{"id":33937,"date":"2016-06-11T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2024-03-12T11:43:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T15:43:17","slug":"swugn-group-leader-spotlight-jose-saldana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2016\/06\/swugn-group-leader-spotlight-jose-saldana.html","title":{"rendered":"SWUGN Group Leader Spotlight \u2013 Jose Saldana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Saldana \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/swugn\/calendar\/ugdetails.htm?id=451\">SOLIDWORKS User Group of Fresno<\/a> \u2013 Fresno, CA<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2914 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/IMG_20141116_163615-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20141116_163615\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>\u201cEven though I\u2019ve been using SOLIDWORKS for 15 years, I\u2019m still learning new modeling, assembly and drawing techniques from other users. I\u2019ve learned to be more open and meet new people and have become a more confident public speaker.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jose Saldana has been the leader of the SOLIDWORKS User Group of Fresno since 2012; just 2 years after the group was first formed. In addition to this, Jose is also <em>\u201cthe documentation manager for M2 Antenna Systems Inc. in Fresno California.\u00a0 We design and build custom communication systems for armature radio, aerospace and national defense.\u201d<\/em> He first used SOLIDWORKS back in 2001 while attending Fresno City Community College. \u00a0Besides being a SOLIDWORKS user, Jose describes himself as <em>\u201ca family man, traveling man, photographer, disc jockey, retro gamer, and avid cyclist.\u201d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2915 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/12745498_762710973830678_1956853825219863736_n-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"12745498_762710973830678_1956853825219863736_n\" width=\"223\" height=\"396\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>When asked what the worst meeting the Fresno user group has ever had, Jose said <em>\u201cIt was the worst meeting only because it\u2019s the meeting with the lowest attendance. I believe we had 26 attendees. The meeting was still great, but we normally have 35+<br \/>\nusers attend. The more users attend the better.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The more, the merrier; right Jose? So, why should people join a user group? Jose says: <em>\u201cFree Pizza! Free SOLIDWORKS training! Free SOLIDWORKS swag! Everybody loves the F word: \u201cFree\u201d. Besides the freebies, the user group meetings are awesome. The meetings provide the opportunity to meet new people, ask for help, learn from others and talk about some of our daily struggles. It\u2019s a SOLIDWORKS moral support group.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since 1996,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/\">SOLIDWORKS User Groups<\/a>\u00a0have been a valuable resource for SOLIDWORKS users all over the world.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/swugn\/about\/swugnbios.htm\">The SWUGN Committee<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/\">DS SOLIDWORKS<\/a>\u00a0provide ample support, but the real stars are the SOLIDWORKS User Group Leaders. Every\u00a0week or so, we\u2019ll spotlight one of our group leaders and the local user group chapter\u00a0that they are responsible for leading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Saldana \u2013 SOLIDWORKS User Group of Fresno \u2013 Fresno, CA \u201cEven though I\u2019ve been using SOLIDWORKS for 15 years, I\u2019m still learning new modeling, assembly and drawing techniques from other users. I\u2019ve learned to be more open and meet<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2016\/06\/swugn-group-leader-spotlight-jose-saldana.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":35293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2478],"tags":[2514,1378,2507],"class_list":["post-33937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-spotlight","tag-frenso","tag-swugn","tag-swugn-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33937","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54654,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33937\/revisions\/54654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}