Yeah We have trouble here in Denmark too, all our events has only been
max 5 people... So Cemal if you know of anyone who could be interested
in a WUG DK please tell..
jWeekend 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
<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
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Wicket & Eclipse Consulting
www.devotek-it.ch
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www.devotek-it.ch
thomasmaeder.blogspot.com
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