Finally! with the help of Maurice Crama and Erik-Jan Jaquet, CFUG NL Meeting #1 is planned and confirmed!
Meeting #1 will be all about Coldfusion 9 a.k.a. Centaur and the new Coldfusion IDE names Bolt.
Make sure to register today as seating is limited and the meeting is already in 2 weeks!
Thanks to everyone who helped to help start the CFUG NL!
Sign up here: http://coldfusionusergroup.nl
It's not the official first meeting of the CFUG NL, but this Friday there is a presentation at Rhinofly about Railo. This is an ideal afternoon to get to know people from the Coldfusion Community in The Netherlands and learn about Railo too!
Make sure to check out this link to sign up for this afternoon full of Railo goodness!
About the meeting #1
The first meeting will be held on the 17th of July. We still need to confirm the speaker and location, but write the date down.
As things look now, we'll be starting at 14:00 till the drinks are all gone. The exact schedule and location will be posted as soon as the CFUG NL site is live, that also counts for the registration form (somewhere this week, so keep this blog in your daily to read list!).
Meetings after meeting #1
We will hold a meeting every month on the 3rd Friday of the month. The first meeting will be a live meeting and meeting 2 will be a online event. The idea is to have a live event every other month. If you want to speak at one of the meetings, make sure to let me know!
So that's it for now. I'll post the link later on here for registration and meeting details!
Special thanks to Erik-Jan Jacquet from Toomba and Maurice Crama from People XS for helping me setting up the CFUG NL!
I had to cancel my meeting with Adobe Benelux for the CFUG NL because of the madhouse here at the office. Meanwhile my application was approved for the CFUG NL on Adobe Groups. So make sure to sign up there until the CFUG NL site is live.
This Friday I have a meeting with Erik-Jan from Toomba to discuss how to set this CFUG up and running and see what they can help with.
Also I registered coldfusionusergroup.nl, but I haven't finished the site yet as I have little to no time to do my own personal stuff right now. But For the time being, make sure to register with the Adobe Groups online.
The first meeting will be scheduled somewhere mid July (really fast!) and will be about Centaur & Bolt. Centaur will be presented by Claude Englebert and the Bolt will be presented by me or somebody else if they can present about Bolt.
So good stuff is coming up! So make sure to sign up with the Adobe Groups site and we'll announce on there when and where the first meeting will be held!
First of all, thanks to everybody who is interested! I've had a lot of emails beside the comments and the current count right now is somewhere between 30 and 40 interested Dutch CF'ers. It's nowhere near the 2000 Adobe Usergroup members, but that is something we'll never reach in a few years (which is more then fine by me!).
I'm in contact with a few of you out there about the setup of the CFUG NL, but if you want to help as a one of the managers (or sponsors) and you didn't emailed me directly, make sure to email me (my firstname AT thisdomain or use the contact form on my blog).
Most of you said that you want technical meetings and not just marketing meetings like in the past. That's something I want to make clear, all meetings will be organised for the members, BY THE MEMBERS. So if you have a subject you would like to see during one of the first meetings, let me know. A few of the subjects I'm thinking of are:
These are just a few ideas and not a fixed list. So all ideas are welcome. If you have any good ideas or you can present about a specific topic, let me know!
Also keep posting those comments that you want to join! Don't do it here, but place those over HERE!
Since the start of my Coldfusion career, I've always wanted to have some sort of Coldfusion Usergroup in The Netherlands. Coldfusion is very underrated over here and it's hard to find people who have Coldfusion experience.
I remember the sneak peek session Ben Forta gave at the Macromedia Usergroup during the CF 7 beta's. It was packed! 80+ developers in the room and all interested in the new CF 7 capabilities. So by now the group should be bigger and I know for a fact that a few of the CF houses have grown during the past years.
So why not start a Coldfusion Usergroup? I have no idea why not! I was contacted today by someone from PeopleXS about starting the CFUG. But before we're going to spend a lot of time and energy in this, I would like to know if you (the Dutch CF developer) wants to join/attend any CF usergroup meetings.
Leave a comment to let me know if you want to be a member of the usergroup and if you can help in any way or only want to attend. Any wishes, ideas are more then welcome!
Too bad I'm not at @CFUGNL for the preso of @benforta & @vanderwoud. Have fun guys!!! #CFUGNL
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