TCMUG Thoughts

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

David, Steve, Bob,

Good ideas.  How about we meet next Tuesday...  17:00?  18:00?
Somewhere quiet but the beer flows.  Or if the beer doesn't have to
flow, we can meet here in the historic Green Hall.  ;)   Hopefully what
you guys wrote would interest enough other TCMuggers to come out and
join us.

-Perry

Blammo wrote:

> > 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?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
> >
> > .
> >