Developer Meeting, Thursday, February 5th

[Alan Dayley]

This February 5th will mark the first monthly PLUG Developer meeting. It
will also be the first one held on our new night, the first Thursday of
every month. It will still be at Adtron this month at the usual time,
7:00PM. Don't miss it, it's going to be good!

What: PLUG Developer Meeting
When:Thursday, February 5, 2004 @ 7:00 PM
Where: Adtron Corporation, 3710 E. University Drive, Suite 5, Phoenix, AZ
85034 (Enter at Suite 4. Full directions on PLUG web site here. under
Development Group Meeting.)

Presentation Abstract:
Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) is an open source platform for building tools
for developers. The platform was designed from the ground-up with
extensibility in mind. A scalable plug-in mechanism and a rich set of APIs
enable developers to explore new tools quickly without having to reinvent
the wheel. This presentation will focus on:
- The design goals of Eclipse
- Who contributes to Eclipse and how they do it
- How to work in and extend Eclipse (demonstration)

About the speaker:
Randy Faust is an Embedded Java Activist at the IBM Phoenix OTI Lab. He
spent 2003 working in Zurich, Switzerland on the Eclipse JDT UI team,
under the direction of Erich Gamma. He has an extensive background with
the J9 virtual machine, J2ME and integrated development environments.

EclipseCon information:
Join us for EclipseCon 2004, Feb 2-5 in Anaheim California, the first
annual technical conference for Eclipse! This conference will bring
together developers from the open source projects and the commercial
community for a week of keynotes, tutorials, demos, poster sessions,
exhibits, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. This first annual conference
promises to be unique, because most of the original eclipse open source
developers will be there, and the program committee has put together a
fabulous program of keynotes, technical talks, tutorials, and other
events.

EclipseCon will be a highly interactive event. We’re all looking forward
to making new acquaintances, meeting new and long standing collaborators,
and meeting in person, the people behind the emails and newsgroup
postings!

And, here are some helpful links:
Program: http://www.eclipsecon.org/program.htm
Registration: http://www.eclipsecon.org/registration.htm
     Students! - see the registration page for special student rates!
Hotel: http://www.eclipsecon.org/hotel.htm
See you there!

(This announcement will appear on the PLUG web site on January 22nd)