From The Chair -

I am handing this section over to someone else this time round as I am currently on leave and it is surely time for you to have the chance to hear from others on the hpUG Management Team.

I am grateful to Ian Severn for stepping in to say a few words.



Well now, with the boss away in the desert in Colorado (no he has NOT deserted us!) here’s an opportunity to have a quick review from the Admin and Events Team.  

It is now one year since we moved out of DECpark in Reading to Amen Corner in Bracknell.  Our fears of wondering how we could possibly manage to consolidate the whole of our filing from 3 cabinets and a “storage cage” into 3 drawers were actually un-founded as Angela and I have learned to be more ruthless about answering the question - “Do we REALLY need to keep this for 7 years?”   This is not something that either of us is able to do in our own domestic situations!  We have also learned the need to be more responsible for backing up the hpUG database and the accounts – something we took for granted in Reading.

We have continued to see the hpUG membership grow – our active list has increased to over 1570 (some 21% up on the same period last year).  We have also seen that in recent weeks we have had an increase in the number of attendees at meetings, and over the year an increase in hpUG members taking up discounts on HP Education. Training Courses.  So our financial position has definitely improved.

Equally important is that our working relationships with HP in the UK, EMEA and Corporate world is at an all-time high.  I have also just returned from the European ITUG Conference in Brighton where we were able to share our thoughts with International representatives from the Encompass, ITUG and Vivit User Communities on how best we can serve all users of HP technologies throughout the world irrespective of our “heritage”.  There will be ways that hpUG members will benefit from these collaborations in the coming months.

You will already have received your invitation to tell us more about yourselves and your Companies so that we can better serve you in the future.  Someone will be lucky and will win the Digital Camera and Printer – but in order to be eligible, please return the Survey to us or fill it in on–line by going to www.hpug.org.uk and pressing the “Survey” Button.

Ian Severn (General Manager of hpUG)


The theme for the October EPING is Networking and we hope you enjoy the issue.

Please mail all comments (good or bad) to admin@hpug.org.uk

I look forward to hearing from you.

John Owen
HPUG Chairman


Take a look at our events page for the latest information on forthcoming events:

http://www.hpug.org.uk/index.php?option=com_events&Itemid=45