Minutes of the Atlanta OAUG Meeting

 

Date: Friday, April 15, 2005

 

Time Called:   8:30 a.m.

 

Host:               Applimation

Location:         Villa Christina, Dunwoody, GA

 

I. Vendor Spotlight

Applimation - Steve Quinton - squinton@applimation.com

 

II. Presentation 

Member Spotlight: AMVESCAP - Gregory Keith & Mark Clark

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2005index.html

 

III. Presentation

Member Spotlight: Welding Services Inc Upgrade to 11.5.10  -

PaulFrangoulis & Chris Romax - Titan Technology Partners;

Doss Kuppuswamy - Welding Services

Email addresses:

Chris_Romac/TITAN_Technology/US@ttpartners.com

PFrangoulis@bellsouth.net

DKuppuswamy@hitachiconsulting.com

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2005index.html

 

IV. Breakout Sessions

            Oracle Diagnostics Support:

Chris Warticki, Oracle - Chris.Warticki@oracle.com

 

Oracle Data Hubs: a New and Exciting Concept:           

Bill Dunham, Allstream - dunhamwd@bellsouth.net

           

Technical: PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA

Mark Riley, Oracle - mark.riley@oracle.com

Presentation at http://www.atloaug.org/presentations/2005index.html

 

V. OAUG News

 

Steven Hughes, Executive Director of OAUG shared recent changes in membership options with OAUG and encouraged attendees to sign up for the Connection Point conference in Grapevine, TX.

 

VI. General Business - Brenda Carlton, Consultant

 

OAUG Connection Point - June 13 – 16 in Dallas, Texas. To register or view a complete listing of all papers, panels, training sessions, Star Partners, exhibitors and keynote speakers, visit www.oaug.org.

The Geo lunch will be on Tuesday, June 14, and table signs will be placed in the lunch hall with your Geo name. 

 

Volunteers Needed in Grapevine, TX:

In addition, each participating Geo is asked to bring their own flyers/collateral materials, which will be placed on special Geo tables during the entire conference for attends to pick-up.  We need a volunteer to staff this table for one-hour each day of the conference to personally answer any questions from the attendees about the Atlanta Geo.  The schedule for manning the tables has not been finalized yet, but will most likely be during the lunch break each day. Please email bcarlton@sprynet.com to volunteer.

 

NEXT MEETING – July 15, 2005

Host: AppWorx

Location: Villa Christina, Dunwoody

Reservations: Karen Brooks, kbrooks@appworx.com 425-644-2121 x182

 

July 15 PRESENTATIONS

  1. Member Spotlight: Acuity Lighting Group - Kevin Overcash, Acuity
  2. XML Publisher  - Michael Hipps, Oracle
  3. Maintenance Wizard - Chris Warticki, Oracle
  4. Oracle Sourcing            - Robert Foushee
  5. Breakout #3 - Need Volunteer (functional topic)
  6. Vendor Spotlight: AppWorx, Dave Warvel

 

Newsletter

The deadline for getting articles into the July newsletter is June 24.  Please email your contributions to our editors. We have not had an issue in 2005. We need participation from the group to provide articles.

Functional - satyakanth@bosscorporation.com

Technical - eshin@sagewisegroup.com  

Previous issues can be viewed at http://www.atloaug.org/newsletters/

 

Volunteers Needed

Speakers & breakout facilitators for 2005.

Please send an email to bcarlton@sprynet.com to volunteer.

 

Become a Member of Atlanta OAUG

Go to www.atloaug.org and click on the button ‘Register as a Member’.  Admission is free and this keeps you informed as to upcoming meeting agendas, copies of newsletters, etc.  If you have changed email addresses lately, be sure to update your registration with a permanent address so you will receive meeting notifications.

 

Update Your Email Address

If you have changed email addresses since registering as a member of Atl-OAUG, please update your address by sending an email to webmaster@atloaug.org.

 

List Server - OAUGNET

The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) hosts an Oracle Applications list server, OAUGnet. OAUGnet offers you a list server with constant monitoring, prompt communication of any list server problems, an easy-to-use web interface, and an archive updated daily. To subscribe to OAUGnet, send a blank email to: OAUGNet-subscribe@oaug.com . The address of the new list is OAUGNet@oaug.com.  To switch to digest mode, send a blank e-mail to: OAUGNet-digest@oaug.com

 

Liaison Contact Person Needed from each Member Company

One liaison is needed from each company to forward Atl-OAUG notifications and newsletters to the other Oracle users/consultants within your company.  Consultants are encouraged to invite their clients to Atl-OAUG.

 

Local Technical User Group

Monthly Meetings are in Dunwoody on the 2nd Thursday, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. See www.gouser.org.

 

VII. Thanks!

Thanks to Applimation for providing us with conference space, breakfast, door prizes and audiovisual equipment.

Thanks to Applimation, Colibri LTD, and OAUG for providing door prizes.

Applimation - iPod

Colibri LTD – USB stick

OAUG – Conference CDs, note holders, key board brushes

 

Seventy attendees were present.  User companies are represented as follows:

 

User Companies Represented:

Lodgian, Welding Services, AMVESCAP, Equifax, UPS, SKC Inc, NDC Health, Lithonia Lighting, Morgan Stanley, McKee Foods, Tensar, SunTrust Bank, Boral Industries, Lanier Worldwide, Acuity Brands Lighting, Cendian Logistics,