TJUG January Discussion

Various Topics

Membership - talk of how to increase
Officers - Warner stepping down
Website

• Current setup
  • hosted on Warner's personal machine
  • Fedora Core x
  • MySQL 4.0
  • co-location cost: estimate $50/mo
• Chad W. suggested Rimuhosting.com -> $19.95/mo for VPS with root

Meeting Coordination & Presentations

• What happened to the AMO folks?
  • interest and focus changed

Why do people come?

• good speaker or topic
• socialization
  

• Incorporation
  • TR believes Randy Kahle said $600 for incorporation as a Non-Profit

Goals of the Group

We discussed if the focus should be "Java and other" or "Other with some Java".

• Rails, Ruby, Agile, Methodologies, User, Interfaces, Project Mgt., SW Professionals
• Education
• Networking
• Open Source SW Dev Group?
• "Tucson SW Professionals" - not just a hobbyist group

Summary – most people in attendance (about 9) seemed to favor going to a more "open" format with presentations that may interest more than just "Java" developers.

Presentation topics:

• Duffy: Natural Language Processing - transformation based learning
• Renee: DBUnit
• Rob Gingell: ?
• Warner: OS WebFrameworks, 7 open source projects you've never heard of
• Chad: preso in a couple months on something fun

Membership dues

• Folks seemed to think $25-$30/year would be acceptable
• money/dues could go to speakers
• we want to keep the remote population - so need to make sure they can join in
• New Folks: Glenn and Carl
  • When asked why they came - it was a mix of "social" and "curiosity"

Members:

• access to stuff and food

February Meeting Agenda - 15th

• Moving the meeting to the **15th** - instead of Valentine's Day
• Business Aspect 30 min
• Renee: DBUnit