Happy New Year to All GVSUG Members and Blog Lurkers!

On Wednesday October 17th, GVSUG had our fall meeting at the RIT Inn and Conference Center at 3:00pm. Over 30 people came to see our key note presentation: Introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 for Statistical Analysis given by Charles Hallahan from the USDA Economic Research Service department. After his talk and some audience participation, we had some giveaways as well as an informal networking session in the hospitality room, along with food and drink.

When we resumed, Joseph Guido from the University of Rochester Medical Center gave a talk on Guido’s Guide to PROC FREQ: Enterprise Guide Edition. We had a small break to give away some more prizes, then we held out GVSUG Annual Executive Committee Elections. All executive committee officer positions were filled with the same people, and our executive committee at large positions welcomed one new member–Adam Rains–and said goodbye to one of our longtime members–Steve LaLonde. Thank you, Steve, for all of your help. We finished up with 2 Tips and Tricks Sessions. Both were on Enterprise Guide & SAS Learning Edition. Steve LaLonde started it off talking about the SAS Learning Edition, what is included, and what can and can’t be done with it. Michael Tomb wrapped it up talking about shell extensions.

After the meeting ended, a few members had a SAS’n'Suds get-together at the RIT Inn and Conference Center in-house restaurant with our key note speaker, Charlie.

Please keep coming back to the GVSUG website to get updated information on what we are doing and when our next meeting will be. Feel free to drop us a line and tell us what you would be interested in seeing for this year’s meetings.