Encompass New Zealand update! Help! - We need your input! The Encompass NZ Board has in the past year to 18 months had difficulty in dealing with the changes of contacts and structures within HP due to reorganisations and staff changes. It has been impossible to get any action that results in delivery of activities that you have told us you want (these have been interoperability, mobility, storage, security and networks). The current round of HP re-organisation doesn?t help! We have new HP representation on the Board ? Mike Hill and Jon Wilson. Mike is the National Enterprise Sales Manager in the Customer Solutions Group and Jon is Marketing Specialist in HP Services. John McCullough, who many of you know personally, has worked with the Board in the past and will continue on for a time, but his current role within HP does not include liaison with end users so he has regretfully tendered his eventual resignation. We thank him for his support and for keeping the User Group links into HP alive during the merger and subsequent re-organisations within HP ? it?s not been easy! The problem is that Mike and Jon need to convince other people within HP that user group activity support is required. We know that most of you do not have direct contact with HP, but you would like contact with the company to get, for example, technical updates on products, product directions etc. Hence the survey we are currently running. We need you to take the survey so that Mike and Jon have the ammunition they need to get HP to help us deliver the activities you have said you want. The survey can be found at: http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/10845/encompass.htm Or via the link on the Encompass website: http://www.encompass.org.nz/ Alan Dick Chairman Encompass New Zealand