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TEAMOS2: IBM TEAMOS2 & User Group Relations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terry C. Hamilton)
Thu Apr 18 18:26:09 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 18 Apr 1996 21:30:44 GMT
From: tch@ibm.net (Terry C. Hamilton)
Reply-To: teamers@ibm.net
Reply-to: teamers@ibm.net
Submitted by: tch@ibm.net (Terry C. Hamilton)
Source: tch@ibm.net
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Subject: Team OS/2 Relations and PC User Group Support
Date: April 15, 1996
Hi. I'm pleased to report that IBM will continue its support of Team OS/2
activity in North America for 1996. IBM will also support PC user groups and
OS/2 special interest groups in 1996.
IBM has a long history of supporting PC User Group activity, and we are
committed to supporting this user community. IBM will continue to request
invitations to present IBM software to user group members, and provide
evaluation software for user group newsletters. We will sponsor user group
officer events such as APCUG/Spring Comdex in Chicago June 1-5, and
Intergalactic June 15. Our team looks forward to meeting many of you at these
events, and welcomes E-mail from all user group members who seek IBM
information.
IBM appreciates the grassroots marketing and support efforts of Team OS/2. IBM
appreciates what Team OS/2 has accomplished for OS/2, and would very much like
to see that enthusiastic support for the product continue. Teamers who hold
OS/2 demonstrations will continue to receive materials for events from IBM.
The support staff will do more to communicate information from IBM to Team
OS/2, using mailing lists and echoes to publish this information. We'll take
Teamer requests and concerns back to IBM. And we'll encourage Teamers to help
fellow Teamers in promoting and supporting OS/2. With the upcoming beta of
Merlin, we want to have Teamers help make the new version of Warp as
successful as possible.
A four person team will be responsible for this activity. Anita Venable,
Arylnn Poczynek, Richard Woolsey, and Terry Hamilton will act as the support
group for both Team OS/2 and PC User Groups.
Over the next few weeks, we'll be putting up a set of Web pages with more
information. We'll start collecting information on Merlin and let you know
where and when to obtain it. And we'll keep sending support packages out when
requested.
To contact us, you can start by sending E-mail:
Team OS/2: teamers@ibm.net
PC User Groups: ibmpcug@ibm.net
We will monitor newsgroups such as comp.org.usergroup.* and alt.org.team-os2.
We are creating a mailing list for Team OS/2 Relations, at the following
address:
teamplan-l@teamos2.org
Our Internet web pages:
Team OS/2: www.teamos2.org/ibm
PC User Group: www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/ibmpcug.html
We'll post information here on a regular basis over the next few weeks,
directing you to more resources as they come on-line.
Grassroots marketing - successful grassroots marketing - will be critical to
IBM's success with OS/2 Warp. It's our hope that user groups and Team OS/2
will find new ways to help users of OS/2, and encourage others to try OS/2
Warp.
Keep in touch,
Anita Venable
Arylnn Poczynek
Richard Woolsey
Terry Hamilton
Team OS/2 Relations at IBM
IBM PC User Group Support
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Terry Hamilton tch@ibm.net torvm3(thamilto)
TEAM OS/2 Relations teamers@ibm.net Phone:416-299-3410
IBM User Group Support ibmpcug@ibm.net Fax:512-838-9821
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