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<div>Obviously after the initial investmaent phase, DevCo need to see a certain level of on going support here-abouts, or they would HAVE to pull out, and good on them if they had to.</div>
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<div>Devco must have <strong><font size="2">projected targets that had to be met to make it worth their while to remain BEYOND the investment timescale.</font></strong></div>
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<div><font size="2">For enthuiastic volunteer activity to take place - Delphi advocacy - it would be nice to know that the <strong>DevCo target levels for longterm commitment to NZ would be reasonibly attainable.</strong>
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<div><font size="2">If its just financial conjecture on DevCos part to just "see what happens" then possibly not worth the effort?</font></div><strong><font size="2"></font></strong></div>
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<div><font size="2">I used to encourage people into the Delphi IDE, had to stop when new releases became too buggy. Would like to encourage people to Delphi again, but folks out there know there have been major probnlems with recent IDEs.
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<div><font size="2">Advocay would not immeadiatley be like the old days where we had something we could unashamedly crow about.</font></div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 02/05/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Vowles</b> <<a href="mailto:Richard.Vowles@borland.com">Richard.Vowles@borland.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">To detract from all the smarminess - the most important centres for Delphi in the past have been (1) Auckland, (2) Christchurch, (3) Hamilton.
<br><br>Generally Wellington is the non-rater because of the governmental policy for Java or a weird desire for Microsoft only tools.<br><br>Lets discuss the DUG - I'm not sure I will get many people to actually attend - there are reasons for this - usually they are (1) apathy, (2) inconvenient time, (3) getting there. Usually the only person I can count on turning up is Rohit (thanks Rohit!), but over time I hope this will change.
<br><br>I want to see real value in the DUG - that worthwhile topics are discussed and demonstrated and someone with a good story is showcased. Now, I am expecting that the best delivery mechanism for this will be a method where as the DUG meets it can broadcast this out to the rest of the country and people who are not in the city or who can't otherwise attend will tune in or listen later. I will need champions in each city to help organise these meetings if they are done out of Auckland, but I would like to get to each region once each quarter regardless.
<br><br>I really, really am open to ideas - if people have any ideas (positive ones please) on Delphi advocacy and user group activities then please let me know. I have a whole slew of other things planned as well and I would like to form a core advisory group as well - so if you are interested in being active in this, please email me directly.
<br><br>Richard<br><br>________________________________<br><br>From: <a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz">delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:peter@webcentre.co.nz">peter@webcentre.co.nz
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