The JavaOne conference began with a pre-conference. CommunityOne was a day-long mix of sessions on NetBeans, GlassFish, OpenJDK, OpenSolaris, and Web 2.0 topics. CommunityOne also features a day-long track hosted by James Governor and Steven O'Grady of RedMonk billed as the Unconference. Instead of going to another track planned by Sun to hear from their marketing folks or a JavaOne conference sponsor, the Unconference topics are proposed by attendees and the selection is made by a democratic vote at the beginning of the day. The Unconference worked out splendidly.

Read my complete report on the CommunityOne Unconference at: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=45298