[advocacy-discuss] New BW OSUG

[Jim Grisanzio]

Dale Ghent wrote:
>
> +1. I live in Silver Spring, and work in Reston, VA. I concur 
> wholeheartedly with Theo's description of the traffic circus that is 
> the DC beltway. Having a OSUG north of DC and closer to Baltimore, 
> Columbia, and environs would make a good bit of sense.
>
> /dale
>
> On Feb 23, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
>
>> A few of us at OmniTI would like to start a OSUG.  There is on for 
>> the "DC" area, but it is based out of Northern Virginia and, given 
>> that the 270 split (a treacherous zone one must travel to get there) 
>> is considered by many to be the worst traffic in the whole of the 
>> United States, it seems unlikely that anyone from the 
>> Baltimore-Washington corridor would venture that far.


Convenience, time, and safety are critical. +1

Jim


>> We (OmniTI) have many advocates and currently host user groups for 
>> Javascript, PHP and PostgreSQL quite successfully.  We have space 
>> available and a good track record of both consistent management and 
>> decent attendance for user groups.
>>
>> I realize that this user group would be pretty close to 
>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/crosug/ though anyone from around 
>> here would know it isn't close at all with traffic.
>> --