For the past 3-4 years we have not had a regular ColdFusion User Group here in Los Angeles, which is terrible for such a large prominent city.  Leon Chalnick and Sid Sheres ran the local groups for a good number of years but then decided to retire from that after years of hard work.  Recently, Bill Nichols had tried to restart the group and after working hard at that, he is now moving out of LA.  So I am taking on the role of User Group Manager for the new Los Angeles ColdFusion User Group.

There is no doubt it will be a challenge, Los Angeles is just so spread out and snarled in traffic at rush hour so it is very hard to find the right place to hold UG meetings.  It astounded me one time when I was up in the DC area and I went to a User Group meeting held at Teratech and it was packed, at least 25-30 people and the speaker was not a Ben Forta; in recognition terms that is.

So I will be posting here as we progress in re-establishing the Los Angeles User Group.  ColdFusion and JRun have been very good for me and it is high time I try to return the favor. to the community

If there is anyone out there in the LA area who has some good thoughts-ideas please feel free to comment on this article.  Thanks