[OKC JUG] December Meeting and Officer Elections

[Jason Lee]

Hopefully by now you've seen the announcement for tomorrow's JUG 
session: Reactive Microservices with Andres Barbaro - 
https://www.meetup.com/okcjug/events/256928898/ We have a good number 
signed up for the session already, but if you haven't RSVP'd please do 
so as quickly as you can so we can get an accurate food order. I can't 
make it tomorrow due to meetings at work, but I hope you can. The 
session looks awesome. :)

Also, don't forget that we need a new leader. :) It's been fun, and I 
fully intend to stay involved, but I just have to step down as 
president. :) If you're interested, please get in touch with me, Brent, 
or Ryan.

Thanks, and enjoy the meetup tomorrow!

On 11/26/2018 2:36 PM, Jason Lee wrote:
> Greetings! It's been a long time. :)
>
> Those of you paying close attention may have noticed that November 
> came and went without a meeting. We had some issues with speaker 
> schedules, time constraints, etc., and had to cancel the meeting. I 
> really hate doing that, but sometimes it can't be helped. That said, 
> we're trying to finalize plans for December, so if any of you have 
> something you've been dying to talk about if only you had a chance, 
> well, here's your chance. :) Shoot me a line if you're interested and 
> we'll see what we can get worked out.
>
> On another note, I've been the JUG president for some time now. I 
> don't recall exactly how long, but it seems like it's been at least 3 
> or 4 years this time around. You might also recall that in November of 
> 2016, Oracle acquired NetSuite, making me, once again, an Oracle 
> employee. Oracle has a longstanding policy that its employees should 
> not be JUG leaders so as to avoid any sense of corporate control, 
> which is why I had to step down last time. ;) Clearly, 2018 > 2016, 
> which means I've been violating that for a couple of years, but now is 
> the time to rectify that. At the end of the year, then, I will be 
> needing to step down as the president, which presents one of you happy 
> few a great chance to step in to the role, helping both the local Java 
> community, as well as giving a boost to your own career. It's a 
> win/win! 8-)
>
> If you should be interested in the role, please let me know. If we 
> have more than one interested, we can either hold a vote or have the 
> interested parties work something out.
>
> I think that's it for now. Please stay tuned for (hopefully) 
> not-too-distant updates on both these topics. :)
>
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