Chicago-based Intelestream, an official SugarCRM (News - Alert) partner, has announced the founding of a monthly meet-up group for everything related to SugarCRM.

 

Included on each month's agenda, Intelestream officials say, are "tips and tricks for making the most out of the software, a question and answer session with SugarCRM experts, and the most current information everyone should know about software patches and new releases."

 

From absolute beginner to expert administrator, the meet-up is open to all interested in learning more about SugarCRM. Meetings are free of charge and take place the last Thursday of each month between 12:00 and 2:00 in the afternoon.

 

Registration for the SugarCRM Chicago meet-up group can be found by visiting http://opensource.meetup.com/86/

 

Intelestream is the only authorized SugarCRM partner in Chicago. The company "concentrates on SugarCRM and nothing else," according to company officials.

 

In Ireland IrishDev reported that SugarCRM, fresh off establishing a base in Dublin on Sir John Rogerson's Quay, "have added their support to the Irish Open Source community by sponsoring the Irish Open Source Technology Conference," which will be held from June 18th to 20th.

 

IrishDev reports that John Roberts (News - Alert), CEO of SugarCRM, is an "avid" U2 fan. Roberts participated in the first conference of 2008, the Irish Web Technology Conference in February, delivering a presentation titled "The Global Language of Sharing."

 

At the Irish Open Source Technology Conference, "SugarCRM will be represented by Clint Oram, Co Founder and VP of Open Source Relations, who leads their office in Dublin," IrishDev says, adding that Oram "will discuss how cloud computing, Web platforms, mashups and open source development models, all results of the Web 2.0 world that we live in, are becoming mainstream," and "how open source is being used to access infrastructure through these models and allow users to build SaaS (News - Alert)."

 

Last month SugarCRM announced a new reseller partnership with BT (News - Alert).

 

As part of this new alliance, BT, the British communications provider, will offer its 1.2 million business customers SugarCRM's commercial software products.

 

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