jQuery UK is back for 2013!

The jQuery Foundation is pleased to announce that White October are organising another jQuery UK  conference in Oxford, UK on the 19th of April 2013.

There is a call for papers and suggestions for speakers are also welcome. So if you want to take part, or want to see someone at jQuery UK you know what to do.

A very small number of tickets are on sale until the call for papers finishes on the 11th of October for a “blind bird” price of £130 + VAT.

The full speaker lineup should be announced winter 2012 and the early bird tickets will go on sale at the same time for £160 + VAT.

We’ve also listed it on Lanyrd.com if you’d like to follow along there!

Over the last eight months at the Foundation, we have been working to expand both the reach and breadth of our events, and we’re excited today to announce the inaugural jQuery Developer Summit, to be held October 15th and 16th, 2012 at the Aol Campus in Dulles, VA.

The Developer Summit will be a departure from our traditional events. Instead of two days of speakers and slide decks, we’re going to spend a morning giving you a rundown of how jQuery works, from internals of jQuery Core, to how we build and test the libraries, to how we manage our websites. Then we’ll break apart into teams, and spend the rest of our time working together to collaborate on the projects and tools we all use every day.

As this is a more intimate event (and because it’s our first time trying it), we can only accomodate about 150 people. In order to get the right mix of skills and experiences into the room, it won’t be a simple first-come, first-served process. Instead, we’ll be accepting and reviewing submissions to this application on a rolling basis from August 31st until September 7th. In other words, we have a lot of different bases we’d want to cover, so we can’t have 100 people showing up who just want to fix edge case bugs in Quirks mode!

The focus here is on collaboration, growing as an open-source developer, and having fun! If this sounds like your cup of tea, read more about the Developer Summmit now, and consider applying! And of course, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

The jQuery team is going bowling and we’d love to have you join us! We’ll be spending the evening of Friday, April 13th at King Pinz in Leesburg, VA, a bit outside of Washington, DC. We’ll have a private room with 6 lanes from 6 to 10 PM. The night will feature unlimited bowling, dinner, desserts, drinks, and billiards. There’s even a cigar bar, if you’re into that!

Very limited space – get your ticket fast.

Bowling

• Private room with 6 lanes
• Unlimited bowling (shoe rental included) for 4 hours
• Cozy couches with cocktail tables
• King Pinz: Photos
• Private Room: 360 degree tour

Dinner

• Appetizers, entrees, and desserts
• All night

Drinks

• Open bar
• All night

Billiards

• Private billiards table and lounge area

Cigar Bar

• http://www.kingpinzbowl.com/highrollers/index.htm
• 360 degree tour

Prizes

Who will be there?

• Dave Methvin
• Yehuda Katz
• Leah Silber
• Rick Waldron
• Karl Swedberg
• Adam J. Sontag
• Scott González
• Dan Heberden
• Richard D. Worth
• Corey Frang
• Kris Borchers
• You?

Sponsors

Please join us in thanking our thouroughly awesome sponsors for this event:

We know you love jQuery and we love you for showing it.

It’s that time of year again…time to talk about the next jQuery Conference!

Mark your calendars for June 28th and 29th. By popular demand, the next jQuery Conference will be in San Francisco proper (as opposed to Mountain View), at the fantastic UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center. If you haven’t been to an event there before, some highlights:

• Pretty much the best conference wifi we’ve ever worked with
• Pretty much the best conference food we’ve ever eaten
• Free flowing coffee, sodas and drinks all day long
• Great space, with comfy seating, great AV, parking, easy access to public transit, space for partying, and so on and so on and so on

We’re incredibly excited about the new space, and about the way the 2012 SF show is shaping up! We’re going slightly smaller and single track this year too, so things are a bit simplified, a lot more intimate, and there’s less general shuffling about. Registration is open now, and space is extremely limited. Tickets have sold out pretty quickly in the past, and there are about 150 tickets less than last time!

Call for Proposals

We’ve opened a call for speaking proposals, which will remain open until May 13th. We encourage any and all to apply. In fact, we’re borrowing a page from JSConf’s playbook this year and doing an “inverted” call:  you’re encouraged to nominate your dream speaker (or anyone else) for a speaking slot on the subject of your choice. Of course, you’re welcome to nominate yourself!  We love to spice it up with new speakers, new topics, and pretty much whatever you can think of. Submit a proposal now!

Sponsors

Conferences are expensive. So is running an open source project. We couldn’t do any of it without your help and support… so listen up! If you work for a company that’s hiring, a company that wants some developer publicity, or a company looking to help out and give back to the community, send them our way. Take a look at the conference prospectus if you (or your bosses) are feeling generous :) Sponsorship benefits and mega karma points are both up for grabs…

Training

We’re still on the lookout for a space for training in SF on Wednesday, June 27th. If your company has a space, or you have an idea for a venue, please shoot us an email, and we’ll be eternally grateful.

That’s it for today, folks. Keep an eye out for upcoming announcements about speakers, sponsors, training days and all varieties of miscellany. We’ll also be updating the conference site with things like venue details and after parties, so keep an eye on that one too. Lastly, as always, if you’ve got questions or comments, reach out or leave a note here.

jQuery Summit 2011

It’s that time of the year again (no, not Christmas!, something almost better!) – the annual (online) jQuery Summit. This year Environment For Humans (E4H) have a terrific line-up including sessions on jQuery plugin authoring best practices, creating interactive experiences with HTML5 and Popcorn.js and best practices for testing your jQuery code amongst others.

With some of the web’s most experienced jQuery and JavaScript professionals on board to share tips, tricks and their own experiences, you’ll be sure to learn something new that could help with your own projects. If you haven’t attended the summit before, you’re in for a real treat.

The summit is a completely online two-track conference run across two days with a track dedicated to designers and another focused completely on developers. As the event is all online, you can access it live whether you’re at home or in the office. For those worried about missing anything, E4H have you covered; all tickets include high-quality recordings that can be played back at your leisure later on.

Discount:

If you’re interested in attending, E4H have provided us with a very special 20% off discount code which can be redeemed on their event site. Just enter in 20JQUERY when purchasing your ticket or use the following link: http://jquerysummit2011.eventbrite.com/?discount=20JQUERY.

Details:

Sessions:

• jQuery & CSS Selectors – Estelle Weyl
• jQuery & HTML5 Video – Rick Waldron
• jQuery UI – Andrew Wirick
• Plugin Authoring Best Practices – Ben Alman
• jQuery & Browser Plugins – Sarah Chipps
• Progressive Enhancement – Nicholas Zakas
• jQuery & Responsive Web Design – Dave Rupert
• The State of jQuery – Adam Sontag
• Large-scale Application Architecture – Addy Osmani
• jQuery & iframe Programming – Ben Vinegar
• Structuring Your DOM-based Application – Garann Means
• Deferreds into jQuery – Dan Heberden
• jQuery Development Workflow – Anton Kovalyov
• jQuery & Backbone.js – Matt Kelly
• jQuery & QUnit – Ben Alman

Tickets: http://jquerysummit.com.

Dates:

Designer track: Tuesday, November 15th

Developer track: Wednesday, November 16th

jQuery Training At Bocoup

For those that prefer in-person training, group training is one of the best ways to improve your jQuery skills. Luckily, Boston-based Bocoup has a number of such comprehensive jQuery trainings scheduled for both January and March 2012.

Sessions will be held at The Bocoup Loft in Boston, and 10% of profits will go directly to the jQuery Foundation. If interested, be sure to sign up now since class sizes are limited!.

For more information, checkout http://training.bocoup.com/comprehensive-jquery/

Frontend Workshops in HTML5, JavaScript and jQuery

Finally, if you’re interested in learning more general frontend skills, Marc Grabanski is hosting a Frontend Masters Workshop Series for developers looking to earn a mastery in the arts of frontend development.

The training is composed of six workshops that will focus on frontend topics including jQuery, jQuery UI, HTML5 & CSS3, Titanium Mobile and building large JavaScript applications with speakers including jQuery team members Karl Swedberg and Scott Gonzalez.

For tickets and more information, see http://frontendmasters.com.

Update: For the first time ever, we have a conference signage sponsor. Thanks to custom signs shop Signazon for your support.

The Boston conference is sold out (thanks everyone!), as is the Intro to jQuery training session, but the requests keep coming! In response to popular demand, we’ve added a second training scheduled for Friday, September 30th.

The training will focus on HTML5, and be taught by jQuery Core Team Member and Bocoup trainer Richard Worth. The price will be the same $299 (which, if you’ve been paying attention to HTML5 training rates, is a steal!).

Here’s some detail from the training description:

HTML5 is the next major milestone in HTML and it’s not just another incremental enhancement; it represents an enormous advance for modern web applications. A large number of HTML5 features are already supported in browsers, so it’s time to start using them!

In our HTML5 for Programmers Workshop, you will learn how to create HTML5 web pages and web applications using semantic HTML5 markup and cross-browser HTML5 JavaScript APIs. After completing this course, students will:

• Know how to use semantic HTML5 Markup
• Know how to use cross-browser HTML5 JavaScript APIs
• Understand current browser support for the various HTML5 features
• Understand how to polyfill HTML5 features on older browsers

Our training takes a step-by-step approach, solidifying fundamental concepts and building on them to leave each attendee with a more thorough understanding of HTML5. Using a 50% lecture / 50% lab format, attendees will be able to put the concepts they have just learned to use after each section.

• HTML5 Overview
• Using HTML5 Today
• Markup
• Forms
• Canvas
• Video and Audio
• Drag and Drop
• Geolocation
• Web Storage
• Web Workers
• Communication and Web Sockets

This course is designed for software developers interested in designing, creating, and deploying HTML5 web applications. It is valuable to developers that already have experience in developing web applications. To get the most out of the course, you should be familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Prior exposure to any of these concepts will be helpful, but not required: AJAX, XML, jQuery, HTTP, REST.

It’s short notice, but we hope you can make it, so register now! As always, feel free to email events@jquery.org with any event related questions.

See you all at the show!

Hey everyone!

We recently announced the dates for our next jQuery Conference—October 1st and 2nd in Boston, MA—and we’re finally ready to open registration! Here are some top level bullet points for you:

• 2 days of jam-packed content from the jQuery Core Team and top community members, covering everything from jQuery basics and advanced techniques, to jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, and more
• A new limited-run jQuery tshirt and other jQuery swag
• A fabulous Boston after party, hosted by our friends over at MediaTemple with free booze, snacks, great company and more
• Other sweet after-hours events, announcements coming soon

Back by popular demand, we’ve also got a full day of Beginner jQuery Training for the new folks on your team, generously provided by our friends over at Bocoup. We’ll likely be adding additional topical and/or advanced training sessions, so keep an eye here and on Twitter for announcements and updates on that.

New for this year: For the first time ever, we’ve really got an official jQuery Conference Hotel. We’ve had suggested multiple hotels in the past, but this year we’ve secured a fantastic block at the conference venue, arranged for the Core Team and speakers to stay there, and have also thrown in some hotel-guest-only perks, like priority registration and swag distribution. We’ll also be organizing some on-site evening gatherings at the hotel, and hotel guests will receive priority registration for any of those as well.

The room block we secured last year—which didn’t have these extra perks—sold out well before the conference, so make sure you book your room ASAP, and make sure it’s part of our specific room block.

The Call for Papers is still open, so if you haven’t submitted your talk yet, definitely get on that.  Speakers receive access to a fantastic speaker thank you dinner, free accommodations at the conference hotel, and if budget allows it, additional TBD renumeration.

That’s it for now; we’ll have more announcements soon as we roll out the speaking roster, announce more party details and finalize all the other conference-related goodness.

Register Now!

We are very happy to announce the dates and venue for the 2011 Boston jQuery Conference. We will hold our annual Boston Conference on October 1—2, 2011, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, MA.

Call for Speakers

We are officially opening a call for speakers. If you would like to speak at the conference on topics such as jQuery, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, or general front-end development, please submit your talk proposal to us by July 15th. Speakers will be notified, confirmed, and announced within a week after the deadline.

Registration

We will be opening registration soon. You can fill out the form on the events home page and be notified the instant tickets are available.

Hotel

We have worked with the Royal Sonesta Hotel and have a huge block of rooms reserved for the conference. The Royal Sonesta is providing a discounted room rate of $273.53/night (includes tax). If you make your reservation over the phone, please let them know that you are staying for the jQuery Conference to get the discount. You can also reserve your room online. Please use the coded website link on the hotel page of the event site to ensure you get the discounted rate.

More information

If you or your company are interested in sponsoring this event, please contact us to find out more information.

We’re aware that, unfortunately, this year’s Boston conference overlaps JSConf.eu. We considered a number of dates, but had to settle on the 1st and 2nd. We are truly sorry if this presents a conflict for you and hope you can enjoy a weekend of JavaScript on either side of the Atlantic.

Speakers

We currently have 28 speakers and trainers listed on the speakers page of the events site for the San Francisco Bay Area Conference on April 16-17, 2011. Featuring speakers like John Resig, Richard D. Worth, Todd Parker, Steve Souders, Nicholas Zakas, Garann Means, Darcy Clarke, Estelle Weyl, Matt Kelly and many more.

Make sure you head over to the events site to learn all about our speakers.

Talks

We also have the schedule posted with 25 out of the 28 talks filled. We’ll be filling those remaining slots in the upcoming week (check our twitter account for the latest).

Here are a few of the talks you’ll find this year:

• jQuery Keynote
• jQuery UI Keynote
• jQuery Mobile
• Deferreds – Putting Laziness to Work
• Integrating Code Quality tools into your jQuery Development Workflow
• Filling the HTML5 & CSS3 Gaps with Polyfills and Shims
• Harnessing jQuery Templates and jQuery Data Link, to build dynamic data-driven browser apps
• Presentational jQuery
• The jQuery UI Widget Factory: WAT?
• Mobile Performance
• Plus many more

Make sure to click on the talk titles and speakers names to read the associated abstracts and bios.

Pre-conference Training

Don’t forget about our training classes we are offering on April 15th. Find out more information.

Registration

Tickets are selling fast so make sure you get your ticket today. Head over to our Register page to find out how you can be a part of the next jQuery Conference.

What started, with great demand, at the San Francisco Bay Area conference last year and has continued on for the conferences thereafter is our preconference training.  We are once again offering preconference training on April 15th for the jQuery Conference 2011: San Francisco Bay Area but for the first time offering two separate classes, beginner and advanced.

Introduction to jQuery given by Bocoup

Bocoup gave a bunch of advanced and hack day training classes in Boston last year in addition to the preconference Introduction to jQuery class, which also was greatly attended.  We are very happy to announce that Bocoup will once again be giving the Introduction to jQuery class.

From Bocoup.com:

The training will be given by Ben Alman (the jQuery plugin guy) and Adam Sontag (the yayQuery guy), and has been designed to give attendees a basic understanding of the jQuery API, development techniques, and best practices. In addition, attendees will learn about both jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile, and will be given an introduction to extending jQuery with custom plugins.

As usual there is a limited number of tickets for this training class and they are selling fast.  You’ll need to hurry if you want a seat for this class.

Tickets for Beginner training are $299 (plus Eventbright fees) and all proceeds go directly to the jQuery Project.

Please make sure to thank Bocoup for their support.

Advanced jQuery given by Jupiter JavaScript Consulting

New this year is an additional track for Advanced jQuery and we are happy to have Jupiter JavaScript Consulting give this class. JuptierJS builds and maintains JavaScriptMVC and has plenty of experience building complex jQuery apps.

From jupiterjs.com:

The following is a rough list of topics we’d like to cover.  I list them here quasi hierarchically.  But in reality, we’ll cover most of these topics throughout the day.

• Application Design
• Thin Server Architecture
• State Management
• History Enabled Websites
• Widget Design
• Event Oriented Architecture
• Custom Events
• Pub-Sub
• Event Delegation
• 1-2-3 Layers / Separation of Concerns
• Organizing Ajax and the Domain Model
• Deffereds
• Ajax Fixtures
• Client Side Templates
• The Perfect jQuery Plugin
• Prototypal Inheritance
• File/Folder Organization
• Dependency Management
• Production Builds
• Testing
• QUnit, Jasmine, Selenium, FuncUnit, Waitr, etc
• High Performance jQuery
• Even More Design Reviews

Yes, that’s a whole lot to cover! So come and be prepared to have your mind blown (and let me know if there’s something else you’d like to learn).

As usual there is a limited number of tickets for this training class and they are selling fast.  You’ll need to hurry if you want a seat for this class.

Tickets for Advanced training are $399 (plus Eventbright fees) and all proceeds go directly to the jQuery Project.

Please make sure to thank Jupiter JavaScript Consulting for their support.