Great News to share with you all
Chakra
Glad to see that the group is growing by the day. The FOAF (Friend Of A
Friend) network, is a very effective technique. Keep up your efforts!!
I am also very glad to share a very good news about our Hitech City
JUG.
I have contacted Rick Ross to get some help in shaping up our JUG and
its activities. For those who do not know Rick, he is down-to- earth
and a great guy who is also the founder of JavaLobby.org network of
sites that help a much larger group of Java Professionals worldwide.
Rick offered to host our website for free and provide necessary tools
to manage its setup/content. Here is an excerpt of his reply to my
request:
-- BEGIN QUOTE --
First, Javalobby will be delighted to provide you with free hosting for
your website on our hosting server. Just let me know, and I'll be glad
to set up an account for you. The system uses DirectAdmin and
Installatron, which together help you get a lot of functionality with
very little effort. Javalobby also has our JUGCentral.com service,
where I see you have created an account.
Second, we can also get you (and others) included in our book review
activities to start getting you titles for review.
-- END QUOTE --
I have just now registered www.hitechcityjug.org at GoDaddy. I will get
the details of the website setup from Rick soon after the domain is
activated (typically takes couple of days for activation).
WHAT WE NEED IS VOLUNTEERS who are interested in:
1. Setting up the hitechcityjug.org website, graphics, content etc.
2. Reviewing the books, products etc.
If you are the one RAISE YOUR HAND NOW!
-- Chakra
Amar Pratap
This is fantastic guys !! I can volunteer for reviews of book, products etc.
Regards
Amar
From: "Chakra" <chakra.y...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hitech...@googlegroups.com
To: "hitechcityjug" <hitech...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Great News to share with you all
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:01:16 -0000
Chakra Yadavalli
Thank you for volunteering. I am thinking we need one more volunteer for the book reviews and 3 for the website setup.
Please raise your hand now. So that I can send all our request in one bundle to JavaLobby.
Regards,
Chakra
Join Hitech City Java User Group: http://groups.google.com/group/hitechcityjug
cloud9
great job, i am not good at graphics and book review stuff, but i am
j2ee developer for past 2 years. i am scjp and scwcd. is that enough to
volunteer for setting-up our website?.
regards,
Adi
Chakra Yadavalli
I know none of us not "web designers" by profession. But the graphics/website design I was referring to are simple Logos/Badges (such as the one attached), and creating HTML CSS layouts for our web pages, you know all the things one will eventually do in any web application.
The tools we will be using to setup the web application are:
http://www.directadmin.com/
http://www.installatron.com/
We need some one to "play with these tools" and come up with a list of tools (offered by installatron) that would help in quickly create functionality such as mailing lists, discussion forums, blogs, event calendars, book reviews, Hitech City JUG member specials (discounts on coupons), member registration for the meetings, Java resource links, polling etc.
All I can promise is that it's going to be a good experience and going to expose the volunteer to a wide array of tools!
-- Chakra
Adi
thx for quick reply, wht is the time frame u r setting for doing all
this?, i am asking this 'coz we have to do it in our free time. one
more thing , i have a friend who is a webdesigner i will ask him for
help if u have any intial expectations of website layout and stuff like
that.
"We need some one to "play with these tools" and come up with a list of
tools
(offered by installatron) that would help in quickly create
functionality
such as mailing lists, discussion forums, blogs, event calendars, book
reviews, Hitech City JUG member specials (discounts on coupons), member
registration for the meetings, Java resource links, polling etc."
I will try in free time.
lets make everything work by the time our first meeting happens(or
after first meeting so we can get feeedback from other member?)
regards,
Adi.
srini
That is great move and thanks to JavaLobby for hosting in their
servers. GIF looks good. We should have something (Charminar/
Golkonda) famous for Hyderabad/ Some Image relating to java cup in the
GIF. The moment you see the image you don't require to read the
content and should be able to understand, I don't know if it is
correct but that is what I feel.
Srinivas Ivaturi.
Chakra Yadavalli
I think it's about time someone started a new thread about "Hitech City JUG Website Design" to gather ideas on what/how of the web content/features. I suggest, we get something (4 to 5 static pages at the least) up and running quickly in 5 to 7 days after we get our account from JL. This will enable us to go for more sponsors and participate in User Group programs by publishers, Java.net etc.
BTW, I have already requested Rick of JL to setup and account for us at his convenience. The moment I get it, all web site volunteers can go and take a look at it.
Here are some interesting links to User Group Programs by some well known publishers:
http://ug.oreilly.com/
http://www.manning.com/ugprogram/
http://www.awprofessional.com/user_groups/index.asp?rl=1
http://www.samspublishing.com/user_groups/index.asp?rl=1
Once we get some momentum around this JUG, we could also go to big companies and get some sort of help. But in order to do all this, we need web presence (www.hitechcityjug.org). This Google Group isn't enough.
-- Chakra.
Chakra
Another good news... Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, "The Pragmatic
Programmers" will be mailing us few copies of Pragmatic Books that we
can raffle at our JUG seminars on related topics. I think we should be
getting some support from local companies as well. Will discuss more in
our thursday's meeting.
Thank you,
Chakra.