TCMUG Thoughts

[David Bitner]

Perry --

I've got a broomball game at Como at 8 that night, so meeting in St.
Paul would work great for me.

Brian --

Keep me in the loop about the NGA stuff.  It sounds interesting.  The
drive might be too far for me though  ;)   I guess the only question
would be to take the shortcut across the airfield or not.


On 1/19/06, Pericles S. Nacionales <naci0002 at umn.edu> wrote:
> > 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?
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > .
>> > >
> >