10th Anniversary!
Thank you for making Our Combined Anniversary/Holiday/Christmas Party/get-together a joyous event!!!
✥ Our/HCCUG.org 10th Anniversary/Holiday/Christmas Party ✥ Houston Google Cloud UG's 1st Anniversary/Holiday Party
Proud of our diverse Houston TEXAN Cloud Community ...
age, gender, race & ethnicity, beliefs, technologies & experience, etc.SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR VETERANS WHO ATTENDED ... OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS WITH THOSE WHO COULD NOT!!!
Shout out to our friends from Houston C++ User Group, especially those who took time to RSVP!
Here's a sampling of few photos ...
Artwork, compliments of our very own Artist, Marie Gonzales
Heart of Texas Menu: Beef Brisket, Chili Stew, Three Bean Salad, with all the fixings :-)
Custom Specialty Menu for those with allergies and dietary restrictions:
2 types of Japanese Noodles, Japanese Egg Fried Rice, Japanese Eggless/Vegetarian Fried Rice, and Indo-Chinese Kosher/Halal Chicken, with white/brown/dark chocolate marble cake and a goody-bag to-go :-)
... a little something/goody-bag to take home some of the sweetness & fun ... with GDG Stickers
Here's wishing each of us make our loved ones feel even more valued during this season of giving!
Gist of what we did in 2018
... so y'all know what we achieved together in our Decade-1 :-)
Celebrating our 10th year (2008 to 2018)
with 1K+ members & counting — gradually rolling out new benefits, such as:
✥ 2018: Launched New Google Cloud meetup.com/Houston-GOOGLE-Cloud-User-Group (a.k.a., Houston GDG Cloud on Google)
✥ 2018: Launched New Sponsorship program (extremely limited slots/availability)… SPONSOR registration/sign-up (click-here)
✥ 2018: Launched New site (this one) with quite some Member-only benefits/programs, .
Thanks to Microsoft for providing us venue all these years until we decided to move in Dec2018:
HCCUG.org @ Microsoft Technology Center, 750 Town and Country Blvd #1000, Houston, TX 77024
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THANKS to our Sponsors YOU have "no-charge" events with refreshments
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2018 Event Sponsors
Sep-26: Talend … seamlessly integrates with AWS, Microsoft, Google, Snowflake, and more
Aug-22: Hybrid Decisions Corp … played a part of the birth & growth of Microsoft's Cloud (Azure & Office 365)
Jul-25: Microsoft … special-event: combined with AzureHouston
Jun-27: Hybrid Decisions Corp … played a part of the birth & growth of Microsoft's Cloud (Azure & Office 365)
May-23: Cloudreach … one of the fastest growing European companies making headway in the US
Apr-25: Snowflake … the first UNICORN company of 2018 with the first EDW DB built for the cloud
Mar-28: Canonical … the makers of Ubuntu Linux
Feb-28: Zerto … a Single "IT Resiliency" Platform across 350+ clouds (incl., Azure, and AWS )
Jan-24: Google … Productivity/GTD with Google's NEW G-Suite … click here to get your own NEW Google G-Suite
… more info on Past Events page
Key Sponsors ~ since 2008:
~ Houston: for providing us with the venue (and even free parking at their old/previous Houston location)
~ Redmond: for providing us with speakers, preview-content, etc.
~ for Google Apps/G-Suite (e.g., website, email, YouTube with live-stream, and even phone number)
~ for increasing support, resulting in us launching/running the new meetup.com/Houston-Google-Cloud-User-Group …
Hybrid Decisions Corp (Founding Patron)
~ our founding and sole sponsor for everything else since 2008 …
We encourage our members to enjoy …
Note: We are NOT paid by any of the following to list their events
▹ Google Cloud Community via Houston Google Cloud User Group on Meetup.com
This is another community effort run by HCCUG.org. We run this in conjunction with Google. Our group is listed on Google's Cloud Community meetup listings (a.k.a Houston GDG Cloud)