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Re: PLUG officially founded - report
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lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.pt
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Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:00:57 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.pt, Mario Ferrari writes:
> "Pedro Silva" <el_gordo@netc.pt> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > This afternoon I have met two other lugneteers here in Porto in order to
> > found a new LEGO club in Portugal. It was a very profitable meeting, and
> > this is a brief report.
> > First of all, we have decided to call it PLUG (Portuguese Lego Users • Group);
> > it is an English acronym, but it sounded better than the portuguese
> > alternative (so we stuck to it).
>
> A warm welcome from ItLUG!
Thank you very much! :)
> > Since we are very few yet (3!), the primary task we assumed is to gather a
> > significant number of interested people. To do so, a web page will soon be
> > developed and announced in national search engines, as well as LUGNET.
> > Then, we will have to organize events. This is yet an informal • organization,
> > but we hope to register PLUG when we have enough "supporters". Having done
> > so, it will be easier to evolve from a "3-buddies-meet-fest" to a more
> > sofisticated "brickfest-like" event. We are realistic though, this may • take
> > a long time.
> > Last but not least, HEEELP! We are all amateurs in this sort of thing, so • we
> > could really use your opinions and expertise in the subject "LUG". Please
> > hint us on how to manage this newborn club, I personally feel a bit
> > disoriented...
>
> ItLUG started formally on November 1999. At that time there were already
> about 15 of us who had got in touch through LUGNET or the Italian Lego
> Maniacs page published on my site. From the official foundation of ItLUG and
> the birth of its official site www.itlug.org about 18 months have passed,
> and we have reached 140 members. All of them found us through the net. Not
> bad, isn't it? :-)
> It's true that not all of them are very active members, but at least 45
> attended on of our events at least once, and a bit more write at least
> occasionally on the local Italian newsgroup lugnet.loc.it.
> If we can infer something from the population, given that Portugal has about
> 10M inhabitants against Italy tha has 60M, you could expect to count about
> 23 members in the next 18 months. Quite a rough estimate based on too many
> assumptions :-)
I'd wish there were 23 of us... Currently, we are 3, plus one pending (the
club isn't up yet, we need the site). I only know of one or two other
possible members so far.
There was never any kind of Lego organization here, and I do not know what
is Lego share in the toy market (thus I do not know how many to expect in a
distant future). Quite honestly, we will do like you and trust in the Net to
spread. But only at first:
Would you say it was a good idea to ask Lego Portugal (if there is one) to
advertise our club with small leaflets? Would they take us seriously, if we
had a site and a *formal* organization (registered in the civil registry)?
> We'll be glad to share our experience with you. Just ask for any detail
> you'd like to know, either here, on lugnet.org.it.itlug or via email. Sorry
> nobody of us speaks Portuguese, but English or Spanish are ok.
Thank you, you are very kind to offer.
I will do that, as soon as we have a alfa version of our site, so we can
make comparisons and corrections; plus, we need your expert's comment on our
page. I do understand a bit of italian (but not a lot); I do not know how to
write/speak properly *yet*. Sorry :(
But like you say, English is fine. Not spanish, we have spent the last 860
years trying to remain a separate entity! ;)
Um abraço,
Pedro
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