{"id":33698,"date":"2010-01-03T11:48:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/swugn-year-in-review-august-2009"},"modified":"2010-01-03T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T16:48:12","slug":"swugn-year-in-review-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/01\/swugn-year-in-review-august-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"SWUGN Year in Review &#8211; August 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top Story<br \/><\/strong>My busiest travel month of 2009 takes me to Iowa, Minnesota, and Vancouver.&#160; I logged nearly 700 driving miles during the Iowa trip, flew &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/2009\/08\/traveling-internationally.html\" target=\"_blank\">internationally<\/a>&quot; for Vancouver, and finally, after ten years, got to meet SolidWorks user <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/2009\/08\/meeting-jay-guthrie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Guthrie<\/a> in Minnesota.&#160; Nothing makes me happier than visiting with SolidWorks users at user group meetings and SWUGN Summit events,&#160;so August was something special.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable Mentions<\/strong><br \/>Several SolidWorks bloggers are <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/2009\/08\/media-blitz-or-solidworks-users-getting-excited.html\" target=\"_blank\">invited<\/a> to a private&#160;showing of SolidWorks 2010 in Concord.&#160; The traditional CAD media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deelip.com\/?p=431\" target=\"_blank\">reacts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/summit\/SWUGN_Technical_Summit.html\" target=\"_blank\">SWUGN Summit<\/a> &#8211; Minneapolis draws 157 attendees, down 6 from the year prior.&#160; Minnesota SolidWorks User Group leader and SWUGN rep Dan Podzimek vows that it will never happen again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/swworld\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">SolidWorks World<\/a> VIP codes are issued to user group leaders.&#160; Yep &#8211; they get in free.<\/p>\n<p>A tornado is reported in downtown Minneapolis.&#160; Normally it wouldn&#039;t affect me personally, but I happen to be getting on a flight from Minneapolis to Chicago.&#160; Needless to say, the flight is delayed.<\/p>\n<p>A temporary glitch with the new SolidWorks forums prevents folks from logging in.&#160; Some of them panic and start sending me a lot of emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top StoryMy busiest travel month of 2009 takes me to Iowa, Minnesota, and Vancouver.&#160; I logged nearly 700 driving miles during the Iowa trip, flew &quot;internationally&quot; for Vancouver, and finally, after ten years, got to meet SolidWorks user Jay Guthrie<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/01\/swugn-year-in-review-august-2009.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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33698","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=33698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}