Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Australian Dev User Groups

I was looking for (and failed to find) a Perth Java User Group, and came across this list in builder.com.au. If accurate it seems to depict a bleak state for Java, loosing out 4:1 to .Net in user group count terms:

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Ok, massive caveats apply. Number of user groups is a terrible metric, maybe the Java ones have much higher membership / do more with less / do everything online, or maybe they’re all so good they don’t need user groups unlike the poor fumbling .Net developers. But I don’t think so…

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