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
I'm definately interested - and Will have a chat with Graeme
(Oceania) tonight at our WelMac meeting here in Wellington NZ. (19:00
UTC+1300).
It has long been a dream of mine to bring the NZ mac users groups
into some cohesive unit. In 2004 we met together, and had some
discussions, but little progress has been made (at least in the
sphere of online interaction/content/resource sharing). It is
definitely time to pick up this ball again, methinks.
At present, from my count - there are 12+ mac users groups in NZ, and
not a lot of official interaction. In part due to "broadband" issues,
but as the (young) VP of WelMac, one of the largest mac users groups
in NZ, I think we can definitely lead the call for change.
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