A couple important announcements:

1. Benefitfocus has agreed to become the sole sponsor for the Charleston SC JUG. This has a couple key benefits:
   1. We can now pay a nominal fee for group members who volunteer to present. This fee will be negotiable on a per speaker basis.
   2. We now have a set budget to pull from. Since BF is maintaining ownership of these funds it makes maintenance of the JUG simpler, allowing more administrative time to be shifted to other things, like finding top-notch speakers.
2. The forum is gone.
3. I have added a mailing list plug-in. Click on the link in the top menu to sign up. Once you sign up you will get an email version of each post to the blog.