Welcome,  

The Seven Hills Regional User Group for GIS (SHRUG) is “…an alliance of multi-discipline GIS Professionals and users focused in the Tallahassee regional area… organized… to promote and support the use of GIS…”.  The Seven Hills Regional Usergroup for GIS (SHRUG) would like to invite you and your company to attend and participate in the 3rd Annual SHRUG GIS Workshop.  Last year’s workshop attracted approximately 400 GIS professionals from governmental agencies, educational institutions, and private companies.  In addition, participants were not only from the immediate Tallahassee area, but we are growing to include representatives from other areas of Florida as well as Georgia and Alabama.  Still in our grassroots years, soon we will have enough participants to call the SHRUG GIS Workshop a Southeast United States Region Workshop. 

Plans are underway for the 3rd Annual SHRUG GIS Workshop.  We are already working on improving all aspects of the 2003 SHRUG GIS Workshop: number of attendees, number of exhibitors and sponsors, and number of sessions/presentations as well as such items as a new improved system for the distribution of the attendee contact information for the exhibitors/sponsors and new social events.  As GIS expands and the number of users and applications increase, it is presumed that in the future everyone’s day-to-day life will include GIS.  Therefore, we have chosen the 2004 Workshop theme to be “Mapping Our Future”. 
The workshop will take place at the Leon County Civic Center, November 15 – 18,
with training taking place on November 15, 16 & 19.

To succeed in the workshop’s growth, we will be inviting a larger number of sponsors and vendors to be part of the event.   Opportunities available for 2004 are: