How does the Flex vs CF groups compare numbers wise? Regards Dale Fraser
-----Original Message----- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Thursday, 24 April 2008 10:04 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Who is working for whom in Sydney, and are they looking for new people? > I think that this should happen in Vic also. every area is different, it comes down to what the users want: a story: in the latter half of 2006, Brisbane found itself faced with a situation where lots of Flex and AIR interest was "infiltrating" the multimedia-based user group (QMUG) and the CFUG. While the multimedia (Dw,Ps, Pr, Ae,Fl, Dr, etc) one wasn't the best to dive into the details of Actionscript coding, the CFUG too (while it had commonality with application design) also wasn't the best fit. This was judged at the time by the UG managers and the more proactive members across the origional two groups (each group having long histories of 7+ years) This is why Richard Turner-Jones and I took the chance to juggle things to create a third - a "FlashPlatform" one. Fast forward to today where we have more ASP.NET and PHP coders interested in Flex and AIR than CFUG'ers. sure it's hard work having three groups. and attendances could always be better (it was a risk to split the audience, effectively forcing members to attend potentially two groups a month) but it now gives the freedome for the CFUG to persue LiveCycle and application development practices, the QMUG to concentrate on new digital media the FlashPlatform group to ride the Flex and AIR wave. the .NET and PHP membership of the FlashPlatform group is an attempt to reach out to a wider community - in much the same way that was suggested in that war'n'peace thread here a short while ago. most of us here have a huge investment in the Adobe Technology stack, and we'd like to know our investment is in good hands. As part of the Adobe "environment" we're faced with twin challenges of a lot of width (from design tools to enterprise server products) and an immature company still finding it's feet**. three user groups in one city the size of Brisbane is a gamble, sure. but until there's a groundswell of large numbers of proactive members suggest otherwise and willing to roll up the sleeves, it's an experiment we're prepared to run a bit longer. but your milage may vary... eh my 2c. barry.b ** I stand by this statement: sure Adobe has been around for years, but this is now Adobe Mk2, and the dust has yet to settle fully. Good omlettes still need to break eggs. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
