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Report from SpringHispano's first meeting

Posted by: Andres Almiray on August 7, 2008

SpringHispano.org, as the name implies, is a Spring framework related community for Spanish speakers. It has it roots in Mexico but as Domingo (@domix)tells me, the site has a lot of followers in South America and Spain. Domingo and the SpringHispano team (J.J, Isidoro & Juan) orchestrated the first community meeting last Monday, I had both the honor and pleasure to be the invited speaker, the topic? Groovy!

We had a good number of attendees (+20) considering it was the first meeting, half of the audience already had experience with dynamic languages like JavaScript, Perl or PHP (no Ruby, Python, Smalltalk I believe, but that didn't hinder them in any way) so most of the topics discussed were fairly familiar. Here is the presentation material
Introduccion A Groovy
View SlideShare presentation (tags: springhispano groovy)

I always like the "aha!" reaction of the audience when showing HelloWorld.java turned into HelloWorld.groovy :D The Q&A session at the end of the presentation was pretty good. After the session we shared a light dinner (lasagna + salad) and had a very interesting talk, truly the community spirit was felt that night.

Both Ixchel and I are grateful and happy for this opportunity, reaching out talented, knowledge-hungry developers and community building are the main drivers for these kind of sessions, based on the comments made by attendees the meeting was a great success, Excelsior!

Domingo has posted his own report here and some pictures taken during the meeting. We wish the best to the SpringHispano community (they already have scheduled a second meeting!) and look forward to attending a future meeting.

Keep on Groovying!
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About Andres Almiray

Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and a Java Champion with more than 20 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. Andres is a true believer in open source and has participated on popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member of the Griffon framework and Hackergarten community event. https://ch.linkedin.com/in/aalmiray

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