Last night I lead the VB.Net User Group down the meandering path of DotNetNuke development. Unfortunately, the group was actually pretty small - only six people showed up aside from our perenial leader Jim Wooley and myself. Fortunately, that meant practically no one was present when the data access layer of my DotNetNuke module blew itself to smithereens in an unrecoverable fashion. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but I think it's something to do with the name space. Or something. Who knows.
The other result of the small meeting is that we're considering making some changes to the group. We've been in a membership slump for a few months now and we clearly need to see what's going on. To that end, Jim Wooley and I are going to put together a survey for the VB.Net group members to see why they're not coming anymore. Should we go down to one meeting per month, move locations, change topic focus, etc. or should we simply disband due to lack of community interest? The survery will be online soon and VB.Net members will be able to send in their thoughts and feelings about how we can better meet their needs as User Group members.
-- Matt Ranlett