Re: Great Lakes Informix User Group

Yes, I'm arround. :-) Actually, I'm in Cleveland taking care of my Dad. I've been here since April, so I haven't been around. (Chicago that is.... :-( ) Unfortunately, most of the board members have real jobs, and if you haven't noticed, there are a lot of oportunities in Chicago. We really have two major problems. 1) Location. Chicagoland is big. (Think of a radius of 40 miles from downtown.) There are a lot of suburbanites who would like the meeting in the burbs, however, try finding a meeting place where we can all meet and miss the rush hour traffic. I know we have talked about trying to find a place downtown. (Bill, care to volunteer? :-) [SSA, is in the CitiBank/Metra Station on Madison Ave. ] 2) Re-org at Informix. Phil Nelson had departed from Informix, and there has been a re-org of the local office. Things are still in a state of Flux. Gloria is gone too so the office is under *new* management. We still need to do a mass mailing and try to get everyone to sign up onto a majordomo list serv. (The most efficient way to manage the communication.) If there are users from the Chicago Area, please feel free to drop me a line at Mikey (at) Segel (dot) com. [Sorry, I hate Spam]. We have also toyed with the idea of starting the meetings earlier in the afternoon. I think there have been some other user groups doing this and it seems to work. -Mikey BTW Bill, its great to have a few interested souls. Lets see what we can do. Irwin Goldstein wrote: > Bill Ennis <ennis@ssax.com> wrote in article > <654gbd$9ui@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... > > Hi, > > > > Is anyone still out there? We've kind of lost touch - or at least > > I have! > > > > There was a meeting in early spring of this year and one was planned > > in August but didn't happen. I'm not trying to flame anyone here. I'm > > just offering to do my share to get things going again and also > > trying to see if anyone else is willing do the same? > > > > I think the problem is, that the current board consists of mostly reluctant > participants. (I include my self among those.) Any desire to help out > should be communicated to the current president (Steve Stubbe) or > vice-president (Mike Segel). I know Mike, at least, frequents this group. > > I know I would like to see semi-regular meetings and activities resume, but > I must confess that like many others, I don't want the responsibility of > making it happen! > > -- > Irwin Goldstein > Objective Software Systems, Inc. > http://www.objectsoft.com