Explaining the change from Belgium OutSystems meetup group to User Group.

1. Belgium OutSystems User
Group
The new Data Grid Forge
component
Kurt Vandevelde – Niels Favreau

2. Difference User Groups and Meetups
OutSystems User Groups
• Official and unique group per location
• Technical content and focused on
knowledge sharing
• Led by OutSystems, MVPs, Customers
• Consistent format worldwide
• By the community for the community
• Support from OutSystems
○ Organization
○ Communication & Promotion
○ Sponsorship & Investment
• No commercial purpose
• Recruitment activities are prohibited
Meetups
• There can be multiple meetups - there will
be no official one and anyone that wants to
organize an event of this type is allowed to
• Organizer decides what topic is going to be
presented - not obligatory to be technical
• Led by Partners, Community Members
• There is no sponsorship from OutSystems
○ Community team will not support
○ Partner Marketing team may support
• May have commercial purpose (if entity is
promoting its services)
• Recruitment activities are not prohibited
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3. Meetup history
• 2016 23/06 - Meet and Greet the Belgian OutSystems community
04/10 - Outsystems version 10 launch meetup
• 2017 19/01 - Bring a friend session and make the community grow / debugging code
30/03 - Integrate with Jira using OutSystems
06/11 - How great UI can improve the user experience
• 2018 23/01 - Dive into application architecture with the Discovery tool
27/03 - Built your first (or second) mobile app with OutSystems
22/05 - OutSystems coding best practices
02/10 - OutSystems - infrastructure overview
13/11 - OutSystems 11 in detail
• 2019 22/01 - Using external libraries in OutSystems and more
21/03 - Handling errors like an OutSystems pro
24/09 - The new Data Grid Forge component: is it the Holy Grail?
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4. Meetup history
• 2019 Nov session
• What topic do you want to see?
• Who’s interested in presenting?
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5. Enjoy the session