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Nighthacking Tour with Java Evangelist Stephen Chin
From Jan 25th to Feb 7th Stephen Chin will be traveling across the Nordic countries and doing live video streaming of the journey. Along the way he will visit user groups, interview interesting folks, and hack on open source projects. The last stop will be at Jfokus 2013. Stephen will have a live stream of James Gosling and the Java Posse at the Jfokus conference.
Join Stephen for the journey by watching the live stream in 3 easy steps:
1. Follow @steveonjava on Twitter to find out when the broadcast is live.
2. Come to the NightHacking UStream Channel to watch the free live feed.
3. Interact with Stephen Chin and folks he is hacking with via twitter using hashtag #nighthacking.
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