[BLU/Officers] FYI: Microsoft is closing its Waltham Office sometime next year

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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True. Any new group would need an active MIT sponsor.  This is true for
some other colleges around here. The reason I sent this is just to give
you a heads-up that we could be asked.
It is interesting that the Virtg group is back at Microsoft. They moved
to IBM/Waltham last year because they had become somewhat
persona-non-grata at MSFT after the VMware guy badmouthed Microsoft
during a virtg meeting.

On 09/13/2011 08:39 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> MIT has some strict rules about user groups. We're grandfathered in,
> so BLU is exempt from the active alumni requirement, but that exemption
> isn't available for "new" groups, as we discovered back when I tried to
help
> Martin Owens' Ubuntu group find a new meeting space.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
>>
> Essentially, they will be moving to One Cambridge Center so they are
> near the NERD Center.
>
> Microsoft Sales, Marketing & Services Teams to Join R&D Groups in Cambridge
>
> While this does not affect us, some groups might want to ask us for our
> contacts at MIT.

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