Hello Community,

This email contains two things:
- Remainder about coming Friday's Meetup
- Announcement of changes introduced in the way Meetups going to be handled

Thank you for all your suggestions you sent to us we continue to improve our meetings introducing the following. Please do not hesitate to write to us in case you see any way to improve the Meetups or have any related questions/suggestions.


Announcement: Introducing a strict time keeping discipline.

As some of our members are quite busy and most of us have families and other commitments, we would like to introduce a bit more strict time keeping during our meetings. The current propose schedule is going to be as follow:

- NETWORKING PART: meet and greet from 5:30pm
- NETWORKING PART: suggest topical discussion from 5:45 pm (industry news, local news etc)
6:00pm
- PRESENTATION PART: starts PROMPTLY at 6:00pm
- PRESENTATION PART: completes at 6:45pm
- PRESENTATION PART: discussion ends PROMPTLY at 7:00pm
7:00pm
- NETWORKING PART: meeting wrapup w/possible other topical discussion (target good blog posts, forum discussions, white papers ...) depending on audience participation/interest
COMPLETE main part at 7:30pm
- NETWORKING PART: interested to have more discussions stay as long as reasonable

This change would let you to make sure that you will not stay on the meeting longer than you planned, meet your other commitments, do more networking and hopefully participate in more meetings than before.

I will be a time keeper for the Friday’s meeting.


Remainder about coming Friday's Meetup:

I would like to remain you that Friday we are having meeting related to Oracle Performance questions. Main presenter is Paul Guerin from Origin Energy. Last time he presented the storage optimization project help the organization save $100k worth of SAN capacity and improve overall system performance by 50%.
Friday he will demonstrate examples that improved performance:
- 25 times less elapsed time.
- 25 times less CPU service time.
- 170 times less I/O.
This became possible because of good understanding on how Oracle works what access paths is better to use.

Please join us this Friday for networking and knowledge sharing session.
As always pizza and beer will support our discussion :)

Yury & Organizers

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