[Australasia-spring-interest] Register now for our launch parties (they're filling up!)

[Ben Alex]

Hello there!

In this email:

* Launch parties on Friday 23 May
* Training summary
* Upcoming user group meetings
* JAOO conference and special discount for Spring users
* We're hiring again

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LAUNCH PARTIES ON FRIDAY 23 MAY
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Places are rapidly filling up at our five Asia-Pacific Spring launch
parties! Come and join us at 6:00 pm on Friday 23 May 2008 to enjoy an
informative demonstration, free food, drinks, fun and giveaways. You'll
also meet other local developers, plus we have both SpringSource staff
and local JUG leaders hosting each party. These free events are almost
at full capacity, so please register ASAP if you'd like to attend:

* BRISBANE: Fri 23 May, 6:00 pm AEST, http://tinyurl.com/4sgozm
* MELBOURNE: Fri 23 May, 6:00 pm AEST, http://tinyurl.com/6jk65o
* SINGAPORE: Fri 23 May, 6:00 pm SST, http://tinyurl.com/3jux2q
* SYDNEY: Fri 23 May, 6:00 pm AEST, http://tinyurl.com/499zw8
* WELLINGTON: Fri 23 May, 6:00 pm NZT, http://tinyurl.com/3fa63b

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TRAINING SUMMARY
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There have been some updates to our training schedule, with the latest
courses shown below. Please register early to secure your place:

CITY        COURSE          DATES           DETAILED INFORMATION
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Wellington  Core Spring     27/05 - 30/05   http://tinyurl.com/6btyfz
Melbourne   Core Spring     27/05 - 30/05   http://tinyurl.com/5sh86g
Sydney      Web Services    05/06 - 06/06   http://tinyurl.com/6dwba8
Canberra    Core Spring     10/06 - 13/06   http://tinyurl.com/3rxlvu
Brisbane    Core Spring     23/06 - 26/06   http://tinyurl.com/5ffsnq
Sydney      Core Spring     01/07 - 04/07   http://tinyurl.com/4j42rg
Hong Kong   Core Spring     08/07 - 11/07   http://tinyurl.com/5bqpdx
Singapore   Core Spring     15/07 - 18/07   http://tinyurl.com/5r35qe
Bangalore   Core Spring     22/07 - 25/07   http://tinyurl.com/5jsrlc
Bangalore   Core Hibernate  28/07 - 30/07   http://tinyurl.com/3fz8kg
Bangalore   Web Services    31/07 - 01/08   http://tinyurl.com/5tnemj
Melbourne   Core Hibernate  11/08 - 13/08   http://tinyurl.com/3qr9b4
Melbourne   Web Services    14/08 - 15/08   http://tinyurl.com/5qdxt7

Custom on-site courses are also available. Simply call us for details.

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UPCOMING USER GROUP MEETINGS
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As announced in our last mail, Dr Paul Chapman is presently visiting
user groups across Asia-Pacific with a session entitled, "Spring 2.5:
Enhanced productivity and production power". This session is aimed at
existing Spring users and will introduce new capabilities including
automated component scanning, expanded annotated metadata services and
the considerable advancement of convention over configuration in
Spring's web framework. Paul's session will also explore some of the
more significant production and runtime enhancements, including Spring
2.5's OSGi bundle support and the new Spring Advanced Management Suite.

Most of the cities listed below are at or close to full capacity, so
please register as soon as possible if you would like to attend:

* SYDNEY: Meeting was held Wed 30 April
* WELLINGTON: Meeting was held Thu 1 May
* MELBOURNE: Meet was held Wed 7 May
* CANBERRA: Meeting was held Wed 14 May
* HONG KONG: Thu 22 May. Info: http://tinyurl.com/5pya34
* AUCKLAND: Wed 18 June. Info: http://tinyurl.com/3hfvpl

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JAOO - FOR DEVELOPERS BY DEVELOPERS
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SpringSource is pleased to be a sponsor of Australia's first-ever JAOO
conference. Not only will there be Spring-specific sessions by Rod
Johnson and I, but there is an exciting line up of other international
speakers including Martin Fowler, Dave Thomas, Robert Martin and Steve
Vinoksi. This is the first and only Australian conference where you will
see such a diverse range of high-quality international speakers.

The conference will cover best practices, architecture and design,
enterprise systems, new languages, plus lean and agile software
development. Tracks include new frontiers, cloud computing, new
programming models, scripting and DSLs, plus server platforms.

There will be two JAOO conferences run in Australia this year:

* BRISBANE: 29-30 May. More: http://tinyurl.com/5bmfde
* SYDNEY: 2-3 June. More: http://tinyurl.com/6hl49n

A special discount remains available for all Australasia-spring-interest
recipients. Simply use promotion code "springsource" to automatically
receive a 10% discount off the current price.

For those attending JAOO, come and visit the SpringSource booth to say
hello and receive your free showbag of SpringSource goodies!

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WE'RE HIRING AGAIN
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We're hiring! If your professional goals include technical excellence,
enjoying a challenge, global career opportunities, becoming
internationally recognised, working with some of the best people in the
industry, having a chance to travel, influencing products used by tens
of thousands of developers globally, and actually enjoying the
excitement of coming to work each today, we currently have two
consultant/senior consultant positions vacant in our Sydney office.

If you'd like to have a confidential conversation about these
opportunities, or receive an information package, please email our
Regional Director of Australasia, Steve.Morris at springsource.com.

I look forward to seeing you at JAOO, our launch parties, or one of the
upcoming user group meetings across our region.

Best regards

Ben Alex
Principal Software Engineer
SpringSource - Delivering The World's Leading Enterprise Java Platform
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