INETA has launched what is being referred to as the Great Attendance Count which I have been coordinating. We are collecting the number of people that attend user group meetings during October 2004 for INETA user groups as well as their total number of members. If you are a user group leader for an INETA user group you should have received an email with details yesterday. If not, visit http://www.ineta.org/survey/meetingattendance/default.aspx and enter your information. BTW, all user groups that submit their data by Sun 11/7 are eligible to win an XBOX for raffle at an upcoming user group meeting.
Thanks to INETA volunteers Devin Rader, Scott Cate, and Julie Lerman for helping out with this task.
INETA is a great organization that has grown rapidly to be quite large and includes members from many countries around the world. Going forward we want to provide services and information that best fit our membership. In order to do this we have to understand our members and this simple survey is a starting point in that process. So help us better serve you and submit your data.
As long as I am here I want to mention we will be having a User Group Leader Summit at TechEd 05 in Orlando next June. It will be an opportunity for user group leaders from around the world to spend a day (probably Sunday before TechEd start) learning how to improve their user group through discussions with other user group leaders. More details here as the planning progresses.