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Nighthacking ...with Steven Chin and company (and featuring James Gosling)
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I have a virtual event to announce that you can participate in online called the NightHacking Tour.
Steven Chin is a friend and colleague of mine. He's a Java Evangelist with Oracle. Steven's taking a motorcycle tour through parts of Europe and will be interviewing some interesting people along the way.
The first stop will be with James Gosling, the original Java NightHacker. This is a chance to watch James live and interact with him via the social stream (via UStream or by tweeting with #nighthacking) as he chats, hacks, and gives an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of how seafaring robots are created at Liquid Robotics.
You can sign up for the event on the NightHacking UStream site here:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nighthacking
The stream will start at 11AM PST on Wednesday, October 24th. [please adjust for your local time]
This is also the start of the NightHacking Europe Tour, which will include dozens of interviews/coding-sessions throughout Europe for the next 3 weeks leading up to the Devoxx conference in Antwerp Belgium. All of this will be live streamed from different countries on a pan-European motorcycle tour.
I like motorcycles. I love Europe. Steven has arranged to interview dozens of interesting developers. And, combined with being an interesting developer himself IMHO, I believe this will be a fun and easy way to learn some new things about software development. Plus, it's going to be chilly over there on "The Continent", so you can maybe sneak in some cold weather bike touring questions and comments, too!
Here's what Steven says (and suggests)
"From 10/29 to 11/11 I will be traveling across Europe via motorcycle and doing live video streaming of the journey. Along the way I will visit user groups, interviewing interesting folks, and hack on open source projects. The last stop will be the Devoxx conference in Belgium, which is the most influential Java conference in the world!
Join me for the journey by watching the live stream in 3 easy steps:
- Click “Join Crowd” on the UStream Channel Page to get notified when we are live
- Come back here or to the NightHacking UStream Channel to watch the free live feed
- Interact with me and folks I am hacking with via twitter using hashtag #nighthacking
You can also become part of the event for signing up join me in your home country as I pass through. To sign-up, please fill out the “Let’s Meetup Form” and let me know which city you would like to meet in."
Here's Steven's itinerary. Talk about a fun trip, especially on a motorcycle where you see everything so much better:
So come join the NightHacking Tour for an exclusive hacking event with James Gosling, and follow the journey across Europe!
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