* The Chico Tech Group met on Thursday, April 23 at 11:45 am. In true Chico tradition, La Hacienda was the place and the famous tostadas and salads swept the menu selections.
* The .Net class participants will be presenting their final projects to the Tech Group. A surprising number of participants in the class have advanced skills, sometimes outpacing the instructor,
* The phenomenon of "Cloud Computing" was discussed and several ideas cropped up:
o The usefulness of 3rd party hosting a a way to spread infrastructure load and for prototyping.
o People want a monolithic source with individual branches to harness information and application potential with ease. The California State Department of Education was mentioned as a possible customer.
o There was potential seen to connect jobs to classes via such an organization.
o Cloud Computing could provide easy access to today's "Hot new apps" and prevent local companies from "reinventing the wheel", leveraging the best of a certain product with the services provided by public domain apps, thereby increasing product effectiveness and production efficiency.
* Inter-company staffing issues were discussed, especially in relation to today's economic climate.
o Concerns were raised about making a concerted effort to keep laid of local employees in Chico.
o The Chico talent pool contains a large range of skills, with some skill sets more prevalent than others.
o The availability of talent led to questions regarding pay scale in the Bay Area versus Chico, and a general discussion of payroll challenges in a fluctuating economy.
* It was discovered (the hard way) that developing iPhone apps is not the best allocation of resources due to severe redundency in the market.
* Everyone looked forward to catching up with developments in the local tech community at upcoming luncheons and the usefulness (and enjoyability) of the group was reaffirmed.
* The Monthly Meeting is scheduled for the Friday, May 1st, 8am at the One Stop at 2245 Carmichael.
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