EclipseCon 2012 Coming to the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA March 26-29, 2012

Our buddies at NovaJUG passed this along to us:

EclipseCon 2012 is coming to the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA on March 26-29, 2012.

EclipseCon is great opportunity to discover the latest advancements from the Eclipse community. It is also one of the largest Java-oriented conference on the east coast of the USA.

http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/

This year the conference will feature tracks on:

• Migrating and adopting the new Eclipse 4 platform
• Developing domain specific languages (DSL)
• Key advancements of EclipseRT technology, such as Virgo, p2, Equinox and EclipseLink
• Support for new languages, such as JavaScript, Ceylon, Dart, Lua, and Eclipse Xtend
• and much more in the 120 sessions and 16 tutorials.

EclipseCon will also host the new Agile ALM Connect, a conference that will focus on connecting the tools, agile methods and people across the entire software development lifecycle.

http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/agilealm

The Agile ALM Connect conference features speakers from leading organizations and will explore a range of topics, including:

• Popular open source projects, such as Puppet, Selenium, Sonar, Git, Hudson, Gerrit, Eclipse Mylyn and Eclipse Jubula.
• Sessions on best practices and agile methods such as continuous delivery, Scrum and Kanban, continuous feedback, devops, requirements management, agile transformation and lean ALM.
• Case studies from leading organizations, like IBM, github, Atlassian, Bosch and Boeing.

Special Offer for DC/NOVA JUG Members

The Eclipse Foundation would like to invite members of the DC/NOVA JUG to attend EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect. JUG members can receive a special $250 discount off the current registration price by using the WASHJUG discount code. Register before December 31, 2011 to receive the lowest registration rate.

http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/registration

Eclipse is also giving away one free pass to a DC/NOVA JUG member. Enter the drawing before January 31, 2012 for a chance to win to pass. If the winner has already purchased a pass, the registration fee will be reimbursed.

http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/nova-jug-draw-eclipsecon-conference-pass