DNUG Needs Support from Commercial Companies (Score 1)

I am one of the leaders for the Dallas .NET Users Group (http://ddnug.net). We would never have been able to get on our feet were it not for the 'Commercial' companies that sponsored the group. Our number one goal is to make the user group free to all members. We have pizza and drinks at each meeting, and facilities provided by the same corporate sponsors that got us up and running. We provide advertising space to our sponsors in return for their donations. We allow a brief 'marketing' explanation at the beginning of a meeting for the sponsors to get their money's worth. I have not heard one member complain about the way we run the group so far. Either this is because they are happy with our structure, or their mouths are too full of sponsor provided pizza to comment.