Christina, It was a pleasure to finally get to meet you at the MWSUG conference. From your blog entry, I see that you got to absorb some of that 'tribal' feeling that so many users only get to experience at the multiple-day regional meetings. I've been fortunate to experience at SGF, as well, but for most I would think that can only happen at the regionals. As one of those who always volunteers for numerous tasks at both SGF, the regionals, as well as with my local user group, I'm encouraged by your comment that SAS is not eliminating support for the regionals. The only point I disagree with is that "the customers' landscape is changing". Expanding, yes, and definitely local meetings are an essential element. And, if users don't have them available, I think that it would benefit SAS to facilitate their creation. But one-day local meetings can never provide the full collection of benefits that the regionals provide. I just raised the same topic with our customer relations' folks at SAS Canada. We have great one-day local meetings across the country but haven't, as yet, had a single regional meeting.