Actions
- ask for help - Ben
- talk to steve hayes, xp day, gosling - Jason
- promote in kaz - Scot
- post to user groups: dot net user group, ajug, vamsig, slug, samsig, sage.au, "straight talking java",
- invite employers - jobnet/seek posts - Robert
- Uni's - Ahrum
- free books - Jason
- syxpac.org - setup server - Ben / Jon / Simon
What Worked Well
- book discount
- venue easy to get to
- projector
- internet
- room to self, quieter
- atmosbeer
What could be improved
- less java centric
- mondays seem bad
- can't make it on monday
- EXPENSIVE! food and drink
- quality of food is variable
- not many people know about syxpac
- too many bens
- lots of TW
- less product focus more process, case studies
Things to try
- .Net
- more Agile
- grow the meeting
- more programming
- XP hour
- more stuctured interaction
- surveys
- debates
- less often (like state rail!)
- use our own server
- book every monday ahead
- food & beer discount
- Experience Reports
- Open Source project (Brick, Chainsaw)
- XpDay mini-conference, not for profit
- bid for Agile/XP conference in 2006
- get Steve Hayes in to talk
- get Rod Johnson (UK)
- Gavin King
- Fowler
- Jim Highsmith
- Cancel Reminder Emails
- Reduce frequency of reminder emails
- More of Cenqua, Atlassian, Mittag
- http://www.industriallogic.com/papers/khdraft.pdf
Ideas on how to grow the group
- Target consulting firms: oakton, glentech, object consulting, avoga, sirrus, ibm, kaz
- Bring people from work
- post to lists
- agile development conference
- ACS
- Sun?
- pamphlets?
- conferences?
- Advertise
- Big Jolt speaker
- present at AJUG: Agile
- invite champion skeptics
- advertise in papers, user group listing / events
- sponsorship
- web links
- google ads? (top already?)
- agile australia news letter
- membership, guest book, prize at end: sponsorship/books/beer
- membership card? no
- cheap gifts: book marks, token of group. reminder.
- start a political party, run for election
Setup Server: www.syxpac.org [Syxpac Server]
- members blogs
- blog server: movable type / pebble
Who are we?
- Are we an advocacy group? Not core focus.
- Support Group? Yes
Mini Conference - XpDay Sydney 2005
- grass-roots, not for profit conference
- price of venues, james squire, universities, hotels, boat cruise
- presenters
- topics, call for papers, experience reports, peer2peer, tutorial, research
- talk to steve hayes
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