Meeting Minutes

      

Date:                September 13, 2001
Time:                9:00 am – 3:00 pm   MST
Location:           Colorado Springs Utilities East Service Center

Robyn Myers started the meeting, which had approximately 32 attendees.

Dave Amen of Kastle Consulting presented the new ROMLUG web site, which will hold future meeting directions and agendas along with other information. Please view that site frequently!

 

Deidra Walker of Denver Public Schools described the process toward getting Non-profit status for the Rocky Mountain Lawson User Group. She passed around a chart showing the 10 steps involved in the start, along with the annual committments required to keep the status intact. It requires a formal mission and goals, financial statements, by-laws, trade name registration, etc. along with annual filings of state and federal forms. 

The purpose of the Non-profit Status is to allow the group to collect funds to be used for the following when members and vendors are unable to donate them:
   - Room(s) sufficiently large to hold the growing number of attendees
   - Rental equipment
   - Meals
   - Administrative expenses

Lunch, provided by Midwest Technologies and Kastle Consulting, consisted of Southwest pasta - marinated chicken in a mild salsa served on a bed of fettuccini topped with melted jack cheese (makes your mouth water, doesn't it).

 

Rhonda Schuler, the Lawson National Training Manager, talked about upcoming training classes and other Lawson information:
   - With sufficient demand, Denver may open a training location.
   - Price raised to $550 per day (ROMLUG attendees can still register for $500 per day).
   - Technology classes cost $825 per day.
   - XML will become the standard front end for Lawson applications.
   - Web-based training has no charge at the moment - use it while it's free!
   - 7.x ==> 8.x upgrades are now available - these are the upgrade paths:
          - 7.2.3 ==> 8.0.1
          - 7.2.4 ==> 8.0.2
      Recommend upgrading to 7.2.4 and then going to 8.0.2.
   - See the course catalog for Webcast classes - typically 1 hour at $100 each.
   - CUE 2002 is April 21-24, 2002 in Austin, TX. Fly to Austin and drive if cheaper.
   - View Rhonda's PowerPoint presentation for Training Services Information (54K).
   - View her second set of slides for Recent Lawson Communications (442K).

Kitty Brozinski, Lawson Healthcare client manager for the Midwest, talked about the Global Support Center:
   - Clients need to understand the procedures in order to effectively use the GSC.
   - Download and read the Global Support Manual.
   - Example: non-critical (priority 3) means that GSC has 3 days to respond (did you know that?).

 

Tom Francen of Midwest Technologies presented a Lawson add-on tool: LAPAGE. Based on user defined events in Lawson, LAPAGE can page or send an e-mail to notify appropriate parties that a Lawson job ran, or failed, etc. View this and other useful tools at www.midtechcorp.com. His other products include LALOG and LAMOBILE.