Once again, OW2 is a partner in this major event for the Java community in Europe. We have a booth shared by six OW2 members and four presentations dedicated to OW2 projects. If you never heard of DeVoxx, suffice to say it's the new name of the JavaPolis event. 

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December 8-12, 2008 at the Metropolis in Antwerp, Belgium.
See more on the [DeVoxx web site>http://www.javoxx.com/display/JV08/Home].
OW2 has signed for a Medium sponsorship.
We are convinced the OW2 community has interesting technology to show to DeVoxx attendees, we launched an internal call for papers. The enthusiastic response allowed us to send a {list of 21 abstracts from the OW2 community|OW2AbstractsForJavoxx08-v2.pdf}. We also suggested the DeVoxx organizers to set up an OW2 track (or at least an open source track as JavaOne had last May).

*OW2 presence at DeVoxx 2008 conferences:*

- {The OW2 Code Base - Component Models in Action|OW2ComponentsInActionDevoxx2008.pdf} (Partner talk) - Wednesday 10 December 2008.

Speakers : Gael Blondelle (Chairman of the OW2 Technology Council) and Alexandre Lefebvre (OW2 CTO).

Abstract of the talk :
This talk focuses on the architecture vision of OW2 Consortium. More specifically, it shows how component-based architectures built with Fractal and OSGi power the consortium code base.

- [Effective SOA + GRIDs with ProAcrtive Parallel Suite>http://www.javoxx.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1377847], by Denis Caromel, INRIA, friday Dec. 12.

- [The Process Virtual Machine, a revolutionary technology for BPM>http://www.javoxx.com/display/JV08/The+Process+Virtual+Machine%2C+a+revolutionary+technology+for+BPM], by Miguel Valdes Faura, Bull, thursday Dec. 11.

- [Dynamic deployment and scalability for the cloud (BoF Session)>http://www.javoxx.com/display/JV08/Dynamic+deployment+and+scalability+for+the+cloud], by Jerome Bernard, Elastic-Grid, monday Dec. 8.

*OW2 presence in DeVoxx Exhibition*: OW2 projects demonstrated on the OW2 village 

. Bonita and Orchestra (Business Process Management), by Bull.

. eXo platform (Portal), by eXo Platform.

. PEtALS  (Enterprise Service Bus), by EBM WebSourcing.

. Talend Open Studio (Data Integration), by Talend.

. Xwiki (wiki system) , by XWiki.

. ProActive (Entreprise Grids), by INRIA.

. Galaxy (SOA Platform), by INRIA.

*Report on OW2 participation to DeVoxx*

About the conference:

Around 45 DeVoxx visitors attended the OW2 partner talk.  The presentation was 45 minutes long, some interested people came on the booth afterwards.
For the others OW2 sessions: speakers were satisfied about the level of participation.

About the booth :

The booth size was small,  but good booth construction for members, open configuration. Thus members were satisified, they got  good visibility and interesting contacts; although  the OW2 welcome counter was a bit hidden behind the drink pod.

About the goodies and marketing actions :

- Beer & lottery price: successful operations, appreciated and largely used by visitors (especially for lottery price)

- Invitation cards for beer on the booth : was distributed at the end of conferences and session. The design of cards was appreciated by members.

- Caps : attendees seemed to like it, almost all have been distributed. 

- Design of members signs : very positive feedback from members.