Re: Announcing the Founding of US-A2WUG!

["Charles T. Turley" <cturley@wco.com>]

This is a repost - with a corrected inclusion, that I forgot to include in the original 
announcement on 9/15/96, with respect to the name of Lane Roathe!

I'm happy to announce the founding of US-A2WUG (Unity Services - Apple II Worldwide User
Group), it purpose, general outline and information concerning membership, future plans, 
etc.
from all of our Founding & Charter Members as listed below - to all the Apple II users!

Steve Wozniak - Founding Good Will Group Ambassador - (Honorary - Title)

Charles Turley - Founding Group Ambassador, Coordinator & Webmaster

Founding Charter Members;
Lane Roathe - USA
Richard T. Kilpatrick - UK
Tony Morales - USA
Steve Nelson - USA
Ralph Searl - Canada
Will Baguhn - USA
Jeff Hurlburt - USA
Donald Pattee Jr. - USA
Joshua M. Thompson - USA
Adrian Vance - USA
Peter Kasting - USA
Matt Portune - USA
Michael Guitton - France
Edhel Laur - USA
Dr. Hank Levinson. - USA
Dr. Atsuhiro Suzuki - Japan
Helen Cooper - USA
Doede Boomsma - The Netherlands
Sam Ismail - USA

The purpose of US-A2WUG will be to foster and promote 'Good Will', contact and help
between all US-A2WUG members - to provide; assistance, referals, advise, etc. - with
respect to any and all user group member needs - including - but, not limited to;
software and hardware, programming and development. Let me make it clear that no
fees or dues of any kind or type are required or expected. Everything is to be offered
FREELY!  Any related ftp sites or web sites and their software library contents are to
be accessable by all members FREELY, without restrictions. All that is expected of any
members (including Founding Charter Members) is nothing more than they care to provide
for other US-A2WUG members.

Requirements for US-A2WUG membership are simple. All any person needs to do to become
a US-A2WUG member - for life (termination per their request) - is send an email request
for membership via the US-A2WUG web site and be either an owner and/or user of any
Apple II model of computer or clone.

I'm going to design and provide some form of web site cgi that will allow the members
interactive online chat and discussion with a user group meeting (the time, dates
and frequency - to be determined). The web site for US-A2WUG will be designed to
provide; links and pointers, an information bank of useful FAQ and Usenet newgroup
links, posts, etc. - to all locatable and informative Apple II related vendors, web
sites, ftp sites and any other WWW link/site that can provide useful and worthwhile
information, references and services to the members.  Also to be included, will be a
WWW links page to all other known Apple II User Groups - thru-out the world.

Specific attention will be provided for the NEW Apple II computer Clone - TLC
(The Tiger Learning Computer) - licenced from Apple Computer, Inc. - with the Apple
IIe design and technology as the basis of its design - by Tiger Electronics, Inc.
- with all information on it available, when it will be released for sale to the
public and where it can be purchased, along with all software cart's that will be
available for it - with information, specs. retail pricing, data and WWW links for
the software companies that provide programs with such carts for its use.
 
I also plan to provide any information and WWW links for any hardware products
and/or devices that might be designed for use with it by third party developers.
(i.e. - disk drives, hard drives, function enhancement cards, etc.)


Each Founding & Charter Memeber, as well as all US-A2WUG members, will be given their
own individual web page, outlining their Apple II talents and specialties that they
can offer or need, with personal contact information, etc. as per each persons information
furnished to me with their instructions.

The first US-A2WUG web site (not yet fully developed or designed by any means - but, 
available
for beta preview now) is located at the following URL.

http://www.wco.com/~3d5d1wsw/US-A2WUG/

I invite everybody that reads this to please visit and consider joining the US-A2WUG!
I hope to have a more informative and better developed beta update of the web site,
designed for public access within the next week or two - as best my time and abilities
allow.

Thanks and Cheers!
Tom