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User Groups – Why do YOU attend?
Within every profession there are many (sometime too many) communities that you can join, groups you can take part in, associations that you can become a member of. But what’s the point – REALLY?! I’ve embarked upon a journey to build community around one of my very favorite application (Adobe After Effects) as a response to the overwhelming discovery that there was no community, association, or UG (as Adobe refers to User Groups).
My journey began when I saw a post on twitter by Trent Armstrong (the founder of the Dallas AEUG) that he was headed out to talk at the DFW AEUG. To be quite honest I was rather jealous that I couldn’t be there (being 280 miles away in North West Houston.) My response to this was proactive googling and scouring all over the web to find something like that here in my neck of the woods. Toiling over old post of people looking for the same sort of group here in town I made two discoveries:
- There is no Group of After Effects Users meeting in Houston
- There is really NO Central Hub for AEUG’s to standardize and share information.
- Do you attend cause there’s a door prize or give-away that night?
- Do you attend to network with others in your field?
- Are you there to learn something?
- Do you show up to help others learn?