Re: Minimum requirements for user groups.
Re: Minimum requirements for user groups.
- Subject: Re: Minimum requirements for user groups.
- From: Yan Feng <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:12:35 +0800
Apple says you need three leader contacts. We (Beijing Macintosh User Group) have a President (yours truly), a Secretary and a Treasurer. That worked.
You no longer need a minimum of 25 members, although having a group over 25 certain won't hurt.
A generic group email address and a group website are definetely needed.
A history of successful meetings -- this is hard to define. We had a non-meeting or two, but we had more than enough 'public engagements' to sort of 'make up' for meetings. In any case, either pre or post recognition, we've had about a meeting a month in general - the most was December 2002, we had four events (mad!). Basically, if you can show Apple you've had a handful of good meetings, and images and a good summary won't hurt at this point, they may think you are legitimate and let you in.
(At this point I must publicly declare that the information I give are based solely on personal experience. I do not manage the Apple UG programme and at present am not a member of either Apple councils, regional or Advisory Board.)
Membership open to the public - yes, needed.
Newsletter - ideal, it certainly won't hurt if you had one. They're relatively easy to do (unless you're managing our group's. Two languages and nearly 30 pages per issue.)
Hope this helps - don't hesitate to email me or others on the list for more assistance.
Warm regards,
Yan Feng
President - Beijing Macintosh User Group
http://www.beimac.com
email@hidden
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 10:38PM, Ken Jurgensen <email@hidden> wrote:
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Greetings UG friends. Pardon me if this has been covered recently - I
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did a bit of searching and didn't see it. If I go to the Apple site
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for user groups, http://www.apple.com/usergroups/find/answers/, I
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find that the minimum requirements are as follows:
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>What are the minimum requirements for new groups?
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>To be approved as a public user group, you need:
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>Three leader contacts in the database
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>A generic group email address
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>A group website
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>A history of successful meetings
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If I go to the MUG Center site,
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http://www.mugcenter.com/start/start.html, it indicates the following:
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>Apple recognizes three categories of groups, and has different
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>requirements for each:
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>Community groups : at least 25 members, 3 officer contacts, a live
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>web site, a history of meetings, a newsletter (electronic or print),
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>with membership open to the public.
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The requirements don't quite match. The newsletter item is of
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particular interest to our group right now. We are having elections
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tonight, and our current newsletter editor has been nominated for
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program chair. He will not be able to do both. We hope to find a new
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newsletter editor, but if we can't, it appears that according to
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Apple, it is not a requirement. Do others agree with this assessment.
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Furthermore, these requirements seem to pertain to "new" user groups.
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It is not clear that they are ongoing requirements. Thoughts?
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Thanks. Ken.
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