[Steering Committee] Re-restarting the JUG

Sat Jul 23 07:30:04 PDT 2022

Love the site! How about Panera at Independence or McAllister's? Wednesday?
Friday?

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 11:18 AM Jason Lee <jason at steeplesoft.com> wrote:

> Great. How does next week sound? Somewhere along the Expressway seems to
> be central enough for everyone, but I'm open so suggestion.
>
> Also, while I have everyone's attention, I've been working on revamping
> the site. I grabbed a free template (because I'm a geek and not a designer)
> and put together this Jekyll site: https://okcjug.org/
>
> We can change the template, etc, but I think I prefer the static approach.
> You wouldn't believe all of the spam/hack changes made to the content over
> the years. I've tried to clean it up, but there's likely more still there...
> On 7/20/22 11:05 AM, Ryan Hoegg wrote:
>
> 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
>>>>> http://jasondl.ee
>>>>> http://jasondl.ee/twitter
>>>>> http://jasondl.ee/in
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>>>>
>>>>
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