Brief update from Beijing, China
Brief update from Beijing, China
- Subject: Brief update from Beijing, China
- From: "David Feng (馮岩)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:25:30 +0800
Hi all,
And you thought we were satisfied with a 1,288% meeting participation
increase...! ;-) (It's only funny if it's familiar: our user group
experienced a 1,288% meeting participation increase for Jan-Jun 05
meetings versus Jan-Jun 04 meetings.)
BeiMac is cloning itself. And expanding. We have formed the Beijing
Macintosh Union (nothing to do with the previous MUG which we ran
under the same name for a short, unhappy, brief period in 2004). The
Union is now an umbrella organisation. Meanwhile, the Beijing
Macintosh User Group is now in the Union. Administratively speaking,
the BeiMac Group is now bound by BeiMac Union rules as well as its
own Constitution. In return for this, the BeiMac Group gets to share
even more resources.
BeiMac is also launching China's very first iPod user group. The
Beijing iPod User Group will be launched on October 15, 2005. Our
friends at Apple China are in the mood to make the launch a big one,
and have offered -- thanks, guys! -- the largest meeting room on
Apple China's Beijing office. BeiPod (as it will be known) will be in
the BeiMac Union too.
We have also separated our newsletter and our library to become
individual members in the BeiMac Union. This way, we avoid
duplicating content (two books, one for BeiMac, and one for BeiPod)
and we open up our rich resources to even more people. Previously,
you had to have a BeiMac User Group Official Membership to access the
library (scary requirements!). Now, though, you just need to grab a
BeiMacPass.
And speaking of the BeiMacPass -- we are doing away with membership
cards and offering, instead, the BeiMacPass. The BeiMacPass is valid
for the entire BeiMac Union (although you need to have it stamped for
an individual registration in both the BeiMac User Group and the
BeiPod User Group -- only once.) With the BeiMacPass in hand, you
have access to the BeiMac newsletter, podcast and library. So it's
very possible that someone completely new could come into the BeiPod
group on October 16th, 2005 -- and grab access to the BeiMac Library
too.
That library, by the way, has just been replenished with two new
Japanese books (could be interesting to Garr-san, Chise-san and the
Mac community in Japan; one of our founding members was a Japanese)
and a new Mac-related book in English. ;-)
Additionally, we are implementing a new membership ID system where
all groups in the BeiMac Union would, in an ideal world, possess one
BeiMacPass -- and that BeiMacPass would be recognised in all partner
groups. So in future, you may just need to show your BeiMacPass if
you're in a to-be BeiMac partner group, even if it's outside the
BeiMac Union. It kind of shocks the Amazon rainforest (positively) --
less paper, less paperWORK (got to hate all that bureaucracy), and
less hassle.
We are also planning our November 2005 and March 2006 meetings -- big
ones...
Someone please hit the reset switch on BeiMac before we spin out of
control... ;-)
...
David Feng
BeiMac
Beijing, China
Personal Subscript: Got to meet with two MUG leaders in HK in July
2005 and a former VP of a Malaysian MUG in September 2005. BeiMac:
connecting people. (To Nokia: I'm sorry about nicking your
tagline...) ;-)
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