Re: AUGD: Challenge is on - Keep roll call alive
Re: AUGD: Challenge is on - Keep roll call alive
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Challenge is on - Keep roll call alive
- From: Anthony Caruana - President iMug <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:20:06 +1000
- Thread-topic: AUGD: Challenge is on - Keep roll call alive
For those with an interest in Apple history, iMug is going to be exhibiting
a collection of Apple's most significant hardware and software releases
(including a replica of an Apple 1 that works, a working Lisa, an original
Mac and more)
This is the culmination of a project we've been running with Museum Victoria
here in Melbourne, Australia.
Anthony Caruana
President - iMug
email@hidden
www.imug.com.au
On 19/10/06 10:06 PM, "Kathy" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Kathy Holton in the Finger Lakes Region of NY FinMUG
>
> Apple Ambassador and web designer at the moment
> Our group is around 70 However we get minimal participation at
> meetings.
>
> The group started as an Apple II group but no one has been here that
> long and the history is lost : (
>
> I do not know the name of the Apple II group and our name was FMUG
> once too.
>
>
> On Oct 18, 2006, at 11:15 PM, Allen Emory wrote:
>
>> Ok we are coming up on the 12 hours mark for roll call. Again, just
>> a reminder to get counted, reply to: Roll Call - Stand Up for
>> Users' Group
>>
>> This thread is to keep track of responders
>>
>> So far
>> 1 - Unaffiliated
>> 2 - Internet Only UG's
>> 13 - Not in the US (only listed this way to get a relative percent
>> of people willing to respond, see below, way below)
>> 40 - US Mugs
>>
>> Following the fuzzy math I used (assuming there are 256 active MUGs
>> in the US, I don't have access to the number outside the US, hence
>> separating out the US mugs from the rest. ) we are looking at 15% -
>> 16% of the possible MUGs are willing and able to respond to a list
>> roll call.
>>
>> Europe should be waking in a few hours - some of you have chimed
>> in, let's hear from the rest of you. About 23% or nearly 1/4 of
>> all roll call responders are non-US, glad to see it! (Wow, when I
>> was a kid, I would have never dreamed that someday I would
>> correspond with people in Singapore, China, Emirates, Denmark,
>> Germany, Turkey, Melbourne, Caracas - I would say Canada here, but,
>> somehow as a kid I wasn't THAT insulated. :-D )(Hope I didn't miss
>> anyone - it's getting late here on the east coast of the US)
>>
>>
>>
>> Let's see how high this will go.
>>
>> (It can of fun, and I'm starting to feel a community grow :-)
>> that's a good thing!)
>>
>> Allen Emory
>> Triangle Macintosh Users Group
>> Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC USA
>>
>>
>> On Oct 18, 2006, at 4:03 PM, Allen Emory wrote:
>>
>>> We are nearing 5 hours on the roll call - remember to get count
>>> reply to: Roll Call - Stand Up for Users' Group
>>>
>>> This thread is to keep track of responders
>>>
>>> So far
>>> 1 - Unaffiliated
>>> 2 - Internet Only UG's
>>> 3 - Not in the US (only listed this way to get a relative percent
>>> of people willing to respond)
>>> 19 - US Mugs
>>>
>>> using the base number of 256 US mugs (it a best guess) we are
>>> still only hearing from 7.5% - 8% of the potential MUG's - not
>>> really scientific at all - just to be illustrative.
>>>
>>> Also, the balance of the world needs to chime in (sssh, I think
>>> they might be sleeping :-D )
>>>
>>> Give your MUG a SHOUT OUT!! (respond to: Roll Call - Stand Up for
>>> Users' Group)
>>>
>>> Allen Emory
>>> Triangle Macintosh Users Group
>>> Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, USA
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 18, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Allen Emory wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'll try and keep a count of who is responding - use Roll Call -
>>>> Stand Up for Users' Group to actually get counted.
>>>>
>>>> Interesting fact - the Apple site lists ~512 UG's in the US (so
>>>> the doesn't even count the balance of the world, I don't know how
>>>> to get that data). One point of the exercise is to see how many
>>>> MUG's are "plugged in" - Let's assume the 50% of the list are
>>>> now defunct groups - 256 will be the number to compare to.
>>>>
>>>> So far we've had responses from:
>>>>
>>>> At 12:45 EDT 10/18
>>>>
>>>> After only a short time we have:
>>>>
>>>> 1 - Unaffiliated
>>>> 2 - Internet Only UG's
>>>> 2 - Not in the US (only listed this way to get a relative percent
>>>> of people willing to respond)
>>>> 7 - US Mugs
>>>>
>>>> So, between 2% to 3.5% of the US MUG's (see note below) are
>>>> hearing this and responding.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> sorry non-US MUG's I just don't have those numbers - it would be
>>>> very interesting, though, if non-US MUGS responded in larger
>>>> numbers than US MUG. Keep it coming!
>>>>
>>>> there is a range there depending on ow you want to count internet
>>>> only - I didn't check to see if they were included on the Apple
>>>> website.
>>>>
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