A sample of the show

Sunday May 4th 2008 at 3pm was the Glassfish Unconverence event.
For the rest of us, "An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is created and managed by the participants (generally day-by-day during the course of the event) rather than by one or more organizers in advance of the event" - wikipedia
The suggested topics for this session were:

• scaling & clustering techniques (different approaches, real-life usage)
• making money with GlassFish, how can Sun help (partner program, co-marketing, ...)
• teaching Java EE 5 with GlassFish
• packaging technologies (which one to use when)
• real-life GlassFish experiences
• dynamic languages for GlassFish v2, v3
• GlassFish v3 architecture
• Community and GAP (how to grow the community, status on GAP)
• Performance tuning
• JSF, Ajax, Web 2.0 marketplace
• Comet (Ajax Push) support
• SIP Servlets, SyncML and Communications
• production deployment experience
• JavaFX and GlassFish
• GlassFish, Java Business Integration (JBI) and OSGi
• GlassFish Management and Automation

This I felt was a brilliant concept to engage with participants and allow a free flow of concepts and ideas. I am surely planning some unconference style lunch and learn sessions with my key customers where the agenda is designed as you go and not beforehand.