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Re: For the history books -- LUG & LTC dates of formation
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lugnet.org
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Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:22:17 GMT
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In lugnet.org, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Date format is yyyy/mm/dd:
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> 1999-07-16 NELUG: New England LEGO Users Group (U.S.A.)
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.
http://news.lugnet.com/org/us/nelug/?n=349
You are correct with the first mention of the name though so if thats what you
want to go with please feel free.
<snip>
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> I'm also starting a little webpage for this list, so that I can update it as
> info comes in:
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> http://news.lugnet.com/org/dates
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> TIA for any info you can provide!
Looks good.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
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