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M3DD/LA - A gather of mobile and embedded community in Latin America
Posted by maltron on July 03, 2009 at 01:55 PM | C

On June 20th, GoJava and Goias Free Robotics put together an International event for the whole Latin American Mobile and Embedded Community: The M3DD/LA (Java Mobile, Media & eMbedded Developer Days - Latin American Edition)

When the organization for this event started, everyone had a feeling that it would be a big hit. After the website was published, they started to keep track using Google Analytics, a twitter and other means to promote this event. Twitter was a major surprise because we had 300 people following in less than 5 days. Registration opened after 1 month and we had 400 registrations in the first day. The organization had to shutdown the registration because we reach the maximum number of people that the venue could support it. It was just incredible

The event had 4 tracks with 24 talks about the most current technologies in the mobile space: SunSPOT, LWUIT, Mobile Gaming, Robotics, Blu-Ray, JavaCard and JavaFX Mobile. Most of the Brazilian celebrities went there, talking and exposing their experience in the field. Goiania got such attention from the local community, that GoJava has got sponsorship from Companies that never had sponsor any Developer event before and support from the local Government.

SENAC is one of top Universities in Goiania and host this event, offering a great infrastructure and having support from their Director. Professor Murillo leadership from the venue perspective and made this event possible. We great appreciate his effort, which without him, it wouldn't be possible. Thanks Professor Murillo.

The much expected celebrities during M3DD/LA was those who came from the other side of the world, such as Mobile&Embedded Leader Roger Brinkley, Sun's Senior Evangelist Terrence Barr, SDK team from Czech Republic Richard Gregor and Radko Najman, who made a incredible blog about his experience in M3DD/LA and I strong recommend you have a look at it. Their contribution into this event were much appreciate and the effort to fly all the way down to South America.

Some of the Brazilian Celebrities in the mobile space were Igor Medeiros (The Brazilian JavaCard man and a awesome photographer), Antonio Marin Neto (aka Neto, author of CosMo - the mobile application with all information about an event), Robison Chris Brito (author of several Java ME videos with his popular and exciting talks about gaming), Eloi Junior (mobile developer from far north of Brazil and doing amazing things with LWUIT), Alexandre Gomes (Java.net blogger and Mobile&Embedded star, His talk is always well attended and very funny) and Magno Calvalcante is Rio de Janeiro's JUG Leader and presented his JavaOne's talk about the Brazilian Digital TV System.

If you had a chance to attendee this event in person, you were the lucky one. If not, I am sharing some of the pictures we had there and I encourage you to attend M3DD/LA in 2010 in Goiania. Congratulations to GoJava and Goias Free Robotics for an outstanding international event.

Fonte: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/maltron/archive/2009/07/m3ddla_a_gather_1.h...