I'm in Barcelona, My Luggage is in Paris, and My Mind is Still in Finland

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The Finnish SolidWorks User Group has been around for a while, but only virtually.  Markku Lehtola has actually been running his user group on line for the past two or three years.  I spoke with him earlier this year and convinced him to invite his members to a "live" meeting.  Markku was a little hesitant at first, explaining to me that its very hard to get the Finnish people to show up for a meeting.  He was sort of right, only about 20 folks showed up last night.  But they were an enthusiastic bunch, getting involved in the meeting rather quickly, and staying around until nearly 10:00pm to see three technical presentations.  At the end of the meeting, most of them were asking about when the next one would be.  Some of the attendees were also talking about convincing more of the "on-line" SolidWorks users to show up for it.  Looks like Markku’s group is going "live".

I sure enjoyed my time in Northern Europe visiting with SWERFA in Denmark and Markku’s group in Finland.  I’ll spend the next few days here in Barcelona mingling with the press at the 2009 launch Event, and maybe get a chance to see some sights.  Between meetings and airports, I really haven’t seen much of the countries I’ve visited so far this week.

My luggage on the other hand gets to spend the next five or six hours in Paris.

Richard Doyle

Richard Doyle

My official title is Senior User Advocacy & SolidWorks User Groups - but most people just call me "The User Group Guy". I've been a SolidWorks user since 1997, and was one of the founding members of the SWUGN Committee. Since starting the Central Texas SolidWorks User Group in 1999, my career path has led me to DS SolidWorks and a dream job supporting the SolidWorks User Group Network worldwide.
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