JUG Nagpur – August Meet

The Second meet of JUG Nagpur took place on 30th August.  And, according to me there were some really encouraging things and talking points during the meet. But at the same time there were  slight gray areas too (I hope that does not sound too harsh!)

Lets start with the positives…

#1 Global Participation – Mr. Rohan Ranade

Yes! Rohan Sir ( He doesn’t like it if i call him Sir any more ) took his time out and attended the meet from US.  So, we had a conference through skype, and though the communication was not short of  hindrances, I think this is a great move forward for JUG Nagpur. He not only attended the meet, but also delivered a great and intriguing talk on “GUI Bloopers” which the audience enjoyed thoroughly.  You may want to spend some time reading the bloopers he has discovered!

#2 – Student Participation

The meet was held at SRKNEC campus, which obviously meant that we had a good number of students attending the meet. The number of student attendees at least doubled (I hope I can ind time to update exact figures sometime later) from the last meet. The Demo on Sun SPOT Technology was given by Kanan and other students.

#3 Professor Participation

We also had with us Proff M.B.Chandak, HOD, Comp Sci Dept, SRKNEC who shared his views and ideas. It was great to hear how he liked the idea of JUG and how interested he was to promote it. He has also offered to keep SRKNEC as the venue for JUG meet as long as it is pleased!

So, it all sounds great for JUG Nagpur.

Some Negatives – they have to be there!

The number of industry professionals attending the meet shrinked almost as much as the number of students grew…  This may have been influenced largely by the venue of the meet (After all, SRKNEC is not at the heart of orange city)  So, I guess somehow in the future, we need to even out the things, and make it equally appealing for students as well as professionals to attend the meet! I hope for the best!

PS: Please feel free to add your thoughts, and some steps that can ensure equal interest among both sets of audiences in future meets. I know this is not a big issue after all, but still significant according to me, as I happen to be on the transition phase – from student to professional

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First Nagpur Java Users Group Meet

Read ORIGINAL ARTICLE published on JUG Nagpur Website.

After months of postponing, for varied reasons, we finally managed to come together for the inaugural Nagpur Java Users Group meet.

The agenda and sessions planned can be found on the JUG Nagpur Wiki.

No of Attendees: 19

The meeting started at 12.10 PM. Firstly we had a talk on Rapid Application Development Challenges in Java by Mr. Harshavardhan Karkar.

The presentation aimed at listing out

- Challenges Faced during Development using Java both as a Developer,
Project Manager, Owner of the project
- The highlights were that the challenges has a vast range covering

• Configuration Challenges
• Development Challenges
• Testing and Deployment Challenges
• Knowledge Management Challenges
• Project Management Challenges

The statement – “If Development on .Net takes 1 day, same thing will take 1.5 days to develop on java” during the talk sparked an intense discussion at the end of the talk, with special inputs from Mr. Tushar Joshi and Mr. Saurabh Sethia. Everybody agreed that JAVA is a bit inferior when it comes to actual ease of use and hence productivity is hampered even if it is free and opensource, because .Net offers faster and more automated development.

In the end it was proposed that Java Developers around the world need come up with the list of Short Comings so that we can together bridge the gap of cost effectiveness for .NET VS Java. So, it was decided to brainstorm on the mailing list about what, we as a community can do so as to achieve the above goal.

Jug Nagpur Logo

It was decided to add an orange to the Juggy – and make our customized JUG Nagpur logo!

Monthly Meetings

The JUG Nagpur will now have monthly meetings which will be preferably arranged on the last Sunday of each month. Also, there would be a owner of each meeting, who will have the responsibility of coordinating the event. The ownership will rotate among active candidates.

Overall the meeting was a success and we look forward to participation from more and more JAVA enthusiasts from Nagpur, we know there are a great bunch of them in the Orange City. You are welcome in the next meet!