Group Office: File Locking and Version Control

Group Office has proven itself to be immensely useful to me, for chapter activities, for document development and as a source of some of the more obscure or perhaps just time pertinent material. (If you’re running a conference you’ll really appreciate it !) One thing not commonly shown is how to have a configuration controlled document, edited sequentially by a group of people. There is a locking feature used to maintain control while you are editing the document. Along with the file version viewing capability, document editions are maintained as properties of the single document name to keep your group office space nice and tidy. See: Group Office Landing Page and scroll down to “File Locking and Version Control”

Successful Conference Planning Meeting in Hamburg

The European Chapter host committee has selected an excellent venue for SAWE’s 79th International Conference. We’re very excited to share the charm, ambiance, and hospitality of the Privathotel Lindtner at the conference next May. It’s a beautiful facility, has great meeting room accommodations, and the food is amazing.

The Executive Committee was represented on site by President-John Hargrave, Executive Director-Bill Boze, and Senior VP-Errol Oguzhan. In addition VP Technical-Robert Zimmerman, VP Internet-Greg Ray, Executive VP-Clint Stephenson, and Financial Chairman-Fred Brown supported via Zoom Telecom.

This meeting was held Saturday, Sep 28th at the conference hotel site. It was a full day of event planning, facilities tour, schedule coordination, and budget planning. It was hard work, but the result is a fantastic SAWE Conference experience for you next May. Make your plans now to attend and follow the announcements on SAWE.org for more details.

On Monday Bill, Errol, and John were invited by Kim Mittler to address the Airbus mass properties group about SAWE.  The meeting was a great opportunity to meet additional mass properties engineers and to discuss benefits and activities of SAWE membership.

Pictured from left to right are: Werner Sellner, Sebastian Herda, Kim Mittler, Dirk Petersen, Claudia Rosenberger, John Hargrave, Georg Garbers, Errol Oguzhan, Bill Boze, and Ruben Gonzalez

Left to right. John Hargrave, Ruben Gonzalez, Errol Oguzhan, Werner Sellner, Claudia Rosenberger, and Bill Boze.