The group is in need of sponsors from local businesses.  It is prefered that the business is related to the IT industry, but is not required at this point.  A sponsor for the night will provide the meal and possibly a door prize.  Since the most members to not have business cards, the drawing a business card from a jar raffle is discouraged.  In exchange for sponsoring, they will have up to 10 minutes to market their business to the group at the beginning of the meeting, as well converse before and after the meeting.  The sponsor will not be given access to the user database to email the users afterwards. 

Any member that secures a sponsor will have first pick of the Cisco Press books available that night.