Como vocês sabem, lançamos a iniciativa JEDI no sábado, 21 de Outubro, durante o XI Encontro de tecnologia da Politec – www.politec.com.br e contamos, entre outros convidados, com a presença de David George Intersimone (DavidI), Vice Presidente da Borland – www.borland.com.br.

Em seu blog ele fala de sua visita a Brasília e da importância do JEDI para a comunidade de desenvolvedores. Abaixo a transcrição de parte de seu texto (em Inglês) :

Last week I was in Sao Paulo for the Fifth Annual Borland Developer Conference, and in Brasilia for the Politec annual developer conference.  I just want to say a huge obrigado to our customers, partners, and employees in Brazil. ... On Saturday, I spent the day in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.  Politec, the largest private consulting/services company in Brazil, held their annual developer conference.  Politec has more than seven thousand developers, many of them using Delphi and JBuilder.  The event was even more important for the country and people of Brazil.  In the morning several of us signed a document pledging to help bring programming and Java instruction to the poorer communities in Brazil. The effort will grow the number of programmers in Brazil and also help the communities help themselves.  You can read more about JEDI Java Education and Development Initiative at https://jedi.dev.java.net/ (Delphi developers should not confuse this Java initiative with the Delphi Project JEDI).

As part of the event I had the pleasure to meet with Daniel deOliveira (JUG leader for DFJUG) and John Paul Ruiz Petines (Computer Science instructor at the University of the Philippines).  The JEDI project that started in the Philippines is now spreading around the world.  These two great men (and many others) are bringing programming and Java education to communities around the world with the help of Sun Microsystems, and JEDI team members around the world.  It feels great when all of us, who have benefited from programming, can give something back to the world.

More about JEDI in the future, stay tuned!

A notícia completa você lê em : http://blogs.borland.com/davidi/archive/2006/10/26/28728.aspx
Obrigado

Daniel deOliveira
JUG Leader / Founding Java Champion
Brasília Java Users Group
daniel@dfjug.org
www.dfjug.org
Brasil