On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote:
> Same here. That said if this area is such a hotbed of CF then why the > fck can't we get more people to attend the Northern Virginia Users > Group? I think this is a problem for CFUGs all across the world, and I don't think it have anything at all to do with how many CF'ers live or work in an area really. The typical ColdFusion programmer is at least near middle aged, with middle aged life priorities. Back when CF was a hot new technology, most of the developers I knew were young, without kids, and had a very different set of priorities. The tech was also hot and new - everyone wanted to learn and there was SO MUCH to learn. Literally every word from someone's mouth could be something new to add to your personal knowledge base. Compare that to now - many of us are aging, and shifting priorities. There are other family commitments, regardless of where you live, and our interest simply lie in other places. Even for people who don't have kids or a family, a night learning something at the CFUG may just not have the appeal that it once did. The technology isn't hot and sexy anymore either. Sure, there are new things to learn, but it's not exactly making huge leaps forward like it once did. There is nothing to fix here, it just is what it is. I still go to the ACFUG (a group I founded in 1998) meetings a few times a year, but it's as much to socialize with friends in Atlanta's CF community as is it to learn new things... I still spend a ton of time doing CF, but Sean's post is spot on in my opinion. -Cameron -- Cameron Childress -- p: 678.637.5072 im: cameroncf facebook <http://www.facebook.com/cameroncf> | twitter<http://twitter.com/cameronc> | google+ <https://profiles.google.com/u/0/117829379451708140985> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:358711 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
