[Steering Committee] Fwd: OKC Coworking Technology Collaborative

[Jason Lee]

On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:58 PM, ryan hoegg wrote:

> I think it would be alright.  Derrick did this before OpenBeta, and  
> I think he only talked for about 2 minutes.
>
> What do you mean, "in light of last Friday's meeting"?  Remember,  
> his company won't be doing classes for a while.  And they may never  
> do java classes.


Well, one of the things we hope to be able to offer the sponsors to  
make them want to sponsor is time at the JUG, and he's working on  
building/staring a business and gets "free" time.  Of course, the LAST  
thing I want this to turn into is a nickel-and-dime operation, so,  
from the perspective, he's trying to build a community, which overlaps  
significantly with ours, so I think we should support him (both before  
and after profitability for him ;).  My gut reaction was to tell him  
yes for that reason, but I thought I ought to run it by you all first.

The consensus seems to be that my first reaction was the correct one.   
Should we then, put him up at the end, as Brett suggested, or front- 
load the session?

Jason Lee, SCJP
Senior Java Developer, Sun Microsystems
Mojarra and Mojarra Scales Dev Team
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