What is the OTN Lounge? It's the place for Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne attendees to hang out, get off your feet, rest up between sessions, recharge your laptop, tablet, or phone, connect with other community members, pick the brains of subject matter experts and community leaders, enjoy some refreshments (coffee and soft drinks in the morning, beer in the afternoon), and avoid the crowds by watching keynote presentations on a plasma screen.

But in addition to general chillaxin' the OTN Lounge also hosts several special activities throughout the week…

OTN Lounge Special Activities

• Sunday
  
  
  • Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge Kick-off   (7:00pm - 8:30pm)
    Want to learn more about Oracle Social Network? Love working with APIs? Enter the Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge and build your dream integration with Oracle's secure, purposeful social network for business. Demonstrate your skills, work with the latest and greatest and compete for $500 in Amazon gift cards.
    
    
    1. Go to theappslab.com/osnregisterr
    2. Read and agree to the terms and rules.
    3. Register yourself with your name, corporate email address, and company.
    4. Watch your inbox for a confirmation email from Oracle Social Network.
    5. Start coding (individual or teams welcome)
    6. Show off your work to the judges in the OTN Lounge, Wednesday, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
• Monday (Lounge hours: 8:00am - 7:00pm)
  
  
  • RAC Attack (9:00am - 1:00pm)
    Learn about Oracle Real Application Clustering (RAC) in this collaborative event. You'll work with experts from the IOUG RAC SIG to get an Oracle Database 11gR2 RAC cluster running inside a virtual machine. For more information:
    • RAC attack at Oracle Open World (Pythian Blog)
    • RAC Attack - Oracle Cluster Database at Home/Events (WikiBooks)
  • Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge Office Hours (4:00pm - 8:00pm)
    Meet the people behind Oracle Social Network.
• Tuesday (Lounge hours: 8:00am - 7:00pm)
  
  
  • RAC Attack (9:00am - 1:00pm)
    
    
  • Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge Office Hours (4:30pm - 8:00pm)
    
    
  • Oracle Database / Oracle Fusion Middleware Tweet Meet (4:30pm - 6:00pm)
    Free as in beer! Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware tweeters, gather in the OTN Lounge for refreshments and conversation with fellow tweeters and Oracle Database and Middleware experts.
• Wednesday (Lounge Hours: 8:00am - 6:00pm)
  
  
  • RAC Attack (9:00am - 1:00pm)
    
    
  • Oracle Social Network Developer Challenge Judging (4:00pm - 6:00pm)
    
    
  • ADF Oracle ADF / Oracle Fusion Middleware Meet-up (4:30pm - 5:30pm)
    Join other Oracle ADF and Oracle Fusion Middleware developers and meet the product managers and engineers behind Oracle ADF, ADF Mobile, and ADF Essentials. Did we mention free beer?
• Thursday (Lounge Hours: 8:00am - 2:00pm)
  
  
  • RAC Attack (9:00am - 1:00pm)

The OTN Lounge is located in the Howard St .tent, located by no small coincidence on Howard St. between 3rd and 4th, directly between Moscone North and Moscone South. An Oracle OpenWorld or JavaOne conference badge is required for access to the OTN Lounge.