<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Mark Smith did a Seam presentation last year - it was the same one (I think) that he did at the JBoss thing in Las Vegas. It might be nice (or horrible) to have him there for your version.<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">I don't think we have a Hello Java yet for August. I vaguely remember suggesting a few things we could do - round table discussion, view a java puzzler or some other java thing, watch some YouTube videos, or stop having the Hello Java since no newbies seem to show up for it...</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">I guess we can tell Francis Tuttle we don't need a room for out SC meetings.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Jason Lee <jason@steeplesoft.com><BR>To: OKC JUG Steering Committee <sc@okcjug.org><BR>Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2007 11:14:24 AM<BR>Subject: [Steering Committee] SC Meeting Notes<BR><BR>I'm a bit slow getting these out, but here are my notes (BTW, this would be a GREAT category for some sort of CMS-based, searchable web site... ;)<BR><BR><BR>We asked "what can we do to make the JUG better." Here's what we got: <BR>"More interesting" topics wanted:<BR>
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<LI>Spring 2.1</LI>
<LI>Acegi</LI>
<LI>"Less unit testing and i18n" (sorry if that hurts. I'm just reporting what was said :)</LI>
<LI>JPA/Hibernate (perhaps a compare and contrast) </LI>
<LI>Seam (which I think I'm going to do in September unless we have a speaker lined up that's not on the schedule. Or if someone else wants that month)<BR></LI></UL>More "external" speakers was mentioned <BR><BR>From my notes, it appears the Ryan is on the hook for an October presentation on ReST<BR><BR>GDH "would be happy to sponsor", putting out sponsor list at <BR>
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<LI>GDH</LI>
<LI>Objectstream</LI>
<LI>TekSystems </LI>
<LI>Valtech</LI>
<LI>Principal</LI>
<LI>Addison</LI>
<LI>Atlassian</LI></UL>The ORA offer of free books for reviews was mentioned<BR><BR>August:<BR>
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<LI>Hello JUG - I was going to do this on the Collections framework, but I'll be out of town, so I'll do it in October (see topics above) </LI>
<LI>Ryan's taking care of the sponsors</LI>
<LI>Room is booked at FT</LI></UL>We discussed participating in Tulsa Techfest (<A href="http://www.tulsatechfest.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.tulsatechfest.com/</A>) for a Java track. Anyone interested (and I'll post on the main list in just a few) needs to speak up soon so we can get on the schedule. <BR><BR>Ryan: You're supposed to get in touch with Terracotta about...a speaker? and I'm supposed to send you this link: <A href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2007/05/testing_ajax_ap.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2007/05/testing_ajax_ap.html </A><BR><BR>And I'm supposed to follow up with Atlassian on their JUG sponsorship/swag offer<BR><BR>We also need to address seriously the problem with room scheduling for our September lunch meeting. Ryan mentioned that APLN used the University of Phoenix. <BR><BR>I think that's it...<BR><BR>-- <BR>Jason Lee,
SCJP<BR>Software Architect -- Objectstream, Inc.<BR>JSF RI Dev Team<BR><A href="http://blogs.steeplesoft.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://blogs.steeplesoft.com</A><BR></DIV>
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