The meeting was fantastic!

Everybody enjoyed the sessions and the participation was very good. The evangelists from SFDC were very inspiring and there were a lot of free flowing discussions . The TIPS session was quite well received and there were impromptu discussions

Sean from Cast Iron did a great job and Cast Iron - thank you for sponsoring the event .

I am reproducing an email below from Jesse Lorenz. Jesse is a Platform evangelist at Salesforce.com

From: Jesse Lorenz [mailto:jlorenz@salesforce.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:44 AM
To: Prithvi Kandanda
Subject: SFDC community boards

Prithvi,

In speaking to your members last night,  I discovered that some of them aren't regular readers of the SFDC community bulletin boards. (http://community.salesforce.com/) The boards a great place to find out if someone else has ever asked the same question as you and gotten an answer. They're also a great place to ask new questions, share expertise with other SFDC users and even find a new SFDC-related job! Ron, Dave, Andrew, myself and a number of other SFDC employees frequent the boards regularly. It might be worth posting a link to the boards on the SVUG blog and mentioning it during your next "TIPS" session.

Best,

Jesse

 Platform Evangelist

We are going to have a very interesting meeting this time - Be there, and you might win a Blue-ray DVD player !!!

When : August 19th 2008 ( Tuesday) at 4.30PM

Where: Tarragon Restaurant , Sunnyvale ( Yes, we have been assured  the Wifi will work this time )

Cast Iron Systems, an AppExchange partner providing a configuration-based solution specifically for integrating Salesforce with other applications will be our sponsor. Sean O'Connell, Product Marketing will teach us how to reduce integration time by 80%! . You can get more information on Cast Iron from  www.castiron.com

Sean Whiteley (Product Management) at salesforce.com has agreed to comeback and complete his demo of Google apps.

We will also have an evangelism team from Salesforce come and talk to us about "Mastering Visualforce - Move Beyond S-Controls"

By popular demand, we are going to have a session during every meeting called TIPS which addresses a specific challenge faced by adminstrators and a solution implemented. This time we are going to have Dan England, Marketing & Sales Operations Manager at Cast Iron talk about a solution he developed to speed up searches !

Bring your questions and your appetite. We will serve light refreshments and appetizers.

Location & Details:
Date & Time: Tue,  August 19th at 4:30 pm.
New Location: Tarragon Restaurant
140 S Murphy Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
(408) 737-8003
http://www.dinetarragon.com/

Meeting Agenda: Signup & Announcements Sean Whiteley, salesforce.com Sponsors: Cast Iron Systems Break & Networking Dan England - TIPS session "Mastering Visualforce - Move Beyond S-Controls"

This is a member only event and you can become a user group member to attend this event .

To become a member you can register here http://usergroups.salesforce.com/santaclara/

Josh and PK