2.  Hubowner’s group led by hubzero team met monthly in person and online.  Pro: hubzero team led the effort and organized presentations  Pro: Consistent meeting time  Pro: Access for offsite members  Pro: Hubzero developers attended and answered questions.

3.  Con: Meetings were too frequent for busy participants  Con: Poor attendance led to low exchange of new ideas  Con: Topics were chosen by experts and not members of the community

4.  Let’s try and start a new Hub owner/manager/user group  Share new developments  Find common goals  Share tools, tutorials and lessons learned  Find opportunities to collaborate on new projects

5.  Who: ◦ Who are we? Hub owners, hub managers, hub users or all of the above?  What and Why: ◦ What do we want to accomplish? Is there anything in particular you are interested in?  When: ◦ What frequency of meetings would meet your needs? (Monthly, Quarterly, by Academic Term (3 times a year), semi-annual)  Where: ◦ Do we want to meet in person, online, both?

6.  http://hubzero.org/groups/hubowners http://hubzero.org/groups/hubowners  ambessenbacher@purdue.edu ambessenbacher@purdue.edu