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Saturday, 28 August 2010 15:12 |
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There's a new Atlanta Spring User Group. They've had two meetings so far, and a lot of members right off the bat. "What's Spring?" you ask. It's a Java/J2EE application platform, released under the Apache 2.0 license.You may have hear of some of its parts: Groovy and Grails. They seem to be closely tied to VMWare.
For more things Spring, see news about the upcoming class in core Spring coming up in Atlanta October 19-22, which seems perfectly times to conflict exactly with the SpringOne 2GX conference in Chicago. Oh, well. |
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New Meetup forming for EMACS and LISP |
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Saturday, 28 August 2010 13:40 |
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There's a new meetup forming for EMACS and LISP. Wow! I haven't thought of those words in a long time! Let's get real geeky and support them. Hey, I actually shook Gosling's hand once. |
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Good Corporate Citizen Example |
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Saturday, 28 August 2010 13:26 |
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From the mailbag. This is an example of a good corporate citizen carving out time and space for a local meetup. Hats off to CCCi!! Let's have other technology-related companies in the area step up and volunteer a facility for some of our users' groups in exchange for free publicity, goodwill, and better connections.
Below is info about that job-networking event at CCCi in Dunwoody from:
Seekers Perimeter Fellowship Employment Network
"Atlanta Jobseekers" LinkedIn Group
When: Fri, August 27, 7:30am – 9:30am
Where: 7000 Central Parkway Atlanta, GA 30328 (see CCCi below)
Description: Seekers Fellowship Employment Network (Perimeter- Dunwoody) ATLANTA JOBSEEKERS HAS A NEW HOME We are very excited to announce that Atlanta Jobseekers has found a new home! Thanks to everyone that's keep us in your prayers and provided leads to possible locations in the Perimeter area. Thanks to networking...we connected with CCCI (an IT Staffing Company) that is sponsoring us to use the conference room in their office building. It's a great location that meets all of our needs. Our new location is 7000 Central Parkway Atlanta, GA 30328. The Central Parkway office building is located between Peachtree Dunwoody and Perimeter Center West. We meet in the 3rd floor conference room every Friday from 7:30am to 9:30am. JobSeekers is a non-denominational group of professional businessmen and women who willingly volunteer their time to help others in career transition. The group meets weekly with unemployed men and women to help them learn more about the Word of God and assist them in finding career positions. Attendees find encouragement, job leads, mentoring, and tips for job hunting. In addition to addressing vocational needs, individuals are challenged to consider their spiritual needs and development as well. Join us for 2 hours of networking, speakers, Bible study groups, job leads.
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Magento Users' Group Forming |
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Saturday, 28 August 2010 13:19 |
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Well, school's back in session and things are coming back to life around town. Looks like there's a new open source meetup forming: the Southeast Magento Meetup. They're looking for a place to meet, and currently have their first meeting set for September 10th. If you don't know Magento, it's a multi-licensed opensource/commercial e-commerce product that has a LOT of features. If you're interested, we'll see you there. |
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More on Meeting Locations |
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 12:13 |
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From the mailbag:
I thought you might get some ideas/venues from the various local "meetups" and maybe some of the job networking events around town. I've looked thru past events of meetups to get ideas about what best places to meet.
Some of the best meetings I've been to were held at Matrix Offices in Dunwoody (Drupal, OpenSolaris met there in the past).
I've also been to meetings at CCCi in Dunwoody and Panera Bread off N. Druid Hills.
Wish we could get a room at a local library, but probably wouldn't be big enough or be open suitable hours.
I certainly miss those meetings at Emory and wish we could meet at some local university or community college.
Doug Edwards |
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 12:01 |
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I hate doing these things, but since apparently the local OpenSolaris group hasn't met since May, the note from Oracle that they aren't going to be participating in OpenSolaris any more, and the OpenSolaris governing board dissolving, I'm making the call that the local OpenSolaris Users' Group is hereby dead. If somebody has information to the contrary, feel free to contact me. It's sad to see such a large and arguably successful open source project die. Wasn't it not too many years ago that Sun argued that "we need lots of drivers and user-contributed software to make Solaris viable"? What changed Oracle's mind? |
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The Search for Good Meeting Locations |
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Monday, 02 August 2010 15:59 |
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Finding a good meeting location for a users' group can sometimes be a challange. The general requirements for a meeting space are:
- Free or low-cost
- Convenient access
- Good Location (perimeter or 400 corridor?)
- Wi-Fi
- Projector-friendly
- Parking
- Adequate, comfortable seating for the members
Some friendly universities can help sponsor events, such as Emory Law hosts the ALE central meeting. Those groups with commercial backing may have an easier time. For instance, Sun (now Oracle's) OpenSolaris has a natural sponsor and meets at Sun's offices. Or Mirant has hundreds of Oracle instances running, so they sponsor the local Oracle Users' Group out of enlightened self-interest. Some groups assemble in meeting rooms at restruants. These can be good, but sometimes noise is an issue, as is relaiable Wi-Fi. What say you? What works well or doesn't? Drop me a line from the contact page and I'll post a summary.
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 12:21 |
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The volunteer-led Drupalcamp Atlanta will be held on Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. We are currently accepting sponsors and registration will officially open when the web site launches next week. I have no doubt this event will sell-out, so be sure to follow Drupalcamp Atlanta on Twitter for updates – last year’s camp sold-out two months in advance. A few of the highlights will include: 25+ high-quality sessions, an after-party networking event, a coders lounge, and a headline-grabbing keynote presenter. There will be a small registration fee ($25) this year in order to offset expenses and deter no-shows. |
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Monday, 28 June 2010 13:22 |
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This in today's mail. Details are a big sketchy, but might be interesting:
We're holding an amazing (if we do say so ourselves) free event Saturday September 25th - Amped, a hack day with a difference, which hopefully many of your readers would be keen to attend
http://ampedweb.org/ |
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