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If not, now's the time &ndash; the           hotel is nearly sold out.</p>                    <h1 style=" margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 20px; color: #333; font-size: 18px; font-weight:bold;">Which Tutorial?</h1>          <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px;">Monday at EclipseCon is a bit different than the other days, with a diverse group of           <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/program/session-schedule/tutorials">half-day tutorials</a> to choose from,           plus a Modeling Symposium. Pre-registration is required for Monday sessions so we can optimize our space planning; thanks in advance for your help with this.</p>                                                  		           </td>                    <!-- Table column for RIGHT main content -->          <td valign="top" style=" padding: 14px 14px 15px 15px; border-left: 1px dotted #014b92; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin:0">                                   <h1 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px; text-align: left; line-height: 20px; color: #333; font-size: 18px; font-weight:bold;">Early Registration Prices End on February 14</h1>                       <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px;">The deadline for early registration prices is quickly approaching.             <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/registration">Register</a> by February 14 to save $150 off the Advance registration price.             Remember, members, committers, and alumni get an extra discount.            </p>                       <div style="clear: all">            </div>                           <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 20px; text-align: center"><a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/registration"><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/community/newsletter/ECon2012/images/register.png" alt="register now button"></a>            </p>                      <h1 style=" margin: 0; padding-top: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 20px; color: #333; font-size: 18px; font-weight:bold;">Meet the Speakers</h1>                        <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px;">           We have some amazing speakers lined up for the <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/agilealm">Agile ALM Connect</a> conference. To introduce these presenters, Ian Skerrett of the            Eclipse Foundation has been posting Q&A sessions with the speakers on his <a href="http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/">blog</a>.            </p>                         <h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 16px; color: #333; font-size: 14px; font-weight:bold;">Michael Fiedler and             Steve Speicher<br>            <a href="http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/integrating-lifecycle-tools-with-oslc-and-eclipse-lyo/">Q&A: OSLC and Eclipse Lyo</a></h2>            <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px;">Michael and Steve's talk:<br>             <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/all-about-eclipse-lyo-re-thinking-tool-integrations">All About Eclipse Lyo - Re-thinking Tool Integrations</a>            </p>                        <h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 15px; text-align: left; line-height: 16px; color: #333; font-size: 14px; font-weight:bold;">Luke Kanies             <br>            <a href="http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/dev-ops-getting-software-deployed-faster-devops/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IanSkerrett+%28Ian+Skerrett%29">Q&A: Dev + Ops</a></h2>            <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px;">Luke's talks:<br>            <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/devops-what-it-and-what-it-means-you">DevOps: What It Is, and What It Means to You</a>            </br>            <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/frictionless-operations-puppet">Frictionless Operations with Puppet</a>            </p>                        <h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 15px; text-align: left; line-height: 16px; color: #333; font-size: 14px; font-weight:bold;">Yoav Landman            <br>             <a href="http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/creating-a-build-you-can-trust/">Q&A: Builds You Can Trust</a></h2>            <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px;">Yoav's talk:<br>             <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/build-trust-your-build-deployment-flow">Build Trust in Your Build to Deployment Flow!</a>            </p>                        <h1 style=" margin: 0; padding-top: 20px; text-align: left; line-height: 20px; color: #333; font-size: 18px; font-weight:bold;">Top Tutorials</h1>                                                 <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px;">Since attendees must pre-register for tutorials, monitoring             tutorial sign-ups is a way for us to tell what topics are popular this year. It's interesting to note that the top six             tutorials reflect the top themes of this year's conference: Eclipse 4, OSGi, Modeling, DSL, Agile ALM, and EclipseRT:            </p>            <ol>            <li><a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/creating-rich-clients-eclipse-rcp-4x">Creating Rich Clients with Eclipse RCP 4.x</a></li>			<li><a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/mastering-osgi-ease">Mastering OSGi with Ease</a></li>			<li><a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/what-every-eclipse-developer-should-know-about-emf">What every Eclipse Developer should know about EMF</a></li>			<li><a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/dsls-java-developers-xtext">DSLs for Java Developers With Xtext</a></li>			<li><a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/git-tutorial">The Git Tutorial</a></li>			<li><a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/dynamic-server-applications-eclipsert">Dynamic Server Applications with EclipseRT</a></li>			</ol>			<p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px;">			</p>                            </td>                </tr>                <tr>          <td colspan="2" height="20">&nbsp;</td>        </tr>        <tr>          <td colspan="2" valign="middle" bordercolor="2"  style="height: 45px; font-size: 10px; color: #ffffff; padding-left: 43px; background-color: #003399;">                  <p align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 11px; font-size: 11px;" >Copyright © 2012 The Eclipse Foundation. 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