Are you in downtown chicago? Next wednesday over lunch we're introducing Mihajlo. Mihajlo is a database architect here in Chicago for a fortune 500 company in the mapping and location intelligence industry. He's been in tech for 14 years and in addition to core Oracle database, he's also worked with big data platforms like mongo as well as public and private cloud platforms. Mihajlo will start lunch with a short Q&A. After that there will be some time for general chatting before you head back to your office. We'll make sure that you can keep your lunch break to one hour and get back to the office in time for early afternoon meetings. RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/oracledb/events/181924692/ From the earlier thread... On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Iggy Fernandez <iggy_fernandez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In other words, meetup groups grow through the process of people finding > the meetup group. Meetup.com also does a great job of recommending meetup > groups to its members which means that the meetup organizer does not have > to work hard to advertise the meetup group. > FWIW, I've had a few people find us through meetup.com but I really had to do quite a bit of work on my own to keep this group going so far. But we're still refining and improving the group so maybe the group's purpose and messaging just isn't clear enough or good enough yet. :) -Jeremy -- http://about.me/jeremy_schneider