After many brain-storm sessions and different cross-cutting ideas,we finally have reached a consensus about the new JavaPolis logo.

Last year we reached about 950 attendees of which 94% were Belgians. This year we really want to get a lot more international attendees from all over Europe. This is why you can see in the JavaPolis logo the Dutch windmills, the French eifeltower, Englands Big-Ben, the German Brandenburger and the Belgian Atomium

Through an international marketing campain and bannering on different well respected Java sites like JavaLobby and The Server Side hopefully attrack more international attendees. Starting from June we'll start mailing a JavaPolis newsletter of the confirmed speakers, topics and other related news. This will hopefully create the awarness we're looking for.

Personally I want JavaPolis to become the Apache of the European Conferences, low-entry fee and good content
Let's be honoust, JavaPolis is really value for money and we hand pick our speakers to garantee the best content and presentations. Don't worry, if not selected as a JavaPolis speaker you can always fill-in a BOF, based on a first-come-first-served algorithm. Just go to the wiki page and enter your BOF topic page.

Hopefully JavaPolis attendees will also get more involved on the wiki's we've setup for both BeJUG and JavaPolis. Through this collaborative site attendees can add content, pictures, blogs and even comments.

Let the games begin....

Stephan