Re: SQRIBE Promotion

["Matthew F. Reagan" <mreagan@FAST.NET>]

Hey, Ray.

This e-mail is in response to your question regarding SQRIBE, SQRUG, their
relationship, joining the user group, the upcoming conference, etc.

SQRIBE will be hold a conference in Monterrey, CA from November 4 to
November 6.  This is end of the week prior to the Oracle Open World
conference which will be held in SF, I believe.  This SQR conference is
organized and run by SQRIBE.  Since it is so close (both physically and
chronologically) to Open World, there is a good chance I can tack it onto
my itinerary without much fussing.  I hope you can do the same.

The National SQR Users Group is a grassroots organization founded by SQR
users to facilitate the free (or nearly free) exchange of information
(hence the web page, the mailing list archive, and meetings arranged at OOW
and IOUW).  The current board is composed of Matt Reagan, Nathan Treadway,
and Mark Johnson.  We (the board) have been asked by SQRIBE to help on the
conference.  We are working with them on the call for papers, the paper
selections process, and other related issues.  It is their conference, but
we will definitely have a presence.

SQRIBE's drive to register users accomplishes several goals.  The most
important reason is to give them (SQRIBE) and us (SQRUG) a way to reach the
developers that are using the product on a day to day basis (SQRIBE will be
giving us a copy).  Their normal contacts at customer sites are usually
accounts payable and shipping personnel, not the developers.  I would
highly recommend that all of you register, and get your SQR colleagues to
register.  In addition to getting a chance to visit the SQRIBE facility of
your choice (my preference is the Aussie site), it will also build a more
complete database of our user base.

If you have any additional questions, please don't hesitate to let us know.
 If its okay with the list recipients, we can respond to the questions via
the listserv so everyone can see the responses.

Matthew Reagan
Nathan Treadway
Mark Johnson (somewhere in Norway at the moment?)

At 10:59 AM 1/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I just received a copy of the SQRIBE Forum, their quarterly newsletter.
>On the front page is a box that talks about joining SQRUG, (which may
>not be the same as www.sqrug.com) by registering at www.sqribe.com.
>
>I went to http://www.sqribe.com and clicked on "Promotion" and
>added my name to their list, which I encourage you to do as well.
>This apparently adds you to the mailing list for a SQRIBE-sponsored
>SQRIBE International User Group conference to be held Nov 4-6
>in Monterrey, CA, and registers you to win a free trip to any SQRIBE
>office, worldwide (and a life size chocolate bunny ;-).
>
>Mark your calendars and "join" SQRIBE's list by registering at
>the site.
>
>Ray
>
>P.S.:  A note to the people at SQRIBE and www.sqrug.com:  Please
>clarify the relationship between SQRIBE Internation User Group
>and SQR Users Group.
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