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QCon, LinkedIn, new exams, new auctions, leaders rotation.
Hi Great JavaBlackBelt Community !

We are moving fast forward :-)

You've been 400 to try our Challenge during the JavaPolis show, in Belgium. Thank you for your great enthusiasm. We look forward to meet you at QCon London.

After the v3 release, our team has been much demanded by our Corporate Edition customers and had to slow down on the Community development. But don’t worry; we come back very soon with some interesting proposals for the Community platform. Check the news this month.

And again, everyday, so many of you succeed exams, and so many other contribute, that it gives our team one more good reason to wake up on the morning and to rush to work!

Thank you very much.

John Rizzo
co-founder

Topics

  • QCon hosts JavaBlackBelt Challenge
  • LinkedIn group for blue and brown belts.
  • New exams under construction: OSGI - Basic, JavaScript - Basic, JDO.
  • New Auctions
  • Exam Leaders Rotation

JavaBlackBelt at QCon

JavaBlackBelt will be at QCon London conference March 12-14, 2008.

We'll run the JavaBlackBelt challenge as we do at many conferences, followed by a competition (with winners of the challenge).

If you have a yellow belt or upper on JavaBlackBelt, please come to meet us and be sure to ask for a free T-Shirt.

QCon is an enterprise software development conference to be held in London. It is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers. Some of the speakers include Martin Fowler, Erich Gamma, Kent Beck, eBay Architect Randy Shoup, Neal Gafter, Gregor Hophe, Brian Goetz, and many more.

JavaBlackBelt users get 50% discount on tickets! Just mention "javablackbelt" as promotion code when register on the QCon website.



JavaBlackBelt at LinkedIn

We've created a JavaBlackBelt group at LinkedIn.com for blue, brown and soon black belts.

Please send a mail to JavaBlackBelt dot admin at gmail dot com to be invited joining this group. In the mail, put a link to your JavaBlackBelt profile (on JavaBlackBelt.com), and the e-mail address that is in your linkedIn profile.



New exams

3 new intersting exams are being created. They already contain a few questions. Take the beta and vote on the questions to make them progress (or freeze ;-).



Exam Leaders Rotation

We welcome moderators to (re)select the exams they want to lead.

The idea is to allow people to switch exams and minimize the number of inactive moderators. If you are busy for a while, you can ask for exams later in the cycle or in the next cycle. The idea is to make sure we have active moderators and solicit other moderators for exams that need more.


We believe in giving equal opportunity to all the moderators for selection of the exams according to their time availability and likings.

If you think you have guts, knowledge and can can lead the exam please do not hesitate to request for becoming exam leader.

Please visit Exam Leader Rotation thread for more information.