Sacramento CFUG is Becoming Sacramento Interactive Developers Group
August 14, 2012
As you may know, Seth Duffey and I run the Sacramento ColdFusion User Group. After a lot of consideration, we've decided to rename, rebrand, and rebuild the group into something new called the Sacramento Interactive Developers Group. In addition to ColdFusion topics (we would never abandon ColdFusion -- it rocks!) we'll be covering a wider variety of web/mobile development topics. Several other local user groups have recently disbanded, or gone on hiatus. We're hoping our new group's wider focus will help fill in for people that attended these other groups, as well as make it easier for Seth and I to continue running the group in the future.
Below is the email we sent out to members of the Sacramento CFUG e-list earlier this week. We'll be launching the new group's website, etc, over the next few weeks. Seth and I are really looking forward to the new group, expanding the possibilities beyond ColdFusion-centric topics, and seeing how things go.
As always, we will be looking for presenters (both local and remote), topic ideas, and any other forms of feedback and support people can contribute!
-nolan
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Big changes with SacCFUG
There are some big changes happening with the Sacramento ColdFusion Users group... Starting in September we're going to be known as the Sacramento Interactive Developers Group!
This new group is going to have a more general focus on developing applications for web, mobile, desktop, game systems, and any thing else we can think of.
More information, details on our first meeting in September, and a new website coming very soon.
What are the goals of this change?
To broaden the skills of our members, to expose all of us to complimentary technologies, to increase group attendance and participation, to keep all of our members skills evolving.
Does this mean we wont talk about ColdFusion?
We're always going to be interested in ColdFusion and will still have presentations on CF topics, this change of focus will help members learn complimentary skills.
Why are we changing the group?
We've had dwindling attendance recently and few volunteers to do presentations. In addition the web/mobile environment has changed substantially in the last couple of years, and based on survey and direct feedback from SacCFUG members you have expressed a lot of interest in expanding our focus.
What kind of topics will this group cover?
Web Development, HTML5, JavaScript, User Experience, iOS, Android, C#, Flex, ColdFusion , Ruby On Rails, more...
Below is the email we sent out to members of the Sacramento CFUG e-list earlier this week. We'll be launching the new group's website, etc, over the next few weeks. Seth and I are really looking forward to the new group, expanding the possibilities beyond ColdFusion-centric topics, and seeing how things go.
As always, we will be looking for presenters (both local and remote), topic ideas, and any other forms of feedback and support people can contribute!
-nolan
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Big changes with SacCFUG
There are some big changes happening with the Sacramento ColdFusion Users group... Starting in September we're going to be known as the Sacramento Interactive Developers Group!
This new group is going to have a more general focus on developing applications for web, mobile, desktop, game systems, and any thing else we can think of.
More information, details on our first meeting in September, and a new website coming very soon.
What are the goals of this change?
To broaden the skills of our members, to expose all of us to complimentary technologies, to increase group attendance and participation, to keep all of our members skills evolving.
Does this mean we wont talk about ColdFusion?
We're always going to be interested in ColdFusion and will still have presentations on CF topics, this change of focus will help members learn complimentary skills.
Why are we changing the group?
We've had dwindling attendance recently and few volunteers to do presentations. In addition the web/mobile environment has changed substantially in the last couple of years, and based on survey and direct feedback from SacCFUG members you have expressed a lot of interest in expanding our focus.
What kind of topics will this group cover?
Web Development, HTML5, JavaScript, User Experience, iOS, Android, C#, Flex, ColdFusion , Ruby On Rails, more...