NIOUG news…

It is said that all great ideas come at odd times. Well its true in general but at times, it may happen that some ideas are actually carefully thought. And this particular idea actually came up with a constant thought process only.

Oracle community is a very big community. Across the globe, there are millions of users who use Oracle and its massive technology stack. As being an Oracle user myself, I consider me too as a part of this worldwide community. To promote and help lots of newbies , there are lots of efforts done by people around the globe. There has been Oracle Forums where people can come and share their views, issues . There are so many user groups around the globe which help in social networking among the Oracle professionals of that particular region/country to meet up and share ideas and technical knowledge. Some like Eddie Awad has created social network sites also. In short , all this is done to make sure that the new users ( and even the experienced ones too) can get more and more info about Oracle in the terms of its technology stack and with the latest happenings in Oracle sphere.

All said and done, the reality is that most ( or I should say all) of the things are done in the other end of the world. This part of the world, from where I am writing this blog post, is not having that much facilities available. Ironically , this part creates a big chunk of the total pie of oracle users globally. So it always used to push me that there must be some thing done for those areas also where people don’t have much resources. There are so many remote areas where still Oracle means sql and pl/sql only and the most latest version known is either 8i or 9i. There are so many places where its still unknown that Oracle is running Oracle Academy to promote tech education for school children. This was a constant push inside me that there may be many in those areas as well who ,if given a good guidance and support, can do wonders and also can be a very active and helpful future members of this big global family.

As with all the ideas, you always are in doubt that whether its a right or wrong one if you are alone thinking about it. So I shared the same with my friend, Amardeep over the phone one fine evening. He immediately responded , cmm’on man, lets get it done! He is the kind of guy who would not say yes to some thing which he doesn’t want to do from heart, that much I knew about him already. When he gave this enthuastic response, we got the ball rolling and North India Oracle User Group was finally decided.

This was a small note over the history of this group’s genesis. We are constantly working to make this dream come true and give this group to oracle users. I guess this is the first time, any group would be writing a blog too! We truly want this a community based group and that’s why we thought of writing blog which is a more common way to share ideas. I welcome your comments, suggestions and even criticism also here. Do let us know how we can improve this idea in a more better way. And if you are from North India, do contact us if you want to be a part of this effort.

Hope to hear from you guys.

Cheers

Aman….