[jgroups-dev] JGroups workshop

Hi all,

I've been thinking whether it would make sense to have a 1 or 2 day 
JGroups workshop ?

Use of JGroups has grown significantly over the years, and we have now 
2000-3000 downloads / months on a regular basis, totalling 130'000 
downloads over its life time. The user mailing list also has 340 and the 
dev list 130 subscribers.

Is there any interest from the community in having such a workshop ?

The following points come to my mind when thinking about this:

    * Attendance cost should be minimal, as this should be a community
      event. It would basically have to cover my travel costs, and the
      venue (hotel room?)
    * US or Europe ?
    * Maybe someone could sponsor the location, e.g. a company's meeting
      room
    * I'm thinking 20 people would be the right size



The agenda would be determined largely by the attendees, but I could 
think of something like this:

    * Presentation of the latest releases (feature wise)
    * Tips & tricks, pitfalls to avoid, best practices
    * Performance tuning
    * Diagnosis tools, JMX, probe.sh
    * Programming of protocols (maybe not !)
    * Architectural questions
    * Experience exchange
    * Specific issues, bugs, questions etc



Whay do people think ? Would you attend such an event ?

-- 
Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
JBoss


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