panguyen@vela.acs.oakland.edu (panguyen) (05/19/91)
To all netters on comp.org.sug, I would like to find out more information about Sun User Group (SUG) in Michigan. I'm a former subscriber to SunExpert. Somehow, due to the change in my work address, I have not received any more SunExpert's magazines. I am looking for some back copies of SunExpert ( Jan89-Dec89 ). Or better yet, any Barry Shein's articles on SunExpert would be great ! Thanks, Peter Nguyen email: panguyen@vela.acs.oakland.edu
emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) (05/19/91)
In article <6464@vela.acs.oakland.edu> panguyen@vela.acs.oakland.edu (panguyen) writes:
To all netters on comp.org.sug, I would like to find out more
information about Sun User Group (SUG) in Michigan.
SEMISLUG meets monthly in Ann Arbor at the Industrial Technology
Institute; i'm trying to remember whether it's 1st thursday or 2d
thursday of the month. I believe it's still officially registered as
a Sun User Group (tm) though it's not one of the more traditional
ones; i.e. there's no dues, no elected officers, very few Sun salesmen
around (tho we've been known to attact DEC tech support folks). As of
late, the meeting agenda looks something like this:
- pop and cookies -- graciously provided by our hosts
- question session -- questions (of any sort) written down to be
answered later
- feature presentation -- sometimes hardware show and tell, sometimes
software demonstrations, a mix of things presented by people from
the group and vendors. pure sales presentations get hooted out the door.
- answer session "snappy answers to stupid questions :-)" to deal with
the first set of questions and anything else that comes up
- rumor and innuendo -- truth, fiction, and somewhere inbetween
regarding product announcments, corporate finance, and anything else
that comes to mind. One of the highlights of the meeting.
things usually break down once the rumors start flying. SEMISLUG is
also the unofficial home of the "Michigan mail park", an opportunity
for individuals to locate news and mail feeds and to discuss
connectivity in the local area. afterwards we generally tend to
adjourn to a bar to continue on.
There are usually a few people from Oakland that attend the meeting;
it draws people in from as far north as Midland and all throughout the
metro Detroit area.
--Ed
Edward Vielmetti, SEMISLUG member since 1987, emv@msen.com
"half a slug is better than none"jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping) (05/20/91)
> To all netters on comp.org.sug, > I would like to find out more information about Sun User Group (SUG) in Michigan. SWAMISLUG meets bi-monthly in SouthWest Michigan. Like SEMISLUG, we have no dues, no elected officers, and only about one Sun sales-guy at each meeting. We usually have some sort of product presentation first -- done by an actual vendor or by a user (for the REAL poop :-) -- followed by a questions and answers session and general food-drink-and-talk time. We have a newsletter that comes out bi-monthly. We're new (1 year old) and we're still trying to see what the Sun folks in this area want. Contact me (address below) for more info... Mike Jipping Hope College Department of Computer Science jipping@cs.hope.edu (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE) "Koo koo ka choo" -- Simon and Garfunkel, "Mrs. Robinson"