Welcome to the Java User Groups Community

Java User Groups (JUGs) are the place were Java users can get information, share resources and solutions, increase networking, work together to achieve better Java Technology expertise, and above all, drink beer, eat pizza and have fun. The Java User Groups Community aims to be the meeting point for JUGs, in order to create a better interaction among the groups, expanding and strengthening the Java movement worldwide. Here, in the JUGs Community page, JUG leaders and JUG members can come to share information about creating, joining and running a JUG, and to work together in tools, projects and discussions that are important for the worldwide Java community.

Take a look at the JUGs Community Objectives, to lear how your JUG can benefit from participation in this community!

Announcing Juggy
The JUGs community is proud to announce its new mascot: Juggy, the Java Finch. Read all about it here.
  (Jun 23, 2005)

JUG.RU Profile: an Interview with Yakov Sirotkin

It is my pleasure to feature our first profile of a Java Users Group: JUG.RU! The primary goal of these interviews (and the ones to follow) is to help JUGs across the world to share information about each other, from how a JUG is organized, to interesting tidbits such as local logos and activities. Would you like to see your JUG featured in an upcoming JUG Profile interview? Contact one of the java.net JUGs community contacts (see sidebar)

Eitan Suez and Totto join forces with Bruno as Community Leaders

As of today, Eitan Suez and Totto will assist Bruno in his work to facilitate and incubate Java entusiasts on java.net. This will hopefully provide better service and new ideas and initiatives. We have a few ideas of our own, but are always keen to know what kind of services you all feel are missing on the community dimmension of java.net.
  (Mar 01, 2005)

JavaPolis 2004 - Europe

JavaPolis is by far the biggest conference for Java people in Europe. Last year more than 950 people attended JavaPolis. In 2004 we aim to reach 1.500 Java enthousiasts during 5 days! See more detailed informations at http://wiki.javapolis.com.

What do you think about advertising your JUG's activities here?
We intend to publish news, advertise projects and let everyone know about the exciting things your JUG is doing. To make your community's activities public to the world , just send an e-mail to esilva@dev.java.net. We will evaluate your message and publish it as soon as possible.

Edgar Silva
Java User Group World Community
  (Jun 17, 2004)

Brazilian JUGs involved in the Java and Open Souce discussion
FISL is the most important event about free software in Brazil. People from different countries come to attend sessions about free software such as Linux, PHP and others. As Java is starting to get more attention from the open source and free software community. SouJava and RSJUG, along with other brazilian JUGs, had a strong presence in the evnet, helping the Java and Free Software community discuss the issues related to Java and open source. See Simon Phipps comments on : http://www.webmink.net/minkblog.htm
  (Jun 17, 2004)

New Graduations!
Four JUGs have recently come out from the incubator: The Club des Utilisateurs de Java (France), the JavaVietnam Organization (Vietnam), the J2ME CDC Technologies (virtual JUG), and Java User Group Sardegna (Italy). Their leaders -- Thibaut, Minh, Hinkmond and Fabrizio -- are helping making the JUGs community better. Congratulations!

Hong Kong JUG e PortalJava: the first graduates on the JUGs Community
We're plased to announce the first two JUGs to graduate from the JUG Incubator. The Hong Kong JUG, with their beautiful Duke-Panda logo, and Portal Java, a virtual community in Brazil, have completed in short time the assignments needed to have a nice JUG project in java.net. Taking care in creating a complete project helps our community, and brings more users to your group. Please, visit the Hong Kong JUG and the PortalJava, to see what you can do to improve your project, and visit the jugs-incubator project to see the easy steps you need to complete.

Announcing the jugs-incubator: where JUGs new to java.net prepare their projects for the world challenges
The JUGs Community is launching the jugs-incubator project. JUGs that want to host their project in java.net now have a place and time to better prepare their participation. The incubator will allow for faster approval of JUG projects, since they can be approved right on, before their project is ready. Once JUGs take the time to learn and configure their java.net project, they can then graduate from the incubator. Come visit the JUGs that are right now in the jugs-incubator! You will also learn easy steps the will help you improve your own project.

Direct from Java Island: JUG Indonesia leader talks about Java, Eclipse, Open Source
Do you think you are a Java master? What about Frans Thamura, leader of JUG Indonesia. He lives on Java (the island), speak the Java language (the real one), and runs both a Java User Group and a Java based company. Too much Java for you? Check out what he has to say about his technology of choice (can you guess which one?). You can read his thougths both in his weblog, or in JUG Indonesia web site.

Making a difference -- Vietnamese developers help changing JDK 1.5
Brian Beck, from Sun, acknowledges that the strong demand received from Vietnamese developers helped "bend the rules" on the release of JDK 1.5. This is a strong example on how JUGs can help shape the future of Java.

Brian said that: "[...] by [Sun's] normal rules it would be too late to add Vietnamese support to 1.5. However, because of the very strong demand we have received [...], I have received approval to "bend" the rules some what."

Congratulations to JavaVietnam for the great organizational work, and many thanks to Sun form understanding the importance of Java User Groups.

Import your Mailing Lists into java.net
Java.net offers all the infrastructure to handle your JUG mailing lists, so you can host your announcements, news and discussion lists, and even moderated lists. To help you create and import your existing users, you can use the JavaNet Mailing List Tool, that is targeted for helping JUG Leaders in managing their java.net mailing lists.

Join the JUG leaders mailing list
Come discuss the real world Java Community!

JUG Events and Meetings
The java.net Events Calendar has a special place for listing Java User Group events and meetings. If your meeting time isn't already listed fill out the Event Form to add it to the list. Be sure to choose "User Group" as the Event Type.

Java User Groups Wiki
Our wiki is a great way to promote your user group meetings and allow members to share valuable information. Currently the AustinJUG, BeJUG, JavaBahia, SanDiegoJUG, RichmondJUG, and SouJava projects are taking advantage of our wiki space.