COMMUNITY NEWS - MEMBERS
1] - State of the Mac from Dr. Mac (Bob LeVitus)
The Houston Area User Group (HAAUG) will once again host Bob LeVitus and his Dr. Mac's State of the Mac presentation at the Bellaire Civic Center on Saturday, February 21, starting at 9 a.m.
Join Apple User Group Board member Rex Covington, HAAUG President Phil Booth, Apple User Group Regional Liaison Doug Smith, Rick Roberts, Jeff Davis and the HAAUG membership for this wonderful event.
See what a little slice of HAAUG heaven looks like. http://www.haaug.org
2] - MacCamp: Saginaw Hosts Another World Class Winter MacCamp
SMUG in Saginaw, Michigan, is hosting their Winter MacCamp on February 28. Invited clubs are MIAMUG (Midland, MI) and TMUG (Pigeon, MI). The event will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. Participants are guaranteed to have a great day of showing, sharing, helping and caring.
Network and learn. http://www.smug1.com
3] - Groups in the News: ColombiaMUG SIG Writes Popular App Store Game
The ColombiaMUG has a software development special interest group (SIG) that writes some fun and unusual applications, ranging from traditional card games and puzzles to educational software and more. Many of them are on the App Store. Cool!
Check out their apps. http://www.colombiamug.com/
(Thanks to President Jose Betancur for this great tip.)
4] - Supporting Youth: Mountain View Offers Scholarship
John Buono is well known from Macworld Expo events, but did you know that his group is involved in supporting students? The Mountain View Computer Club offers $500 (US) and $750 (US) scholarships to students from Cochise County in Arizona who exemplify the best use of computers in student projects in the fields of humanities, arts, mathematics and science.
Download more info. http://mvcug.org/Scholarship/MVCUG_2009_Inst_and_App.doc
Visit this great group. http://mvcug.org/
5] - Getting Together: Malaysia MacFest
The Malaysia Mac User Group has special get togethers every two months called MacFests. The first one of 2009 looks to be a great event with presentations covering iLife '09, iWork '09, FileMaker and more. Add in a "Lucky Draw" raffle and the day will be one to remember.
Be there. http://www.mymug.org/news.htm
(Thanks to MyMUG President & Apple User Group Ambassador Azul Adnan for this tip.)
6] - Milestones
This month's milestones includes Marsee Henon of O'Reilly, who just completed her seventh year of working with groups. Congrats Marsee!
Worldwide, this month sees groups whose first meeting convened as long ago as February of 1978 showing that when Apple groups have a good thing going it lasts.
Feb 1978 AppleSiders of Cincinnati http://www.applesiders.com/ (Greetings to President Terrance Crooker.)
Feb 1978 Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange http://www.virtualapple.org
1979 Mountain View AppleUG (now called Mountain View Computer UG) http://mvcug.org
Feb 1984 North Florida Macintosh Users Group http://www.nfmug.org
Feb 1984 Massillon Akron Canton Macintosh User Group (Mac2MUG) http://mac2mug.org
Feb 1984 Shenandoah Macintosh User Group http://www.user-groups.net/SMUG/ (Warm wishes to Apple Ambassador and UGN Editor Fred Showker.)
Feb 1985 MUGARA http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/mugara/
Feb 1985 USC Macintosh User Group http://www.usc.edu/org/uscmug (Greetings to Len Wines and the members of USCMUG.)
1987 MacinTech http://www.macintech.org
Feb 1988 Coastal Mac User Group http://www.coastalmac.com
Feb 1999 International HyperCard User Group http://www.iHUG.org
Feb. 2004 Mac Owner's Support Group (MacOSG) http://www.macosg.com/ (Thanks to President and Macsimum editor Dave Merten for this tip.)
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