User group in Switzerland?

[John Brand]

My company is in the process of extending its usage of EA. Is there a user group in Switzerland? Any interest in starting one?

[Oliver F.]

AFAIK there is none but I wondered why we would want to start one.

IMHO the EA forum here is the largest UG in the world and you can get all help you want from here.

Forgive me of saying this but I have always doubted the usefulness of user groups because I have experienced dozens of groups for a certain topic each with its own web site and information separated from each other.

However you might have some good reasons to ask for it I have not taken into account, in that case I´d be rather interested to hear them.

BTW, what's your location in CH ?

Oliver

[John Brand]

Hi Oliver,
Thanks for the prompt reply. I must admit I have only just joined and am very impressed with what I have just read on using subversion in EA. You may well be right regarding any official user group. At the same time while I have found many books, pdfs, and cds etc., on UML development using EA I have found very little on administration and model management in EA (apart from the UG).
We (SIS in Olten) are looking at using EA across our applications (waterfall and UML) for documentation as well as development. The organisation of projects, packages and use of Version Control could well be critical and my goal was mainly to find and contact other people in Switzerland administering EA to share their experiences and recommendations. That's the best explanation I can give, regards, John

[Oliver F.]

We (SIS in Olten) are looking at using EA across our applications (waterfall and UML) for documentation as well as development. The organisation of projects, packages and use of Version Control could well be critical and my goal was mainly to find and contact other people in Switzerland administering EA to share their experiences and recommendations.

John, I believe this is not only a swiss problem, but a world wide one

If you have specific questions we can discuss them here or point you to the best fitting literature.

BTW, I don´t mind if you post your contact data here but be aware that Google is also indexing this forum, so this is the best way to become a personal spam colloctor

Oliver

[John Brand]

Actually I thought I'd sent a PM back to Oliver!! Obviously pressed the wrong button - I thought old age would slow me down!