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Re: Is there interest in a new LUG?
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Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:18:49 GMT
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I just thought I would chime in here quickly.

I know you noted in your first post that all followups would be to .loc.us.nj
but I would suggest keeping NY and Phi in the list that way you are sure
everyone gets it.  I would also suggest adding .org.us to the list so the other
Organizations know that you are trying to form a group.

I am interested for a couple reasons.

1.  So that once a name is chosen and things seem to be going well I can add
you to the LUGMAP.

2.  Because I am a member of NELUG I think it would be neat if someday a joint
meeting between NELUG and the NY/NJ/Phi LUG took place.

Anyway things seem to be shapeing up well so I will let you go back to your
business now.


Eric Kingsley

The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/

View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/



In lugnet.loc.us.nj, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
In lugnet.loc.us.nj, Christopher L. Weeks writes:

I thought it might be nice to put some kind of club together

OK, it seems like there is enough interest to carry on with this so let's.
Are we all thinking a weekend day?  Is Saturday better than Sunday?  Should it
be for adults only?  How long a meeting?  What times?

Matthew Karius: my schedule makes it hard to find time for almost anything
that I can't take my kids to.

What age kids?  I have son who is almost six.  If there are a few folks with
kids of compatible ages, we could do a double LEGO based get-together (one for
kids and one for adults), but again, this might better be done at a later
meeting.

Who is interested?  I am imagining this to be for people centered on the
wideish corridor between NYC and Philly.  I am in central New Jersey.

I got a couple email responses, but they're at home and I can't see (or
remember) them right now.  So who want's to meet?  I see that we have interest
from:

Christopher Weeks (me)
Lindsay Braun (for 1.5 months, anyway)
Erik Olson
Andy Lynch
Bryan Kinkel
Jennifer Maher (and SO)
Laurajean Murphy
Matthew Karius

and I don't recall if the emails were from those listed above, or from others
who haven't chimed in.  Consider this an open invitation to anyone else out
there from whom we haven't heard.

This isn't the most important matter, but:

What would it be called?  NJLUG would be OK,

After suggesting that, I also thought of MetroLUG because I think of NJ
(though I know it's not really like this) as being divided between the metro
NYC and metro Philly areas, with just a touch of (pretend) rural areas around
the fringe.

Also suggested have been:

TriLUG for the tri-state area (NY, NJ, PA, I'd say)

UMALUG for upper mid-Atlantic LUG

DVLUG - Delaware Valley LUG

MPHLUG - Metro Philadelphia LUG

GPHLUG - Greater Philadelphia LUG

I would personally prefer to not use the last two because it limits the feel
of the name.  NYC people might not feel as free to participate and I'd like to
appeal to as broad an audience as possible.  Otherwise, I think they are all
acceptable names.  I'd still like to give some thought to names that are not
dependent on the LUG acronym.

Anything else to consider?

Christopher Weeks



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(...) OK, it seems like there is enough interest to carry on with this so let's. Are we all thinking a weekend day? Is Saturday better than Sunday? Should it be for adults only? How long a meeting? What times? (...) that I can't take my kids to. (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.us.nj)

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