OCPPUG: Oslo C++ User Group

A couple of weeks ago I bumped into Tandberg's Olve Maudal, at a pub crawl organized biweekly by Oslo's Java community. I'm not much of a Java programmer (I kinda left that language behind when my college days were over), but nonetheless there are usually some very bright people at those gatherings, so I joined -- if for nothing else; to suck up some ideas. I was surprised when I at my first attendance saw a few fellow C++ programmers, hugging the Stroustrup Bible (tm).

Long story short, Olve suggested that we should try to get a regular meetup running for Oslo's C++ programmers. Neither of us had heard of such a thing before -- probably due to a lack of focus on C++ as a whole, outside of companies such as Tandberg, Funcom, Opera and a couple of others. If you compare the C++ society to that of .NET (www.nnug.no) or Java (www.java.no) .. well .. there doesn't seem to be one. As it turns out, Olve is a very dedicated guy, and as far as I can tell, the right person for the job of gathering us all.

A couple of weeks down the road, we're well into a small-but-potent collection of local C++ developers, and planning a first meet with a few tech talks, good beer and the usual plotting of world domination. I've promised to do a brief bit on threading in C++ vs. C++0x, and I'm quite excited about that.

Should anyone from Oslo (or the immediate surroundings) be reading this; there will hopefully be more meets to come, and you'll all be invited to join us. I'll cover it here as it progresses.