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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: FAUG meeting
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Date: 7 Jun 89 00:37:28 GMT
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In article <376@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes:
>Wonder how many people are going to show up for FAUG tonight rather than
>next week??? Candid Camera should cover the door...
>	Doug

Well if you look at it from the "look at the first level benefits" perspective
that the people who run FAUG use, it makes a lot of sense to delay the FAUG
meeting to the night before DevCon starts in S.F. However, they don't seem
to grasp that to be truely effective they should also flood all of the
developers who would be coming to DevCon to invite them to FAUG, nor the
fairly obvious opportunity to have a Developers Panel similar to the ones
we host as national Sun User Group meetings that let a lot of users give
their feedback directly to the developers without any prior filtering
getting in the way. But those issues aside, I'm glad Mike can hang around,
and I'm sure some people will hear about it via word of mouth so that 
should be a bonus. Of course with the double whammy of no prior notice
and no headline speakers/demonstrations I suspect the turnout will be
lower than the couple of hundred that usually show. 


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