local user group meeting near Chicago

[Edis, Bob]

G'day all

There is some interest in the area where I work (Deerfield, Illinois, USA -
45 minutes north of Chicago) to re-establish a local Cognos user group
focusing on application development.  To this end I have received permission
to utilize my company's conference room and plan on sponsoring regular
meetings (once a month) here.

My idea for the meeting agenda is:
1. presentation by participant on new tool or method
2. workshop where people can present tool/method issues and the group can
brainstorm on ideas.

The meeting should be no more than 1 to 1.5 hours long.
The area of discussion should be restricted to Cognos ADT tools except where
those tools are being used in concert with other tools, e.g. Impromptu or MS
FrontPage or Apache IS.
Any interested party can attend but I will be specifically directing
invitations to people working/living within 1/2 hour of Deerfield.

The first meeting, an informal get together to establish how future meetings
should work, will be held on May 10th, 2001 at the address below.  If anyone
would like to attend this and future meetings, please let me know and I can
provide directions.  Any suggestions on how to make these meetings
productive and enjoyable are also appreciated.

Regards,

Robert Edis
Manager - Business Intelligence
FleetPride 
520 Lake Cook Rd., Suite 100
Deerfield IL 60015
Tel: 847.572.8039
Fax: 847.444.1096
www.fleetpride.com