SpringOne: What does it mean for you?

The spring season started in Belgium, but the weather is still cold with some sun's rays appearing casually. The temperature is around 5 degrees, which is not so easy for those who came from Brazil (30 degrees most of the time). So, why would someone open his/her arms and cry out saying: "THIS IS THE SPRING ONE!" ? Well, I had no idea until I visited this website: www.springone.com. Yes! This is not about the most romantic season. It is about a conference totally dedicated to the Spring Framework, which is hosted in Antwerp, Belgium. Now, it makes sense because Spring is definitively "The One" in terms of Java framework.



Last year, SpringOne had 400 attendees from 25 countries. It is a great number, considering a conference with a very specific focus, which is not the case of JavaPolis, JavaOne or Jazoon, with an extensive menu of technologies around the Java's gravity. Attending SpringOne 2008, you will be able to watch 30 sessions over three parallel tracks split in two days (June 11 - 12), plus several keynote speakers including "the Father of Spring" Rod Johnson.

They created a nice video, showing images of the last edition. You can watch it below:



This year, maybe for the first time (I will check) a Brazilian guy will attend SpringOne: Me! I'm going to represent my Java User Group, CEJUG. They offer free voucher for JUG Leaders, which is my case. A very good strategy to promote the conference without spending a lot of money. And we do it with a great pleasure! I will do the same what I did in JavaPolis 2007 and Jazoon 2007: Send daily news for all CEJUG members and promote it afterwards, with SpringOne 2009 in mind.

I hope to see you there, or at least, following my posts about the conference.