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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benz, Mark
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 10:09 AM
> To: 'Todd Lehman'; 'lugnet.org@lugnet.com'; lugnet.org.us@lugnet.com;
> lugnet.announce@lugnet.com; 'lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf@lugnet.com'
> Subject: RE: For the history books -- LUG & LTC dates of formation
>
>
> Hi Todd,
>
> There are some who might say that BayLug started on June 10,
> 1996 in Mountain View, as shown at:
> http://baylug.org/russellc/96legofest/
>
> But things really reached sustainable critical mass about 2
> years latter, for the Lego 25th Anniversary Tour visit to SF.
> Thus, I would say that BayLUG started, or had its first
> meeting, on 10 October 1998 around the Lego 25th Anniversary
> Tour visit to SF. Or in your date format: 1998-09-10
>
> There are tons of photos online of the meeting and creations
> in a SFPD meeting room next to Golden Gate Park before the
> Truck tour by Russell Clark at:
> http://baylug.org/russellc/98legofest/ and a few more by Tom
> Stangl at: http://people.netscape.com/toms/RTL/index.html
> There are also many of the truck visit itself.
>
> BAYLTC, the Bay Area Lego Train Club, a "splinter group" of
> the former, was formed 12 March 2000 (2000-03-12) at the
> quarterly meeting of BAYLUG.
>
> Comments from other BayLUG Members?
>
> Mark
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Todd Lehman [mailto:lehman@javanet.com]
> > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 9:03 PM
> > To: lugnet.org@lugnet.com; lugnet.org.us@lugnet.com;
> > lugnet.org.ca@lugnet.com; lugnet.org.au@lugnet.com;
> > lugnet.org.nl@lugnet.com; lugnet.org.it@lugnet.com;
> > lugnet.trains.org@lugnet.com; lugnet.loc.jp@lugnet.com;
> > lugnet.announce@lugnet.com
> > Subject: For the history books -- LUG & LTC dates of formation
> >
> >
> > 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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