Meeting in person

[David J. Potter]

I learned Chief from Dan Baumann's Version 4 VHS video tapes back when, who lives in Minnetonka.
Minnesota has many very capable users, who I assume are very busy with their own Lives and families.
I used to chair a users meeting here in Austin but the motivating force was my good friend Debbie Gray who was, at that time the Chief Architect Inc Dealer for Texas and New Mexico (now VP of Scholastic Sales for Chief Inc).
She rented the space and catered the affair, all I had to do was to show up and then not s u c k.
Such meetings need to be something valuable to everyone who attends to get them from the comfort of home and family to talk shop.
The meetings were fun and they were work for one and all as well.
In other words such things do not "just happen", someone has to take responsibility for creating them and to make it interesting and useful to one and all.
I enjoyed participating in them and to being helpful to Debbie (I got paid for the Seminars I taught for her but not the User Meetings and Builder Show appearances).
I personally enjoy helping others because you, yourself are also helped and enriched.


DJP