Its nice to see this week that we were able to witness another bloodless transfer of power from one administration to the next. I am not referring to the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, but the recent JaxDUG Election.
I had announced recently that I would be ending my reign of terror as JaxDUG president. That clarion call was answered by Bayer White and Adam Lowe, both excellent and qualified candidates. As the run-up to the night came, the two of them found a way to work it out amongst themselves. Adam decided to bow out of the race, make Bayer president by virtue of being the only choice. Bayer then decided to make Adam his vice president.
I congratulate both and wish them the best of luck. I think we should all look for exciting changes from the two of them in the coming months and beyond.
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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.