Judah: It's likely that you misunderstood. I started a CFUG in the East Bay, California area less than a year ago. I've not had Adobe attempt to influence any sort of influence over the topics we cover, nor did they attempt to mandate that the group be referred to as anything other than a CFUG.
All they've done is send schwag :) On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com>wrote: > > I used to be a CFUG manager, so I understand. But it was my impression > that all of the CFUGs were getting converted to RIA groups. Perhaps I > misunderstood and I just need to get off my lazy ass and make a group > again :) > > Cheers, > Judah > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Dave Watts <dwa...@figleaf.com> wrote: > > > >> Well, yes and no. Adobe did have a decent user group system but then > >> they consolidated them and it all changed. We had a Portland CF > >> Usergroup but then it got changed by Adobe to a PDX RIA group and most > >> all of the content and discussion is around Flash and Flex. Having a > >> Flash and Flex group is fine but CF has really been pushed to the > >> background. I'm sure that if I made a hard push, I could get more CF > >> stuff in the meetings, present myself, etc. But for a random CF > >> developer, there isn't nearly as much user group support as there once > >> was. Not a good change. > > > > Adobe doesn't really manage the user groups directly. That is, they > > don't tell a specific user group to cover this or that specific topic. > > So, presumably, the user group managers did that on their own. So, you > > can either (a) get into your user group management yourself, and bring > > them around, or (b) just start your own user group. It doesn't really > > take much other than lots of free time. > > > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330050 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
