Just a quick reminder of the meeting on Tuesday.

JZ
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The Tuesday, September 13th meeting of the Rocky
Mountain Internet Users Group (RMIUG) will discuss
"Building a Start-Up in the Internet Age"

In its 10 years of "popular" existence, the Internet
has completely transformed dozens of industries. For
example, how many of us would ever think about calling
a travel agent to book an airline ticket? Would we
ever buy a car without checking what the dealer
invoice price is first?

But, in addition to transforming Industries, the
Internet is also revolutionizing the actual structures
of businesses. The ubiquitous interconnectivity has
made it much easier for new companies to start up, be
more nimble than industry stalwarts, and produce
products and solutions faster than ever before.

During the next meeting we will learn how a unique
local start-up, Walking Orbit, Inc., not only uses the
Internet for its core product (it is a software
company that creates Internet based tools that help
companies manage their mobile assets by integrating
GPS, GIS, wireless data) but also how it uses the
Internet to enable a nearly 50-person, part-time,
equity-compensated, team to develop its products. We
will even explore some of the Agile development
methodologies it uses as they are the key to their
success.

To explore this topic, RMIUG will bring in several
speakers:
Brian Tsuchiya (Brian@...) is the
Co-Founder/CEO of Walking Orbit has built five
start-up ventures since 1992 and started Walking Orbit
in the autumn of 2003. Brian will talk about his
experiences building Walking Orbit and about the
solutions it produces.

Brendan Lally (brendan@...) is the Chief
Technology Officer and a full-time Founder of Walking
Orbit. Brendan has over 20 years of experience in
sectors ranging from financial services, retail, real
estate, manufacturing, medical, and government to
non-profits. He has experience with large Fortune 100
enterprises through to smaller firms including
building an e-commerce startup from scratch (in the
dot-com boom) and it growing it from 20 to 700 people.
Brendan will go through the details of GIS/GPS
technology.

Brandon Stewart (bkstewart@...) is a Director
and part-time Founder of Walking Orbit. Brandon has
more than nine years of professional experience in the
Architecture, Analysis, Design, Development, and
Testing of complex software systems. He is currently
a Principal Software Engineer @ Symantec Corp. He
holds a Masters Degree in Distributed Computing
Systems from DePaul University, obtained in 1999. Mr.
Stewart also has extensive experience leading
development teams, as well as mentoring and
instructing both junior-level developers and
developers new to distributed technologies such as
Java and Object-Oriented Analysis & Design. Brandon
will go over Walking Orbit's unique infrastructure and
use of Agile methodologies in its development.

The meeting is Tuesday, September 13th from 7:00 -
9:00 pm (with optional 6:30 pm start for refreshments
and informal networking). The meeting will be held at
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at
1850 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder. To get to NCAR from
the Boulder Turnpike (US 36) or Broadway (US 93), take
Table Mesa Drive west towards the mountains for
approximately 2.5 miles into the foothills. NCAR is at
the top of the hill. For door-to-door driving
directions, go to MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/),
click on Driving Directions, enter your starting
address, NCAR's address, and voila! Park in the NCAR
lot, go in the main door, and ask the guard to point
you to meeting, which is held in the main auditorium,
right off the lobby. The meeting is free and open to
the public, but we may pass the hat to help defray
expenses.

Our meeting location seats about 120 people. That is
usually enough room to accommodate all attendees, but
it's impossible for us to predict how many people will
show up for any given meeting. Seating is always on a
first-come, first serve basis, and in the event of
more attendees than seats, we won't be able to admit
additional people into the auditorium after all seats
are filled.

Thanks to our three sponsors who help make RMIUG
meetings happen:
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MicroStaff (www.microstaff.com) which provides
Creative and Technical talent for Web, Interactive
Media, Marketing Communications and Software
Development projects, is the sponsor of food and
beverages for RMIUG meetings.
ONEWARE (http://www.ONEWARE.com) -- a Colorado-based
software company that provides semi-custom web-based
applications, sponsors the RMIUG meeting minutes.
Copy Diva (http://www.copydiva.com) which provides
marketing project management, marketing communications
consulting, and web content development is the AV
sponsor for RMIUG.

Consultants and companies are invited to bring
Internet-related Product information, brochures, and
business cards which will be displayed on an
information table.

There are email mailing lists set up for this group.
To subscribe or unsubscribe, see
http://www.rmiug.org/maillist.html. You can also reach
the RMIUG "Executive" Committee at
rmiug-comm@.... Our web site is at
http://www.rmiug.org/


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Please note that RMIUG is hosted at NCAR and we are
their guests. NCAR has security regulations in effect
that we must follow in order to use the facility. If
any RMIUG attendee is unwilling to follow these simple
regulations, I would ask that he or she not attend and
instead read the minutes after the meeting.

Here are the NCAR security policies that must be
followed:

1. No weapons.
2. Must sign in at front desk and provide name.
3. Cooperate with security folks including providing
ID if requested.
4. We are guests of NCAR so cooperation and courtesy
are expected when dealing with NCAR staff.

If there are any questions or concerns with this
policy, please contact me directly.
Thanks, Josh Zapin (josh@...).
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