Apologies to the Perth .Net User Group

I need to put forward an apology for misrepresentation to members of the Perth .Net User Group.

Over the last couple of months, i've been publishing event information both on this blog but also on the Perth Events blog, about interesting IT&T, Web or other "geek" related events.

One of the user groups in Perth which I've previously had good ties to, has asked me to stop "on-posting" event information as it was neither helpful nor representative and could deter people from attending the events.

I received an email from Perth .Net Community of Practice, asking me to stop "on-posting" event information.

As the CSharpZealot community primarily caters for C# it was felt that I was misrepresenting the Perth .Net Community of Practice - and for that I apologise and promise that I will no longer mention events. Since the misrepresentation obviously also goes for me..eg. I'm a ASP.Net MVP i'll also stop it from here since the Perth .Net Community of Practice isn't just an ASP.Net user group.

So for future event information, i suggest that you register at the user group web site (www.perthdotnet.org). Even though i'm an ASP.Net MVP i hope i'm still going to be allowed to attend the user group, but i'll be sure to limit it to ASP.Net centric topics.

Now that the niceties are out of the way, i personally think it's a load of bollocks to be honest but i'll comply with the event organisers request at the user group. Normally I'll post whatever information i pretty much choose to do - excluding NDA covered information of course - though here i'll make an exception and comply.

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Published Sun, Apr 27 2008 18:21 by Brian Madsen

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# re: Apologies to the Perth .Net User Group

Sunday, April 27, 2008 5:25 AM by Brian Madsen

ah - figured why it was full of red squigglies..will amend that - the point got across anyways

# re: Apologies to the Perth .Net User Group

Sunday, April 27, 2008 7:58 AM by bill

hey it probably wasn't that C# thing, just they thought you weren't very good that's all ......

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# re: Apologies to the Perth .Net User Group

Sunday, April 27, 2008 9:58 AM by Brian Madsen

Hey Bill - we can't all be VBZealots :p

# re: Apologies to the Perth .Net User Group

Sunday, April 27, 2008 3:07 PM by bill

didn't you get the memo ? YES you can <g>

# re: Apologies to the Perth .Net User Group

Sunday, April 27, 2008 3:10 PM by bill

Oh, seriously though, I don't get it. Surely they want the event info out there ?

# re: Apologies to the Perth .Net User Group

Sunday, April 27, 2008 4:15 PM by Bronwen Zande

Love the post...cracks me up :)

On the serious side...they do realise C# is part of .net right ;)

# re: Apologies to the Perth .Net User Group

Sunday, April 27, 2008 8:19 PM by Brian Madsen

Bill,

well as I understand it, language agnostics is important to the Perth .Net Community of Practice, and the apparent C# fanatisism/zealotism is misleading for members - indicating that the Perth .Net Community of Practice is only a C# focused user group.

that's what's been conveyed to me and I'll comply with that request however misguided i think it is.

The user group is also doing very, very well at the moment, seeing 50+ people at each event, so I'm assuming the event information getting out to as many people as possible isn't that important. for a struggling user group it'd be of a greater importance but obviously that's not needed any longer.

Bronwen, i think so - i'm confused about this part as well....

# re: Apologies to the Perth .Net User Group

Monday, April 28, 2008 9:15 AM by Myles Eftos

Dude, that is ***. I've never heard of anyone getting pissed about too MUCH promotion. *shakes head*

# re: Apologies to the Perth .Net User Group

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:56 AM by Dave G

I just saw that Mitch has posted his side of the story at mitch-wheat.blogspot.com/.../right-to-reply-csharpzealot.html.

# re: Apologies to the Perth .Net User Group

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:55 AM by Brian Madsen

Hey Dave,

yeps..he did but i'm not going to comment on his post, regardless of me agreeing with him or not - this isn't, insofar as i know, a personal issue hence the reason that i don't mention names...