Hi (Subscriber name goes here),
There is no doubt about it, San Diego is a FileMaker hot spot with many FileMaker based consultants, developers and solution providers, not to mention the large userbase of the educational, corporate & private sectors, including such institutions as the UCSD campus. It's for this reason the San Diego FMPug is extremely pleased to announce that on Thursday, July 22nd we will be launching our inaugural meeting. The meeting will be held at:
CryWolf
7320 Convoy Court
San Diego , CA 92111
The meeting officially begins at 6:00pm, but we are encouraging people to show-up early to do a little ‘meet and greet’. We anticipate a good turn-out, so plan to arrive early on Thursday and find out who's-who in San Diego!
If you do plan on joining us on Thursday, we ask that you RSVP to http://sandiego.fmpug.com. This helps us tremendously in the pre-planning process.
Why the switch to FMPug?
As some may already know there was in fact already a FileMaker user group in San Diego. It was a good size group that met at the UCSD campus and consisted mostly of departmental staff and its members. Although the group had a good following we came to realize, mainly due to the locale, the group wasn’t able to reach the core of the San Diego FileMaker user community. In an effort to reach a greater number of people, a more centralized meeting location was secured.
It was during the quest for a new meeting locale that I learned of a growing phenomenon in the FileMaker community named “FMPug”, founded by Andy Gaunt out of Central Florida. FMPug is the destination for FileMaker Pro User Groups and is swiftly becoming the premier user group connection to all things FileMaker and beyond.
The rationale behind the ‘Pug’ (as it is referred), is to form a true syndicate of FM Pro user and developer groups nationwide. By creating a more unified FM user community, FMPug is able to leverage resources and contacts that directly benefit each group and its members. This includes provisions made by vendors of FileMaker products & services, amongst others. By flying their banner for San Diego, we can help to leverage those resources & contacts, thereby strengthening our group as well as the ‘Pug’ community as a whole. We are very excited about being a member of FMPug and look forward to a truly successful venture!
Getting started with a BANG!
Good things have already begun to arise from this incredible FM Pro member alliance....we've secured some fantastic giveaways for the upcoming months and scored an exclusive discount offer. For those of you who may not know, thanks to Pam Hoover at the Virtual Training Company (VTC) there is an exclusive 15% discount being offered to all FMPug member attendees on any of their training CDs. To take advantage of this offer, all you have to do is contact Pam directly on 1-888-TRAIN-CD (or email her via the site) and mention code PUG-02.
But Pam's generosity didn't stop there.
The Virtual Training Company has also provided copies of their FileMaker Pro 7 training CD and week long access rights to their online tutorials, for any course, anytime. With VTC's all-access pass, you'll be able to brush up on some skills, learn an all new application or take your knowledge to a whole new level. So stick around, we'll be distributing these passes to the groups over the next month.
But wait…there’s more...
For all those who attend this month..you’ll have the chance to register for a free copy of Total Training Presents: Adobe Creative Suite - From Design to Delivery . Here’s a little about the product:
The new Adobe Creative Suite is the ultimate tool for creative and print professionals, offering a complete design and publishing solution for both print and the Web. It combines the latest full versions of some of the industry's most advanced software-Adobe Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, InDesign CS, GoLive CS, and Acrobat 6.0-with the innovative new Version Cue file manager, all designed to work together so you can create and publish professional-level work while also saving time.
To help you take advantage of all the synergies in this incredible offering, Total Training has developed an all-new workflow training series, Total Training Presents: Adobe Creative Suite - From Design to Delivery. Led by Adobe creative software expert and professional designer Steve Holmes, this 3-CD video training series gives viewers an overview of how each product in the Adobe Creative Suite contributes to a project, and how they work together to provide the best possible creative product.
This giveaway is thanks to the generous donation by Total Training. It truly is an incredible, top-notch training tool that does an excellent job of breaking down the steps so anyone and everyone can learn about the applications and how they integrate seamlessly with one another. Check out Total Training’s website to learn more of their products and offerings….speaking of which:
You'd think that would be it....but we're just getting started.
An incentive to join the ‘Pug’ –
For a limited time, there is an exclusive offer for FMPug members only. Wanna know more?
Click here to subscribe and see why the ‘Pug’ is quickly becoming the #1 name in FileMaker User Groups!
Hurry, because the offer ends soon.
So if you cannot make it to our meeting this month, you can still take advantage of us, I mean the offer.
And hats-off to our host
We wish to extend a generous “thanks” to FM Forums. Working directly with FMPug, FM Forums is the host, on the internet that is, to the San Diego FMPug. FM Forums is based right here in San Diego and is the largest online FileMaker user group with nearly 17,000 members worldwide.
Remember, our first meeting is this Thursday and begins promptly at 6pm. I hope to see some old faces and look forward to meeting many new ones!
Sincerely,
Stephen Dolenski
Coordinator
San Diego FileMaker Pro Users Group
http://sandiego.fmpug.com
