TCMUG Thoughts

[Blammo]

I would like to meet as well.

I've had a thought about the TCMUG group handling the redistribution of
the City Coding that we've done internally.  The best appraoch I think
Steve's idea) would be to do a workshop of some sort to dissect what
we've done and guage interest from the Group.  Assuming  there is
interest from the group in proceeding with it the code could be added to
and manged for public consumption by the TCMUG group.

Either way I think we (The City) have some interesting new twists on the
client side of things.  Something such as this would fit in well with
some of the points made below as well.

We still have some internal discussion going on about this as well.

Just throwing the idea out there.

bobb

David Bitner wrote:

> >My time is dwindling quickly this month.  If anyone else wants to plan
> >a meeting for this month, please speak up, otherwise we should
> >definitely plan on meeting next month.  If anyone would like to grab a
> >drink still this month, I'm game.
> >
> >I did want to try to get some discussion about Users Groups going
> >before some of our folks head to Chicago to discuss the foundation.
> >
> >Personally, I would love to see this users group evolve to a users
> >group for all foundation projects (possibly with sub groups for
> >individual projects).  I would like to see regional groups like this
> >become a recognized part of the foundation rather than an ad-hoc group
> >of users who get together.
> >
> >Here are some of the roles that I could see the Users Group playing
> >for the foundation.
> >
> >-- Point of contact for trying to bring presentations to regional
> >conferences (ie GIS/LIS)
> >
> >-- Point of contact for speaking at schools etc.
> >
> >-- Potentially organizing events for things such as GIS day
> >
> >-- Maintain registry of Regional Professional Services related to
> >Foundation projects (possibly with a participation/sponsorship
> >requirement)
> >
> >What do other folks think about formalizing Users Groups?  Is this
> >something that we should lobby to include under the umbrella of the
> >foundation?  Are there other roles/responsibilities that you could see
> >a users group taking on?
> >
> >Thoughts?  Comments?
> >
> >
> >
> >