Waltham Novell User Group

Waltham NUG Meeting - Teaming & Conferencing

rmbarry — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:41:28 -0600

Start: 29 Jul 2008 - 5:30pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Please join us at our May NUG Meeting to learn about Novell's new Teaming & Conferencing product and how it compares to Microsoft SharePoint.

Presenter: Rob Seneff, Novell

Directions:

This meeting will be held in the Old South Room at Novell's Executive Briefing Center located in Novell's Corporate Headquarters, 404 Wyman Road, Waltham, MA.

Park in the North Garage and enter the building on the ground floor. Once on the ground level, walk down the hall and up the stairs or take the elevator to the 5th floor. The briefing center is behind the main reception area.

RSVP:

Please email an RSVP to rbarry@geiconsultants.com.

This meeting is open to anyone, not just NUG members. If you are not a member, please consider joining so that you stay informed of member-only events and other news. There is no cost to join.

Waltham Novell User Group

Association of Support Professionals looking for Boston Area Speaker

ssalgy — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:38:22 -0600

Here's an interesting opportunity for you to get involved in a prestigious event, and share your insights as a member of our Novell communities. Check it out, and see if it's a good fit for you. We'd love to have Cool Solutions and NUI members explain exactly why you participate, share your tips, tools, and articles, attend (or run) NUI chapter meetings, and help other users around the world. We have the best, most supportive people in the world right here, and it would be fun to hear you explain why you do what you do.

Call for Speakers

We're putting together a conference program for an Oct. 7 event outside of Boston on the "Voice of the Customer," and I'm looking for a speaker--preferably from outside Novell itself--to offer a perspective on what really motivates community members to invest serious time and energy into supporting a company.

This is *not* a Novell-specific event--our audience consists primarily of service and support managers from software and related technology companies. We're expecting about 120 people, and we have an early look at the event on our Web site.

This is the second year we've run this event, incidentally. We also run a series of breakfast roundtables, described elsewhere on the site.

We're flexible about the format: The session could be structured as an interactive panel, a short talk, or a full presentation, depending on the focus and the speaker. We don't expect our speakers to travel any great distance, so any prospects should be local (Eastern Mass.--Southern NH).

If you are interested, please email Jeffrey Tarter, executive director of the Association of Support Professionals.

Waltham Novell User Group

Waltham NUG - Background and Purpose

rmbarry — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:44:37 -0700

As a satisfied Novell customer since 1992, I felt very comfortable with the NetWare environment, but Linux was brand new to me. With Novell going down the Linux path, I found myself at the crossroads, not knowing whether to go down the Linux path, or the Microsoft path. Before I could make an informed decision, I first needed to learn more about Novell's strategic direction and to become familiar with Linux, and Novell's new Linux-based products. I did not want to make this decision alone. However, I thought that I was the last Novell Customer remaining in New England, that was until I met other New England Users at Customer Appreciation Night at BrainShare 2007.

Once I returned home from BrainShare, I met with my Novell Sales Rep and Beth Gile, of EOS Systems, a Novell Platinum Partner to discuss my concerns and issues and what could be done to get Novell customers together in the New England Region. After several meetings, the Waltham Novell User Group was formed.

We held our very first meeting in July 2007, with four members in attendance. The Waltham NUG now has 80+ members, 30 of which regularly attend our monthly meetings. Members drive from as far away as Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut to attend these meetings.

The topics of our meetings have/will include open forum discussions, member presented case studies, presentations and demos on existing and beta Novell products, presentations of industry trends and futures, and presentations by vendors on their software and hardware products that work in the Novell NetWare and Linux environments.

Some of the upcoming meetings will cover Clusters and Virtualization of SUSE 10 and OES 2 servers, GroupWise Bonsai, Wide Area File Acceleration Hardware, Industry Trends and the Future Direction of Portals and Collaboration.

If you have not joined this Waltham NUG, and you reside in MA, NH, ME, RI or CT, please consider joining. Even though there is no cost to join, the old adage "You only get what you pay for" does not apply here. Besides gaining valuable information by attending these meetings, members are reaching out to one another outside of the meetings to further discussions started at meetings.

To join this NUG, please email your request to rbarry@geiconsultants.com and I will gladly add you to the membership.