Re: AUGD: The End of the Beijing Macintosh User Group
Re: AUGD: The End of the Beijing Macintosh User Group
- Subject: Re: AUGD: The End of the Beijing Macintosh User Group
- From: Cristael Bengtson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:24:02 -0800
Hello David --
I am truly sorry to hear about the end of the Beijing Macintosh User
Group. BeiMac was an outstanding group with a wonderful outreach to so
many people, including those of us at MacValley.
I will always remember meeting you and talking with you at MacWorld.
It was a life-enriching experience for me, as I'm sure it was with all
those who had the opportunity to hear your story and to talk with you
and get to know you. And it has been a rewarding experience for all
MacValleyites to have Beijing listed as a sister MacUser Group on our
website.
I, and MacValley, wish you well in all your present and future
endeavors, and we hope to see you again at some future MacWorld.
Sincerely,
Cristael Bengtson
President
MacValley Users Group
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On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:33 AM, David Feng wrote:
Dear All MUG Friends —
Yes, "Dear All MUG Friends." (How weird!) I feel a little "strange"
here, seeing I don't post all that often. Oh well, for those of you
who do Twitter or Facebook, you might have sniffed me out there. But
it is true that the Beijing Macintosh User Group has come — and gone.
No long explanations: just the fact that Apple is not the kind of
revolutionary Apple that it once used to be. We used to run the
group with fervor that would, honestly, make North Korea's rich-in-
revolutionary-language propaganda seem like stuff from the average
toddler. We were so rich in our Mac ideology — so to speak — that we
just simply drove the group into a dead end. There was mass, excess
bureaucracy and it just drove itself into a hole.
I hereby resign not only from the Beijing Macintosh User Group, but
also from the Apple User Group Regional Liaison for East Asia. I
want at least a month or two off everything — especially MUG things
— to let me rethink. Don't exclude the likeliness that I'll be back.
I don't give up, but I also don't plough down dead corridors.
I'll still be on my 10th, 12th, 14th and 15th Macs, surfing the Web.
I'll also be on Twitter ( @DavidFeng ) and Facebook. And I'll
probably, if this list allows, still remain on board. It's been a
good-and-somewhat-odd 6 years. I still remember fondly those
beginnings... and all the friendship, online and offline. "BeiMac"
may have belonged to the past but the friendship will stay. :-)
Respectfully,
David Feng
Beijing, China _______________________________________________
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