Free Membership
Membership with the Vancouver Island Java User Group is free. We track membership with our mailing list on google groups and welcome anybody to our monthly meetings. We also have a group on Facebook that is used for meeting and event announcements in parallel to the web site and mailing list. Ideally join both!
Monthly Meeting
Meetings are held every fourth Thursday of the month and are a great place to meet us. We maintain a list of upcoming meetings with meeting venue and presentation details updated as soon as we find out. Detailed announcements are published in our news section to which you can also subscribe with RSS. Generally the agenda for our meetings follow this pattern
- Welcome
- Guest or member presentation or session of lightning talks
- Raffle of prizes
- Open discussions and networking
- Optional visit to a pub
News
The news section is open to any news of local interest related to VIJUG and our activities. Please contact the VIJUG team, if you would like to have a news item posted.
Mailing List
The mailing list is the central communication and membership tool of our user group. The list is only open to member postings. If you would like to post a message (e.g. an employment opportunity) feel free to join the list and post your announcement. Otherwise you can send the announcement to the list administrator.
Membership Benefits
Thanks to our sponsors we can provide the benefits of
- Apress User Group Program
- Manning User Group Program
- O’Reilly User Group Program
in the form of review book copies and discounts. We also receive T-shirts, refcardz and other items for raffle prizes regularly from our sponsors.
In addition each speaker at the monthly meeting is eligible to receive
- a license for IntelliJ IDEA from Jetbrains
- a license for JRebel from zeroturnaround
and we also raffle one license of each off to the audience.
Thanks to a donation from Sun Microsystem VIJUG is able to loan SunSpot devices to our members.
