You make very fine points Robin, thank you, and an excellent idea to give people the opportunity to step up for this year's presentations while it is a hot topic and stirring some passions. I have done as you suggested, but made it a new thread, so hopefully it won't get lost. All folk in Melbourne who've have been following this discussion, please look for the new post 'Melbourne CFUG Programme 2010'.
Cheers Peter Robertson Melbourne CFUG Co-manager On Mar 24, 9:31 pm, Robin Hilliard <ro...@rocketboots.com.au> wrote: > On 24/03/2010, at 9:05 PM, Andrew Scott wrote: > > > Steve / Mark, > > > First of all this was not an entire dig at you guys, the point is that > > there are very few Melbourne UG’s each year. That can be a downer to most, > > because it can come across as why would I bother to turn up to something > > that can’t be run regularly, or no sorry but that topic doesn’t interest > > me. You can’t please everyone all the time, but even just regular meetings > > would be a start. > > In their defence, one of the UG managers was organising a major international > conference, you might have heard about it ;-). The managers can only do so > much. If you're not having a dig at them, then who _is_ supposed to supply > regular user group meetings in Melbourne? > > Most UG managers worldwide completely agree with you about regular meetings > being important (and prompt kickoffs as per Matthew's comment in February). > Peter Robertson has stepped into the co-manager role (with Steve) for the > Melbourne CFUG and is focussing on getting a regular meeting schedule > together. I think his main difficulty has been finding speakers - thus the > invitation for me to fly down for the first one last week which I gladly > accepted. > > If you want regular meetings, you can help by speaking at one. Why not have > Peter post the dates on the list and everyone can pitch in with a talk at > some point over the next year. If you're short I can fly down again, but > surely there's plenty of CFers in Melbourne who could talk about something to > fill up the other 11 spots? Mr Buzzy, Phil, Dale, Gavin, Chris, Matthew ... > > Cheers, > Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
