(Posting on behalf of Jim Tivy...)

Hi Folks

Darren Gibbons, Sam Cirka and I been chatting over beers and EMail about how
to improve the VanJug for its members and the Vancouver Java Community. One
We think that having a speaker series is a good thing. As well we have
looked at other infrastructure opportunities like blogs and wikis - but have
not settled on anything - there has to be advantage in changing from our
current list server.

The question here is:

What kinds of activities or infrastructure services would improve the
Vancouver Java Users Group. As well, if you have names of speakers or you
have some subjects or formats for such an event. For example, we discussed
a format where people describe their application and perhaps explain their
use of some technology such as hibernate, jaxws or jaxb - a sort of war
story. As well if you would like to help organize let us know. RIght now we
are pushing for a speaker event in September but we do not have a confirmed
speaker as of yet. Please send your comments to vanjug<at>gmail.com and
optionally, include them for open discussion on this vanjug list server.

Jim

(Posting on behalf of Gerald Bauer... plus doing a bit of Meetup testing)

If there's any interest I volunteer to present on Groovy/Grails. The
slides from the Vancouver Island JUG and Vancouver Groovy/Grails User
Group talks are online at http://slideshow.ruby...

Or as an alternative I volunteer to present on a new talk titled
Ruby for Java Developers. Just let me know in advance so I can prepare
or update the slides.

Cheers.

--
Gerald Bauer - Internet Professional