by Saundra (Sandy) Foderick, Editor | May 16, 2010 | Group Milestones
This month’s milestones include two groups who first met as early as 1978. Happy anniversary to some of our oldest groups and a few newer ones too! Want to see your group listed? Send an email with date and year to ugbeditor@me.com.
May 1978 – Houston Area Apple Users Group
http://www.haaug.org
(Congrats to Apple User Group Advisory Board member Rex Covington and members of HAAUG.)
May 1978 – Louisville Computer Society
(Formerly Louisville Apple Users Group)
http://www.kymac.org/
May 1984 – New Orleans Macintosh User Group (NOMUG)
http://www.nomug.org/NOMUG/Welcome.html
May 1984 – MacPeople – Gainsville Macintosh Users Group
http://www.macpeoplemug.org
May 1984 – Portland Macintosh Users Group
http://www.pmug.org
(Greetings to Ambassador Charles DeVore and members of PMUG.)
May 1984 – Princeton Macintosh Users’ Group
http://www.pmug-nj.org
(Co-founded by Philip Thompson, father of User Group Advisory Board member Elsa Travisano)
May 1985 – MacValley Users Group
http://www.macvalley.org
(Greetings to Ambassador Ray Boston.)
May 1989 – Main Line Macintosh Users Group
http://www.mlmug.org
(Greetings to Ambassador Moe Comeau, Apple User Group Liaison Maria Arguello and members of MLM.)
May 1998 – Caracas Macintosh Users Group
http://www.caracasmug.org
(Sending a warm hello to Apple User Group Regional Liaison Julio Ohep, past President Amaya Gergoff and members of Caracas MUG.)
May 1999 – MacLaw
http://www.maclaw.org
(Congrats to Rob Blau, Ted Burton and members.)
by Saundra (Sandy) Foderick, Editor | May 16, 2010 | Group Milestones
This month’s milestones include two groups who first met as early as 1978. Happy anniversary to some of our oldest groups and a few newer ones too! Want to see your group listed? Send an email with date and year to ugbeditor@me.com.
May 1978 – Houston Area Apple Users Group
http://www.haaug.org
(Congrats to Apple User Group Advisory Board member Rex Covington and members of HAAUG.)
May 1978 – Louisville Computer Society
(Formerly Louisville Apple Users Group)
http://www.kymac.org/
May 1984 – New Orleans Macintosh User Group (NOMUG)
http://www.nomug.org/NOMUG/Welcome.html
May 1984 – MacPeople – Gainsville Macintosh Users Group
http://www.macpeoplemug.org
May 1984 – Portland Macintosh Users Group
http://www.pmug.org
(Greetings to Ambassador Charles DeVore and members of PMUG.)
May 1984 – Princeton Macintosh Users’ Group
http://www.pmug-nj.org
(Co-founded by Philip Thompson, father of User Group Advisory Board member Elsa Travisano)
May 1985 – MacValley Users Group
http://www.macvalley.org
(Greetings to Ambassador Ray Boston.)
May 1989 – Main Line Macintosh Users Group
http://www.mlmug.org
(Greetings to Ambassador Moe Comeau, Apple User Group Liaison Maria Arguello and members of MLM.)
May 1998 – Caracas Macintosh Users Group
http://www.caracasmug.org
(Sending a warm hello to Apple User Group Regional Liaison Julio Ohep, past President Amaya Gergoff and members of Caracas MUG.)
May 1999 – MacLaw
http://www.maclaw.org
(Congrats to Rob Blau, Ted Burton and members.)
by Saundra (Sandy) Foderick, Editor | Mar 7, 2010 | Group Milestones
March sees groups whose first meeting convened as long ago as March of 1979, showing that when Apple groups have a good thing going it lasts.
Visit these web sites to see the members and activities that contribute to their longevity and success.
1979 AUSOM Incorporated
http://www.ausom.net.au
(Congrats to Nicholas Pyers and members of this vibrant and long standing group.
1982 Lockheed Martin Macintosh Users Group
http://www.lmmug.org
(Hello to President Todd Ferguson and Lockheed members whose dedication is amazing.)
1984 Apple Users Group of Canterbury Inc.
http://www.appleusers.co.nz/index.htm
(Best wishes to President Nigel Cooper and members.)
1985 MacBruger
http://www.appleusers.co.nz/index.htm
(Congratulations to Karen Seirson and members.)
1985 Nashville Mac Users
http://www.macusers.com
(Sending a country shout out for their 25 years of service.)
1987 Hong Kong Macintosh User Group
(Be sure to check out the video on their home page!)
http://www.hkmug.org.hk/
(Happy anniversary to Chairman Blanco Siu, Vice Chairman Hason Pang and members.)
1991 TEAM Francophone
http://www.teamfr.be
(A warm hello to President Olivier Maissin, VP Benoît Squelin, Secretary Vincent Dupont, Treasurer Luc Viatour, Guy Robben and Thierry Ligot.)
1994 Santa Fe Macintosh User Group
http://www.santafemug.org
(Many thanks to President Giuseppe Quinn for this tip!)
2008 Aperture Users Professional Network
http://apertureprofessional.com/
(Greetings to Ambassador David Schloss.)
by ugabadmin | Dec 13, 2009 | Group Milestones
This month’s column includes a group who first met in 1978.
Happy anniversary to a worldwide list of some of our oldest groups.
Want to see your group listed? Send an email with date and year to ugbeditor@mac.com
1978 Apple Macintosh Users’ Group (Sydney)
http://homepage.mac.com/sydamug
1981 Hartford User Group Exchange
http://www.huge.org
(Greetings to President George Carbonell and members of HUGE.)
1984 appleJAC Macintosh Users Group
http://www.applejac.org
(Greetings to Apple User Group Advisory Board member Tom Piper and the members of appleJAC.)
2001 The Mount Dora Macintosh Users Group
http://www.mdmug.com
(Thanks to MDMUG President Allen Kalka for this tip.)
2007 Kachemacs Macintosh User Groups
http://www.kachemacs.net
(Thanks to President Diane Peterson for this tip.)
by ugabadmin | Oct 20, 2009 | Group Milestones
This month’s column includes the Apple Blossom Computer Club: four members started a club in 1981 and one has been a member ever since. Happy anniversary to a worldwide list of some of our oldest groups.
1977
AppleRock
http://www.applerock.org/
(Greetings to President Joan Paletti.)
1979
Apple-Q Inc
http://www.apple-q.org.au
(Congratulations to President Bob Irwin and Apple-Q members.)
1981
Apple Blossom Computer Club
http://abccmug.org/
1984
dBug – Seattle Mac User Group
http://www.dbug.org
1984
North Coast Mac Users Group (CA)
http://www.ncmug.org
(Greetings to President Lorene Romero and NCMUG members.)
1984
Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society
http://www.tums.org
1984
Victoria Macintosh Users Group
http://www.vmug.bc.ca
(Greetings to Apple User Group Regional Liaison Christian Coll, President Dave Traynor and VMUG members.)
1984
Yakima Area Macintosh Users (MacYac)
http://www.macyak.org
1984
The Bay Area Macintosh User Group of West Central Florida
http://www.BAMCentral.org
(Thanks to Cheryl Smeed for this tip.)
1985
Silicon Mountain Macintosh User Group
http://www.smmug.org
(Congratulations to President Mark Griffith, Webmaster Ralph Woodard, Apple User Group Board member Lynn Poos and the wonderful folk at SMMUG.)
1991
Rheintaler Macintosh User Group (REMUG)
http://www.remug.org/
(Greetings to President Martin Hilber and REMUG members.)
1992
Macintosh Business Users Society of Greater Philadelphia
http://www.macbus.org
(Hi to President Chris Urban, VP Irv Herzog and members.)
1999
Oregon MacPioneers User Group (Omug)
http://homepage.mac.com/ydkm/
(Greetings to former Apple User Group Regional Liaison and OMUG President Steve Welsh.)
2002
AppleSeeds
http://www.apple-seeds.org/
(Thanks to President Julie Burwood for this tip.)
2007 DC Final Cut Pro User Group
http://www.dcfcpug.org
(Thanks to ambassador and leader Rodney Mitchell for this tip.)
by Elsa Travisano | Sep 21, 2009 | Group Milestones
This month’s column includes three groups who first met in 1979. Happy anniversary to a worldwide list of some of our oldest groups. Want to see your group listed? Send an email with date and year to
ugbeditor@mac.com.
1979 Houston Area Apple Users Group
http://www.haaug.org/
1979 AppleCore of Memphis, Inc.
http://www.memphisapplecore.com
1979 South Australian Apple Users’ Club Inc.
http://www.saauc.org.au
(Congrats to President Grant Ward and members of SAAUC.)
1984 Sierra Nevada Apple User Group
http://www.SNAG.org
(Greetings to SNAG Ambassador and former Apple User Group Advisory Board member Del Missier.)
1985 Mountain View Computer Users Group
http://www.mvcug.org
(Thanks to MVCUG President and Macworld pro John Buono for this tip.)
1986 SaskMUG (of Saskatchewan, Canada–formerly SAUCE)
http://www.saskmug.org/
1989 Prescott Mac User Group (Arizona)
http://www.pmug.us
1992 History and Macintosh Society
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~mac/
(Greetings to Board member Marc Bizer.)
1995 MacApple Users of San Antonio
http://homepage.mac.com/macappleusers/
1999 Rome Owners of Apple Macintosh
http://www.roam.it
