The Macintosh congregation for all Asia will be reality soon...
Back some time ago, we -- the gang from BeiMac (Beijing, China) --
started a Mac-related content-sharing agreement with MacZone of
Xiamen, south China. We did translations and were quick to do keynote
summarizations and translated summarizations -- which proved to be a
big hit with the Zhonghua Pingmin (i.e. "Mac users of China" in
Chinese).
This was big. The Zhonghua PIngmin liked what we were doing. And one
of these Zhonghua Pingmin found himself in one Taipei City on Ilha
Formosa (aka Taiwan). We soon joined up together and formed an
expanded union where content could be shared from all three sites --
our site, MacZone and the sites in Taiwan.
Some time ago (more recently), we started doing something that moved
beyond national borders. Instead of doing a Mac user union for all of
China, we planned on one for all of Asia-Pacific. Spanning three full
RL chunks -- my bit (Asia), Chise's bit (Japan) and Graeme's bit
(Oceania) -- the idea here is to create a new home that all Mac users
feel at home with (pardon the pun). The idea would be to tie groups,
Mac shops, and other Mac resources together -- in a way that was
never done before. Ideas floating around: an even bigger content
sharing sphere, a common periodical, "home shops", "home MUGs" and
all that.
Asia-Pacific is huge, but Mac-wise, is nothing like the US or Western
Europe (regionally, though, Japan and Australia/NZ could be a bit
more closer to the US or Europe). We're a huge landmass, but we're
not really a Mac continent yet. That's soon to change, though, as I
spread the faith throughout all of China and into the rest of my Asia.
Writing this at 00:18 -- I feel I don't want to fall asleep. This
could be the start of something huge. It has a name -- MacAsia.org,
the Asia-Pacific Macintosh User Union. And its launch will be
heralded shortly after 3 PM on October 21, 2006, with direct iChat AV
links to Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Taipei and other places around China
and Asia.
BeiMac: if you thought we were Beijing-only... think again. ;-)
Wishing everyone a great start to the new week (here, it's Monday
already),
David Feng
BeiMac
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