Hello Mark,
> Gee rather than whinging, if there is so much interest in Western
> Sydney then why don't you setup a user group? It's pretty easy to do
> so ... (the hard part is keeping it going and I have a lot of respect
> for dedicated UG managers across Australia that tirelessly make sure
> the UGs take place month on month).
I'm quite aware of what it takes to keep a special interest group running, I've been running them for years.
One would say that in my last e-mail I volunteered to host one here...
>> I'd be more than happy to host one here in
>> Acacia Gardens (near Quakers Hill/Blacktown).
yep that's what I said... now if I was in charge of CFUG's in Australia, maybe I'd contact someone who put their hand up to run one... waits for contact...
> MXDU is not an event organised by Geoff Bowers not Macromedia, he has
> the right to accept sponsorship for any organisation including
> Microsoft, Macromedia are simply a sponsor (in this case a Platinum
> sponsor).
Yes I know Daemon was running it, but everyone assumes Daemon = Macromedia Australia.
Maybe I should start a western sydney Net "Coldfusion connector" group.
> best
> Mark
> On 01/03/2005, at 11:48 PM, Chris Dawes wrote:
>> Hello Robin,
>> I appreciate your comments bro. I have talked to you about this a
>> couple of times on the phone.
>> I was one of the people who watched the presentations from cfug nsw. I
>> thought they where great, not a widescreen cinematic masterpiece, but
>> quality enough for those who could run breeze to watch. I found little
>> problem with watching them and wondered why they disappeared. To us
>> who live way out west it was a lifeline, one that has been removed and
>> (as you can see in this list's history) has sparked many a debate
>> about how best to get those of us who work and live out west could be
>> serviced by the cfug system.
>> Our problem here is that anyone in Western Sydney would have to knock
>> off around 4pm to go to the meetings. How about making the sydney
>> people come out here (45 mins away)... didin't think so.. We couldn't
>> even negotiate to have someone come out to run a separate cfug for
>> western sydney people. I'd be more than happy to host one here in
>> Acacia Gardens (near Quakers Hill/Blacktown). We have
>> broadband/projectors/large room/facilities here... I'd even be happy
>> to stream it via breeze so the sydney people could see what they're
>> missing! The offer is on the table.
>> As someone who has qualifications in television production, and also
>> have experience in streaming media, I find your suggestion that one
>> would require a tv studio quite humorous. A simple webcam, or pc
>> connected camera with a solid color background is quite simple to set
>> up and from my experience works quite well in professional
>> applications. Even with a whiteboard setup with a static camera
>> position works well in most situations. At worst you could still
>> easily stream the audio from the meeting with the computer screen
>> instead of video, or perhaps a digital camera photo. I find it ironic
>> that it's so hard to set up considering MM says it isn't?? It's pretty
>> easy using other streaming products, in fact I'm streaming a wedding
>> in May from Country vic to people in the UK/US/Germany! I'm really
>> surprised you haven't come up with a working model you can flog to
>> other usergroups around Australia, maybe even (God forbid) Microsoft
>> ones. Macromeda should hire some real marketing people, I mean people
>> who know how to market, not people who allow their competition to come
>> to their only AU conference. (sorry got a bit muddled with another
>> bone)
>> The RIA Awards was a great example of how this can work. You hosted
>> that ceremony (in your swish black suit) and heaps of cf'ers logged in
>> and heckled you...
>> As for Tim's presentation, is there any chance you could bring Tim's
>> presentation to Western Sydney?
>> Kind Regards,
>> Christopher Dawes
>> Dawes International
>> Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 10:59:16 PM, you wrote:
>> > Chris Dawes wrote:
>> >> Hello Barry,
>> >>
>> >> I was under the impression CFUG's got a free breeze account?
>> >>
>> >> Dawesi
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 4:06:20 PM, you wrote:
>> >>> >> well we've got a whole bunch of breeze 'experts' here in
>> >>
>> >>> >> sydney and nothing could be mustered. :-(
>> >>> and be thankful that people bother at all. Poor old Adelaide will
>> >>
>> >>> miss out because no one knows they're there...
>> > Just a comment on this wearing my regional UG coordinator hat - the
>> > problem with breezing live meetings is that without a TV studio setup
>> > they're pretty much unwatchable - we did try last year with Sydney CF
>> UG,
>> > I think Darren was one of the most determined viewers and from memo
>> ry
>> > he found the experience pretty bloody awful :-)
>> > The ANZ community breezos Mark has set up are a better idea because
>> > without a live audience you can set it all up for the online audience
>> .
>> > The meetings so far seem to have been quite successful. Note also th
>> at
>> > Tim repeated his launch preso last Friday on Breeze Live with a lot o
>> f
>> > people attending.
>> > Re Adelaide, we (RocketBoots) are thinking of taking Tim's launch pre
>> so
>> > to Perth and Adelaide, but we'll probably have to rely on cfaussie to
>> > get the word out. Would be interested in any Perth/Adelaide CFers to
>> > reply off list if they're interested in attending, and to get other C
>> F
>> > organisations not on the list to let us know how to contact them with
>> > seminar details.
>> > Cheers,
>> > Robin
>> > http://www.rocketboots.com.au
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