I can't complain, our meetings in Stockholm/Sweden have always been
attended by usually 20-30 people or so. We have had some really great
presentations and very intresting discussions. If you want to get
notified of the upcoming meetings (one might be coming soon it's long
overdue) sign up at our google group at http://wicket.jalbum.net
// Daniel
jalbum.net
On 2009-02-22, at 12:45, Nino Martinez wrote:
Yeah We have trouble here in Denmark too, all our events has only
been max 5 people... So Cemal if you know of anyone who could be
interested in a WUG DK please tell..
jWeekend wrote:
Thomas,
This is partly because, strange as it may seem, not everyone that
develops
with Wicket uses this list. We have clients and students that have
come over
for jWeekend Wicket courses from Switzerland and for our http://jWeekend.com/dev/LWUGReg/
London Wicket Events - I have never seen
them post here, although they really enjoy Wicket. If it looks like
you'll
be going ahead let me know if you like me to contact them about
your idea.
You are also more than welcome to visit us at our next London
Wicket Event
(which will be on April 1st, at Google - details to be confirmed)
that has
gone from strength to strength in nearly 2 years since jWeekend
founded it
with Al Maw, but we also experienced quiet moments, especially
during the
first 6 months. In fact, despite regularly getting up to 50 people
registering these days, it's very rare that our guests will post here
afterwards saying how much they enjoy our events so others will
know and
come along, even though they tell us they love our events and keep
coming
back and wish we arranged more of them! We also offer to help
people with
their commercial/work projects during our events, I think that
helped us
build some momentum in the early days. The moral of the story is
don't give
up - you need to start somewhere, even if there's just a handful of
you.
What you may also find difficult at the start is getting enough
people to
prepare and deliver presentations that your guests would be willing
to
travel for. At the start it was just Al and I giving presentations,
with
maybe one other speaker if we were lucky. It took me several months
to get
that ball rolling smoothly, and even now we try to arrange things
with our
presenters several months in advance and jWeekend help with their
presentation preparation and occasionally, cover their travel/
accommodation
expenses. We give everyone Pizza too, and are almost always the
last to
leave the pub after the event! I think some of our hard-core
regulars feel
it's just a good night out, as we seem to attract a really good
bunch of
people - and, from my experience, that is representative of the
Wicket
community/users generally.
Let me know if you think we can help with what you're starting up in
Switzerland.
Regards - Cemal
http://jWeekend.com jWeekend
Thomas Mäder-2 wrote:
Whoa! The silence is deafening! Since I've had one answer in a
week, I
guess
there is just no interest. Oh well...
Thomas
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Thomas Mäder
<thomas.mae...@devotek-it.ch>wrote:
Hi Folks,
I would be willing to organize a Wicket meetup in Switzerland if
there is
enough interest. I propose a meeting somewhere in Zürich. The
format I
imagine is that participants could (don't have to) shortly
(15-20min.)
present their work with Wicket (demos are always nice). That
would be
followed by general mingling with drinks & snacks.
For the date, I would shoot for the week starting March 16,
17:30-20:30h.
Would you be interested in participating in/hosting/sponsoring
such a
thing? Either reply here or to me privately, and if there is enough
interest, I'll set up a thing on the wiki.
Thomas
--
Thomas Mäder
Wicket & Eclipse Consulting
www.devotek-it.ch
--
Wicket & Eclipse Consulting
www.devotek-it.ch
thomasmaeder.blogspot.com
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