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

• Membership Growth >=25% year to year (June 06 - June 07)
• Frequency of meetings>=2 meetings per year
• Meetings are posted on the TUG 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 Community wishes to express its appreciation for these TUGs and their hard-working leaders by providing them with a Premier TUG Club membership until July 31, 2008 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 6 newly inducted Premier TUGs:

• Australia & New Zealand IBM Tivoli User Group (TUGANZ) - Sydney
• Austrian GSE Tivoli User Group
• Grupo de Usuarios Tivoli Brasil-GuTiBr (Brazil Tivoli User Group) North Central Tivoli Storage Manager User Group
• Ohio Valley Tivoli User Group
• Tivoli Pacific Northwest Users Group
• TSMUG

Congratulations to all 21 Premier TUGs who qualified for 2007/2008!