Newsletter April 2018

We’ve officially launched our new website @ https://cjug.org. Check out previous newsletters, upcoming meetup events, and new announcements.

In case you missed it, our 2018 board has been chosen.

President - Freddy ‘Resident Cat Herder’ Guime
Chairman of the Board - Jonathan ‘No Rubbish’ Ross
Chief Financial Officer - Todd ‘Just the JVM Please’ Ginsberg
Director of Meetings - Mary ‘Requirements - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯’ Grygleski
Director of Sponsorship - Bob ‘Independently Awesome’ Paulin
Community Leader - Janine ‘It Works on My Box’ Patterson

We have some great speakers lined up for the summer. Check out Bruno Souza Presents: 3 steps for an amazing Java career on April 9th. Bruno is stopping in Chicago as part of his JUG Tour around the US. He’ll be giving some sage and fun advice on how to build your awesome career!

The next monthly Office Hours is scheduled for April 17th. If you’d like to request a topic for the next office hours, or want to volunteer to be an office hours aide, contact Todd or Janine.

Mark your calendar for April 19th. Thomas Nield will present Data Science with Kotlin. Kotlin is hitting the prime time as a JVM language for Big Data, and Thomas will show us how.

GOTO Chicago is coming up soon. Talks are on April 25th and 26th. Workshops on April 24th and 27th. Registration is still open.

Keep an eye on the calendar. CJUG has two speakers scheduled for every month this summer. Announcements will be made in a timely fashion before each speaker’s talk.

Interested in getting involved in the speaker circuit? Want to talk at a CJUG event? We’re mixing it up this year by adding lightning talks this June. Talks should aim to be around 5-10 minutes, on any technical topic you’d like. This will be a great opportunity for new and experienced speakers to flex their skills in front of a very chill and supportive crowd. Some of our members have used events like this in the past to get involved, and have subsequently presented at DevNexus and Oracle Code this year. We’re giving you an extra heads up so you can consider your topic.

If you’ve been to a CJUG meetup lately, you’ve seen that we are looking for more volunteers. We’ve got some exciting things in the pipeline that we’re getting ready to announce. More opportunities to work with our community locally, or maybe travel? Hmmmm…. Keep an eye on your email…​

Gotta run, just discovered a new cache of cat gifs on the internet. Until next time!

~ Janine Patterson ~
Community Leader
janine.patterson@cjug.org