[Steering Committee] Re-restarting the JUG

[Jason Lee]

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.
>
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>
> 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
>     <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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