GR8 in the US happens Friday! I feel as I am giving birth! I am stoked! Shaun Jurgemeyer, Dave Klein and I have worked very hard to make sure that this event comes off well, that everyone is satisfied and looks forward to next year. We have 25 books to giveaway, a copy of GroovyMag and t-shirts. We believe we have put together a good mix of sessions covering a wide range of topics, and with the round table and the after event mixer/happy hour, we think the event is a GR8 value. Of course, we are really looking forward to reading the evaluations to see what needs improving. Those forms are important. Everyone will be read! Most attendees should already know how to reach us, either through the GR8 in the US site, or directly via one of our social networking sites. I would really love to hear from those that decided not to come, there reasons for not doing so, and suggestions that would increase the likelihood they would attend next year.

With a number of last minute registrations, there will be a pretty good turnout. We would like more, so if you have not registered yet and are planing on coming, do so now. The registration system shuts down as the servers cross midnight tomorrow and they are not located in the US (okay, a bit of a design flaw, live with it). Register now or miss out on the opportunity to hear 11 GR8 speakers, choose from 14 sessions and mix and mingle during happy hour after the event. Do not miss out on this GR8 event. Register today! Come join the fun!

Register now! Save $100! Space is limited!

GR8 in the US is a one day conference dedicated to the software language Groovy, software development frameworks Grails and Griffon, and related technology. Eleven different speakers will present fourteen talks and two workshops. A round table discussion will conclude the formal sessions. The conference will close with a Meet
The Speakers Happy Hour and Networking event.

Guillaume Laforge, the Groovy project lead and co-author of Groovy in Action will be the keynote speaker. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer and author or co-author of the books .NET Gotchas, Practices of an Agile Developer, Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer and Programming Scala, will be delivering the kickoff speech.

GR8 in the US will be held April 16th, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Bloomington I-35W, 1201 West 94th Street, Bloomington, MN 55431, just minutes from the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP) and the Mall of America.

It will be fun! Come join us!

The agenda for the GR8 in the US conference has been posted. There are eleven GR8 speakers giving presentations and leading hands-on workshops. What I find particularly exciting is that the conference will close with a Meet The Speakers Happy Hour where attendees will be able to meet and discuss GR8 subjects with the speakers and other attendees.

Register now! Save $100! Space is limited!

GR8 in the US is a one day conference dedicated to the software language Groovy, software development frameworks Grails and Griffon, and related technology. It will be held April 16th, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Bloomington I-35W, 1201 West 94th Street, Bloomington, MN 55431. Guillaume Laforge, the Groovy project lead and co-author of Groovy in Action will be the keynote speaker. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer and author or co-author of the books .NET Gotchas, Practices of an Agile Developer, Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer and Programming Scala, will be delivering the kickoff speech.

Registration for GR8 in the US is now open! Go to http://www.gr8conf.org/ to register. Save $100! Register today!

GR8 in the US is a one day conference dedicated to the software language Groovy, software development frameworks Grails and Griffon, and related technology. It will be held April 16th, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Bloomington I-35W, 1201 West 94th Street, Bloomington, MN 55431. Guillaume Laforge is the Groovy project lead and co-author of Groovy in Action will be the keynote speaker. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer and author or co-author of the books .NET Gotchas, Practices of an Agile Developer, Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer and Programming Scala, will be delivering the kickoff speech.

If you wish to submit a presentation, go to http://www.gr8conf.org/proposal/create.

GR8 in the US is a one day conference dedicated to the software language Groovy, software development frameworks Grails and Griffon, and related technology. It will be held April 16th, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Bloomington I-35W, 1201 West 94th Street, Bloomington, MN 55431. Guillaume Laforge is the Groovy project lead and co-author of Groovy in Action will be the keynote speaker. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer and author or co-author of the books .NET Gotchas, Practices of an Agile Developer, Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer and Programming Scala, will be delivering the kickoff speech.

The organizers of GR8 in the US conference, Bill Turner and Shaun Jurgemeyer, announced today that Guillaume Laforge has been named the conference keynote speaker.

Guillaume Laforge is the project lead of Groovy, the highly popular and successful dynamic language for the JVM. He co-authored Manning's best seller "Groovy in Action" with Dierk König, and is working for SpringSource (a division of VMWare) where he's working full time on cool and Groovy stuff. Guillaume worked hand in hand with the Google App Engine Java team before the official launch of the new platform to ensure that Groovy would run well on this new cloud. With this background in mind, he created Gaelyk, a lightweight toolkit for developing applications written in Groovy on Google App Engine, that he demonstrated at the Google I/O 2009 Conference. You can meet Guillaume at conferences around the world where he evangelizes the Groovy dynamic language, Domain-Specific Languages in Groovy, and the agile Grails web framework.

GR8 in the US is a one day conference dedicated to the software language Groovy, software development frameworks Grails and Griffon, and related technology. It will be held April 16th, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Bloomington I-35W, 1201 West 94th Street, Bloomington, MN 55431.

The organizers of GR8 in the US conference, Bill Turner and Shaun Jurgemeyer, announced today that Dave Klein has been named the conference Sponsorship Coordinator.

Dave is a consultant helping organizations of all sizes to develop applications more quickly (and have more fun doing it) with Grails. Dave has been involved in enterprise software development for over 16 years. He has worked as a developer, architect, project manager, mentor and trainer. Dave has presented at user groups and national conferences. The founder of the Gateway Groovy Users, in St. Louis, a contributing editor of GroovyMag, and author of Grails: A Quick-Start Guide.

GR8 in the US is a one day conference dedicated to the software language Groovy, software development frameworks Grails and Griffon, and related technology. It will be held April 16th, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Bloomington I-35W, 1201 West 94th Street, Bloomington, MN 55431.

The organizers of GR8 in the US conference, Bill Turner and Shaun Jurgemeyer, announced today that Venkat Subramaniam has been named the conference kickoff speaker.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc. has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He helps his clients succeed with Agile Development and various software technologies. He is a frequent invited speaker at various international software conferences. He's author of .NET Gotchas (O'Reilly), co-author of the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer, and author of Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer and Programming Scala (all from Pragmatic Bookshelf).

GR8 in the US is a one day conference dedicated to the software language Groovy, software development frameworks Grails and Griffon, and related technology. It will be held April 16th, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Bloomington I-35W, 1201 West 94th Street, Bloomington, MN 55431.

The GR8 in the US conference, to be held April 16th, 2010, is now accepting presentation proposals. This one day event covers Groovy, Grails, Griffon and other GR8 technologies. There will be four concurrent tracks, both presentations and workshops, two guest speakers, a panel session, and a Meet the Speakers happy hour.

Submit your presentation/workshop proposals to GR8 in the US Call For Proposals.

At last we have an official date! April 16th, 2010. GR8 in the US 2010 is a conference focusing on Groovy, Grails, Griffon and all the other GR8 technologies we love. It will be held at the:

Holiday Inn Bloomington
1201 West 94th Street
Bloomington, MN 55431

This location is at the 94th St exit of Interstate 35W. It is just a short hop from the airport, the light rail, and the Mall of America, to which there is a regular shuttle. It is conveniently located to both downtown Minneapolis and downtown St. Paul.

The tentative schedule of events and other information will be coming soon!

Hope to see you there!