Hi All,

Hope you had a good break and that the return to work was not than
painful. The kickoff of the User Group was more than what I would have
expected. 60 people showed up at the Erlang for 5-nines presentation,
many more than what any of us had anticipated. We are in the process of
finalizing the dates and subject for our next speaker, so expect an
email fairly shortly. As we expect many speakers to be from overseas, it
will be hard to have a fixed date when we meet every month. We will
instead have to try and catch them as best as we can.

My reason for writing this email is to ask how you want to form and
shape the London User Group. We have many ideas, but are also interested
in hearing yours. Here are some questions to jump start the discussions.

Is a meeting a month too much?
Should we try to find a quiet pub where we can have our ErlLounges and
continue socializing / networking after the presentations?
Should we meet even if we have no speakers?
How about having joint sessions with the Ruby / Haskell / Scheme (and
other) User Groups?
What is the best time to meet?
Would you be interested in Tutorials in open source tools / other
aspects of Erlang?


These are just some ideas. Make yourself heard, and let us know what you
think so we can turn these meetings into something everyone finds useful.

Also, if you know of colleagues and friends who might be interested in
joining this group, give them a nudge and get them to sign up at
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/erlang-london/

Best regards,
Francesco Cesarini
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http://www.erlang-consulting.com