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I am starting a list of local users group and clubs. I want it to be as
complete as possible and for the history books (and, aw heck, for charts and
graphs someday) I'd like to include the official dates of formation of each
group/club.
As a first approximation, I checked in the newsgroups for the first mention
(i.e., the earliest reference) to each name. This pegs the order of formation
pretty solidly, I think, and in some cases pegs the official formation dates
fairly closely, but for a couple of the more established groups (PNLTC for
example), the dates are probably off significantly.
Date format is yyyy/mm/dd:
1998-09-29 PNLTC: Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club (U.S.A.)
1998-11-14 NGLTC: North Georgia LEGO Train Club (U.S.A.)
1999-02-08 BayLUG: Bay Area LEGO Users Group (U.S.A.)
1999-03-05 GMLTC: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (U.S.A.)
1999-05-12 De Bouwsteen (Netherlands)
1999-07-16 NELUG: New England LEGO Users Group (U.S.A.)
1999-07-16 NOVALTC: Northern Virginia LEGO Train Club - now WAMALTC (U.S.A.)
1999-07-19 VicLUG: Victoria LEGO Users Group (Canada)
1999-09-03 GMLUG: Greater Midwest LEGO Users Group (U.S.A.)
1999-09-04 TexLUG: Texas LEGO Users Group (U.S.A.)
1999-09-30 WAFOL: Wasatch Area Fans Of LEGO (U.S.A.)
1999-10-06 GFLTC: Greater Florida LEGO Train Club (U.S.A.)
1999-10-31 LEGO-MUG: LEGO MINDSTORMS Users Group (Japan)
1999-11-15 WAMALUG: Washington (D.C.) Metro Area LEGO Users Group (U.S.A.)
1999-11-16 ITLUG: Italian LEGO Users Group (Italy)
1999-11-24 DixieLUG: Dixie LEGO Users Group (U.S.A.)
1999-11-28 UKLUG: United Kingdom LEGO Users Group (U.K.)
1999-12-02 LegOz (Australia)
1999-12-09 FGLTC: First German LEGO Train Club (Germany)
2000-01-12 CMLUG: Central Midwest LEGO Users Group (U.S.A.)
2000-01-21 NCLUG: North Carolina LEGO Users Group (U.S.A.)
2000-02-06 Studs (Australia)
2000-02-18 LUGOLA: LEGO Users Group of Los Angeles (U.S.A.)
2000-02-22 VLC: Vancouver LEGO Club (Canada)
2000-03-17 NALUG: Northern Alberta LEGO Users Group (Canada)
2000-04-30 EJLTC: East Japan LEGO Train Club (Japan)
2000-05-20 rtlToronto (Canada)
2000-05-28 SeaLUG: Seattle Area LEGO Users Group (U.S.A.)
2000-07-07 GardenSLUG: Garden State LEGO Users Group (U.S.A.)
I'm also starting a little webpage for this list, so that I can update it as
info comes in:
http://news.lugnet.com/org/dates
TIA for any info you can provide!
--Todd
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| (...) What date are you looking for here? If you're looking for the date the 'club' started displaying LEGO trains at shows, it would be sometime in the mid 1980s. When most of the group started getting together? 1993. When we started having any (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.org)
| | | Re: For the history books -- LUG & LTC dates of formation
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| (...) 11.14.1998 works for me, I believe that was the date of the first public presentation of the NGLTC layout back when it was the membership of one. But it did soon grow to two members by the end of the show. Before that it was just a layout in (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.org)
| | | Re: For the history books -- LUG & LTC dates of formation
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| You guessed it right, November 16th 1999 is the date ITLUG was born. Ciao Mario "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> ha scritto nel messaggio news:G21KKp.JDs@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) each (...) mention (...) formation (...) dates (...) (U.S.A.) (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.org)
| | | Re: For the history books -- LUG & LTC dates of formation
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| (...) <snip> (...) While 1999-07-16 is the first mention of the name NELUG I think we have decided that 1999-08-10 is probably more appropriate for an anniversary date as that was the date of our first meeting (Ideas coming together). See here. (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.org)
| | | Re: For the history books -- LUG & LTC dates of formation
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| (...) This could be backed up to 2000-01-15, I have an e-mail from Mike Walsh dated then where he reports securing www.nclug.net. Our discussion about forming the group however extends back to 1999-08-06 or thereabouts, here is a pointer to the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.org)
| | | LUG & LTC dates of formation update
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| (...) Here is an updated list. I am still missing a fair amount of info...any definitive info is appreciated! Please post as a follow-up to this post and I will update the chart. Thanks! Looks like we're almost to 40 now... :) --Todd 1. 1985 CWC-CW (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, lugnet.org.ca.viclug, lugnet.org.us.gmlug, lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.org.us.wafol, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.org.it.itlug, lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.org.us.cmlug, lugnet.org.us.nclug, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.org.us.lugco, lugnet.org.us.gflug)
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