Pearson Education Announces Google Web Toolkit Conference

June 12, 2007; 02:28 AM
Pearson Education today announced the plan for a dedicated conference for the Google Web Toolkit™ (GWT) community, Voices That Matter: Google Web Toolkit Conference, December 4-6, 2007, in San Francisco. The conference will bring together the team from Google that created and continues to develop GWT, as well as open source contributors and multi skill-leveled developers from around the world.

Google Web Toolkit™ (GWT) (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/) makes it easier for developers to build web applications. With GWT, users can develop and debug AJAX applications in the Java language using their choice of Java development tools. The GWT compiler translates Java applications to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

Voices That Matter: Google Web Toolkit Conference will be composed of keynotes and two parallel tracks, one targeted for those relatively new to GWT and one designed for those with some GWT experience who want to learn all the ins and outs. Attendees will be encouraged to contribute to the community by sharing what has worked in their own real-world development projects. Starting with pre-event conference calls and including a conference blog and speaker podcasts, participants will be given a range of opportunities to interact with the speakers and each other. They will be part of an ongoing conversation before and beyond the event.

“This conference will help attendees leverage the very unconventional nature of GWT,” said Barbara Gavin, manager for the Voices That Matter conference series. “As its engineering team makes clear: when there is a choice to be made between ‘easy for the user’ versus ‘easy for the developer’, ‘easy for the user’ always wins. Pearson Education is honored to create the forum where developers can learn directly from the global open source community that is living and breathing GWT every day.”

Voices That Matter is a series of conferences organized and produced by Pearson to serve its authors and communities, providing another forum for learning and collaboration. The 2007 conference series will also include Voices That Matter: Web Design, taking place October 22-25 in San Francisco. Google is supporting the Voices That Matter: Google Web Toolkit Conference by providing speakers from the GWT team.

In early 2007, Prentice Hall published Google Web Toolkit Solutions: Cool & Useful Stuff (Digital Short Cut), authored by David Geary (www.informit.com/shortcuts) and will publish the complete print book version in August 2007. In late 2007, Addison-Wesley will publish “The Google Web Toolkit”, authored by GWT creators Bruce Johnson and Joel Webber, and “Google Web Toolkit Applications”, authored by Ryan Dewsbury. Johnson, Webber, Geary and Dewsbury will be included among the GWT conference speaker line-up.

Those interested in attending, speaking or exhibiting can contact Barbara Gavin at [email protected]

More conference information is available at: www.voicesthatmatter.com/gwt2007

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