Columbus Day

One of my first opportunities as your Editor was to attend a mass meeting of Users’ Groups in Columbus, Ohio, This was on January 30, a day between (well, sort of) snowstorms. Including your Publisher and your Editor, there were 18 TS enthusiasts there, coming from places as diverse as Columbus (of course), several Indiana cities, the two Louisvilles (OH and KY) and a number of locations in western Pennsylvania.

Kudos to Mowgli Assor, of Columbus, who arranged the meeting. I didn’t get the whole story, but it appears that Mowgli was Shanghaied into the job, as the result of some “innocent” eavesdropping he was doing at the time.

Whatever, he did a darned good job of it.

Mowgli, who got his name from the Kipling stories, pronounces the MOW to rhyme with “grow”, the gli just like “glee”. Accent on the MOW. Like the actress telling the director, “Land sake, ah’m as happy as a clam already. You cain’t possibly expect me to show any mo” glee,”

Sorry about that, Mowgli. I never was any good at dialect. (He tells us that he has a brother called Tigger, by the way.)

But whatever, Mowgli deserves high praise, both for organizing the meeting and for keeping it running smoothly. As you might guess, running a meeting of TS nuts is something like driving a herd of eels.

We talked about computer shows, and decided that there would probably not be a mid-West TS show this year. One of the reasons for the decision was that, with the Orlando show coming up, we didn’t want to overburden our exhibitors.

HOW ABOUT THAT, you vendors of TS equipment, peripherals, software, or what-have-you? You know better than we do how often you’d like to go to shows. And what’s your point of view on the whole subject? Maybe one of you would like to do a full-length article on the vendor’s-eye view of exhibitions, How do you feel about them? How can the organizers best help you? What do you want to know from the public? How often do you want to attend shows? How can SyncWare News help you to communicate with your customers?

We’ll pay you our regular authors’ rates for a good article.

Me, I love them. (The shows, that is.) Not only are they fun, but they help sales. And it has long been my motto that an honest business deal brings benefit to all parties concerned.