Foojay Podcast #24: BeJUG, BruJUG and how Devoxx was born as JavaPolis
- June 05, 2023
- 1964 Unique Views
- 2 min read
The Foojay Java User Group World Tour has already brought us to a lot of different countries virtually all over the world.
But for this episode, the host decided to stay at home in Belgium.
The Belgium JUG (BeJUG) started in 1997 and was the birthplace of Devoxx, Devoxx4Kids, and VoxxedDays.
And in our capital Brussels, we've been able to join Brussels JUG (BruJUG), since 2010.
So there’s a lot we can talk about to learn more about communities and conferences in Belgium!
Guests
- Olivier Hubaut, BruJUG
- Stephan Janssen, founder BeJUG, Devoxx, Devoxx4Kids, Voxxed
- Tom Cools, AntwerpJUG, BeJUG
Podcast host
- Frank Delporte
Links
- https://www.meetup.com/belgian-java-user-group/
- https://www.meetup.com/BruJUG/
- https://devoxx.be/
- https://events.voxxeddays.com/
Content
- 00’00 Introduction of the topic and guests
- 02’19 History of BeJUG and the start of JavaPolis (Devoxx)
- 06’00 How BruJUG (Brussels) started and evolved
- 08’35 Tom as the winner of the bad timing award with AntwerpJUG
- 10’35 Impact of Covid on Devoxx and BruJUG
- 18’09 How BeJUG got restarted in 2022
- 27’05 How BruJUG attracted new speakers + tips for new speakers or new talks
- 31’32 How Devoxx4Kids grew to a worldwide event
- 36’03 The tools developed and used to manage Devoxx
- 41’13 About the name change from JavaPolis to Devoxx and the franchising
- 46’14 Future plans for Devoxx, BruJUG and BeJUG
- 51’14 CFP for Devoxx and how reviewers can find sessions for their JUG
- 54’16 Outro
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Comments (2)
Maarten V
2 years agoHi guys, thanks for the podcast. I really enjoyed the discussion on forming communities (both for current and next generation developers). Short question, Stephan referenced a twitter wall but I wasn't able to find any info on that. Do you happen to have a link? Keep up the good work!
Frank Delporte
2 years agoHi Maarten, this is the Twitter wall project: https://github.com/TweetWallFX/TweetwallFX I also added the link to the shownotes. Thanks for listening! Frank