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 (July 08 - June 09)
• 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, 2010 with the following:

• 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 13 newly inducted Premier TUGs:

• Australian IBM Maximo User Group - New South Wales & ACT
• Australian IBM Maximo User Group - South Australia
• Australian IBM Tivoli User Group - Canberra
• BeNeLux Tivoli User Group
• Carolinas Users Group
• Great Lakes Tivoli Security User Group
• India IBM Tivoli User Group - Pune
• Japan Tivoli Users Group(JTUG)
• Maximo User Group - UK
• New York Tivoli Storage Manager User Group
• New Zealand IBM Maximo User Group
• Russian Tivoli User Group
• Swiss Tivoli User Group

Congratulations to all 36 Premier TUGs who qualified for 2009/2010!