[Steering Committee] Re-restarting the JUG

Thu May 5 09:41:39 PDT 2022

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.
>
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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
>>
>> 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. :)
>>>
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>>
>>
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