Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!hela!hela.iti.org!scs From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.org.sug,mi.misc Subject: Re: Sun User's Group in MI Message-ID: Date: 20 May 91 03:01:23 GMT References: <6464@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Sender: usenet@iti.org (Hela News Manager) Organization: Industrial Technology Institute Lines: 39 Nntp-Posting-Host: hela.iti.org bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: >From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) >>SEMISLUG meets monthly . . . I believe it's still officially registered >>as a Sun User Group (tm) though it's not one of the more traditional >>ones; i.e. there's no dues, no elected officers, very few Sun salesmen . . . >Typically these are SUG "SLUG"s (Sun Local User Groups), and they can >pretty much do what they want (charge dues, not charge dues, etc.) It >would be interesting to hear what other SLUGs do. >If they inform SUG of their existence (get in touch with Peter Salus, >SUG's Executive Director, peter@sug.org) then whenever we do something >with the SLUGs, or want to communicate with them, they get included in >the list (I think someone was supposed to be maintaining an e-mail >list of contact people, not sure what happened to that.) We (SEMiSLUG) were one of the first - as far as I know only Bayslug and the Los Alamos SLUG are older. We were once registered and they lost track of us. When we reregistered last year, they sent use this wonderful little form to fill out. About 90% of the answers were "Not Applicable". This so confounded the national that they called me twice to see if this was really true. Finally they relented and sent me this cute brass plaque, a tee shirt, and a whole box of various Sun literature. No free workstations, tho :-(. In some sense we're *are* a traditional Sun user group, it's all those people in ties who are breaking with tradition. >>"half a slug is better than none" >Mmmm, pass the ketchup please! Hey, you should see our logo! Thank god it's not in color (half a slug, of course). -- "SPAM is a registered trademark of a pork product packed only by Geo. A Hormel & Co. Corp." -- Sun Technical Bulletin, March 1991, pg ii