February 2010 FRUCT newsletter is now available.

We welcome you to take part in a challenge for the best Russian MAEMO application. The contest is open from March 1 till April 15, 2010. The prize is the latest MAEMO device - Nokia N900. The prize will be given to a winner at the 4th Nokia week in St-Petersburg.  More information is available in Russian here.

May 14-15, 2010, Kharkov, Ukraine

As the number one software testing conference on space of CIS and one of the major conferences in Eastern Europe, Software Quality Assurance Days is now into its fourth year of providing an excellent platform for all people involved in the IT testing fields. SQA Days is renowned for being a neutral, non-marketing conference which is organized by testers for testers and can thereby better address the needs of the Software Testing community.
SQA Days is a fine platform of dialogue and share of experience for the people involved in sphere of software testing. It is possibility to tell about the achievements, to show how to use different testing tools, techniques and methodologies effectively. And certainly it is new useful acquaintances. More information is available at: http://it-conf.ru/ru/content/242.htm.

April 8-9, Saint Petersburg, LenExpo

Software developers, project leaders, system administrators and students are all invited to the Worldwide Developer Conference Sun Tech Days 2010. This conference is a part of world tour and will become the biggest event for Java and Solaris community in Europe! Last year Sun Tech Days in Saint Petersburg gathered more than 3500 attendees. Advance your knowledge at Sun Tech Days. Join expert technologists and fellow developers for a multiday immersion into enterprise technologies. Sun evangelists will lead a no-hype, code-heavy curriculum focused on just two things: providing you with real-world best practices and helping you to improve your development skills.
The star of Sun Tech Days 2010 in Saint Petersburg will be James Gosling - the author of Java, legendary person for developers all over the world. The second day of the conference will be opened with a keynote session from Oracle.
Register for the conference today, come and get to know everything you wanted to know about Java (EE, SE, ME), JavaFX, Solaris, virtualization, IDE, JavaFX TV, Java7 and much more! Participate and ask your questions in the Pavilion, take a training or try the new technologies on Hands-on-Labs sessions!
Participation is free of charge. Registration is required at http://sun.ru/techdays