JUG Events started as a demo for the meta-framework Parancoe. Then some functionalities has been added and it has been deployed as a free sevice on http://www.jugevents.org.

JUG Events is a tool for helping the JUG leaders, and in general the JUG representatives, to organize the events of their JUGs. It's not merely a tool for promoting the events: the main promotional tools for a JUG are its web site and its mailing-list. We think events of JUGs don't need a central aggregator. JUG are mainly local entities: a person interested on an event, for Example, in Padova in Italy will never (or rarely) search it on java.net.

So, to the events attendants, JUG Events provides:

search of events in their country area (by continent, country and JUG name) easy registration, if needed, to the even