2008 JavaOne Call for Papers
If you ever wanted to be a speaker at JavaOne, you have until November 16 to submit your proposal for technical or Birds of a Feather sessions. Last year a big theme was Java scripting with Groovy and JRuby and I expect this to be a hot topic at the JavaOne 2008. I also think that there is enough interest that some technical sessions will be devoted to Scala. Web frameworks that depended on these programming languages, such as JRuby on Rails, Grails, and Lift, would be great Bird of a Feathers sessions.
At JavaOne 2007, some popular sessions where those that pimped out business application GUIs, such as the Filthy-Rich Clients talks by Chet Haase and Romain Guy. Anything session talk that promises to jazz up an application UI will definitely be well received. Last year, Sun made a big splash by announcing JavaFX Script and I am sure there will be a lot of interest on this technology at JavaOne 2008.
If you think you can give a talk on any of these topics, you have until November 16 to submit your proposal. Good luck and see you there at JavaOne 2008!!