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Hey guys,

So in the lead-up to the Code Camp in Wagga, that happens around April, I thought I’d put together an aggregated tumbleblog so that news on the lead-up and on the event itself can be found in one place (or at least gets some good links that will provide better Google rankings for those that make the effort).

So what I’m planning on doing there is subscribing to any Google blog search rss entries that mention Code Camp Oz, any twitter entries marked #ccoz, any flickr photos marked ccoz, and whatever else I can find along the way.

If anyone has any suggestions on posts to add at any time to the feed, or another site to aggregate in, then please forward them on to me.

The link blog can be found at: http://ccoz.tumblr.com/

I was having a talk on this the other day with Matt Hamilton during work, but how active would you say the Australian Development Community is today?  Is it more or less active than a year ago, or two years ago?

Mitch Denny and the guys do a fantastic job of giving us Code Camp Oz every year, and same goes for Greg Low and the SQL Code Camp but the rest of the time I think it’s gone pretty quiet (although I don’t get to go to Tech.Ed).

Maybe it’s just me, but since Frank Arrigo moved to Seattle the old Tech Talk Blogs has died off, the last post being over two years ago, everyones moved on to Twitter to a large degree and blog posts “feel” less regular, and I was just wondering if it was a general impression that I’ve gotten or whether it’s something felt by others as well.

For the record, the Microsoft guys I’ve seen or talked to on Twitter are still a bit active and Nick Hodge has offered to come out and talk to us at the Albury/Wodonga .NET Users Group in the past (Dave Glover has actually been to see us in the past also), but I can’t even name the guy that replaced Frank at Microsoft for the Australian Dev community.

That being said, I don’t belong to any of the email groups or anything around.

So I have to ask the question, for anyone who stumbles across this blog, is the Aussie Dev community getting quieter, or is it just my perception of it?

Any recommendations on where the conversations are happening?

Edit:

And in a case of FAIL on my part, Frank Arrigo had actually posted about the new head of Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism division, Gianpaolo Carraro, the day before I posted this, but I was on the road and only just caught up on my feeds!