Hi there, I would propose to meet in Geneva!! ;)
Vitaly On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:57 PM, jWeekend <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> <[email protected]>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: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
