HMAUS Signal

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

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

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.)

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/

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.)

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
(Thanks to President John Buono for this tip.)

Feb 1984 North Florida Macintosh Users Group
http://www.nfmug.org
(Congrats to President Len Kaufman and group.)

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
(Greetings to Andrea Suhaka and MacinTech members.)

Feb 1988 Coastal Mac User Group
http://www.coastalmac.com
(Congratulations to President Pat Curran, and ambassador Rick Curran.)

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 author Dave Merten for this tip.)

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