Hey folks, hope the move to meetup.com goes well for you. That has been a challenge for some groups, especially when as you say here you won't be auto-importing the members, so people have to join themselves. And it's all the more a challenge when mention of the move is in a note like this, covering other things. That's part of why I'm replying, to help the call to action stand out.
Indeed, I'll propose that you'll want to make sure to make multiple announcements about this over weeks or months, that clearly stand out with such a call to action, before you'd turn off this old mailing list. Otherwise you may find many get lost in the shuffle and don't make the move, not because they were "inactive and uninterested" but because they may argue they just "didn't get the memo". :-) I've seen this happen on other groups who've made the move, so just a friendly suggestion. :-) /charlie From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Billy Cravens Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 4:11 PM To: Houston ColdFusion Users' Group Subject: [houcfug] Next meeting and some changes! We'll be meeting this Wednesday, April 18. This will be our first meeting in our new facility, CTREC Hilton IT Academy. They are located in the Galleria area, just off of 59 and Hillcroft. It's a very nice facility: huge kitchen, coffee service, and use of a training room for meetings, comfortably seating 16-32 attendees. Each workstation has a monitor where the presentation is displayed - no straining your eyes to see a projection. Every room of course has WiFi and power setups. The best part: Air Conditioning! I'd like to take the time to thank Seth and MD Anderson for graciously hosting our meetings. The address: Ctrec Hilton It Academy 6200 Savoy Dr #1000 Houston, TX You can view a map and full information at our website at www.houcfug.org. Oh yeah, speaking of the website... As we discussed in our last meeting, we are moving the website over to Meetup.com. We of course were hosting our own site, and it was a CF app, but there were some improvements we needed. Could we build it? Yeah, we're filled with CF talent, but we also have billable hours and families to deal with, so the best solution was Meetup, as it has all the features we want (well, there's things I'd change, but it's a great solution nonetheless). Rather than import our old member list from the site, I'd like everyone to register and RSVP at the new site. This helps us, and our sponsors Paladin, with planning. Active RSVPs also make the group seem more alive and accessible to newcomers. (Many of you likely already have a Meetup account if you've RSVP'ed for CFMeetup.com talks) As always, Paladin will be sponsoring our meeting, providing food and drinks. Paladin is a great staffing organization, and has actually already placed a number of developers within our group. I should also point out that Paladin connected us up with CTREC, a client of theirs. If that wasn't enough, our meeting will be our first remote presentation that I recall. Pete Freitag, one of the premiere security experts in ColdFuion, will be presenting. You may recall Pete as the author of Adobe's CF9 security lockdown guide. (http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/cold fusion/pdfs/91025512-cf9-lockdownguide-wp-ue.pdf) We'll be giving away a year subscription to HackMyCF, a service that Pete's company Foundeo provides. It monitors your ColdFusion or Railo server and provides reports on potential vulnerabilities that need to be addressed. I'm running it on my primary client's server; I recommend it. Whew! That was a lot to say. I hope to see all of you there! Billy Cravens [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en
