There is also an email list going on that is not too active at the moment but might gain momentum.

I’m a bit surprised to see the groups created, although I know there is a great interest in furthering learning for development in Australia, as witnessed by the amounts of people that travel from all over the country to attend Code Camp Oz, I wouldn’t have thought there was a whole lot of interest in segregating these groups apart from the Dot Net User Groups already in existence.

I know that the *DNUG system does have some ties to Microsoft, even though our local group has only received passing support occasionally from Microsoft – although they’ve asked if we wanted presenters, it’s not like they have that much to do with us.

But I wouldn’t have thought it’d be that important to start new groups, when I’d personally prefer to see the same ideas behind Alt.NET brought back into the *DNUG groups.  I know in our small group we couldn’t sustain a second group for the township – as well I know that the guys in the group would be open to presentations on anything that could help their .NET development, be it Microsoft technology or anything else.

Anyway, I guess the guys who are behind this have their reasons and I wish the groups well, and hope to hear good things coming out of them – it’d be interesting to see some Aussie guys get involved visibly in the Alt .NET community.

And hopefully some of them might have a session or something back at the Code Camp to let the rest of us know what they’re about!