Re: Is AJUG becoming too DevNexus centric?

Random thoughts....

FWIW: I did not take Narahari comments as a criticism.  I took them as
wanting to make the best JUG even better.

I spent 20 years volunteering at an Open Systems (UNIX) group in Chicago.
It is a lot of unappreciated work.

The AJUG leadership is doing a great job.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Vincent Mayers <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I love open discussion about what our JUG is doing and how the people that
> have volunteered to lead it do that.
>
> Today's Devnexus conference evolved out of the monthly AJUG meeting from a
> desire to provide the Atlanta community with a low-cost  annual event that
> is an opportunity to learn more about their existing tech stacks as well as
> new things that they might not touch on in the daily 9-5. To put this in
> perspective, for an Atlanta resident to attend JavaOne in San Francisco,
> the cost is $2400 for the conference, $300 per night in a hotel, $400-500
> in airfare and then meals on top.  You can do the math. You may not realize
> but to run this monthly meeting costs around $20,000 a year and the sponsor
> revenue we receive pays for all that because we tie AJUG to Devnexus
>
> At the start of every monthly meeting, we open with a call for questions
> or comments from the attendees.  Please take advantage of this time to
> express your comments and concerns. We have also done online surveys in the
> past and I wish more people had responded
>
> I am going to recommend to the board that we dedicate one of the monthly
> meetings (most likely next year as we have already planned out this year)
> to a town hall "state of/future direction of AJUG" It would be awesome if
> we got a strong turnout for that.
>
>
> Cheers
> Vincent
>
> @vincentmayers
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:37 PM, ian stansbury <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I think that's a fair criticism. Keep in mind though that all of the
>> officers are. Devnexus  also involved in DevNexus so it's totally expected
>> that it would be a focus that extended over into the AJUG meetings.
>>
>>
>> Couple of things to think about:
>>
>>    - The fact that DevNexus being so successful has allowed the local
>>    and fairly small AJUG to leverage that into getting bigger and more well
>>    known speakers than we would otherwise
>>    - The best way to affect change would be to join and be one one of
>>    the officers. I know from talking to most of the guys that they would love
>>    to have the input and help. Last month they were asking about elections and
>>    if anyone wanted to run.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>> Sent from Outlook
>> <http://t.sidekickopen06.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJN7t5XZsS9QCYW8p_7G03LPV5RVcVPpW56dLSrf18B_pq02?t=http%3A%2F%2Faka.ms%2Fweboutlook&si=5874678366208000&pi=a07dd59e-78f5-425f-87da-82dba6c1db1f>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* ajug-members <[email protected]> on behalf of
>> Narahari 'n' Savitha <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, September 18, 2016 6:53 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* [ajug-members] Is AJUG becoming too DevNexus centric?
>>
>> Friends:
>>
>> Is AJUG becoming too DevNexus centric ?
>> Instead of a simple lets meet once a month and talk about Java
>> technologies, are we now "Greatest meeting on east coast", "parallel to
>> JavaOne", "we are JCP influential folks " ?
>>
>> We don't focus on getting a great talks each month on a Tuesday but
>> instead 1/2 the year, the powers-to-be are focussed on dev-nexus.
>> From a more of less-pricy "lets meet in a bigger setting" are we
>> gravitating towards prime-time java conference dev-nexus meetings ?
>>
>> I am just raising the point and if I am the only person feeling this way,
>> sorry about that.  Maybe folks like it the way AJUG is headed
>>
>> -Narahari
>>
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