Who's on the CFMeetup this week, Thurs Nov 19

"Introduction to ColdFusion 9 ORM", with Raymond Camden

Thursday, Nov 19, 12pm US ET (GMT-5)

Meeting description, details, optional RSVP

"Getting Started with ColdFusion 9's ORM Integration", with Bob Silverberg

Thursday, Nov 19, 6pm US ET (GMT-5)

Meeting description, details, optional RSVP

I (and the speakers, who proposed the talks independently of each other) thought it would be fun to see two talks on the same general topic, from two perspectives on the same day. Of course, this also helps those in different time zones attend a time best suited for them.

Can't access the meetup.com site? You can still join the meeting

The CF Meetup announcements are offered via the commercial third-party hosted site, meetup.com. Since that's been marked by some organizations as a "social networking" site, it may be blocked at your workplace. If you can't see the descriptions (and other details) or use the RSVP mechanism, no worries. There are either of two solutions to get around this.

First, you can just show up on the day at the time above at experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup. Use the "enter as guest" option and offer your name (as even meetup.com members must do), and you're in. No fuss.

Second, if you'd like to be notified of CF Meetup events and/or see the descriptions, there are a few ways you can (or you can tell others how they can) do these. I discuss them in another blog entry.

All sessions are recorded

All CF Meetup meetings are recorded, and the URLs are posted after the meeting at recordings page and also at my UGTV site.

Wish we had meetings at different times?

I've had some recent complaints from people not liking the time of the meetings, which are either noon or 6pm US ET, depending on the availability of speakers. To be clear, I would be happy to hold a meetup at another time. If you're in a distant timezone and are willing to speak, I'll be happy to hold a meeting at an hour outside our norm. Speaking of which...

Call for speakers

We're always open to and indeed looking for more speakers. The topics can be new stuff, old stuff, beginner stuff, or advanced stuff. It can be a repeat of something you've given before, or it can be your first presentation ever. In a group with over 1900 members, there's an audience for every topic, and none is ever too small (plus, still more watch the recordings).

If you may be interested in speaking or know someone who is (or you may want to suggest someone you think I should ask), check out speak.coldfusionmeetup.com, which is a past blog entry where I answer common questions, or have them get in touch with me.