Notes from October 15 meeting

TriJUG October 15, 2007 Meeting

Harold Meder opened the meeting with an annnouncement of the board elections
coming up in November.  He explained that board members run for board 
membership rather than any particular role, then during their first meeting the
members agree to who will do what.

Harold then solicited suggestions and ideas for how TriJUG can be improved.
Here is what the attendees suggested::

   1) Beer
   2) Low calorie light beer
   3) More email list activity. The discussion list is [email protected] and
      there is a list for trading job info at [email protected]
      There were coments about how quiet the list is. Someone asked if
      anybody had seemed to be unsubscribed from the email list lately? 
      (Nobody thought they had)
   4) Use of the IRC channel was discussed and Phillip Rhodes to send out
      an explanation and invitation to IRC usage to the email list.
   5) Need more publicity and communication: broaden the means of folks
      find out about TriJUG.
   6) Also need more outreach to corporations with Java interests.
   7) Somebody suggested hooking up  with other local user groups such as
      Erlang, Ruby, TriLUG, etc. Cross-group gatherings could be done
      as "tech conferences" for discussio of a broad range of topics, not 
      including Emacs vs vi. Since both TriJUG and TriLUG use their December
      meetings for "birds of a feather" type open discussion, it might be
      an excellent opportunity to meet together.
   8) Somebody requested flyers to be able to get them up on company and
      other bulletin boards. Flyers have been made in the past and Pete
      Soper volunteered to update the most recent info he and Chris Brown
      have and publish something online as PDF and as hard copies available 
      at the "greeting table" at future meetings.
   9) Somebody suggested offering certification training discounts for 
      TriJUG members.

Harold then asked if there are any volunteers for the 2008 board. Phillip 
Rhodes offered to join the board to fill an opening if a current board
member chooses not to be nominated again.

Harold invited attendees to send nominations to the email list and then
introduced Patrick Peralta of Oracle to talk about "Orchestrating
Messaging, Data Grid, and Database for scalable Performance."