The State of the Users Group

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• The State of the Users Group
• Address
• Todd R. Ellermann
• PresidentWednesday, June 11th, 2003

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• The PHXJUG is 5 Years Old!
• A lot has changed
• with Java
• with the JUG
• with our careers!
• Java Logo gtgtgtgt

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• Mission
• "To provide an organized environment for Java
  developers that educates members regarding Java
  standards, enhancements and coding styles
  provides an opportunity for Java developers to
  openly share and exchange ideas, knowledge,
  source code, and experiences introduce Java
  tools and solutions make accessible to its
  members a library of resources and provide Java
  answers and solutions."

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• The Users in Users Group
• 570, 275 different domains...
• aexp, agcs, ais, americawest, apollogrp,
  appliedminds, asu, avnet, boeing, choicehotels,
  eldocomp, evergreen, gr, honeywell, ibm, ieee,
  intel, iisweb, infostreet, inthink, javatrain,
  jitsolutions, microchip, netcom, netpro, ociweb,
  oti, pcshs, redfish, symantec, trw, uofa, unikix,
  unitysoftware, viasoft, visualize, weblogic...

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• Meetings
• Over 30 meetings in total
• 1st Year 40 attendees
• 3rd Year gt 90 attendees
• Some meetings gt 150 Users!
• Only 2nd Meeting in 2003 ?

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• Special Thanks!!!
• Jeff Micke
• Took Initiative to re-energize and single
  handedly planned the last meeting
• Going Forward Focusing on the Website

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• Business Model
• We are incorporated...
• Dan Mazzola DBA Phoenix Java Users Group
• No charge to members
• Corporate sponsorship
• 1st year from Sun Microsystems
• Last 4 years from
• keynote sponsors
• corporate HR organizations
• Recruiting and placement firms

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• Financial

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• Financial - continued
• Northern Trust Bank
• 300.00 in cash
• Books kept in Quicken

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• What is the state of the Users Group?
• Users - Excellent!
• Facilities - Excellent!
• Content - Excellent!
• Leadership - Not so good
• Future - Excellent!

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• public class JavaUsersGroup extends Thread
• JUG PhxJUG new JUG()
• Leader leader null
• public static final Advisor dan new
  DanMazzola()
• While(Java.exists()Phoenix.hasWater())
• if(leader.hasNewJobinOtherCity())
• leader null
• if(leadernull)
• leader dan.findNewLeader()
• if(leader null)
• thread.sleep(90 days)
• PhxJUG.suffer()
• else
• leader.runJUG(PhxJUG)

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• Leadership...
• Requires more than...
• Passion
• Inspiration
• Vision

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• Leadership - continued
• Requires...
• Empowerment
• Trust
• Creating opportunities
• Leadership
• Community involvement
• Growth

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• Current Leadership Issues
• No Transition
• Do it all myself
• Stingy
• Spread too thin
• Weak, last minute
• good enough

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• Who am I?
• President Todd R. Ellermann
• Senior Solution Architect
• Foreverliving.com et altodd_at_ellermann.net
• president_at_phxjug.org
• 602-738-6187 (cell)

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• About Todd
• 13 years in IT
• Last 6 as Java Developer / Architect
• Worked as consultant and owner of Java Consulting
  Firm (JANDX)
• IBM Certified Solution Designer
• Java Certified in 1997
• BS Computer Engineering U of A

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• My commitment
• To inspire the PHXJUG community to participate
  in passionate and self-sustaining leadership

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• What I am Committed to
• The Future of PHXJUG
• Creating opportunities for leadership
• Personal Leadership growth

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• Future of PHXJUG
• Continue to grow and mature
• Facilitate growth of Java Community
• Autonomy

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• Growth and Maturity
• Grow the membership
• Community presence
• Foster member growth...
• training opportunities
• career opportunities
• networking opportunities

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• Genesis of New Communities
• Java started small -- Now it is huge in scope!
• Natural course of growth
• A leadership failure to NOT view the future as
  possibility

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• Opportunity for Leadership
• Individual contributors
• Corporate contributors
• Goal - mix of both

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• Structure for Success...
• President and Vice President
• Speaker/Sponsor Committee
• Web/Development Committee
• Event/Operations Committee

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• What do we NEED?
• Volunteers
• Feedback
• Support
• Communication
• Clear Tasks

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• The Future of PHXJUG
• Is Awesome!
• Is Challenging!
• Is in your hands!

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