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At the beginning of December I will be travelling to the beautiful city of Bruges in Belgium to take part in the GroupWiseR Summit. GroupWiseR is a initiative that was started by a bunch of enthusiastic GroupWise consultants across Europe, including Erno de Korte from the Netherlands. I currently count 25 hands-on sessions that you can attend, delivered by 25 speakers from Novell and partners:

• Cobus Burgers - GroupWise Bonsai - Collaboration Redefined
• Tim Heywood & David Baldry - Making Teaming + Conferencing Workflow work
• Diethmar Rimser & Arnaud Delin - Getting Things Done - How to Enable your GroupWise Power Users
• Tim Draper & Tommy Mikkelsen - Advanced Workshop on GroupWise Web Services (SOAP/XML)
• Sander van Vugt & Patrick Frontéri - Clustering GroupWise on pure Linux
• Jan-Arie Snijders - Advanced Troubleshooting with Novell Support
• Diethmar Rimser - Diving deep into Outlook - Can it get any better?
• Denis de Wit & Peter Reck - M+Archive in Real Live - Building a Customer Case
• Matt Hillier & Ancel Schouwink - Expand Your Vision! GroupLink's everything HelpDesk not just for I.T.
• Uli Neumann & Uwe Krause - Your World at your Fingertips - Redline 3
• Stéphane Zanoni & Aldo Zanoni - How Omni Can Really Make Your GroupWise Rock
• Mark Pletsch & Tariq Tahir - Beyond BlackBerry Enterprise Server Quick Start Edition
• Václav *am*a - Advanced Usage of eDirectory with GroupWise
• Tim Draper & Tommy Mikkelsen - Understanding GroupWise Web Services (SOAP/XML Protocol)
• Tim Heywood & David Baldry - Keeping Novell Teaming + Conferencing in Good Shape
• Cobus Burgers & Johan van Zyl - Connect Novell Teaming to GroupWise DMS using SOAP
• Denis de Wit - M+Guardian - Troublefree SPAM + AV protection
• Uwe Krause & Uli Neumann - From Now to Eternity - GroupWise Archiving and Compliance with Retain
• Svetlin Petrov & Tim Heywood - Installing & deploying Novell Teaming + Conferencing
• Danita Zanrè & Stéphane Bullou - GroupWise Mobile Server on Linux - Way to Go!
• Danita Zanrè & Patrick Frontéri - Upgrading to GroupWise Bonsai
• Paul van der Cruyssen - Freeware Tools for the GroupWise Administrator
• Svetlin Petrov - Deploying GroupWise Bonsai on Linux
• Paul van der Cruyssen - GroupWise Backup & Restore - Quick & Easy?
• Suresh Seth - Make GroupWise Mobile Server shine with Nokia Modules

If you have not been to one of these before it is well worth the trip - it is a small event, 75 attendees and 25 speakers, which means that you get a lot of one-on-one time with the experts. And of course, it is in Bruges, which is about my favorite city in the world. Like Venice, only less smelly.