[Steering Committee] Re-restarting the JUG

Ryan Hoegg ryan.hoegg at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 09:05:21 PDT 2022 

I like Wednesdays for lunch!

On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 6:29 PM Jason Lee <jason at steeplesoft.com> wrote:

> Good afternoon! You know the drill: got busy at work and then was
> literally on PTO for 3/4 of June. :P At any rate, getting back on things
> here.
>
> Ryan, if you want to take care of the Techlahoma application, that would
> be great. I don't mind doing it either, but we probably just need one of us
> to do it :P For the remainder of the year, we can hop around
> vagabond-style, or maybe see if Clevyr might be willing to host for a bit
> (or long term, I guess. They do a lot of that kind of thing, but I don't
> know what their general plan is in that regard).
>
>    - The web site it completely hosed. Not sure how. I've been working on
>    a non-WP setup (Jekyll + GH Pages), but PTO got in the way. I'll get back
>    on that.
>    - Twitter and GH creds secured (and stored in 1Password ATM. We can
>    find a shared system at some point. LastPass or Bitwarden, maybe, as
>    they're free)
>    - Still haven't emailed the main list. Trying to decide if I should
>    wait until there are more details, or just do it. Will probably do it
>    tomorrow. :)
>
> More than happy to shoot for another lunch (Tues/Thurs are out for me,
> unless it HAS to be on one of those days :).
> On 5/5/22 11:41 AM, Ryan Hoegg wrote:
>
> Hi sorry I missed it! I can handle the Techlahoma UG application process
> but we're on our own for 2022 I believe. Want to try for another lunch?
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 5:04 PM Jason Lee <jason at steeplesoft.com> wrote:
>
>> Indeed. MS has come a LONG way on the Java front in recent years. I have
>> several friends from Sun/Oracle that are working at Microsoft on Java
>> projects (and products). It's a whole new world. :)
>> On 4/26/22 10:27 AM, Les Martin wrote:
>>
>> The java team at MS has made some strides. The java support in vs code is
>> a good example. In azure they have done quite a bit to support java in
>> their serverless Functions (aws lambda). It's not always perfect, but they
>> seem to be moving the right direction.
>>
>> My last job was working on spring boot services deployed to azure
>> functions. It wasn't as nice as the c# guys had it, no doubt. But overall I
>> was impressed with what they had done.
>>
>> /** something signature-like goes here */
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 10:11 AM Brian Sheldon <brian.s.sheldon at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> this seems weird - ms & java?
>>>
>>> https://www.meetup.com/global-java-at-microsoft-meetup-group/events/285377548/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze_adhoc&utm_campaign=mmrk_alleng_all_eventpromotion_microsoft_americas_04262022&utm_term=nurture&utm_content=lp_meetup
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 9:27 PM Jason Lee <jason at steeplesoft.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good evening! I'm sitting here in my hotel in Atlanta after the closing
>>>> of Devnexus 2022. I got to talk to several friends/acquaintances that lead
>>>> various JUGs to see how things are going for them, and I'm re-enthused
>>>> about restarting our JUG. Several people have expressed interest in doing
>>>> so, but nobody has made the move to do so, therefore, if I may be so bold,
>>>> I'm just going to do it. Here's my plan:
>>>>
>>>>    1. Unless someone just REALLY wants to instead, I'm going to
>>>>    appoint myself president and get this kick started. :)
>>>>    2. I will reach back out to Techlahoma to see where things stand on
>>>>    UGs these days and see if we can restart that relationship.
>>>>    3. I'm going to pick a time and day of the week and start planning
>>>>    sessions (this will depend both on the outcome of the discussion above and
>>>>    my personal schedule :), most likely presenting myself to help get things
>>>>    going.
>>>>    4. I'd like to assemble a board to help govern things, but I know
>>>>    people are busy, so I'm happy to press on alone if needed. Please don't
>>>>    make me. :)
>>>>    5. I am going to export the content of our old WordPress-based site
>>>>    and rebuild it with a static generator (e.g., JBake or Jekyll) and host it
>>>>    under an OKCJUG org on GitHub.
>>>>    6. I will try to regain access to the OKCJUG GitHub and Twitter
>>>>    accounts (*Brian Sheldon*: Do you remember the credentials for
>>>>    either? You're the only other person I can think of that had those).
>>>>    7. I'm going to look at other JUGs and reach out to my contacts
>>>>    there to see what other digital capabilities we may be lacking and try to
>>>>    get those going.
>>>>    8. Once details have started to come together, I'll email the main
>>>>    JUG list to announce those details. I will likely, though, make a teaser
>>>>    announcement in the coming days.
>>>>    9. I will try to figure out what I've forgotten and do that too.
>>>>
>>>> I am going to have lunch (hopefully not by myself :) at Jason's Deli on
>>>> NW Expressway at 11:30 on Wednesday (4/20) to discuss these items with
>>>> anyone interested. Lacking any negative feedback, concerns, etc., I'm going
>>>> to press on, so if you have any of those, chime up here or come to lunch
>>>> next Wednesday and harangue me in person. :)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jason Lee
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