+1. I live in Silver Spring, and work in Reston, VA. I concur wholeheartedly with Theo's description of the traffic circus that is the DC beltway. Having a OSUG north of DC and closer to Baltimore, Columbia, and environs would make a good bit of sense.
/dale On Feb 23, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Theo Schlossnagle wrote: > A few of us at OmniTI would like to start a OSUG. There is on for > the "DC" area, but it is based out of Northern Virginia and, given > that the 270 split (a treacherous zone one must travel to get there) > is considered by many to be the worst traffic in the whole of the > United States, it seems unlikely that anyone from the Baltimore- > Washington corridor would venture that far. > > We (OmniTI) have many advocates and currently host user groups for > Javascript, PHP and PostgreSQL quite successfully. We have space > available and a good track record of both consistent management and > decent attendance for user groups. > > I realize that this user group would be pretty close to > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/crosug/ > though anyone from around here would know it isn't close at all > with traffic. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss
