John, I know it's been a while since you sent this note to the House of Fusion SQL-talk list. I'm just catching up on those notes. You had expressed interest in creating a CF User group in the Southern CA area. How's that going? I'm a regular speaker to user groups on the east coast, and I'd love to come out there as well. Besides having lots of potential topics (see http://www.systemanage.com/service_usergroups.cfm--ok, it's not the prettiest site in the world), I'm also a monthly writer for ColdFusion Developers Journal magazine, as well as a contributor to several books. I realize that most groups can't afford to pay speakers (let alone cover their traveling expenses), but I've had good luck with arranging either consulting visits (day or two engagements, in conjunction with coming out for the meeting, addressing a variety of potential issues). I've also now started putting together some day-long seminars, which can be offered either publicly (at low prices per person) or on-site (to one or more corporate groups). The first of these is "What's New in CF5: More Than You May Know" where I cover lots more than most articles, presentations, and even the docs do, not only on the typical new things that are mentioned but dozens more that aren't as sexy from a marketing perspective but truly useful for developers. I also cover what's not working well, what was broken before but it now fixed, what is now deprecated, and lots more. Anyway, you can read more about that at http://www.systemanage.com/CF5inDepth.cfm I'm again just sharing that to suggest that if I could arrange to give either a public or private presentation of that talk, I could also be available for a user group talk (indeed, I have a one hour highly condensed version of the "what's new talk" just for this purpose, to serve as a precursor to a seminar to follow on the next day or even following weekend). But as the other page shows there are plenty of other topics available, and indeed I'm always open to covering any topic that a group may be interested in. If you'd like to discuss this further, please let me know. If this has been an unwanted intrusion, my sincere apologies. /charlie -----Original Message----- From: John Wilker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 9:05 PM To: SQL Subject: OT: CFUGS Sorry if you got this already but since not a soul replied (are there no Southern CA, IE CF'ers out there?? :-() I'm trying again, my first post was right before a mail server hiccup I think so maybe the message got bamboozled somewhere. I'm interested in starting a CFUG in the Inland Empire area of Southern CA (Riverside, Corona area) I've got a place to hold the meetings in Corona but would like to gauge interest, since there's no point in trying to get one started if I'm the only one out here interested. That way for those living in Corona, Riverside and beyond the meetings are at least on the way home rather than hanging out in Irvine until 6:30 then driving home at 9:30 10pm. If you have any questions or just want to raise your hand in the I'm in column email me off list so I can keep better tabs. Thanks a lot. J. John Wilker Web Applications Consultant Macromedia Certified ColdFusion Developer www.red-omega.com What does Snoop Dogg use to do his laundry? Blee-otch! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
