{"id":33473,"date":"2007-06-12T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T11:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/ricky_throws_a_"},"modified":"2007-06-12T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T11:47:09","slug":"ricky_throws_a_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/06\/ricky_throws_a_.html","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Throws a Heck of a Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naswug.com\/\">North Alabama SolidWorks User Group<\/a> welcomed John McEleney and me with great food, a great facility, and a great group of 55 SolidWorks users last night.&nbsp; This was the 22nd meeting for NASWUG since 2004, and their largest attendance ever.<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s presentation was very well received, and you could tell he was as happy to be there as the crowd was to have him.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll continue the &quot;Southern Swing&quot; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=204\">Charlotte<\/a> tonight, and finish up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=206\">Atlanta<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Rich Hall who answered 76% (16\/21) of the Tips and Tricks Trivia Contest questions correctly &#8211; a new record.&nbsp; It should be noted however that John gave away two of the answers during his talk &#8211; next time I guess I should look at his slides first.<\/p>\n<p>Look for more (later today) about last nights meeting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickyjordan.net\/\">Ricky&#8217;s blog<\/a>, and over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadfanatic.com\/\">CADFanatic<\/a> (Brian even talked about posting the meeting video at CADJunky).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Alabama SolidWorks User Group welcomed John McEleney and me with great food, a great facility, and a great group of 55 SolidWorks users last night.&nbsp; This was the 22nd meeting for NASWUG since 2004, and their largest attendance<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/06\/ricky_throws_a_.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-33473","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\/33473","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=33473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}