{"id":509,"date":"2011-02-22T14:24:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T19:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/solidworks-user-group-network-hits-200-groups"},"modified":"2011-02-22T14:24:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T19:24:04","slug":"solidworks-user-group-network-hits-200-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2011\/02\/solidworks-user-group-network-hits-200-groups.html","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks User Group Network hits 200 groups!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20147e2c01e71970b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20147e2c01e71970b\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Swugn\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20147e2c01e71970b-800wi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Swugn\" \/><\/a> <br \/>I copied and pasted this from <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.solidworks.com\/blogs\/swcommunity\/2011\/02\/22\/swugn-hits-200\" target=\"_self\">Richard Doyle&#8217;s blog on the SolidWorks forums<\/a>. For those of you who haven&#8217;t met him, Richard is the SolidWorks User Group Network coordinator, and all-around great guy. I know he&#8217;s really excited about this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>Just a little over an hour ago, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/swugn\/calendar\/ugdetails.htm?id=481\">Kettle Morain SolidWorks User Group<\/a> (KEMSUG) in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin became the 200th SolidWorks User Group registered with SWUGN.<\/p>\n<p>Little  did we know back in 2000 that SWUGN would be so successful.&nbsp; In fact,  in 2000 we didn&#8217;t really know just how many SolidWorks User Groups even  existed.&nbsp; A 2004 &#8220;reconciliation&#8221; put the number at 66 worldwide.&nbsp; In  November of 2007, the Central Savannah River Area SolidWorks User Group  became the 100th group in the US.<\/p>\n<p>And  now we stand at 200, but not for long.&nbsp; There are at least 2 more  groups coming on line in the next few days, and our 2011 &#8220;Fill The  Holes&#8221; campaign is meant to create additional SolidWorks User Groups in  areas that are lacking.&nbsp; I wouldn&#8217;t be a bit surprised to see 220 &#8211; 230  groups registered by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The  credit for the success of SWUGN lands square on the shoulders of the  SWUGN Committee and the local chapter leaders. These folks take time  away from their families and other activities to provide SolidWorks  users with an amazing resource.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re not a member of a local  SolidWorks User Group chapter, you are missing out on additional  training, terrific networking opportunities, and a chance to make some  great friends.<\/p>\n<p>Check the SWUGN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/swugn\/directory.htm\">&#8220;Find a Group&#8221;<\/a> page for a local chapter in your area.&nbsp; If you live and work in an area  that needs a group, consider starting one.&nbsp; If you hurry, you could be  group number 201 (or 202, or 203).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I copied and pasted this from Richard Doyle&#8217;s blog on the SolidWorks forums. For those of you who haven&#8217;t met him, Richard is the SolidWorks User Group Network coordinator, and all-around great guy. I know he&#8217;s really excited about this.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2011\/02\/solidworks-user-group-network-hits-200-groups.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":2524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-user-groups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}