I’ve been a reg­u­lar at West­ern Australia’s Cold­Fu­sion User Group meet­ings since Brett Payne-Rhodes revived them in 2001 or so (waaaay to far back for me to remem­ber). Two or so years ago Andrew Mer­cer took over as El Pres­i­dente and he’s been con­tin­u­ing Brett’s great work keep­ing the local Cold­Fu­sion com­mu­nity strong.

Adobe have recently revamped their user group pro­gram and one of the changes has been that man­agers have been asked to each nom­i­nate a co-manager, to help them with user group affairs. I’m hon­oured to have been asked to be the CFUGWA co-manager.

CFUGWA usu­ally meets on the fourth Tues­day of each month, and lately most meet­ings have been held at Pater­sons Secu­ri­ties (where Andrew and fel­low CF con­spir­a­tor Mark Wheeler both work). Meet­ing details are posted on the CFUGWA web site (a Far­Cry CMS-driven site — with design and front end devel­op­ment by my guys at Clever Starfish and back end imple­men­ta­tion by Andrew himself).

And, as extra con­fir­ma­tion on how much we all rock, the CFUGWA site has been short­listed in the non-profit sec­tion of the 2008 WA Web Awards. We’ll be glam­ming it up on Novem­ber 7 when the win­ners are announced at a gala awards din­ner. Clever Starfish has two other final­ists as well – so wish us luck!