September 5th, 2009 marks the First Anniversary of StudioSysAdmins.

In the past year, we've grown to 366 Members - on average - a new member every day!

One of our goals this year was to have meetings in 4 different cities - at the end of this month - we will have reached 3 cities with regular meetings in Los Angeles, Toronto and Vancouver. We almost have enough members in several other cities including London, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, and Sydney. If we continue to increase our membership we should be able to start local meetings in those areas soon. We are still looking to boost our numbers in certain areas of expertise which we currently do not have a large number of Members. We would like to see more Game Companies, Hardware/Software Vendors, as well as, more Technical Directors, Pipeline Developers, Hardware Engineers and Software Developers to help expand the groups insight and knowledge. Please help spread the word to all your colleagues, support contacts and/or customers.

Some more statistics and some goals for next year...

We would like to see more participation on the web site including the sharing of documentation, workflows, and testing, using the on-line FORUMS more (instead of through the distribution lists) so topics are easier to find for future reference, adding more photos of meetings and studios in the GALLERY. and finally if everyone can send in their avatars for the FORUMS it would bring the community together that much more.

If you are interested in joining the group, have any topics and/or suggestions for this web site, future meetings, the group in general or if you are willing to  help sponsor upcoming meetings and/or events please send an e-mail to SignMeUp@StudioSysAdmins.com.

A big THANK YOU to everyone for participating, sponsoring and supporting  the StudioSysAdmins community.