[ciapug] Meetings

[carl-olsen at mchsi.com]

The Iowa .NET User Group was meeting at Grandview College, but recently moved to the DMACC west campus.  They have a nice auditorium with overhead projection for laptops.  I think it seats around 200 or more.  DMACC said it was extremely interested in promoting the group because of the technology connection.  They want to start teaching more types of technology.  I know it is difficult to find PHP and MySQL training and I also know those two technologies are extremely popular.  It might be a good fit for the CIAPUG (and I wouldn't have to worry about scheduling conflicts).

I don't know if we want to start out with something that ambitious, so it's just a thought.  The Agile group was meeting at the Okaboji Grill (maybe they still are, I haven't been to a meeting yet).

Carl

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com>
>
> How about Tues 9/3?  I'd do the Monday prior but that's a holiday.
> 
> Any location ideas?
> 
> --Tony
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Chris Hettinger <cjh at raccoon.com>
> To: ciapug at cialug.org
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:34:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [ciapug] Meetings
> 
> I believe we all agree Carl. There are many here involved with the other 
> groups as well and it is in our interest not to conflict. Obviously as 
> that list of other groups grows we're seeing a increased difficulty in 
> avoiding conflicts. As we can all atest to as well, we can't please 
> everyone all the time.
> 
> -ch
> 
> carl-olsen at mchsi.com wrote:
> > I'm wondering if everyone agrees with me that we should avoid nights that 
> other established groups are having regularly scheduled meetings, such as .NET, 
> Java, Linux, and Agile.
> > 
> > The cross over in these technologies is significant.  The last .NET demo I saw 
> included examples in PHP to show how the technologies merge, overlap, or 
> compliment each other.  I can watch a demo in .NET and do the same thing with 
> PHP.  It's the ideas and concepts that are most important.  The languages are 
> all very similar and they are all doing OOP.
> > 
> > I've attended the Java User group and I've considered attending the others.  
> I'm a founding member of the .NET group which has been meeting on the first 
> Wednesday of the month for the past 3 or 4 years.
> > 
> > Carl
> > 
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: scottatdrake.40505840 at bloglines.com
> >> Well, look at all the noise on this list all of a sudden. 
> >>
> >> Chalk me up
> >> as a tentative yes with Mon and Wed being best. I can't commit to hosting
> >> or organizing right now. I'm starting a couple night classes and am not sure
> >> how much outside work there will be. 
> >>
> >> As an aside, I once considered exploring
> >> the idea of expanding the target audience of this (or another) group to 
> include
> >> designers, usability/standards evangelist types, and so on ala something like
> >> http://refreshingcities.org/. I'm not sure how many people here would be 
> >> interested
> >> in that, though. (Chris H?) Just throwing it out there.
> >>
> >> ~Scott Phillips
> > 
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