Re: User Groups, Unite!
Re: User Groups, Unite!
- Subject: Re: User Groups, Unite!
- From: Emilie Unkrich <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:35:39 -0400
Bravo, Paul!
Wonderful intention that you beautifully actualized.
With Care,
Emilie
On Sep 10, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Paul Richards wrote:
Hiya.
I'd like to quickly share a very pleasant experience I had today.
Another senior member of my MUG and I spent several hours with two
volunteers from our local PC user group at a large table in a
nearby mall. We had a banner across the front promoting Central New
York Computer User Groups, running presentations of our groups on
laptops, handing out literature, answering questions, and generally
having fun together. Our local Linux UG was supposed to be there
too, and were listed on the banner along with us, but they didn't
show. That didn't stop us from sending people who asked about a
Linux group towards that group's website. There was no platform
bashing, not even in jest. It was a total cooperative event and a
success in everyone's view. We didn't have a tremendous response
but enough that we were very pleased with it as an early public
effort. We are already tossing around a few changes for the next one.
This is only the latest of several joint programs we have been
involved in together. We have invited each other to meetings with
topics of cross platform interest. We have put on presentations at
each other's groups. We have held joint strategy meetings to figure
out how to use our combined strength to make user groups a better
experience for everyone in Central New York State. Most of the
mingling is still at the leadership level, but it's a start. It
shows that, whatever the platform, we're in this for the same
purposes.
Paul Richards, Ambassador
Syracuse Macintosh Users Group
Syracuse, NY, USA
http://www.iSMUG.com
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Emilie Unkrich
Vice President NEOAC
Editor, Apple Bits
www.neoac.org
August 2005 Issue of Apple Bits here: http://neoac.org/bits/05aug.pdf
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