Tired of user group meetings where you answer all the questions? Feel that MacIS is too large for your 40 node Mac network? Then the Apple Network Manager's Association, or ANMA, is a user group for you. ANMA is a group of Macintosh network managers who manage 5-50,000 Macs, and who are looking for peers to share their wisdom, triumphs and failures with. Our meetings generally consist of trading network problem stories looking for solutions and a vendor product demonstration pertaining to networking. Above all, we have a good time doing it! So if this sounds like a group for you, come to one of our meetings in your area. If there isn't one in your area, start a chapter! The more ANMA chapters that there are, the more Apple and the rest of the industry will come to respect, and listen to what we have to say.
Currently, there are three active chapters, the Northwest Chapter in Seattle, Washington; the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter in Palo Alto, California; and SIGNAT in Toronto, Ontario.
For general information, e-mail anma-info@anma.org. In the Bay Area, please contact Bill Woodcock at woody@zocalo.com or woody@applelink.apple.com via e-mail or +1-510-540-8000 voice. In the Seattle and Northwest area, please contact Chuck Goolsbee at goolsbee@tpdinc.com via e-mail or 206-284-1800 voice.
If you are interested in forming an ANMA chapter in your area, this is a 56k archive of documents that can help you get started. Chris Kilbourn coordinates sending hard copies if you need them, and can assist you in tracking down prospective members in your area. Please feel free to contact him about any questions you might have about starting a chapter in your area.
You might want to take a look at the newsletter and minutes from the Bay Area Chapter's FTP site.
Digital Forest provides a Northwest chapter anonymous ftp site at ftp://oak.forest.net/pub/mac/anma also. Look for our electronic newsletter there in PDF format!