We hit the ball out of the park with the attendance thanks to cooperative weather & several affiliate groups plus my friend Stacy who was in town on business, all driving new participants to the gathering.  We had 75+ attendees, including 20+ newbies.  Topics of conversation were varied, but included my wife Valerie being present, Stacy and her high schools friends having their own mini-reunion at the same time, the large crowd and how noisy we got, my ever changing hairstyle plus jobs too.  I want to thank all of you for referring our newbies and sending them to our event. Folks like David Kamminga and his IT Tech meetup.com folks, NortonNet, Rebecca, Carla, John, Lisa, Chuck, Todd, Avery, McLean Bible Church and of course Stacy.  We also had a solid percentage of core member’s show up so that really drove the numbers up.  Remember if you invite someone, please try and attend yourself & make sure your guest brings business cards! Checkout the photos http://www.it4dc.com/it4dc.php?page=pics.php on the website & see what a fabulous time we had as well as some of the "newbies" who attended. Additional thanks to Juan (bartender) and the Westin Hotel management team (Olga is now our point of contact) for their hospitality & the wonderful appetizers provided to us. Our next event will be at the Café Montmartre, Lake Anne Plaza, Reston, VA location on Tuesday October 26th. Please invite all the folks you can think of to continue to drive a big turnout and continue 2010 in style and make this year even more successful than 2009! Thank you all for your continued support

Dip Chandra