{"id":33522,"date":"2008-02-14T12:20:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T17:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/the-stars-align"},"modified":"2008-02-14T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T17:20:51","slug":"the-stars-align","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/02\/the-stars-align.html","title":{"rendered":"The Stars Align in the East Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s this for a first meeting?<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Barrentine, a regular on the <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.solidworks.com\/index.html\">SolidWorks Discussion Forum<\/a> (almost 500 posts), has put together quite a lineup for the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=394\">Tri-Valley SolidWorks User Group<\/a> meeting on March 19th in Pleasanton, California.<\/p>\n<p>Vic Leventhal, Group Executive at Dassault Systemes, and one of the most popular SolidWorks speakers ever, will present The History of SolidWorks to get things going.&nbsp; Following Vic will be Matt Lorono (better known as fcsuper) of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/\">SolidWorks Legion<\/a> fame with a recap of SolidWorks World 2008.&nbsp; Matt joins Kenneth to finish off the meeting with a Tips and Tricks session.<\/p>\n<p>Throw in some free food and prizes, and you&#8217;ve got yourself one terrific meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s this for a first meeting? Kenneth Barrentine, a regular on the SolidWorks Discussion Forum (almost 500 posts), has put together quite a lineup for the first Tri-Valley SolidWorks User Group meeting on March 19th in Pleasanton, California. Vic Leventhal,<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/02\/the-stars-align.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-33522","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\/33522","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=33522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}