I have decided that it is time for me to step down as President of the Jacksonville Developers User Group. My time as president has been educational for me, and I appreciate the new friends I have made, some of which I might not have met any other way except by being in that office. I still plan to be available to the community, but I seek to apply more focus, time, and effort to other aspects of my life.
This is the official notice and call for those interested in taking up the position of JaxDUG to email me at jonathan.bates@batener.org. As candidates submit themselves, I'll add it to the blog announcement for the November 5th meeting. If there is more than one candidate, we will have the election at the end of the next meeting on November 5th. Each candidate will be given some time to speak and those in attendance will be able to to vote.
Update: A Candidate List Emerges!
The following have expressed an interest in leading the group:
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About Jonathan Bates
Jonathan Bates is involved in the local development community, once even serving time as the President of the Jacksonville Developers User Group.
He has had a long and storied path on the way to I.T. work. At one point, Jonathan had a near Neo-Luddite position about computers, believing them at worst to be the means to humanity's eventual slavery and at best tools for general evil. After landing a job powered by such advanced technologies as Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and MS Access, Jonathan began to change his opinion on computers. He began to believe that they might be for more than just improving the display and sound qualities on his Laserdisc movies. In time, he came to see that computers were nothing more than tools, not much different then a hammer (though not as good to drive nails with).
Jonathan Bates is an industry-certified and proven developer and trainer, facilitating the transfer of knowledge from conceptual client request to delivered and implemented solution. Jonathan enjoys sharing his knowledge and understanding about development principals with like-minded people. You can generally find him enjoying good company discussing his personal Unified Theory and how programming can be used to describe it. And if you can't find him, drop him a line with a time and place and he'll find you.
Contact him at jonathan.bates@batener.org.