Explicitly and without apology a marketing vehicle MaryMaryQuiteContrary

While you're in line waiting for the doors to open for the General Session at JavaOne tomorrow... 

(and you want to get there early -- at 8 a.m. for JavaOne's ONLY shot at getting an original James Gosling designed t-shirt..)

... flip open the current issue of Business Week and check out the story on The [Virtual] Global Office

Hot shot techno celeb Nicole Yankelovich of Project Wonderland fame is featured. 

(She's a close, personal friend, btw. Not to brag :-)

The story is all about how companies (like Sun) are using virtual worlds for employee meetings, mixers, recruiting..

It's good stuff. Check it out.

Then, make sure you don't miss all the opportunities to see Nicole and the rest of the Project Wonderland team in SF this week, namely:

uesday, May 6th:

10:50 am Designing an MMORPG with Project Darkstar 

Jeff Kesselman - Technical Session

1:30 pm Project Wonderland: Community-built Virtual Worlds

Nicole Yankelovich & Nigel Simpson - Community Corner talk

Wonderland with Kids

Gilda Garreton & Juan Carlos Herrer - Community Corner talk

3:20 pm Project Wonderland: A Toolkit for Building 3-D Virtual Worlds 

Paul Byrne & Jonathan Kaplan - Technical Session

3:20 pm Project Darkstar Hands-On Lab

Jeff Kesselman & Jana Olivova - Hands-on Lab

6:00 pm Creating Games on the Java Platform with jMonkeyEngine

Rikard Herlitz & Joshua Slack - Technical Session

It's too bad the Wonderland talk and the Darkstar hands-on lab were scheduled opposite one another, but by the time we realized it, it was too late to change the schedule.

On Wednesday, May 7th

6:30 pmVideo Game Development on the Java Platform: Past Present and Future of Java Technology Games

Chris Melissinos - Birds-of-a-Feather Session

7:30 pm Project Wonderland Community Gathering

Thirsty Bear - 661 Howard Street, San Francisco

The entire Wonderland team will be at the JavaOne conference this year. We'll be heading over to the Thirsty Bear on Wednesday, May 7th at 7:30pm after Chris Melissinos' Java gaming birds-of-a-feather session. Whether or not you're planning on attending JavaOne, please join us for this informal Wonderland Community Event. We'll bring something along that says "Wonderland" on it so you'll be able to find us. 

Thirsty Bear Brewing Co

661 Howard St, San Francisco, CA

(415) 974-0905

http://www.thirstybear.com

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