Creation Of A It Management & Techie Group In Bkk

[RonD]

Hello,

Coming from a IT background in London, and been active with attending techie-focused events, such as those organised by Microsoft, attending DevWeek, TechEd etc and seen the likes of Extreme Tuesday Club in London - I was wondering:

1. Are there any groups like these already existing out there, and which are open for attending?
   
2. Is there any interest in creating a Group meeting up as per demand and pending useful or entertaining agenda in Bangkok?
   

With regards to 2. above: I like the format of the Extreme Tuesday Club, who organises events via a wiki: http://www.xpdeveloper.net/xpdwiki/Wiki.js...remeTuesdayClub and could set up a similar model for Bangkok, although it would be focused on IT Management and best way to promote and implement Technologies with a very wide scope (Infrastructure, Network, Systems, Telco related, Programming...) in Thailand.

The group will be a neutral area to promote a positive, objective, creative and open attitude so to welcome Anyone who's expected to have the same attitude (So leave all politics, grunts, conflicts, jealousy, cold/hard-core sales tactics etc at home or at your local business.)

Anyone else interested? If difficult to meet up regularly, just to have a Wiki group, might be enough...

Cheers,

J

[malcolmswaine]

I'd be interested but sadly a bit of a treck from Samui

[singa-traz]

You might be interested to join or attend the seminar of this IT Association: http://www.itsmf.or.th

More focus on the Management of IT than Technology.

[RonD]

Very good. Thanks.

And I think I will simply set up a Wiki site (to suit anyone, anytime from anywhere in Thailand), with the previously mentioned focus, and see where it leads to, with a sharing/collaborative approach.

Cheers,

J

You might be interested to join or attend the seminar of this IT Association: http://www.itsmf.or.th

More focus on the Management of IT than Technology.

[pedro01]

Put me down - I run a software company here with 35 programmers...

[klikster]

I'd be interested but sadly a bit of a treck from Samui

Same from Cha am .. but maybe rotate the meeting venues .. gives some folks a reason to take a little trip.

[RonD]

I'll try to come back with something next week or so after the hols...

Put me down - I run a software company here with 35 programmers...

[RonD]

I'm actually coming from a Telco IT background myself, for the last 6 years - And I'm checking out the MobileMonday already. Cheers for this one Pekka.

It will take up to a week or so (unless someone else make a start before me :-) ), but I think it's really worth while to create this group in whatever form and shape it will take. Please all keep in touch with updates, and I will do the same, in the meantime.

I'm interested as well. Coming with telco-it/services background.

Btw. Have you heard of the Mobile Monday? http://www.mobilemonday.net/

[StephenDenisEdwards]

Yes, I would be very interested.

I am from London too with a background in development and software architecture.

Would be great to have a Bangkok/Thailand specific forum with regular meetings. I think perhaps a WIKI is a good place to start in order to promote and measure interest.

Certainly willing to play a part.

[Prasert]

Nice idea! I have a Telco background as well and am still doing the same here in Thailand. Bkk is a bit of travel, but it might be an interesting reason to leave this little island every once in a while.

The group will be a neutral area to promote a positive, objective, creative and open attitude so to welcome Anyone who's expected to have the same attitude (So leave all politics, grunts, conflicts, jealousy, cold/hard-core sales tactics etc at home or at your local business.)

Sounds like Thai people are not really welcome, hehehe. "creative and open attitude" is what most of 'm lack and they have enough "grunts, conflicts, jealousy"....

[Norrad]

I'd be interested, count me in.

[RonD]

The group will be a neutral area to promote a positive, objective, creative and open attitude...)

Sounds like Thai people are not really welcome, hehehe. "creative and open attitude" is what most of 'm lack and they have enough "grunts, conflicts, jealousy"....

And I though I was alone feeling that way

BTW, I hope by this weekend to set up something (like a Wiki), unless someone make a start on it before (Wiki, Yahoo Group, Web site, Jaiku,.... etc etc) - I don't mind, and will follow along.

[StephenDenisEdwards]

Thought I would kick things by setting at least setting up a discussion group/forum by next week using Vanilla http://getvanilla.com/.

I'll host it on my server back in the UK on my personal domain for the time being.

Will post the URL when I have Vanilla setup and ready.

Steve Edwards

[RonD]

Thought I would kick things by setting at least setting up a discussion group/forum by next week using Vanilla http://getvanilla.com/.

I'll host it on my server back in the UK on my personal domain for the time being.

Will post the URL when I have Vanilla setup and ready.

Steve Edwards

Hey Steve, before seeing your post I've already just set up a Wiki site, including a discussion group/forum here:

http://fitclub.wikidot.com/

You can become member by providing the following password: eMYmjM (for now).

If you think it (all or part of it, or the name or anything else) sucks, please change/replace or suggest something new. I wanted to make a start so that anyone interested can start to contribute sooner rather than later, that was my main idea.

I trust the best way forward could be to arrange a get together first, to give some inspiration, ideas and motivation in a relaxed mode...

Cheers,

J

[RonD]

Ok, I've tried to post a couple of topics on it. So far, the member uptake is pretty slow though - Steve has joined in already growing the membership population by a whopping 100%

[Crushdepth]

I'd be interested in participating in a group that meets in person occasionally, as a social and/or networking thing. But I'm not really interested in participating electronically via yet another forum - we have that here and with a much broader membership already!

Any chance of 'real' meetings?

[RonD]

Any chance of 'real' meetings?

Fair point (although if we get too chatty here, it might "bore" the uninterested audience if we become too specialised) so...

I wanted to explore the option of getting a guest speaker (say a techie/business development representative) from one of the big Telcos in Thailand for a dinner/lunch talk?

It could be anything from a more detailed technical topic, like "Web-Services, SOA and it's signifcance at TelcoX" or something softer like "Working on International Projects - CaseStudy X at TelcoX, in Thailand, or anything the Telco representative would suggest to us. I need your input, prior to contact them - and I would also need to know how many will come so for the arrangements of locality etc.

The talk could be around 1 hour, whereas after that, we would have a free-format coffee/drink/excursion mingle and "networking" exercise.

Timeline: Within the next 3 weeks...

[RonD]

Any chance of 'real' meetings?

Fair point (although if we get too chatty here, it might "bore" the uninterested audience if we become too specialised) so...

I wanted to explore the option of getting a guest speaker (say a techie/business development representative) from one of the big Telcos in Thailand for a dinner/lunch talk?

It could be anything from a more detailed technical topic, like "Web-Services, SOA and it's signifcance at TelcoX" or something softer like "Working on International Projects - CaseStudy X at TelcoX, in Thailand, or anything the Telco representative would suggest to us. I need your input, prior to contact them - and I would also need to know how many will come so for the arrangements of locality etc.

The talk could be around 1 hour, whereas after that, we would have a free-format coffee/drink/excursion mingle and "networking" exercise.

Timeline: Within the next 3 weeks...

Hmm, not sure if I come across wrong, or if it's not a good idea, but there's been not much of response.

However, I will gladly follow any other suggestions or ideas from other members of the groups thus will keep an eye on the forums (here or elsewhere) ... And at least I tried :-)...

Cheers all,

/J