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Flash talks When: Wednesday, February 8 - 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Where: PeopleBank offices, 7-9 Moore Street, Canberra City (map)
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Flash Feb 2012
Yes it's that time of year. Flash Feb where you get to do a 5 minute Flash talk about any kinda computing related subject you like. There are prizes for all that participate, so get your talk ready.
Jobs update - Peoplebank When: Wednesday, March 14 - 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Where: PeopleBank offices, 7-9 Moore Street, Canberra City (map)
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Jobs update from Peoplebank
David Smith from Peoplebank will give us a heads up on the jobs market for Java and related coders in Canberra. If it's anything like last years it's an event not to be missed.

News

Java 7 Release ... Party!

Java 7 had it's release party on the 7th of the 7th 2011, adn CJUG is planing it's release party on the 13th. You can watch the Release Celebration Webcast at http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/events/java7/index.html. Make sure you watch the break our sessions.

Oracle gives up on Hudson and gives it to Eclipse

It seems Oracle have realised they messed up with Hudson and have now submitted it to become an Eclipse project. The Eclipse team seem to be happy to take it on, which is interesting because they don't seem to have talked to the other 200 committers to Hudson who forked Jenkins (leaving just 14...). So what's the tie up? Well IBM have recently come on board with Oracle leaving Apache in the cold, could it be something along those lines? Dunno, but we live in interesting times.

OSDC 2011

The Open Source Developers Conference will be held in Canberra later this year. A call for papers for the conference will go out in April, so start thinking about what you'd like to present. There will be a CJUG mini-conference prior to OSDC see http://osdc.com.au/keepmeupdated/