{"id":33338,"date":"2006-05-11T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T14:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/lucky_number_7"},"modified":"2006-05-11T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T14:10:48","slug":"lucky_number_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2006\/05\/lucky_number_7.html","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Number 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By all accounts, Matt Lombard is a busy guy.&nbsp; Matt runs his own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezignstuff.com\">consulting business<\/a>, pops in on just about every SolidWorks discussion board offering help and advice, and represents the SolidWorks User Group Network in the Southeastern US.&nbsp; But Matt&#8217;s real talent is starting user groups.&nbsp; May 23rd marks the first meeting of the newly formed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=348\">Northern Virginia SolidWorks User Group<\/a>, the <strong>seventh<\/strong> user group that Matt has had a hand in bringing to life.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Matt started the Rochester SolidWorks User Group in 1999, and after a relocation, turned his attention to Baltimore\/DC in 2002.&nbsp; The Central Virginia group (which spawned SWUGLY the same year) got going in 2004, Blue Ridge (Blacksburg, VA) in 2005, and the Lower Alabama group in 2006.&nbsp; Lucky number 7 is the Northern Virginia group, and Matt tells me he has three more slated to come on line this year.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Matt, keep up the good work.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about SolidWorks User Groups, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\">www.swugn.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By all accounts, Matt Lombard is a busy guy.&nbsp; Matt runs his own consulting business, pops in on just about every SolidWorks discussion board offering help and advice, and represents the SolidWorks User Group Network in the Southeastern US.&nbsp; But<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2006\/05\/lucky_number_7.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-groups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}