NEMUG Newsletter
December 2003, Articles
Board Meetings
NEMUG Executive Board Meetings are open to anyone to attend. Your presence and views are welcome at any time. The meetings are held on the second Monday of even-numbered months, at the office of Henry Elliott in Wellesley. We try to get started at 6:00 pm. The next meeting is on:
- 12/15/03
If you are planning to attend, please let a board member know in advance, as we provide food and eat as we work, and need to be sure we have enough for everyone. The complete address for the meetings is:
Henry Elliott and Company Inc.
One Washington St. Suite 208
Wellesley, MA 02481
From Under the Chair
Email list Alert!
DVD player giveaway! Get your email on the NEMUG mailing list and you will be eligible for a drawing at the March 9th meeting of NEMUG. ALL who are in the NEMUG news group email will be eligible. You don't have to be present to win. Follow this link for instructions.
As at each and every meeting, there will also be our drawing for the $25 gift certificate for COMP USA for those who are present.
Continuing our discussion on the future direction of NEMUG begun at the November meeting, we are looking at creating a web committee and a committee for the promotion of M and Caché. We appreciate your continued input. We need to continue discussion, and we need volunteers to help us on a web design, a brochure and future planning.
January 13, 2003 meeting:
Intersystems new EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) platform, Ensemble, will be the subject of our January meeting. Ensemble opens up a whole lot of new opportunities for NEMUG members and MUMPS programmers.
For our March 9th meeting, we are looking into having a presentation of tools accessible to M and Caché programmers. There are several ideas we are exploring for future meetings, wireless, Dreamweaver, Crystal Reports, source control.
April Saturday School
In April we are planning another Saturday school to develop an application in CSP using the Northwind database that comes with Access.
Heidi Pape Laird, Under Chair
November Meeting: "Reshaping NEMUG"
Facilitator: Anthony Pilozzi, NEMUG board member
The purpose of this meeting was to define NEMUG's objectives for the next fiscal year.
Anthony Pilozzi, NEMUG board member, was the facilitator for this brainstorming session. NEMUG members gave their input on what they thought was good and not so good about what NEMUG has been doing. Members were asked
- What should the mission of NEMUG be?
- How can NEMUG best support its members?
- How do we support the outside world with regard to our technology?
This input will be used to reshape NEMUG to be what the membership most want it to be. After the open brainstorming session, the membership was divided up into subgroups which addressed the key issues identified in more detail. These key issues were:
- Networking
- Education
- Promotion of M
- Communications
- Speaker Meetings
After the key issues groups met, a representative from each group presented their group's finding to the membership.
The NEMUG board will take the input received and use it to develop proposed plans for the coming year for membership review and approval.
If you would like to provided additional input for NEMUG to consider, email any of the NEMUG board members.
The charts developed at the meeting were typed up and will be posted on the NEMUG website
~ submitted by Ben Hurley