Re: [jug-discussion] Group direction & ideas
We have that in the announce list (which does get the meeting announcements as well). -warner On Jun 1, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Chad Woolley wrote: I agree totally. I've missed more than one because I just forgot. I think an opt-in "meeting notification" email list might work well. I can then filter these to go to my main email addy where I see them immediately, while the regular list gets filtered out to read at my convenience (which can come at irregular intervals). -- Chad Eric Biesterfeld wrote: How about something as simple as two emails - one the day before and one a few hours before - reminding of the meeting, and the where/when/who? I'd imagine a few people just kind of forget... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [jug-discussion] Group direction & ideas
I agree totally. I've missed more than one because I just forgot. I think an opt-in "meeting notification" email list might work well. I can then filter these to go to my main email addy where I see them immediately, while the regular list gets filtered out to read at my convenience (which can come at irregular intervals). -- Chad Eric Biesterfeld wrote: How about something as simple as two emails - one the day before and one a few hours before - reminding of the meeting, and the where/when/who? I'd imagine a few people just kind of forget... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [jug-discussion] Group direction & ideas
Did someone say Guinness? I'm coming! As a member of the 'virtual contingent', I'm feelin' pretty low right now. I want to come meet you guys and I will! Your topics have been very relevant to much of what I do. My problem for the last couple months has been the ol' 'sucking on a fire hose at work and needing a vacation super bad' syndrome. Sometimes I take my laptop home and I kinda just stare at it, and I want to hurl. I've been grappling with more software engineering monsters rather than lower level language (Java, C) details. Stuff like, how do you take a team of developers of sometimes very different abilities and produce a quality product, somewhat on time. So, things like Ant automation, Maven, unit testing before writing modules vs. after, and code complexity (a big one). We can XML config the crap out of everything, but given the goals of the project, should we? Hey, cool, we can use reflection here, half the team will get it, half won't, so should we use it here? Do we create interfaces with inheritance and abstract classes or do we use Java interfaces? We did this medium sized web application and we had just started with ant. We had the directory structure from hell. Things got dumped into CVS a certain way, then the development(IDE) structure was different from the production Linux structure. Ant moved things from here to there, did file replacements ... we had Ant scripts from hell! The next project, we really investigated a simple structure ... plus, we got a different set of eyes onto the task. Our ant targets do very simple things and some directories like 'build' serve one very specific purpose. The whole team can understand deployment by looking at the ant script. In the first project, deployment became rather mysterious. It is, however, astonishing, what a big difference this is making to the project. Anyway, this is kinda where I'm at work wise. I like to learn fun new language things by actually doing a project. Otherwise, I don't have good follow thru mainly because my family deserves some time too. I would love to do a project that actually helps improve the world/Tucson somehow. Help an organization convert to linux or freebsd to save money. Write games that help kids learn. Help spread 100 dollar linux computers throughout the third world and see what all the diverse minds come up with ... cara - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [jug-discussion] Group direction & ideas
How about something as simple as two emails - one the day before and one a few hours before - reminding of the meeting, and the where/when/who? I'd imagine a few people just kind of forget... On 5/20/05, Tim Colson (tcolson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey gang - > > Last month the in-person group was rather small. TR gave a good talk on > running Java from Oracle. We all know the group number varies...and some > times of the year or particular topics/speakers bring in a lot more > folks than others. > > And there is also have a large 'virtual' contingent on the list... so > obviously speakers aren't a big draw for those folks right now. > > I've been attending for a few years now, and I'd like to see TJUG evolve > and grow a bit. I'd love to have more people interested in attending the > meetings, and participating on the mailing list. > > I'm interested in all sorts of presentations topics from code to html > design to css to the Dark Side to C# to home theatre to animation to > decorated 2d graphic buttons. :-) > > More people -- I think, will help get more topics, more discussion, and > more beer. :-) > > But how to do that? > What interests other folks? > What will entice you to meetings? > What will convince you to bring a friend? > What thoughts and ideas do folks have? > What can you do to help? > > > -Timo > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[jug-discussion] Group direction & ideas
Hey gang - Last month the in-person group was rather small. TR gave a good talk on running Java from Oracle. We all know the group number varies...and some times of the year or particular topics/speakers bring in a lot more folks than others. And there is also have a large 'virtual' contingent on the list... so obviously speakers aren't a big draw for those folks right now. I've been attending for a few years now, and I'd like to see TJUG evolve and grow a bit. I'd love to have more people interested in attending the meetings, and participating on the mailing list. I'm interested in all sorts of presentations topics from code to html design to css to the Dark Side to C# to home theatre to animation to decorated 2d graphic buttons. :-) More people -- I think, will help get more topics, more discussion, and more beer. :-) But how to do that? What interests other folks? What will entice you to meetings? What will convince you to bring a friend? What thoughts and ideas do folks have? What can you do to help? -Timo - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
