Last week, I spoke at Javaforum Malmö (Malmö JUG). Since I am the leader of this JUG, I try not to speak there too often, but several circumstances made this time a good time. First of all, our usual venue Foo café recently closed down their business. Their website and email campaigns were our most important channel for announcing events. We also did registration through them, so a totally new setup had to be made. With the new web page I created last month as well as an Eventbrite account, we are ready to handle announcements and registration ourselves. All previous and upcoming events are listed on this page.

So, since I wasn’t sure if we really could reach out to the crowd we usually have, I decided it was better that I was the speaker to avoid disappointing someone traveling in to speak at our JUG. The turnout was, as expected, about the half of what we usually have. A good (re)start! We were hosted at Living IT, centrally located in Malmö. They even sponsored us with pizza and drinks. If they will continue hosting us, I think we have found a new regular spot to meet.