ALT.NET group in Portugal

[Rodrigo Guerreiro]

I'm interested in starting an  <http://ALT.NET> ALT.NET group in Lisbon,
Portugal. Can you help me on what I have to do in order to be associated
with you guys?

Can you give some advices for a rookie? J

Thanks in advance
Rodrigo Guerreiro

[Stephen Bohlen]

Rodrigo:

Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your opinion), ALT.NET lacks a centralized formal structure, a secret handshake, or any other trappings of a coherent 'organization' with anything approaching a defined hierarchy to it.

To my knowledge, nobody has (yet) sought out an 'errant' group calling itself ALT.NET and sent cease-and-desist letters to them admonishing them for not adhering to 'ALT.NET principles and practices' even as they call themselves 'ALT.NET' :)

My advice would be to find several more like-minded people in your region/area and begin the conversation about what interests you. Note that by 'like-minded' I actually mean "with a similar predilection for open-mindedness and an openness to new ideas and a commitment to continuous improvement of themselves and others" rather than "thinks just like me about all things".

ALT.NET has (for better or for worse -- the jury is still out IMO) heretofore resisted most efforts to better define itself either in terms of technology, principles, beliefs, values, or otherwise so there is little anyone here can tell to either TO or NOT TO do in order to be 'ALT.NET'.

For some history about the way the NYC ALT.NET group got started, a call went out (on this very list, IIRC) for anyone in the area interested in forming such a group.  Several people responded, this small core of people met initially at one of our places of work to get to know each other and discuss our various backgrounds (including strengths and weaknesses) and then we began digging into boring logistics issues like "where will we meet?", "how will we determine topics?", and "how will we communicate to our attendees about these things?".

None of that, of course is any different probably than forming any other kind of professional user group but that's sort of the point -- organizing such a thing is really no different in re: the logistics issues you would have to deal with in any other meet-regularly-and-keep-in-touch-with-our-members kind of situation.

Hope this helps~!

-Steve B.

--- In altdotnet@..., "Rodrigo Guerreiro" <6speedpt@...> wrote:

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> I'm interested in starting an  <http://ALT.NET> ALT.NET group in Lisbon,
> Portugal. Can you help me on what I have to do in order to be associated
> with you guys?
>
> Can you give some advices for a rookie? J
>
> Thanks in advance
> Rodrigo Guerreiro
>

[Paulo Nobre]

1+ Great Idea
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1+ Excelente Ideia

PN

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Rodrigo Guerreiro <6speedpt@...>wrote:

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>  I'm interested in starting an ALT.NET group in Lisbon, Portugal. Can you
> help me on what I have to do in order to be associated with you guys?
>
> Can you give some advices for a rookie? J
>
> Thanks in advance
> Rodrigo Guerreiro
>  
>

[Freezing-2]

I'd be +1 for that also. Living in Libon ATM.

I don't think a special handshake is required. The mostly a group of people
willing to follow the principle set forth by this great group.


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Paulo Nobre <pnobre@...> wrote:

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> 1+ Excelente Ideia
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> PN
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> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Rodrigo Guerreiro <6speedpt@...>wrote:
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>>  I'm interested in starting an ALT.NET group in Lisbon, Portugal. Can you
>> help me on what I have to do in order to be associated with you guys?
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>> Can you give some advices for a rookie? J
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Rodrigo Guerreiro
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[Rui Santos-4]

Great! I'm interested too... and I'm sure a few colleagues of mine too.

cheers,
rui




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From: Rodrigo Guerreiro <6speedpt@...>
To: altdotnet@...
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:09:21 AM
Subject: [altdotnet] ALT.NET group in Portugal

 
I'm interested in starting an ALT.NETgroup in Lisbon, Portugal. Can you help me on what I have to do in order to be associated with you guys?

Can you give some advices for a rookie?J

Thanks in advance
Rodrigo Guerreiro



     

[Nuno Centeio-2]

Hi Rodrigo,

I would be interested!

Actually there's an user group in Lisbon called NetPonto (
http://www.netponto.pt) which is kind of ALT.NET. Although they appear to be
only .NET focused, they have scheduled interesting talks on things such as
NHibernate, Spring .NET, SubSonic, and others for the next months. You may
think about joining them as they appear to be stabilished as a community
with about 25 active members or so... They are very open-minded and I
believe they would easily give you the opportunity to lead talks on their
monthly meetings.

In any case, I would suggest you contact Caio Proiete (
caio.proiete@...) as he can give you a hand on setting up your own
user group, if you wish. He is a Brazilian MVP living in Lisbon, and have
helped a lot of communities back in Brazil, and now is leading that NetPonto
community in Lisbon... He is a very community-focused person, would
definitelly be of help.

Regards,
Nuno Centeio



On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Rodrigo Guerreiro <6speedpt@...>wrote:

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>
>  I'm interested in starting an ALT.NET <http://alt.net/> group in Lisbon,
> Portugal. Can you help me on what I have to do in order to be associated
> with you guys?
>
> Can you give some advices for a rookie? J
>
> Thanks in advance
> Rodrigo Guerreiro
>  
>