Java Magazine - May/June 2012

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JAVA.NET ENHANCES ITS PLATFORM FOR JUGS

In recent months, Michael Hüttermann and others in the Java.net Java user groups (JUGs) community have devoted considerable time to updating and enhancing the platform and services Java.net offers to JUG members. New and updated features include the JUG events calendar and JUG Member Spotlights. Hüttermann focused special attention on JUG resources, a set of tools that allow you to browse the Java.net JUG community, submit your own JUG for membership, join mailing

lists, and more. In addition, the resources include links to information on how to start/ improve your JUG, blog postings, the JUG wiki, and the Adopt-a-JSR program.

One of the most popular updated features on the Java.net JUGs site is the Jug Profile Map, a Google Map that shows the location of JUGs across the world. More than 175 JUGs are already on the map. If you’d like to get your JUG onto the Java.net Jug Profile Map, just follow the instructions.

Three new Java user groups (JUGs) have recently joined the growing Java.net JUG community. In Croatia, Branko Mihaljević, Stjepan Matijašević, Hrvoje Đurđević, Marin Orlić, and Slavko Žnidarić founded HUJAK, the Croatian Java User Association; the group also hosts a Croatian language home site, hujak.hr. In May, HUJAK will be collaborating with the Croatian Association of Oracle Users to hold Croatia’s first ever “Java Day” event. In Vilnius, Lithuania, Vaidas Pilkauskas, Kasparas Rudokas, and Aleksej Šipulia founded the Vilnius Java User Group; the Vilnius JUG has also created a Google Group, and they are using Eventbrite to organize meetings, the first of which took place in March. Finally, Mahmut Bulut has worked with other Java professionals and enthusiasts in the Eskişehir Province region of Turkey to form the Eskişehir Java User Group. Congratulations and good luck to all of these new JUGs. Global JUGs Growth Continues