2013 is almost done and lets finish it with a big celebration!

Announcing the birth of a new conference – DevNation, an open source polyglot conference for application developers. There will be sessions, labs, hackfests, panels, and much more.

Dates: April 13-17, 2014
Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco
Website: devnation.org
Twitter: @DevNationConf
Hashtag: #DevNation14

As Andrew mentioned in his blog, this conference is:

A unification and expansion of individual events we’ve had in the past (e.g. JUDCon, CamelOne, Developer Exchange).  Our modus operandi:

• Grow open source
• Cater to a highly-technical audience of software and maintenance engineers
• Extend our reach to communities outside Red Hat’s sphere of influence

There are no set “themes” or “tracks” but here is general guideline on what we are looking for:

• Enterprise application development
  (e.g. concurrent, multi-user applications with data stores, security, transactions)
• Front-end development
  (e.g. display technologies, client-side scripting and layout, templating engines)
• Mobile development
  (e.g. Android, iOS, Cordova, HTML5 for mobile)
• Big data
  (e.g. RDBMS and NoSQL, persistent storage and associated computational problems with large data stores)
• Application integration
  (e.g. Service-oriented architecture)
• DevOps and continuous delivery
  (e.g. build and deployment environments, administration and management)
• Performance and tuning
  (e.g. analysis and techniques to get the best out of your applications)
• Platform development
  (e.g. C++ and *nix applications)
• Cool stuff
  (Any helpful bits you’d love to share with your peers)

What are the critical dates to remember ?

• December 23, 2013: CFP Opens
• January 15, 2014: CFP closes
• February 2014: Speaker notifications sent
• February 12, 2014: Agenda posted
• April 13 – 17, 2014: DevNation

All speakers not only get a full conference pass but also one night of hotel stay!

Some of the invited speakers include:

• Mike Milinkovich from Eclipse Foudation
• Chris Aniszczyck from Twitter
• Markus Eisele prominent Java EE architect and blogger
• Gavin King, creator of Ceylon programming language, CDI spec lead, Seam, Hibernate

I will be there and would love to see you there!

Submit your paper now!