{"id":33542,"date":"2008-04-23T11:08:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/swugn-spotlig-2"},"modified":"2008-04-23T11:08:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:08:43","slug":"swugn-spotlig-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/04\/swugn-spotlig-2.html","title":{"rendered":"SWUGN Spotlight &#8211; North Alabama SolidWorks User Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most active SolidWorks User Groups in the world resides in Huntsville, Alabama &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=255\">North Alabama SolidWorks User Group<\/a>.&nbsp; Resurrected nearly three years ago by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickyjordan.com\/\">Ricky Jordan<\/a>, NASWUG has steadily increased membership, added more meetings, and has been able to attract top-level SolidWorks talent to this hotbed of technology (aerospace, defense, manufacturing).&nbsp; Case in point &#8211; visits by former SolidWorks CEO John McEleney, Greg Jankowski, and more recently, Marlon Banta.&nbsp; It sure doesn&#8217;t hurt that Ricky is one of the most respected SolidWorks users in the known universe.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you will be familiar with NASWUG members through blogs, forums, and events like SolidWorks World and SWUGN Technical Summits.&nbsp; Brian McElyea is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadfanatic.com\/\">CadFanatic<\/a>, Richard Hall is a long time SolidWorks user and first-class presenter, and Gary Hall (no relation) may be the nicest and most helpful person I ever met.&nbsp; The last NASWUG meeting I attended brought SolidWorks users out in droves, and I was quite impressed by their knowledge, and by their desire for even more knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many reasons to praise the leaders and members of NASWUG is the overwhelming support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/summit\/SWUGN_Technical_Summit.html\">SWUGN Summit<\/a> series of events.&nbsp; In 2007 and 2008, the Nashville event drew record numbers of attendees, and <strong>30%<\/strong> of those came in from Huntsville &#8211; a 105 mile drive!!<\/p>\n<p>Ricky is always looking for ways to increase benefits to his user group members, and I know we can look forward to new ideas, even higher attendance, and a user group that will always be at the top of the SWUGN class.&nbsp; Great job NASWUG!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most active SolidWorks User Groups in the world resides in Huntsville, Alabama &#8211; The North Alabama SolidWorks User Group.&nbsp; Resurrected nearly three years ago by Ricky Jordan, NASWUG has steadily increased membership, added more meetings, and has<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/04\/swugn-spotlig-2.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-33542","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\/33542","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=33542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}