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reply "Andy Smith" <andyrsmith googlemail.com> writes:
Hi All,

    I've just been in touch with Kingsley Hendrickse who's
unfortunately not going to have time to organise the London D
Programmer meetups in the future. Which is a real shame - I only
attended one of the two meetups but I was quite impressed with the
calibre of people that turned up, and Kinglsey did a great job of
organising it :-)

    I'd really hate for this initiative to die off just as it was
getting going. So I thought I'd just ping the London community 
and see
if there was any appetite for anyone to pick up the baton, so to
speak. Normally I'd just say "I'll do it" but I'm on the verge of
beginning a new job (literally starting tomorrow!), so I need to 
wait
until I'm achieved some sort of equilibrium there before I commit 
to
anything else.

    One thought I had was maybe a 'rolling' organiser would make 
sense?
Committing to organising one meetup is a far less onerous 
commitment
than becoming a full fledged card-carrying organiser so maybe that
would make sense?! I'd quite happily commit to organising one 
meetup
if there was a rotating quorum of organisers willing to step up. (
Probably wouldn't do any harm to the old linked-in profile :-) ).

    Anyway lets know your thoughts. The meetup group 'dies' on 17th
August unless someone else steps up - hopefully that won't happen 
:-)

Cheers,

Andy.
Aug 02 2015
next sibling parent "Laeeth Isharc" <laeethnospam nospamlaeeth.com> writes:
On Sunday, 2 August 2015 at 19:01:56 UTC, Andy Smith wrote:
 Hi All,

    I've just been in touch with Kingsley Hendrickse who's
 unfortunately not going to have time to organise the London D
 Programmer meetups in the future. Which is a real shame - I only
 attended one of the two meetups but I was quite impressed with 
 the
 calibre of people that turned up, and Kinglsey did a great job 
 of
 organising it :-)

    I'd really hate for this initiative to die off just as it was
 getting going. So I thought I'd just ping the London community 
 and see
 if there was any appetite for anyone to pick up the baton, so to
 speak. Normally I'd just say "I'll do it" but I'm on the verge 
 of
 beginning a new job (literally starting tomorrow!), so I need 
 to wait
 until I'm achieved some sort of equilibrium there before I 
 commit to
 anything else.

    One thought I had was maybe a 'rolling' organiser would make 
 sense?
 Committing to organising one meetup is a far less onerous 
 commitment
 than becoming a full fledged card-carrying organiser so maybe 
 that
 would make sense?! I'd quite happily commit to organising one 
 meetup
 if there was a rotating quorum of organisers willing to step 
 up. (
 Probably wouldn't do any harm to the old linked-in profile :-) 
 ).

    Anyway lets know your thoughts. The meetup group 'dies' on 
 17th
 August unless someone else steps up - hopefully that won't 
 happen :-)

 Cheers,

 Andy.
Hi Andy. Kingsley did a great job, but it's a tough thing to keep going as professional and personal demands increase. It's important for D to have a presence in London, and being more involved probably pays for itself careerwise in the end, one way or the other. We should definitely strive to keep things going. I can't do much the next few weeks, and can't make a firm regular commitment as it's hard to predict other demands. But if it's needed I will definitely do one, and try to do so again from time to time. Laeeth.
Aug 02 2015
prev sibling parent reply "Dejan Lekic" <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:
Yes, I am aware of that. I was thinking of volunteering for some 
time, with help of others. We have a healthy D community here in 
London and we should work on making it bigger.

Cheers!
Aug 04 2015
next sibling parent reply "Nemanja Boric" <4burgos gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 09:54:46 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
 Yes, I am aware of that. I was thinking of volunteering for 
 some time, with help of others. We have a healthy D community 
 here in London and we should work on making it bigger.

 Cheers!
Completely off topic: I haven't seen your picture since you've been active on elitesecurity forums and preaching FLTK around, which is more than ten years now I guess - man, you've changed :-).
Aug 04 2015
parent "Dejan Lekic" <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 10:00:28 UTC, Nemanja Boric wrote:
 On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 09:54:46 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
 Yes, I am aware of that. I was thinking of volunteering for 
 some time, with help of others. We have a healthy D community 
 here in London and we should work on making it bigger.

 Cheers!
Completely off topic: I haven't seen your picture since you've been active on elitesecurity forums and preaching FLTK around, which is more than ten years now I guess - man, you've changed :-).
Yeah, those were my C++ days... Luckilly D improved a lot since then and is now my language of choice. :) How have you been??
Aug 10 2015
prev sibling parent reply Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 09:54 +0000, Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d
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Aug 04 2015
parent reply "Kingsley" <kingsley.hendrickse gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 14:25:33 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
 On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 09:54 +0000, Dejan Lekic via 
 Digitalmars-d -announce wrote:
 Yes, I am aware of that. I was thinking of volunteering for 
 some time, with help of others. We have a healthy D community 
 here in London and we should work on making it bigger.
Kingsley has stepped down as organizer of the London D Meetup, we need to create a cabal to decide who should register as organizer. This is relatively urgent or Meetup will close the group.
Hi I've reconsidered - but it would help a lot if someone would volunteer to co organise with me --k
Aug 07 2015
parent "Dejan Lekic" <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 7 August 2015 at 19:10:53 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
 On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 14:25:33 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
 On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 09:54 +0000, Dejan Lekic via 
 Digitalmars-d -announce wrote:
 Yes, I am aware of that. I was thinking of volunteering for 
 some time, with help of others. We have a healthy D community 
 here in London and we should work on making it bigger.
Kingsley has stepped down as organizer of the London D Meetup, we need to create a cabal to decide who should register as organizer. This is relatively urgent or Meetup will close the group.
Hi I've reconsidered - but it would help a lot if someone would volunteer to co organise with me --k
Good news! :) How can I help?
Aug 10 2015