I would think JUG's in many places are struggling. It takes a lot of work and needs a group of people, not just one or two champions. Many people go to these meetings when they have something to gain. Free training, interesting topics, free food, etc. The number of people giving talks at the JUG near me has dropped, and a couple of months were canceled. Most of the topics are Android, HTML5, Clojure, Scala, Grails, and others. Not like years past when the discussions were about J2EE, JME, and other new topics. Not much new has happened and we don't even have Java 7 yet. There just isn't much to talk about and I see JUG's struggling to live or morphing into something else.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Robert Mark Bram <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Fabrizio, > > > There's clearly a missing point. I'm not arguing about the > > interpretation of the facts: I'm the first one who's not sure of > > anything and I can't exclude that things will go really bad. I'm > > arguing that one might take drastic decisions, such as shutting down a > > JUG, after just a few days from the fact. This is something that I > > can't understand. A rational process about this kind of things needs > > longer times IMO. In any kind of disputation, I say it's savvy to > > first listen to the different versions of the involved parties, and > > then decide who's guilty. Right? The opposite sounds a lot as witch > > hunt to me. > > > > Also, in one month there will be the J1 and for sure Oracle will > > communicate many things within the end of the conference. > > I am sure that you would have made a different decision and I can > understand your sentiment. However, it takes a lot of time and effort > to run a JUG; the VJUG has never been very strong and the organisers > are frankly left out of puff (and resources too, to a certain extent). > > This post by Martin Paulo explains it best: > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ajug-victoria/message/1615 > > I am not an organiser of the AJUG - I am just spreading the news, > expressing my own downheartedness at it all. Perhaps someone else from > the community will step forward and take up the mantle, but for now it > looks like it will close. > > Rob > :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
