Well, after some searching, I’ve decided to give House of Joe on 192 next to the Melbourne mall a shot for the first meeting of the Brevard user group I’m trying to start. It’s open until 11:00 PM on weekdays and has free wifi, so hopefully it’ll work out. Thanks to Sebastian for the suggestion.
I’ve been doing some thinking about the focus on the group. I’ve decided that rather than focusing exclusively on Adobe technologies, I’d like to shift the focus to rich internet technologies (RIA) including Flex, AIR, AJAX, and possibly Silverlight. I’ve been messing a lot with jQuery recently, and just like the rest of the masses, I can’t get enough of it; I’m sure there are others that feel the same way too. There are other cool APIs that’d I’d like to mess with including the spread over at Google (Data, Charts, Maps, etc.) that can fall under the umbrella of the RIA buzzword as well.
Based on the audience I’ve seen in Brevard and the types of jobs I see advertised on the job boards, I think this type of group will have a better chance at growth than just an Adobe focused group. My next goal is to pick a day and time that we can meet, then the first meeting’s topic, then a hopefully a domain and website. Initially I’m going to focus on just meeting up with people and hacking away at code, but if we get more people joining us, then maybe we can start doing presentations too.
Keep a look out for more info as I continually try to get my act together, and fail at doing so.