London D meetups ...

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce]

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.