The future of Refresh Newcastle

[Alistair MacDonald]

Hello All,

Things have been very quiet here and I have been wondering what we
should do about the future of this group. I took over moderation when
Gareth moved away and although I am happy to continue I don't have
time to do any more than that. In reality most of the discussion from
here has moved over to the SuperMondays group and our drink focused
events have been overtaken by the Geekest Drink. We also have several
new user groups in the region leading me to question if we need to
continue.

So, what should we do? Should we just leave this group live as it is,
should we close it down, or does someone (like you) want to volunteer
to take things further?

Alistair

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When in doubt, kill a feature.  With Design Newcastle, PHPNE, JSNE, Supermondays and other things there are plenty of options. 

 Alistair

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[Colin Harris - Website Development]

+1

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[Steven Woods]

Oh - forgot to say, I'm happy to help out if need be.

On 17 June 2012 12:32, Steven Woods <st...@swoo.co.uk> wrote:

Wow - RN! a blast from the past :)

Who's to say you couldn't do something with Refresh Newcastle? Arguably you could get rid of all but one of those other groups (say, SuperMondays which is all-encompassing) but yet there they are...

There used to be a Refresh Newcastle website which was a link to the websites of local web designers amongst other things. I spoke to Gareth myself quite a while ago about the possibility of taking it over and giving it a lick of paint but communication came to an end without anything being thrashed out.

Refresh Newcastle was representative of the 'Refresh X' thing that is still ongoing today (see http://www.refreshcambridge.org/ / http://www.refreshteesside.org/ for examples). Maybe at least having some sort of web presence and "I'm a member of Refresh Newcastle" style banners on peoples personal websites / agencies would kickstart the group again - that's how it used to be. 

Surely it wouldn't take more than a few hours for someone to thrash something up there that would mimic the SuperMondays local blog digest with all of the collective skills on here?

I've not looked on any of those other group websites, but is there a North-East Web Forum? If not, that would be feckin' cool to stick on the Refresh Newcastle domain and encourage communication and collaboration.

Anyway - hi to all still on this list :)

Steve W

[Steven Woods]

Wow - RN! a blast from the past :)

Who's to say you couldn't do something with Refresh Newcastle? Arguably you could get rid of all but one of those other groups (say, SuperMondays which is all-encompassing) but yet there they are...

There used to be a Refresh Newcastle website which was a link to the websites of local web designers amongst other things. I spoke to Gareth myself quite a while ago about the possibility of taking it over and giving it a lick of paint but communication came to an end without anything being thrashed out.

Refresh Newcastle was representative of the 'Refresh X' thing that is still ongoing today (see http://www.refreshcambridge.org/ / http://www.refreshteesside.org/ for examples). Maybe at least having some sort of web presence and "I'm a member of Refresh Newcastle" style banners on peoples personal websites / agencies would kickstart the group again - that's how it used to be. 

Surely it wouldn't take more than a few hours for someone to thrash something up there that would mimic the SuperMondays local blog digest with all of the collective skills on here?

I've not looked on any of those other group websites, but is there a North-East Web Forum? If not, that would be feckin' cool to stick on the Refresh Newcastle domain and encourage communication and collaboration.

Anyway - hi to all still on this list :)

Steve W

On 17 May 2012 09:01, Colin Harris - Website Development <w...@colinharris.net> wrote: