I take the official announcement of our sponsorship of the 2010 Paris JUG to begin debate on the multiplication of UserGroups in our immediate community and especially in Paris.
My latest count is:
- Java User Groups (throughout France)
- Spring User Group
- DDD User Group
- Birt User Group
- GTUGs - Google Technology User Group
- French Scrum User Group
- JBoss User Group
- ...
In addition to virtual communities on LinkedIn that are inactive as possible.
First point, well done to all these initiatives because only those who have organized events like the magnitude of JUG on Tuesday, with 200 participants realize the amount of work to make this type of meeting a success.
Second object point of this post: I still ask myself questions about the value of these niche User Groups:
. . . → Read more: The Users Groups with a shovel, whose interests??
