Re: Active Oracle user group in Raleigh, North Carolina area?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:08:19 -0700 (PDT)
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On Carol's note... :)
RMOUG is doing well, but I give a lot of credit to the investment of time by the board of directors, the volunteers and the users!� This is a major contributor to its success.
We have a QEW, (Quarterly Event Workshop) tomorrow, ( you can see all our events and schtuff at www.rmoug.org) which has not only Oracle, but MySQL, (our new SIG) sessions.� Carolyn Fryc does a fantastic job planning these, Art Marshall pushes it all out to the websites and then I do the social media for most of our events.� We do have workshops with presentations or workshops with hands-on each quarter.�
There is one board member that is assigned our yearly Training Days event, (which often requires at least one year's rest afterwards! :)) It is quite the undertaking and we survive because of the support of Team YCC, (who also support ODTUG's events like KSCOPE) and the wonderful Rocky Mountain volunteers each year.�
The board meets monthly and our quarterly newsletter is in a hard-copy format and I hope that we will have it available in some form of electronic version soon, (we just revamped our website...)� Pat Van Buskirk does a phenomenal job each issue with the content, guest authors and focus articles.
I will also echo Carol's sentiments on other groups listed below-� I am always checking out what NoCOUG is up to!� They have great ideas and a fantastic group that are doing great things.� I've had dealings with NEOOUG and they are a great group from an area of the country that most would not recognize at first!� NYOUG always has an impressive list of presenters for their workshops.� I'm consistently watching for their emails and HotSos is just as we all expect-� incredible!
�
Kellyn Pot'Vin
Senior Technical Consultant
Enkitec
DBAKevlar.com
From: Carol Dacko <dackoc_at_gmail.com> To: dananrg_at_yahoo.com
Cc: "ChrisDavid.Taylor_at_ingrambarge.com" <ChrisDavid.Taylor_at_ingrambarge.com>; oracle-l <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: Active Oracle user group in Raleigh, North Carolina area?
Dana,
Best of Breed Regional Oracle User Groups - I sure can!
1) RMOUG - Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group, Denver, Colorado. They have a
two day training event every February plus quarterly 1 day events. They
have hightly respected speakers from all over the world at this event. It
is an event that I really love to attend. And I fly from Michigan to go to
this event. The networking is second to none and the hospitality is
outstanding. I self-fund this event because it is so worth while as a DBA
and/or Developer.
2) Northern California Oracle Users Group - San Fransico Bay Area. This is one that I have not had an opportunity to attend yet as it would also be a self-funded event for me. Not only does this group put on quarterly events, they also sponsor special training events. Last year, James Morle did a 2 day Seminar on Storage. NoCOUG had to find a bigger venue because of the great response for this seminar.
3) NEOOUG - This group in Ohio has great training events. They just had a 2 day training event earlier this week in Cleveland - and yes, Cleveland is no longer the "Mistake on the Lake". Cleveland is actually a decent place. They also have quarterly meetings. Cary Millsap did one of his full day seminars right after the event. So the speaker selection is outstanding!
4) New York has a great Oracle User group and has events more often than quarterly. The list of speakers that they have at their events are quite outstanding.
5) HOTSOS Symposium - if you are a performance analyst, this is a 3 day training event that is� not to be missed. Although it is not a User Group that puts on this event, it is still the premier performance event in the US. And at the end of the event, one highly respected speaker will have a separate 1 day training event. This symposium is in the greater Dallas area and is every March.
These are some of my favorites and ones that I highly recommend.
HTH!
Carol Dacko
University of Michigan
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:02 AM, dnrg <dananrg_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks Chris, I think. :-) That group doesn't seem to be active. If it is
> I haven't heard of any meeting announcements lately.
>
> Of folks here who participate in local or regional Oracle User Group
> events:
> -- How valuable do you find them to be versus Internet resources like
> Oracle-L or annual Oracle conferences?
>
> -- How frequently does your group meet and is it as frequent as you like?
> What's optimal?
>
> -- What formats do you find to be most effective / worthwhile? Straight up
> presentations? Roundtable discussions? Interactive workshops?
>
> -- What type of content do you not see that you'd like to see at these
> types of events?
> -- Given "Oracle" represents such a large universe of potential topics and
> content, is it better to have a user group that addresses broad or narrow
> interests?
>
> -- Can anyone name a few local or regional Oracle User Groups that are
> Best of Breed? Would be interesting to see what these groups do and what
> makes them successful.
> -- What makes Oracle User Groups succeed or fail generally besides the
> obvious? (general lack of interest or insufficient # of local Oracle
> practitioners). With the Research Triangle Park here in North Carolina I
> suspect there are enough practitioners to support an active and productive
> group.
>
> And anything anyone else would like to add of course.
>
>
> Dana
>
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> Hmmmmmm
>
> Region RUG/User Group Name RUG Liaison
>
> "SOUTHEAST North Carolina Oracle Users Group Donald Burleson"
>
> Dana - perhaps you should start one after all.....
>
> Chris Taylor
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> Subject: Active Oracle user group in Raleigh, North Carolina area?
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> Is there an active Oracle user group in the Raleigh, NC area? Seems there
> used to be. Asked my local Oracle rep and he didn't know of one. Would
> rather join an existing group. But I'm potentially open to helping organize
> a new one (lots of work if done right).
> Thanks.
>
> Dana
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