Re: UK user group
Neil Truby wrote: > "Doug Lawry" <lawry@nildram.co.uk> wrote in message > news:cbul8i$i8g$1@nntp0.reith.bbc.co.uk... > >>I just discovered that a UK Informix user group meeting happened recently > > at an > >>IBM event. Part of the reason I might not have been informed is that IBM > > wiped > >>my iSource profile for no apparent reason, so I wasn't getting > > newsletters. Interesting. I had assumed they had just dried up. >>However, this also means that either the existing UKIUG address list has > > got > >>lost or it was not used to publicise the meeting - very strange either > > way. Who > >>was there, what was discussed, are any notes going to be posted, who is > > now > >>running the group, and when is the next one? > > > At the recent "London" Infobahn - actually held in Bedfont - two weeks ago, > UK IUG Committee members Keith Simmons and Ian Goddard explained the user > group was still alive and well, that it is planned to hold another event in > the early autumn, and that the group was keen for new blood to join the > steering committee. But many of us were there and we weren't invited. I heard mention of a meeting to follow the event but presumed it was a committee meeting only. > If you'd like to participate as a committee member, email UK IUG Chairman > David Linthwaite at ukiug@iiug.org: I'm sure he'd be delighted to have an > extra volunteer to help run the group. Otherwise, look out for details of > the autumn event sometime after next Thursday's UK IUG Steering Committee > meeting. > > The UK IUG does not share its membership list with IBM, nor vice versa, for > privacy reasons, so any administrative problems you may be having with IBM > will not affect the user group's ability to communicate with you. Such > communication is usually done by cdi posting and my email contact with > previous user group event attendees and apologists. I didn't see the post either. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@MydasSolutions.com |//////// /| | Mydas Solutions Ltd http://MydasSolutions.com |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |We value your comments, which have |/// / ////| | |been recorded and automatically |// / /////| | |emailed back to us for our records.|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+ sending to informix-list
"Mark D. Stock" <mdstock@mydassolutions.com> wrote in message news:cbvfk1$hb1$1@news.xmission.com... > > Neil Truby wrote: > > At the recent "London" Infobahn - actually held in Bedfont - two weeks ago, > > UK IUG Committee members Keith Simmons and Ian Goddard explained the user > > group was still alive and well, that it is planned to hold another event in > > the early autumn, and that the group was keen for new blood to join the > > steering committee. > > But many of us were there and we weren't invited. I heard mention of a > meeting to follow the event but presumed it was a committee meeting only. That's because you couldn't get out of the door fast enough to be home in time for Countdown :-) > > The UK IUG does not share its membership list with IBM, nor vice versa, for > > privacy reasons, so any administrative problems you may be having with IBM > > will not affect the user group's ability to communicate with you. Such > > communication is usually done by cdi posting and my email contact with > > previous user group event attendees and apologists. There wasn't one.
"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:2kgubbF2aprkU1@uni-berlin.de... > "Mark D. Stock" <mdstock@mydassolutions.com> wrote in message > news:cbvfk1$hb1$1@news.xmission.com... > > But many of us were there and we weren't invited. I heard mention of a > > meeting to follow the event but presumed it was a committee meeting only. > > That's because you couldn't get out of the door fast enough to be home in > time for Countdown :-) Did you know that I was born on *exactly* the same day as Carol Vorderman?