Laura Wingerd (Perforce Technical Director) during her presentation.
The first Perforce German User Group meeting took place:
| Date: | Friday 28th November, 2003 |
| Location: | TUI InfoTec GmbH & Co KG Karl-Wiechert-Allee 4 D 30625 Hannover Germany |
The meeting was a great success with 27 participants in total from all over Germany. It was great to have Laura flying in from the US and Tony and Robert over from the UK.
Laura Wingerd (Perforce Technical Director) during her presentation.
The schedule was (see links for presentations):
| 9:00 | Welcome/coffee |
| 9:30 | Introductions (by all participants) - a few minutes per person introducing themselves/company/use of Perforce/questions they would like to discuss |
| 10:00 | Presentation by Tony Smith - Perforce's UK support team leader (covering upcoming releases and answering some technical questions) |
| 11:00 | Break/coffee |
| 11:15 | Presentation by Ralf Martin (Harman Becker) on server performance and logfile analysis (P4GLA) |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | Presentation by Laura Wingerd (Perforce Technical Director) - "container based SCM (advanced branching)" |
| 14:00 | Break/coffee |
| 14:15 | Presentation by co-organiser Ralf Oyen (TUI InfoTec) on TUI's SCM processes |
| 15:00 | Break/coffee/cakes ;-) |
| 15:15 | Roundtable discussion on areas of interest/sharing of information |
| 16:15 | Break/coffee |
| 16:30 | Continuation of Roundtable discussion |
| 17:30 | End |
We had dinner together in the evening at a local restaurant (sponsored by Perforce), and indeed some of us had met up the previous evening.
There was be no charge for attending the event itself (participants paid for their own travel and accommodation costs). The venue facilities were kindly sponsored by TUI Infotech.
Lunch and dinner were kindly sponsored by Perforce.