The news have been announced already on the Dojotoolkit.org and Dojocampus.org blogs but I nevertheless wanted to mention the dojo.workshop in Haifa, Israel on August 9th.
Already now we have more than 50 signups and thanks to Yoav Rubin from IBM research labs we can have a full day of Dojo-ness.

It is interesting to hear that many attending people are interested in how to write mobile applications with the Dojo Toolkit and we will try to spend some time on giving people insight about where things currently stand.
As I am discussing in the upcoming issue of the JSMag, using JavaScript libraries on mobile environments is something you have to do with caution since most of the libraries were not written intentionally for mobile platforms.
Dojo at this point is a very good choice (yes I am biased ;) and yes, Dojo needs a lot of optimization for mobile) especially if you are working on delivering applications both to mobile devices and desktop clients. It is no fun having to use different tools for similar environments. So I am looking forward to lots of mobile hacking in Haifa.

Following some more details for the event. You can find all info also at the DojoCampus.org event page and things are still subject to change.

Location:

IBM Haifa Research Lab
Haifa University Campus

Google map

Time:

09:30 – 15:00

Schedule

09:30 – 10:00 – Gathering

10:00 – 10:15 – Welcome and introduction

10:15 – 10:45 – Overview of Dojo Dijit and Dojox

11:00 – 12:00 – Dojo and Mobile

12:00 – 12:30 – Dojo based JavaScript API Docs generator

12:30 – 13:00 – Hacking mobile (this session might be extended)

13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch

14:10 – 14:30 – Support for bidirectional languages in Dojo

14:30 – 15:00 – Projects demonstration

If you want to give a talk about your experience with Dojo or anything Web related, leave a comment at the DojoCampus.org event page or send an email to nonken(_at_) dojotoolkit.org and we’ll make sure you get added to the schedule.

After the main event we will either continue hacking or go for food/drinks/dojo.beers() into town.

If you would like to attend, please add your name to the list below, so we can be sure that we will have enough space.

Looking forward to being in Haifa and meeting lots of Dojo, web, JavaScript folks.