Why Community Matters
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While at TechEd 2006, I caught up with some of the folks who are innovating Community principles and implementation in the UK, from Girly Geek to Next Generation User Group. Here we talk about community, why it matters, what is needed to grow community, etc. The interviewees are also Niners. Tune in and meet some passionate members of the UK developer community who are among those who are taking Community to the next level.
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Where were you when the Seattle dotnet community needed you Charles?
Uhm, that's pretty dramatic, Eagle...
I travelled to Spain to take part inTech Ed 2006 (as mentioned in the description of the video). The folks in this conversation are community innovators who happen to be from the UK and also attending Tech Ed 2006 at the same time as me and my camera.
C
Move along now, please. The topics discussed in this video have nothing to do with nationalism.
C
This is about the Seattle DotNet community; they need someone to step-in and help, but you can’t walk over to Building 43.
End the hijack, Eagle. Contact me offline with a mail explaining what you mean.
C
Two users groups that I regularly attended in the Dallas area have ceased to meet.
The usual problem is finding people who have the time to lead the group and present material.
They were replaced by other user groups in the area.
Many people simply do not have the time, interest and or talent to make presentations and be active as a user group leader.
Also, there is a fairly high burn-out rate with user group leadership.
At one time in another career, I was very active for over a decade in particiating, presenting and leading professional committees.
I too burned-out and am no longer interested in such a role.
Let people do what they want and are interested in doing.
Eagle, please get off of Charles' case.
Thanks.
hey great to see some UK guys on c9!
I met Sarah some time back at a Girl Geek Dinner but I must admit I have been out of the community scene for a while. Time to get involved I think!
That said; I may be at the Sharepoint user group shindig in London later
I don't think you should have a go at Charles over a video he recorded at TechED in Barcelona, when he found a group of enthusiastic community leaders..
Create a new thread and see if the community can help in any way.
Eagle, it sounds to me as though the usergroup that you were part of, and failed to continue just needed someone to spend a bit of time letting people know about it and getting the community to run it themselves. Part of being a community driven is that the community support each other and sharing the workload, whether Microsoft and other large corporates get involved or not. This begs the question in your area about whether the community is really there and whether there was or is a better less time intensive way of running it. Have a think... maybe you could be their new community leader.
A word of advice to any community group from me is let the community run it together, spread the work, spread the joy and most of all have fun with it!
Tim, good to hear from you and I hope that the video entices you back to the community scene
An_Angel is cute also
back to work for me .....
Look up two posts!
Fixed that for you [6]
Ion: Who am I... well for that you will have to go and have a look on my mobility blog here: http://geekswithblogs.net/waterbaby and here http://www.londongirlgeekdinners.co.uk and here http://www.girlygeekdom.blogspot.com and from that you should get which community I am looking after. I also actively participate in Mobile Mondays and a number of the London groups, but not always just the Microsoft ones.
I guess you could say I am just another girl geek... with a fixation on mobile devices and tech gadgets.
We just announced our fifth Code Camp at Microsoft's office in NYC.
Barcelona has two .Net User Groups SpainNet and Bcndev
Hi, On the subject of user groups i thought i'd just drop in the Next Generation User Group can be found at
http://www.nxtgenug.net/">http://www.nxtgenug.net
and our podcasts at
http://www.nxtgenug.net/podcasts.aspx">http://www.nxtgenug.net/podcasts.aspx
No problem An_Angel i thought Charles did an excellant job
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