Re: [birmingham-jug] Digest for birmingham-jug@googlegroups.com - 10 updates in 2 topics
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Harris Reynolds
Dec 29, 2014, 4:21:28 PM12/29/14
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On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 2:06 PM, <birming...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Greg Machamer <gmac...@gmail.com>: Dec 29 08:17AM -0600
I'd be up for it.
Will McCalley <mccal...@gmail.com>: Dec 29 08:20AM -0600
Reboot the JUG
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-Will
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Will McCalley
Steven McCartey <smcc...@gmail.com>: Dec 29 08:43AM -0600
I would up for it!
Mark Freeman <ma...@timewasted.net>: Dec 29 06:59AM -0800
I'm up for it. Rusty offered the McLeod office for hosting, should space be
needed.
Mark Freeman
andrew <afs...@gmail.com>: Dec 29 08:03AM -0800
Reboot the JUG.
On Monday, December 29, 2014 8:59:31 AM UTC-6, Mark Freeman wrote:
Mike Wells <digita...@gmail.com>: Dec 29 10:15AM -0700
Thanks for your initiative and energy getting this going Mykel, Bham is
lucky to have you!
I am not going to join (Because I moved out of state), but just to offer my
2cents. I think the reason the JUG has not been doing well, there and in
every other city is because there are getting to be fewer and fewer just
Java Guys, and the guys that are Just Java guys are obviously not
interested in improving their skill sets so they are not going to come
either. It seems like if you could somehow frame it as (The Group that
Started with Java and then found interesting things, technology and jobs
around that and want to get together and talk about what we all know) I am
sure someone who is not still drunk off egg nog like me could find a good
acronym for this ;)
I don't know if y'all already have a "New Tech" group, but that one is very
popular here too. That is a little too broad of a group though, and may
deviate too far from the goal. I think that something we all know is people
who ARE or WERE java guys are the people you want to join because they are
the smartest.
-- The Armchair Organizer
Mike Wells
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Mike Wells
(205) 821-3928
Mykel Alvis <mykel...@gmail.com>: Dec 29 09:23AM -0800
Thanks, Armchair Guy! Your check is in the mail. :)
And thanks for the card! I got it about 10 minutes ago. We didn't make
one this year because our kids hadn't gone to the groomers.
On Monday, December 29, 2014 11:16:02 AM UTC-6, Mike Wells wrote:
Chris Hardin <chrisl...@gmail.com>: Dec 29 11:42AM -0600
I agree with Mike... Java is too narrow a focus in today's world... Most of
the folks that are still doing Java in Birmingham, and that isn't many, are
happily living their existence dwelling in the long dead world of J2EE...
I'm doing Java right now on a new project, but it is a rare occasion that I
start a new project with Java in this city...
You can get as many votes as you want to reboot it, but few would actually
show up... even fewer still would be interested in getting outside the
shackles of their company's ideals of how Java is utilized.
My two cents...
Just another A-hole... ;)
Steven Wyatt <sww...@gmail.com>: Dec 29 12:02PM -0600
Reboot
Mykel Alvis <mykel...@gmail.com>: Dec 29 05:31AM -0800
Hi JUG,
It's been quite a while since this group had any activity and I expect that
essentially everyone has a filter for it.
However, as I'm now back in B'ham essentially full-time, I'd like to gauge
interest in restarting the local JUG.
Here's how I'm going to do this:
- The group has 130 members, more or less.
- If at least 13 responses indicate that they'd like to have the group
meet again by 2015-01-31, then I'll call that a start.
- On or around the 15th of January, I will re-send a link to this
post to the actual individual email addresses of the members that I have
access to (to briefly circumvent their filters :) )
- I will attempt to verify that all responders are actually willing and
able to attend physical JUG meetings in or around Birmingham.
- This will basically involved a personal email from me with the
expectation of a response from a real human who can with some veracity
state that they're in or around Birmingham, AL USA.
- As has generally been the case, recruiters are generally welcome
here (in a non-intrusive way) but you don't count toward the goal of 13
people.
- If I can verify at least 13 people (to my satisfaction), I will
reassert the effort necessary to crank this group up again.
- If not, then I will delete the group and its owning email address.
- There aren't very many old threads with a great deal of value
anyway.
- I think this will make the email and name of the group available to
someone in the future assuming there's a renewed interest
NOTE:
To cast your vote for "B'ham's JUG is a lost cause", do nothing.
To cast your vote for "Reboot the JUG", you must reply to this thread.
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