[Steering Committee] Re-restarting the JUG

Ryan Hoegg ryan.hoegg at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 16:30:11 PDT 2022 

Let's nail it down. Both days work for me, Monday 12:15pm and Wednesday
11:30.

Who's in for Wednesday??

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 11:17 AM Jason Lee <jason at steeplesoft.com> wrote:

> Schedules have filled up this week, so let's plan on 11:30 NEXT week,
> either Monday, August 1, or Wednesday, August 3, at McAlister's Deli (
> https://goo.gl/maps/qpr5iAZyEiRkUesb8)?
> On 7/23/22 9:30 AM, Ryan Hoegg wrote:
>
> 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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>> http://linkedin.com/in/jasondlee
>>
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