I'm just back from Javapolis 2005. I had the pleasure to present Maven 2.0.

I was lucky to be presenting in Room 1 (the big one) and it was well packed. Here are the questions I asked the audience last year:

"The room was packed (I'd say around 400 to 600 people). Before starting with my session I've asked how many people are already using Maven and I've counted about 20 (but at that time the room was only half-packed), so I'd say it was about 3-5%. My second was "How many are planning to use Maven" and I got a resounding 3/4th of the people raising their hand. That shows that Maven is still in it's early adoption phase and that it has some great potential."

This year when I asked the audience who is using Maven 1, I got about 30%-35% hands raised. Wow! This is a huge boost from the 3%-5% of last year! There were also about 5% people already using Maven 2 so that's great too. It seems Maven's adoption is well on its way

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome during the presentation.

Enjoy the slides while waiting for Javapolis to broadcast the videos.