In the April edi­tion of the Cold­Fu­sion Developer’s Jour­nal, there’s a map of Cold­Fu­sion User Groups in the US and around the world. Sur­pris­ingly, of the 21 listed user groups out­side of the US, five of them (nearly a quar­ter) are in Australia.

Wow. That’s impres­sive — five in Aus­tralia, and only two in Canada and one in Eng­land. Although I can’t help but imag­ine that more peo­ple turn up to a sin­gle Lon­don or Toronto meet­ing than to the com­bined totals in all five Aus­tralian groups (I have no real data to back this up, and I could be com­pletely wrong).

Our own lit­tle WA user group is really a lot of fun. We haven’t had an organ­ised speaker in quite a while, although we’re plan­ning on chang­ing that — but we sit around and dis­cuss our cur­rent projects, cod­ing prob­lems, cur­rently pop­u­lar top­ics in the Macro­me­dia macro­verse, and the like. We started a cer­ti­fi­ca­tion study group and while it petered out at around part 3 of the study guide book, four of us passed the exam with advanced sta­tus and one guy missed out on advanced by one ques­tion. Over­all, I think we’re pretty suc­cess­ful as a user group, although not in what I guess is the “usual” way. Maybe that’s what you get for liv­ing in the most remote cap­i­tal city in the world.