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Title: View from the Chair
Author: Martin Moene
Date: 01 January 2016 21:21:26 +00:00 or Fri, 01 January 2016 21:21:26 +00:00
Summary: Alan Lenton, chair@accu.org
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If you haven’t got the dates, Wednesday 20th April to Saturday 23 April in your diary, then put them in now. They’re the dates of the 2016 ACCU Conference, a must for all serious programmers. This year, the conference is again in Bristol, so that’s also the venue of the AGM – on the Saturday lunchtime of the Conference. In a way it’s an interesting reversal of what originally happened. When we first started, we used to have a couple of short talks before the AGM, Now the talks have blossomed out into a full blown conference and we wedge the AGM into the Saturday lunchtime!
Our existing local groups are, as usual, organising regular meetings, but we are still finding it difficult to get new groups off the ground and boost the smaller groups. It’s perhaps significant that our most successful local groups – London, Oxford, and Bristol (travelling east to west – no other significance!) are where our biggest concentrations of members are. The question is, of course, do they organise more meetings because they are larger and have a larger pool of people to draw from, or are they larger because they hold more meeting and attract more people?
Houston – we have a chicken and egg problem!
If anyone has any bright ideas about how to solve this problem, preferably without having to cough up enormous sums of money, then please let me (or any other member of the committee) know – alan@ibgames.com, or at conference, in the bar in the evenings, or the ACCU session on Saturday morning.
Because of the publication lead times, I’m writing this just before Christmas, but by the time you read this, the full details of the conference talks and keynotes should be available on the ACCU web site. In the next issue of CVu I should have some details of the issues for discussion at the AGM, so until then I’ll wish you a rather belated prosperous 2016, and I look forward to seeing you all at the ACCU Conference.
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