BIRT User Group Mannheim
BIRT User Group meetings provide educational presentations, networking, and collaborative support to help developers and business analysts improve their productivity with the use of BIRT.
Our members include developers, consultants, business analysts, managers and anyone interested in learning to use Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT). For the latest information on the BIRT User Group Mannheim and to register for the next meeting, please visit the BIRT User Group XING Site.
A Note from the BUG Leader - Christian Brell
| As you might already know, Actuate is supporting BIRT users to found local BIRT user groups in different areas and countries. I'm proud to be the leader of the first German BIRT user group located in Mannheim. As a BUG leader I organize and host the meetings of our user group and I help the members to get in contact with other users to share their knowledge. |
So who am I? My name is Christian Brell cbrell and I work as a software engineer, trainer and consultant for a software company called Orientation in Objects (OIO). OIO is a Java and XML competency center that offers software development both at fixed and agile price. In addition, we offer consulting and training for Java open source frameworks and tools (like BIRT, Eclipse, Jira, ..), Java application servers (Tomcat, JBoss, ..) and project management techniques (Scrum,…).
I have been using BIRT since 2006. One of my first projects while working for Orientation in Objects was to evaluate BIRT and to compare it with existing reporting solutions in the company. Starting with BIRT 2.0 we agreed to use it as a standard framework to meet the reporting needs in our software projects. Since that time I have used and integrated BIRT in a lot of different projects. Because I've been using BIRT for quite a while, I feel committed to the BIRT project in a special way.
So what do we do? The BIRT User Group Mannheim is an independent group of people who are interested in the BIRT Framework. A typical user group meeting is dedicated to a special topic and starts with one or two presentations with round table discussions afterwards. All our meetings take place at Orientation in Objects in Mannheim and are free of charge (we regularly meet about 4 times a year).
Sounds like fun…how can I join? Everyone interested in BIRT (novice and pros) is invited to participate in our user group. You can join us through our XING Group to be informed about our meeting.
