Microsoft invited us to join a first meeting to discuss about the chance of opening a Microsoft Users Group here in Uruguay.
There are thousands of user groups (communities) across different vendors, technologies and lines of businesses.
Microsoft supports the creation of users groups as a way to promote technologies through the community.In today’s meeting, I enjoyed a great time with my partner and a few talented guys from several software companies from Uruguay, representing the top of the software industry here inUruguay - most of them already well known professionals and friends 
While enjoying some snacks we discussed different approaches for achieving this goal. There are a lot of user groups like the Argentina one, and it used to exist one in Uruguay too, a few years ago.
The group objectives would be to share knowledge and experiences with the community (forums, webcasts, blogs), organize live events for discussing about different topics related to our industry and microsoft technologies, or whatever we might think is relevant to share.
I think it is a great idea, but it will require different companies to work together sharing resources, ideas and knowledge, which sometimes is not so easy to achieve in such competitive market.Even when UruIT actually encourages collaboration between companies in our market, I know there might be a few who won’t be interested, but hopefully this won’t be a stopping issue for this great idea.If this idea takes off, I will soon post more information about this Uruguayan Microsoft Users Group (we still need to find a good name 
).
