[ajug-members] Who and/or What Next?

[Burr Sutter]

Matt Raible is an excellent suggestion.

Gunnar, Sudhir or I will reach out to him.




2009/3/19 Quadir Kareemullah <quadir at gmail.com>

> Burr,
>
> How about Matt Raible (http://www.raibledesigns.com)? He is Founder and
> Lead Developer at AppFuse, has presented at OSCON 2008 and ApacheCON 2007.
>
>    - Java Blogger since 2002
>    - Power user of Java Frameworks
>    - Author of Books: Spring Live and Pro JSP 2.0
>    - Lead UI Architect at LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/mraible)
>
> He could present a comparison of popular java web frameworks
>
> - Quadir
>
> 2009/3/19 Burr Sutter <burrsutter at gmail.com>
>
>> Hello AJUG'ers,
>>
>>
>> It is about that time of year to ask...who and what.  Who would be a great
>> speaker to bring to Atlanta? and/or What topics would you like to see
>> covered at our 3rd Tuesday night meetings?
>>
>> Also, if there is another "style" of event that you think would be helpful
>> please let the rest of us know.
>>
>> Here are some examples of different types of events:
>> - DevNexus happens during the working week - during the day time: this
>> encourages managers to send their employees and we had many  teams show up
>> at DevNexus 2009.  The feedback has been very strong and we made our revenue
>> goals (break even) so look for this event to be back in 2010.
>> - NFJS happens on weekends - this encourages the contractors/consultants
>> to come out so they don't miss billable time
>> - Lunches - we have run many lunch bunch type of events inviting the most
>> senior techies in the Atlanta area, no specific agenda, just hardcore
>> techies discussing best practices, emerging technologies, solutions to
>> political problems.  We found that senior architects, team leads, CTOs,
>> consultants can normally take a 1.5 to 2 hour lunch (if they are in town and
>> not traveling)
>> - Open space meetings - we held one of these in Summer of 2007 (Barry
>> Hawkins organized) - several of the attendees really enjoyed this type of
>> session but it is very different.  I've been asked to bring this back.  The
>> basic idea of an open space meeting is that it has no agenda, no speaker, no
>> slideshow with LCD projector - it has open areas, poster paper on easels,
>> markers and an overall theme, with a coordinator keeping things flowing.
>> This is one of the least costly events.
>> - Movie theater meetings: Microsoft sometimes has day time (1pm to 5pm)
>> meetings at the Regal Hollywood theater off I-85, the "pros" are a really
>> large screen & stadium seating with popcorn, the "cons" are rooms are not
>> shaped for networking, discussions, lunch is a little more challenging, only
>> cost effective when you hit the 200+ attende mark.  We did something like
>> this at Atlanta Station where James Gosling came to speak and we watched
>> Talladega Nights a three years ago.
>> - Bring your laptop Hands-on events: this is often requested but very
>> challenging to organize.  A couple of years ago we had a "bring your laptop"
>> sub-group but it ran out of gas.  The difficulty is that the instructor must
>> spend many more hours preparing to give a hands-on session vs a
>> lecture/demonstration.  I would guess that the difference is around 500%
>> increase in workload on the instructor (I've been performing both types of
>> sessions over the last 17 years).  So this is challenging, with that said,
>> we do have some people in the group who are "teachers" and would be willing
>> to teach for 1 to 2 hours on JSF, Seam, Spring, Hibernate, Flex, etc.
>>
>> What else?  Who else?
>>
>> Burr
>>
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