User Groups

[Al Hart]

I have asked a few people whether SketchUp has user groups.

It may be that user groups are a thing of the past.

In the old days, we used to have user groups which met once a week or once a month over lunch or dinner and a member or guest would giv a presentation about something of interest to the group.

Perhaps, since the internet has taken over the world, user groups have died off.

Does anyone still go to user groups and/or does anyone participate in a user group? (SketchUp or other software/hardware)

If user groups are now longer in the vogue how about a user conference - once a year of so?

[robmoors]

I believe something like a conference already exists:

The Sketchup Basecamp

[Al Hart]

I was looking up the base camp earlier this week while I was thinking about how to get some sort of meeting going.

Here is what I read: http://aecnews.com/news/2006/08/16/1958.aspx

Has anyone heard any news about a base camp in the future

@unknownuser said:

SketchUp 3D Base Camp Drops Off the Radar for 2006

Posted on Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:25 PM

The 2005 SketchUp 3D Base Camp won’t be returning for an encore in 2006.

In a letter today to Base Camp attendees, The Google SketchUp team said “It's not that we don't want to; we just don't have the resources to do it properly.” Given that SketchUp is now owned by a company that harvests money with almost as many zeros as its name suggests, one has to wonder what resources are lacking.

The apology continues:

BaseCamp was such a great experience last year that we were all looking forward to doing it again this fall. Getting the chance to meet everyone, and to have everyone meet each other, was our favorite part of the event. This doesn't mean that there won't be one next year—that's still very much a possibility.

The letter tries to explain what’s keeping the SketchUp team so busy it can’t throw another big party:

Currently, we're working on SketchUp 6 and Grizzly, which some of you might have seen previewed at AIA in Los Angeles in June. We're also trying our hardest to have both platforms available at the same time. Then there are the French, Spanish, Italian, German and Japanese versions of SketchUp 6 that we've got to have ready... Needless to say, we don't have much time to use the pool table in the break room anymore.

If you need a SketchUp 3D Base Camp fix, here’s a list of articles from our coverage last year:

@robmoors said:

I believe something like a conference already exists:

The Sketchup Basecamp