Just wanted to take a moment and recap the last meeting.
Visit here --> http://cs.jaxdug.com/blogs/events/archive/2007/08/13/1838.aspx and you will see that there is comment and attachements done by Thomas and myself with the code and slides.
I heard alot of positive feedback on Thomas' presentation. My personal presentation suffered from some preparedness and coordination issues, some of which is touched on here. The meeting itself was very fun, with lively conversation from most of the attendees on the presented topics and beyond. This conversation spilled over to the Wing House and continued there for those that could attend.
There was discussion about what topics were wanted and this broke pretty evenly on the lines that it always does: bleeding edge, upcoming technology versus practical skills that can be applied right after the meeting. So no real change there. But there were some intersting new ideas that were posted.
Themed discussions >> I see this as similiar to how MSDN Magazine will publish a magazine that has strong Vista features or a strong look at .NET 3.5. This was born out of Thomas' multi-threading examples and people wanting to see the same process for Sharepoint and ASP.NET, or architecture in general. This would require coordination amongst the speakers but I think its a great idea.
Got-A-Book / Need-A-Book >> This is another one that was interesting. It spun out of a desire for book recommendations. There was a thread on the forums that started to cover recommendations. The idea at the meeting then went a bit further when someone just offered someone else a book they already read. So the thinking here is a book exchange. I think this is a great idea. My thoughts are something like a site/app that would list whats available, whats sought after, what people thought of these books. The meetings could be used as the exchange places for them.
At any rate, to those that came, I hope you liked it and will come again. To those that didn't, I hope we can get a topic on the schedule that you'd like to here.