Rob Thrush, the Director of Information Technology at McLean Bible is getting a Fellowship One Regional Users Group (RUG) going…last week he sent out a few details and also mentioned that a blog is in the works.

Greetings all,

I must start by apologizing for not getting our Regional Users Group (RUG) started sooner.  God has a way of adding new dimensions to life that sometimes need to be addressed before moving on to other things.  Nuff said on that.Well, the Fellowship One Users and Developers Conference is coming up in a couples of weeks (May 15-17, 2008).  If you haven’t signed up yet and still want to attend it looks like you can still do so by going to http://www.dynamicchurchconference.com/registration#.  On that note there is going to be a RUG Breakfast on Friday the 16th at 6:45am.  I mention this because I will not be able to attend the conference because of prior commitments (my son-in-law is receiving his commission in the Air Force on the 16th and I am part of that ceremony!).  So if any of you are planning on attending the conference and would like to attend this breakfast meeting and represent the Fellowship One Mid Atlantic Regional Users Group (F1MARUG) please let me know and I will pass that on to Fellowship One.

So. When do we hold our first meeting?  I have been struggling with this for some time now.  I had hoped to have our “Kick Off” meeting well before the conference but I am not going to be able to accomplish that one I’m afraid.  So, what’s a good date?  I have a couple of dates to throw out and see what your thoughts are.  We can discuss in more detail at our kick off meeting how best to proceed for future meetings, but I thought we could have the first, or Kick Off, meeting here at McLean Bible church.  I am trying to set up a conference bridge so that if you cannot make the meeting in person you can do so at least by phone.  So, the dates to consider are Monday June 9th, Tuesday June 10th or Wednesday June 18th.  I’m not sure what day of the week works best for everyone so I have thrown out a few different days.  I thought we could start the meeting around 10:00am and end no later than 2:00pm; or earlier if we finish all of our discussions; or later if we get on a roll.  I would like to hear back from you by Thursday May 29th , if possible, whether any of these days work for you so that we can finalize our plans.

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Thanks,
Rob

I’ll post more information on the RUG as it comes along.