week Long Drools Boot
Camp</span><br>
The
Drools team will actually be arriving the week before, on the 15th, for
our team meeting which is open to all and starts official on the the
16th in the <a
href="http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do?propertyCode=44540">Best
Western hotel</a>
conference room. So if you want to chat rules in general or
specifically on your problems, or just get involved in some hard core
programming, please do come along. We will be staying at the <a
href="http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do?propertyCode=44540">Best
Western hotel</a> which has rooms from just $69USD per night :) <br>
<br>
So far we have <a href="https://www.franklinamerican.com/">Franklin
America</a> and <a href="http://www.dlr.de/en/">German Aerospace</a>
joining us for the team meeting and hard core Drools coding, still room
for more :)<br>
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