Dale Ghent wrote: > > +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.
Convenience, time, and safety are critical. +1 Jim >> 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. >> --
