[GR-Jug] PLEASE respond to this GR-JUG survey -- your input is veryimportant!

[John Tobasco]

Hi all,

I recommend you all visit the XP West Michigan user's group meeting.  I 
attended one for the first time last month and am signed up to attend the 
next one -- February 22, 2005: "Agile Requirements Gathering".

I was quite impressed by several things at the last meeting and about the 
group:

1. A top notch presenter Robert C. Martin "a nationally recognized author, 
speaker and agile-programming expert" (words from their meeing notice).  He 
made an excellent presentation on test-first programming using JUnit and on 
an integration test package called FitNesse.  I was able to take what I 
learned from his test-first programming presentation and make a presentation 
to my team at IBM by running through a hands on example using JUnit and 
eclipse while a team mate read through a PowerPoint I threw together.  We 
are going to add test-first programming to our team's best practices list  
Point being: sitting in on a presentation by an expert presenter, Mr. 
Martin, went a long way in helping me to understand in a simple and straight 
forward manner something that up to that point had sounded like 
pie-in-the-sky.

2. Not exactly sure how many showed up to the XP West Michigan meeting last 
month, but somewhere between 50 and 100.

3. The group is sponsored by a few companies - which allows them to bring in 
speakers, etc.

4. The sponsors also provided plenty of snacks for the mid-way break.

5. The peolpe attending the meetings seemed to come from many different 
perspectives (students, Java developers, C++ developers, testers, managers, 
sales people, etc...).

6. The XP WM group has a pretty nice web site (seems to be a work in 
progress) at http://xpwestmichigan.org

Any way, check them out.  It might spark some ideas for the GRJUG.  I think 
lots of Java developers attend the meetings too.  Maybe you could find some 
recruites from there. :-)

John Tobasco


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From: Ken Radlick <radlickk at gr-jug.org>
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Subject: [GR-Jug] PLEASE respond to this GR-JUG survey -- your input is 
veryimportant!
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:17:52 -0500

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Hello fellow JUG members.

At the meeting last night it was decided that we need YOUR input.  We want 
to make the JUG better and increase participation SO below is a poll please, 
please complete it and sent it to the list.

1) What type of  format would you like to see?
       a) presentations
       b) project - i.e. develop something with the group
       c) study group - select a topic and/or a book and go through it 
together

2) how often should we meet?
       a) monthly
       b) weekly (it has been suggested that for a study group and project 
this might be desirable)

3) Are you interested in any of the following Java topics?
       a) Hibernate
       b) JSP
       c) JDBC
       d) Spring
       e) JMeter
       f) JSF
       g) Struts
       h) Beginning Java
       i) patterns
       j) object oriented design
       k) XML
       l) web services
       m)  Eclipse/Eclipse Plug-ins
      4) what other Java topics are you interested in?

5) would you be willing to present at a future meeting?   What topic would 
you like to present to the group?

Hopefully we will get many of you to share your feedback with the group, 
this is your group let's make it better! (I know corny but true)

send your response to jug at gr-jug.org

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