In the last six months we've seen increasing interest in OpenLaszlo by the Korean web community. I've been trying to reach out to the Korean open source community, always hoping that the initial interest in OpenLaszlo would soon result in the first Korean OpenLaszlo applications showing up. Last month we heard the news about the start of an open beta of PCAnn.co.kr. Now we have more good news for everyone in Korea interested in the OpenLaszlo project and Laszlo Systems: I'll be presenting OpenLaszlo at the Web Applications Conference on June 21st in Seoul, South Korea. There will be a one hour presentation of OpenLaszlo from 11:30am - 12:30pm as part of workshop 102 (Future of rich Internet applications). And I'll be part of the panel discussion on the future of rich Internet applications from 2:30pm - 3:10pm.

We want to thank Channy Yun of Daum Communications for the invitation to WebAppsCon. Channy is working as a Technology Evangelist, is one of the leaders of the Korean Mozilla team and apparently a great supporter of open source projects, like OpenLaszlo. I'm looking forward to meeting Channy, the Korean web community and companies interested in OpenLaszlo.

Please join Laszlo Systems in San Francisco, CA for an evening of pizza, beer and OpenLaszlo development on THURSDAY, MAY 31st from 7:00-9:00 pm. In addition to meeting and mingling with other OpenLaszlo advocates, you will be able to share your own OpenLaszlo success stories and learn the latest Laszlo community news and product advancements.

If you’re not able to make it to San Francisco, please recognize that we will be holding these meetups in various locations across the country. Stay tuned for more details on those as we secure the dates/locations.

WE'RE LOOKING FOR PRESENTERS!
OpenLaszlo Developers: We'd love to catch a glimpse at your latest applications and projects. Each presentation should be technical in nature with a demo included. 10 minute slots will be available from 7:30 pm - onwards, and there will be a projector on site.

COST
Free. Pizza, beer and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided by Laszlo Systems.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
LZX newbies and seasoned Laszlo veterans alike are welcome.

WHEN AND WHERE
Thursday, May 31, 2007
7:00pm - 9:30pm

CELLspace
2050 Bryant St
San Francisco, CA 94110
(map)

TO SIGN UP
Please register at the following link:
http://www.laszlosystems.com/events/501

Please join Laszlo Systems in San Francisco for an evening of pizza, beer and OpenLaszlo AJAX development on Thursday, March 16th. We are going to be previewing an exciting new DHTML runtime for the OpenLaszlo platform, enabling you to run applications in a browser without the Flash plug-in.

See here to let us know if you can make it. We're also looking for OpenLaszlo developers who would like to give a short demo at this event -- let us know on the same page.

If you're anywhere near Bluffdale, Utah, check out Victor Villas presentation on OpenLaszlo at the Utah PHP Users Group. The event page and RSVP form are here.

Matt Raible will be presenting "Developing Web Applications with Spring and Laszlo. Matt is the author of "Spring Live":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0974884375 and a co-author of "Pro JSP":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590592255.

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The "Interface21":http://www.springframework.com/ and "NoFluffJustStuff":http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/ Java Symposiums have announced "The Spring Experience":http://www.thespringexperience.com/, the first ever conference exclusively for the Spring Framework community. This international event will take place December 7th - 10th, 2005 at the Sheraton Bal Harbour Beach Resort in South Florida.

IT Conversations has an excellent interview with David Temkins, founder and CTO of Laszlo Systems. Listen to it here.

Before AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) had a name, there was Laszlo Systems, a software tools developer using AJAX-like methods along with with Macromedia's Flash player to deliver richer Web experiences. David Temkin tells us why he chose the Flash player as a platform. Laszlo went open source and chose IBM's Common Public License as it was flexible enough to fit their needs without curbing commercial use.