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.

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.

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!

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 :-).

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.

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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

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??

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?