Thomas, This is partly because, strange as it may seem, not everyone that develops with Wicket uses this list. We have clients and students that have come over for jWeekend Wicket courses from Switzerland and for our http://jWeekend.com/dev/LWUGReg/ London Wicket Events - I have never seen them post here, although they really enjoy Wicket. If it looks like you'll be going ahead let me know if you like me to contact them about your idea.
You are also more than welcome to visit us at our next London Wicket Event (which will be on April 1st, at Google - details to be confirmed) that has gone from strength to strength in nearly 2 years since jWeekend founded it with Al Maw, but we also experienced quiet moments, especially during the first 6 months. In fact, despite regularly getting up to 50 people registering these days, it's very rare that our guests will post here afterwards saying how much they enjoy our events so others will know and come along, even though they tell us they love our events and keep coming back and wish we arranged more of them! We also offer to help people with their commercial/work projects during our events, I think that helped us build some momentum in the early days. The moral of the story is don't give up - you need to start somewhere, even if there's just a handful of you. What you may also find difficult at the start is getting enough people to prepare and deliver presentations that your guests would be willing to travel for. At the start it was just Al and I giving presentations, with maybe one other speaker if we were lucky. It took me several months to get that ball rolling smoothly, and even now we try to arrange things with our presenters several months in advance and jWeekend help with their presentation preparation and occasionally, cover their travel/accommodation expenses. We give everyone Pizza too, and are almost always the last to leave the pub after the event! I think some of our hard-core regulars feel it's just a good night out, as we seem to attract a really good bunch of people - and, from my experience, that is representative of the Wicket community/users generally. Let me know if you think we can help with what you're starting up in Switzerland. Regards - Cemal http://jWeekend.com jWeekend Thomas Mäder-2 wrote: > > Whoa! The silence is deafening! Since I've had one answer in a week, I > guess > there is just no interest. Oh well... > > Thomas > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Thomas Mäder > <thomas.mae...@devotek-it.ch>wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> I would be willing to organize a Wicket meetup in Switzerland if there is >> enough interest. I propose a meeting somewhere in Zürich. The format I >> imagine is that participants could (don't have to) shortly (15-20min.) >> present their work with Wicket (demos are always nice). That would be >> followed by general mingling with drinks & snacks. >> For the date, I would shoot for the week starting March 16, 17:30-20:30h. >> Would you be interested in participating in/hosting/sponsoring such a >> thing? Either reply here or to me privately, and if there is enough >> interest, I'll set up a thing on the wiki. >> >> Thomas >> >> -- >> Thomas Mäder >> Wicket & Eclipse Consulting >> www.devotek-it.ch >> > > > > -- > Wicket & Eclipse Consulting > www.devotek-it.ch > thomasmaeder.blogspot.com > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wicket-meetup-in-Switzerland--tp22035241p22120034.html Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org