18 1 / 2012
jsday, A Conference Dedicated to JS in Italy
Given the rising importance of JavaScript both in the development of web applications and as an all-purpose language, the Italian PHP user group GrUSP decided in 2010 to organize a conference fully dedicated to JavaScript, alongside the traditional phpDay conference. Much beyond any expectaion, the first edition has been incredibly successful, with over 300 visitors coming from all around Europe and sponsorship from big corporations and organizations, like Microsoft, Mozilla, Yahoo!, Opera and Sencha. The speaker list included Steve Souders (Google), Kyle Simpson (Mozilla), James Pearce (Sencha Touch, Facebook), Robert Nyman (Mozilla), Patrick Lauke (Opera) and many more. You can take a look at the videos of past talks at http://vimeo.com/grusp.
The 2012 edition of the jsDay (http://2012.jsday.it/) will be held in Verona on May 16th-17th. The call for papers will close on February 28th and we are still accepting submissions at: http://www.jsday.it/2012/call-for-papers.
Editors note: This was a guest post from the jsday organizers. If you are in the U.S., be sure you call your congresspeople about SOPA and PIPA!
