Jerry, There used to be the St Louis user group, but I don't think it was extant when I arrived there in '95.
We are calling this Texas Area MV User Group (TXAMUG, for now anyway) to leave the door open for anyone in states nearby who want to join with us. You are right about Texas being a bit large (you can drive from Dallas to Sioux Falls, SD faster than driving from El Paso to Texarkana). However, most of the towns we think we will be drawing members from are 3 to 5 hours from DFW. If we move our meetings to something slightly S. of Dallas/Fort Worth then the circle is even tighter. It may be a bit of driving for some, but we find folks in Texas are used to some driving. I think the most important factor will be to offer something in our meetings that makes the required effort a good bargain. One such discussion is blending MV with newer technologies - if we pick topics and spawn discussions along this line we are offering an intimate experience/personal development/business development that touches our daily tasks, and affects our future mutual survival. FWIW. BTW - Sunset Beach, Mo is not too far from DFW, given today's speed limit thru Oklahoma. 8-) -Baker -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Spam:[U2] Texas U2 Members listening? I wonder if we have anything like this in the Missouri or the central states area. With a state the size of Texas you will probably have one heck of a job with people making a commitment having people from Houston to Amarillo, Texarkana to El Paso. A meeting would probably mean a plane ride and an overnight stay. How you going to do it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Baker Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 1:46 PM Subject: Spam:[U2] Texas U2 Members listening? > At the recent International Spectrum MV conference in Long Beach a new > Texas Area Multi-value User Group was launched. If you are located in > or around Texas we invite you to join by going to the yahoo group: > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/texas_mug/ > > If you want to email me off-list I will send you a pre-approved > invitation link. > > This is a private group, only members can post to it, view archives, > etc. I would ask, therefore, that you give a few sentences or syllables > about yourself [your involvement in U2 or MV] so we can validate all our > members. This is for the security of our membership. > > Our first TXAMUG meeting is scheduled for June 28th, which will commence > quarterly meetings thereafter. > > Our aims for TXAMUG: > > --> Get face time with others who are using the MV database model to > share knowledge and experiences. > > --> Provide a technical and advisory resource to 'mutually aid' one > another in our respective daily tasks. > > --> Develop regional venues to disseminate knowledge and products for > the MV database. > > --> Personally advance in our MV expertise through educational > presentations by TXAMUG Group members and other training providers. > > --> Spread the news that the MV database model is not just surviving but > evolving into more interoperability and robustness, while retaining it's > 'business-intuitive' structure. > > Just for clarification, TXAMUG is intended to complement the role of the > U2 and CDP groups in the MV community, by providing periodic physical > meetings with some of the same friends you interact with on these worthy > technical forums. > > Cordial Welcome, > -Baker Hughes, > Moderator, texas_mug > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/texas_mug/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
