[Steering Committee] Status?

[Ryan Hoegg]

Not without a final farewell meeting at least! I did a bit of java recently
when testing some things for log4j2 vulnerabilities... might make for an
interesting talk. Really I valued seeing you folks through the years.  That
and All American Pizza for lunch.

My vote is for futureMeetings > 0.  Also I'd be happy to take over the
domain, Jason.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:34 PM Brent Wilkins <brent.w.wilkins at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jason,
>
> I have often wondered if the JUG would ever return. I would love to see it
> keep going but I'm open to what everyone thinks we should do.
>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 14:09 Jason Lee <jason at steeplesoft.com> wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon, ladies and gents, and happy new year. :)
>>
>> I've been getting some emails from various conferences, etc. talking
>> about JUGs and active leaders, etc, which made me think of my favorite (if
>> dormant) JUG, so I thought I'd do a status check. We haven't met in many,
>> many moons for a number of reasons, the chief being COVID, I guess, and
>> we're all busy, so before we know it, we're months, maybe even a couple of
>> years without a meeting.
>>
>> What should we do with the JUG? Currently, the only concrete part about
>> the JUG is the domain. Our Techlahoma membership has lapsed, and it seems a
>> lot of our leadership have moved on to non-Java technologies (traitors! :).
>> Is the OKC JUG something we feel needs to be revived, or should we pour out
>> a 40 of A&W and officially call it a day? I know there are many logistics
>> that would have to be worked out for a revival, and that could be a lot of
>> work, but, at the same time, many of us have put a lot of work into this
>> thing over the years, so I don't want to see it just limp into history. If
>> it does do that, it deserves a proper farewell. :)
>>
>> If we DON'T want to revive (which is fine. seriously), then I'm going to
>> let this domain reg expire in June and save myself a whole $16/yr, though
>> I'll probably just blow that on a date night with my wife. :)
>>
>> Either way really is fine with me, but I wanted to make a semi-formal
>> effort to see what others' thoughts were.
>>
>> That's all I have for now. I hope you all are doing well! :)
>>
>> --
>> Jason Lee
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