Vancouver Island Java User Group VIJUG
Our Mission
The Vancouver Island Java User Group VIJUG aims to provide a platform for all Java enthusiasts to network, exchange ideas, share knowledge and help each other in order to strengthen the Java community in Victoria and on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. Our users come from Vancouver Island's considerable high tech community and multiple universities and colleges. We encourage anybody from beginner to expert interested in Java, related technologies and our community to join us.
VIJUG is part of the community of Java User Groups at java.net supported by Sun Microsystems.
Membership with the Vancouver Island Java User Group is free. Simply join the mailing list and come to our meetings. At the moment we are about 125 members with a wide ranging background and experience mostly located in Greater Victoria.
Meetings are held every fourth Thursday of the month and are a great place to meet us. We maintain a list of upcoming meetings with meeting venue and presentation details updated as soon as we find out. Detailed announcements are published in our
news and meeting announcements section.
The
news section is open to any news of local interest related to VIJUG and our
activities. Please contact the VIJUG
team, if you would like to have a news item posted. The RSS feed for our
news can be found here.
Mailing List
The mailing list is the central communication and membership tool of our user group. Join the list and administrate your account on the list user interface.
The list is only open to member postings. If you would like to post a message (e.g. an employment opportunity) feel free to join the list and post your announcement. Otherwise you can send the announcement to the list administrator..
Java Involvement on Vancouver Island
We have started to compile a list of companies on Vancouver Island using Java. Please let us know if you know of any others. In the future we might also include links to others Java users in our area, if there is demand for such a list.
VIJUG Up Island
In addition to most member residing in Victoria we support other members across the island. A group of dedicated members from Nanaimo is meeting regularly and organizing car pooling to get down to Victoria for the monthly meetings. In addition to all the other available VIJUG infrastructure available to everyone we have a contact email for specific topics related to these trips.
Membership Benefits
VIJUG is member of the Apress User Group Program (benefits), the Manning User Group Program (benefits) as well as the
O'Reilly User Group Program (benefits), which makes our members eligible for discounts and other benefits like raffle prizes. JetBrains is a major supporter provding IntelliJ IDEA licenses. Sun Microsystems supports VIJUG with raffle prizes.
Support & Sponsors
We are constantly on the look out for organisations and people willing to help. We welcome meeting venue provision, speakers and presentations, raffle prize or food donations for our meetings and anything else you can think of. Please contact the VIJUG team to find out more. We are happy to provide you advertisement opportunity here on this page and on the list if so desired.
We look forward to hear from you on the list or see you at one of our meetings.
VIJUG Team
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