David A. Thomas (software developer): Difference between revisions

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Thomas was part of the organizing committees for [[OOPSLA]], [[ECOOP]], and the Danish Java and Object Oriented (JAOO) conferences for many years.

In 2008, he brought a conference much like JAOO to Australia. English speakers tended to spell out the acronym, while Danes and Germans pronounced the name "Yow". As the conference became less Java-oriented, the decision was made to remove all doubt and call it simply Yow. In Europe, JAOO was renamed GOTO conference in 2011.<ref>[{{cite web |url=https://gotocon.com/aboutjaoo/] |website=GOTO conference |title=About GOTO |access-date=2020-06-10}}</ref>

There are now Yow conferences and other events every year in several Australian and Asian cities.