If you ever wanted to meet a whole bunch of qooxdoo core developers at once, there’s a good chance to do so on May 26-28, 2008: Two conferences will be held in the city of Karlsruhe (Germany), where most of the qooxdoo framework developers work at 1&1. Excitingly, many team members will participate in the event as speakers, covering quite a wide range of topics, including brand new qooxdoo 0.8 features as well as modern web technologies in general.

Both conferences take place at the same time and location. The first one is the webinale, a well-known German web conference. Most of the talks will be given in German, and so will the following (titles translated to English):

Two power workshops (3 hours each) will focus on features and tools of the upcoming qooxdoo 0.8:

• GUI Development with qooxdoo (Sebastian Werner, Fabian Jakobs) – in German
• Advanced Web Application Development (Sebastian Werner + other core developers) – in German

A session within the “RIA day” track will show how qooxdoo stands up to other technologies:

• qooxdoo – Killer apps for all browsers (Andreas Ecker) – in German

Dynamic Languages World Europe is the first European conference dealing with the shared concepts and frameworks of all important dynamic languages. Of course, we made sure that JavaScript is in the mix. This is an international conference with all the sessions given in English:

• Advanced Object-Oriented JavaScript (Andreas Ecker) – in English
• Selenium RC: Automated Testing of Modern Web Applications (Thomas Herchenröder) – in English
• JavaScript Tooling – Minimize, Lint & Co (Fabian Jakobs) – in English

A great opportunity (at least for the German qooxdoo community) to meet us at these conferences, getting a fair amount of qooxdoo overdose and hanging out with us for a beer or two. If you are interested, let us know.