[ciapug] Meetings

[carl-olsen at mchsi.com]

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