Notes from the Devoxx BOF

[FDelporte]

• What do you expect to learn?

  • Sharing experiences from the field (work/personal)
  • Informal round table (what went wrong, what I learned)
  • Results and pitfalls from POCs, e.g. testing new tools
  • Beginners workshops, like AI stuff
  • Let's try together to fix...
  • Speaker gives a short talk and becomes the moderator of a discussion around that topic
  • Unconference style of event, maybe want to organize:
    • https://www.linkedin.com/in/bert-verslyppe-03907810/
    • Tim
  • Workshop to try out new features in early access Java releases
  • Not Java related: psychology, dealing with enterprise, architecture, general engineering,...
  • Speaker training (coop with ToastMasters https://www.toastmasters.org/ ?)

• Activity Ideas

  • Code challenges
  • BeJUG needs to be more promoted, several people at the BOF didn't know it exists...
    • Stream?
    • Slack/Chat/Discord?
    • Use Foojay Slack channel?
  • Unconference

[TomCools]

Adding non-redundant notes:

• Should we become an official non-profit?
• Meetup is bad in notifications, please pick up: Improved event notifications #82
• Motivate hosts to provide:
  • something besides pizza
  • Hybrid options (to do remote sessions)
• Alternative activities:
  • Lightning talks
  • Hackergarten
  • Anything more interactive
  • A training day? (during working hours, paid time by the companies, basically free training)
  • Gamify the JUG a bit.

[LoMagnette]

• How to promote java:
  • Reach out to university and offer Java session
    • Hosting event on school campus
    • Help school on their curriculum
    • Doing some workshop with school
  • Reach out to coder Dojo to spread the love for Java
• Alternative activities:
  • Panel sessions
  • Unconference style events (already mention by Frank)