Charlie, Thanks for the feedback. We have a small contingent that attend meetings regularly, so I thought I'd start that list of members fresh. I'm pleasantly surprised to see some RSVPs from those who are fresh faces, or haven't been to a meeting in a while. Not sure if that's due to Meetup or the new location.
To be clear, while Meetup does have some good communication features, I do plan on keeping the mailing list here on Google Groups, as I feel it's the best solution for discussions. Billy Cravens [email protected] On Apr 17, 2012, at 6:11 AM, charlie arehart wrote: > 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 forCFMeetup.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/coldfusion/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 -- 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
