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Eric Kingsley wrote:
> [...]
> I was very happy with the initial response. I recieved 5 submissions of the
> form on NELUG and that does not include Robert Munafo who expressed interest
> earlier, Larry Pieniazek who has a long distance interest, or myself. So it
> sounds like a group to me! :)
Five sounds like enough people to me too. :) Of course I'm sure there
really must be about 20 or more who'll jump when it sounds even more "real"
to them, and then lots more after that, slowly.
> Most of us seem to be in the general Boston/Eastern Mass area. But we do
> have 1 person from CT and one from Worcester so a Western Mass meeting at
> some point is a possibility.
BTW, here are some (very unofficial) statistics about LEGO fans in the New
England area -- these are from counting state abbreviations in snailmail
addresses on the AucZILLA mailing list:
41 living in New York State (NY) [is NY considered part of New England?]
29 living in Massachusetts (MA)
12 living in Connecticut (CT)
10 living in Vermont (VT)
7 living in New Hampshire (NH)
5 living in Rhode Island (RI)
1 living in Maine (ME)
===
105 total (64 without NY)
That's just counting people who I know have bought bricks online -- certainly
not every single LEGO fanatic by any means -- but probably many of the most
devoted ones.
(No, I can't disclose the actual addresses themselves. (Not that anyone
is asking :-))
> [...]
> Many of you don't like the URL and believe me I don't either but I hope that
> that will change at some point. I did some checking and both www.nelug.org
> and www.nelug.net are still available. I have two options however and both
> would make it transparent that NELUG was on GeoCities which I know some have
> concerns with.
>
> 1. I don't want to commit to www.nelug.org / .net until we meet a couple of
> times and I feel confidant that we have a basis for on-going support of this
> group. Cost is not a problem however and I will be happy to pick up the tab.
> This does raise one problem however. Currently both NELUG and my personal
> site are under the same GeoCities account so I would have to have to change
> my site to www.nelug.org/kingsley/ or something like that. I don't have a
> problem with that but if any of you do let me know.
I'd highly recommend www.nelug.org and a Pair Networks <www.pair.com> Advanced
Account <http://www.pair.com/pair/advanced.html> or Webmaster Account
<http://www.pair.com/pair/webmaster.html>, both of which give nice hunks of
disk space and serious amounts of outgoing daily traffic. Pair is located in
Pittsburgh and has many attractive and reliable hosting options:
<http://www.pair.com/pair/services.html>
> 2. Instead of waiting I could sign up for a more generic URL and give NELUG
> a page under that site. For example www.graybrick.com is still available
> and I could give NELUG a page under that like www.graybrick.com/NELUG/ and
> then I would have my site under it as well as www.graybrick.com/kingsley/.
> The benifit to this is that I would be willing to do it right away if that
> is what people want.
Sounds watered down to me. I'm really impressed with what the baylug.org folks
have done! (BTW, they might have some tips on hosting!)
> [...]
> Another idea some had was to collect dues. Now I admit that this may become
> necessary in the future but right now I just want to meet people that share
> the share the same hobby as I do and schedule events around that. For now
> I want this to be relatively informal and free.
Sounds good to me. Having more LEGO geeks in the area to meet with regularly
or semi-regularly would be a lot of fun! Informal is great. :)
Count me in for helping out on any payment issues to get it off the ground
if needed.
--Todd
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