Hello Everyone!

Just to let you all know we established a SOM committee.

There are 6 members in it:
-- Nuno Pinto do Souto
-- Gary Myers
-- Casey Dyke
-- Paul Guerin
-- Martin & Yury

The goal is to involve SOM members in organizing and improving our events. This is the next step to make the Mettups driven by members and for members. If you do have any suggestion on how to improve our events please do not hesitate to contact any of the committee's members privately or posting suggestions publically.

We had out very first committee meeting last Friday. There are several decisions have been made including the following:
-- Introduce several pools for SOM members get better idea who we are and that topics would be best suitable for our members. Please spend a few seconds answering to those are those are important for further events improving
-- We agreed on following 7 events topics. Therefore you will have more time in advance book the dates of Meetups. I will post those shortly. Please follow out on the web site.
-- We would like involve all members on choosing topics for Meetups and finding possible new presenters. To facilitate it we will introduce a discussion forms threads. Any SOM member would be able to propose or comment on any SOM topic. At the same time if you know any possible presenter for our events you would be able to suggest him via forums.
-- In the future we would like to try to organize remote presentations for SOM members from speakers abroad. This would open a lot more possibilities to involve famous Oracle Experts around the globe to present for us.

SOM committee will gather each 2 months to discuss progress made and planes for future.
We will keep you updated on the further development,

Best possible regards,
Yury