The Global Tivoli User Community recognizes the following TUGs for their extraordinary contributions to the Tivoli user community. These TUGs have exhibited the following characteristics

• Membership Growth >=25% year to year (June 07 - June 08)
• Frequency of meetings>=2 meetings per year
• Meetings are posted on the TUC site
• Stable and proactive customer leadership
• Constructive meetings (clear and complete agenda layout, use evaluation forms, efficient use of time and meeting room facilities)

The Global Tivoli User Group council wishes to express its appreciation for these TUGs and their hard-working leaders by providing them with a Premier TUC Club membership until July 31, 2009 with the following:

• Four appreciation gifts to raffle off at their meetings
• Tivoli Executive to attend/speak at one of their upcoming meetings.
• Three geography specific group Support Technical Exchanges (STEs) tailored sessions

These groups and leaders strive to create a thriving global community and they are succeeding. We look forward to their continued contributions in the future, and the hope to include more TUGs in this special group as the Global Tivoli Community continues to grow.

We give a special welcome to the following 11 newly inducted Premier TUGs:

• Bay Area Security Tivoli User Group
• Dallas – Fort Worth Tivoli Storage Users Group
• Danish Tivoli User Group
• India IBM Tivoli User Group - Mumbai
• Maximo ITSM User Group
• Maximo Utility Working Group
• Northern California MAXIMO User Group (NorCalMUG)
• Thailand IBM Tivoli User Group - Bangkok
• Tivoli Identity & Access Management –South New England User Group
• Tivoli Users Group – Mainframe – Brasil
• TSM User Group Denmark

Congratulations to all 25 Premier TUGs who qualified for 2008/2009!