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Here is the current list of Be users groups around the world, as well as other user groups that actively support Be users and developers. For more information, contact any of these groups directly via the links below. Interested in starting a Be User Group? We have instructions for doing so on-line.

User Groups in North America Alabama -- Huntsville Group Name: HuMBUG Goals: Spreading interest in the BeOS in the community and possibly holding programming workshops. Primary contact: Chip Paul URL: http://www.webfire.com/~cpaul/humbug Alberta, Canada -- Calgary Group Name: ALBUG Goal: Primary interest is in graphics, specifically in data visualization. Should be a good tie into Alberta's Oil&Gas industry. Secondary interest is in fostering BeOS developers. Primary contact: Jason Kaczor URL: http://albug.begeek.com Arizona -- Mesa Group Name: AZ-BUG Goals: Disseminate the BeOS and BeOS-related information and focus on the PostScript/PDF print environment using BeOS. Primary contact: paul@riverawoods.com URL: Not yet available. California -- San Francisco Group Name: baBUG Goal: The primary focus will be twofold, evangelizing the OS to new users and to promote the product to content creators and network admins. Primary contact: Kent Demas URL: http://www.boomweb.com/babug/index.html California -- Orange County Group Name: OCBUG (Orange County BUG) Primary Contact: William L. Cassidy California -- Studio City Group Name: SCBUG Goal: The primary focus will be twofold, evangelizing the OS to new users and to promote the product to content creators and network admins. Primary contact: Alex McWillie URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~pandrax California -- Benicia Group Name: dBUG Goal: dBUG will focus mostly on networking and intercompatibility with the MacOS Primary contact: Nate Cowles California -- Rancho Cucamonga Group Name: BUG-Inland Empire Goal: To promote and evangelize the BeOS Primary contact: Henry Arnell Jackson URL: http://www.hajsoftware.com California -- Rocklin Group Name: Buggie Goal: Try and get as many people interested in the BeOS. Primary contact: Ryan Zender URL: http://222.garlic.com/~rhino/Be/BUG/index.html Colorado -- Denver Group Name: RMBUG (Rocky Mountain Be User Group) Goals: The preliminary goal of the group is to advocate the Be operating system, provide help for novice Be users , and provide support for local Be developers. Primary Contacts: Mike Watson URL: http://www.thenextwave.com/rmbug Colorado -- Fort Collins Group Name: BEERS (BE Enthusiasts R uS) Primary Contact: Tom Sapienza URL: http://www.worldwidemart.com/sapienza/be Colorado -- Colorado Springs Group Name: BeCOS Goals: Goal: To provide a forum for sharing knowledge about the BeOS. Programming, application use, hardware, and general topics will be discussed. Primary Contacts: Brian Ketelsen and rogerw@becos.org URL: http://www.becos.org Connecticut -- New Haven Group Name: The New Haven Be Users Group Goal: To show off the advantages of the a MediaOS on the existing hardware base and encourage use of the BeOS and its apps. Primary Contacts: John A. Brajkovic URL: http://www.connix.com/~greyhame/index.html Delaware -- Wilmington Group Name: DelaBUG Goal: To see the BeOS as cool on Intel as it is on Mac! Really...to compare its graphics capabilities with that of other OSes. Primary Contacts: Charles Bacon URL: members.aol.com/jadefalc9 Delaware -- Wilmington Group Name: DelBUG Goal: To promote superior structure in graphics and audio engineering. Primary Contacts: Ian McLean URL: www.magpage.com/~ian/dbug Florida -- Gainesville Group Name: SEABUG (South East Be User Group) Primary Contact: Gregory Goddard URL: www.ce.ufl.edu/~fjord/seabug.html Mailing list: In order to subscribe, you can can send mail to 'listserv@lists.ufl.edu' with 'subscribe seabug-l' in the body of the message. Georgia -- Atlanta Group Name: A.BUG Goals: A.BUG wishes to provide the very best experience and information that it can to its members, so that they can better promote the strengths of the BeOS to others. Primary Contact: Kevin Birch URL: www.xsf.com/a.bug.html Georgia -- Rocky Face Group Name: GroupBe Primary Contact: Chad Mullinax URL: www.ocsonline.com/~cmullinx Georgia -- Robins AFB Group Name: The Collective Operating System/Enthusiast Group Goals: To support all operating systems that deal with Productivity, Multimedia, DTP, Networking, Entertainment and the numerous other uses of various operating systems Primary Contact: Steve Eggers URL: www.hom.net/~milcom/caos Idaho -- Moscow Group Name: Be@UI BUG (University of Idaho) Primary Contact: Aaron S. Torres URL: http://www.uidaho.edu/csrv/macusers/beui.html Illinois -- Chicago Group Name: BUGChicago Goals: Moving BeOS forward in the areas of multimedia and digital video. Primary Contact: Dave Fletcher URL: beos.aisb.com:8080 Illinois -- Urbana-Champaign Group Name: Be Users Group and Association for Computing Machinery at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Concentrating on the Urbana-Champaign area Primary contact: Jason Luther URL: www.acm.uiuc.edu/bug/ Illinois -- Souther Group Name: SI-BUG Goals: Using BeOS in Video & Networking Applications / Games Primary contact: Ron McAdams URL: Not yet available Illinois -- Lake County Group Name: LAKEBUG Goals: To promote and encourage the use of the BeOS. Primary contact: John Spurling URL: http://hyperion.clc.cc.il.us/lakebug Indiana -- Indianapolis Group Name: ISLE BUG (Indianapolis Students Learning Everything about Be) Primary contacts: Nick Hritsko and Brendan Allen URL: mem.tcon.net/users/5011/0725/track.htm Iowa -- Ames Group Name: ISUBUG: Iowas State University BUG Goals: We aim to raise awareness of the BeOS and to create a community of programmers and users in the area. Primary contact: Corey Peterson URL: Not Yet Available. Kansas -- Kansas City Group Name: KCBUG Goals: The primary interest so far seems to revolve on it being an alternative OS and it's multi-threaded capabilities. Primary contact: Mark Abraham URL: www.everstar.com/kcbug Kentucky -- West Kentucky Group Name: WKY-BUG Goals: Promoting the BeOS by providing friendly user support, public informational meetings at local computer user groups. We will primarily be intrested in internet related BE applications Primary contact: Michael Whitt URL: Not yet available Louisiana -- Lake Charles Group Name: LAMUG'BUG (Louisiana Mac/Be User Group) Concentrating on the Lake Charles - New Orleans area. Goals: To promote the BeOS as a general computing tool for experienced computer users. Primary contact: Jody Sweeton URL: www.laol.net/org/lamug/lmgbug.htm Maine -- Topsham Group Name: BUG ME Primary Contact: Mark Leaman URL: www.agate.net/~mleaman/BugME.html Manitoba, Canada -- Winnipeg Group Name: UMBUG Primary contact: Markian Hlynka URL: www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~markian Massachussetts -- Boston Group Name: Boston Be User Group Primary Contact: Tim Bithoney URL: http://ig88.alongtheway.com/BeOS/ Massachussetts -- Harvard Group Name: HBUG Goal: Promote awareness and interest in the BeOS Primary Contact: David J. Ramsey URL: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~beos/ Michigan -- Jackson Group Name: Pickle Primary contact: Trevor Copland URL: www.perial.com/be Michigan -- Westland Group Name: Midwest Bugaboo Primary contact: William Dunning URL: www.envision-inc.com Minnesota -- St. Paul Group Name: MNBUG Goal: A starter group to facilitate information exchange as well as a cetralized location to meet and demo the BeOS Primary contact: David Duccini URL: http://www.backpack.com Montana -- Bozeman Group Name: Big Sky BUG Serving the Montana area. Primary contact: David Simon URL: www.digitaleyeq.com/buzz/ Nebraska -- Omaha Group Name: GOBUG - Greater Omaha BeOS Users Group Goal: To promote the use of BeOS for each users' specific needs Primary Contact: Robert Bradman Nevada -- Reno Group Name: The BUG of Reno Goals: To spread info about the BeOS's potenetial to the wide range of multimedia and advertising professionals in my area. The main business in my city is gambling, which relies heavily on graphic savvy computers to create their lavish advertisements. There are also many advertising companies in my area that rely on Macs for there needs. I feel that they would love to know about the option of running the BeOS on their computers. Primary Contact: Hunter Halcomb URL: Not Yet Available. New Jersey Group Name: New Jersey Be Users Group Goal: To evangelize the BeOS as a viable alternative to the more mainstream OSes. Primary contact: Ron Bannon URL:http://members.macconnect.com/users/r/rbannon/njbug.html New Jersey -- Flemington Group Name: FlemingBUG Goal: Fleming'BUG's goal is to spread information about the BeOS to potential users in the area. Primary contact: Mike Russel URL:http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/pines/7023/flemingbug.html New Mexico -- Albuquerque Group Name: The Red and Green BUG Goals: The primary interest will be real-world uses of the OS, especially in supporting the efforts of local industry. Also, there will be an emphasis on the Intel version of the BeOS. Primary contact: Adam Winter URL: Not Yet Available. New York -- New York City Group Name: NYC Be User Group Serving New York City. Primary contact: Michele Fuortes New York -- Rochester Group Name: BUGGER - the Be User Group of the Greater Entirety of Rochester Goal: Main interest will most likely be in the area of the BeOS and music. Primary Contact: Cristina Luis URL: http://www.cif.rochester.edu/~cs/rbug.html New York -- Vespertine Westchester Group Name: VW BUG Serving Westchester County Primary Contact: be_os@geocities.com URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/7587/ New York -- Ithaca Group Name: Cornell BUG Goal: Promote the BeOS. Introduce the BeOS as a good platform for software developers on campus. Create a Be network on campus. Primary Contact: Joe Kim URL: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jhk18 North Carolina -- Wilmington Group Name: Beach BUG Primary contact: Marcian Bouchard, Jr URL: http://rover.phy.uncwil.edu/bug/ North Dakota -- Fargo Group Name: FargoBUG Primary Contact: Peter Schultz URL: http://vax1.bemidji.msus.edu/~pschultz/fargobug.html North Dakota -- Scranton Group Name:BeND Primary Contact: Newton Teske URL: http://www.sendit.nodak.edu/sendit/jbtmag/be/ Ohio -- Oberlin Group Name: O-BUG Goals: To increase awareness of BeOS on campus and get it installed on as many machines as possible. Focus on Networking and sharing resources over Oberlin College's LAN. Primary contact: Matthew Soellner URL: www.oberlin.edu/~msoellne/Because Ohio -- Mentor Serving Mentor, Ohio and the Lake County area Group Name: BALL -- Be Acolytes Living in Lake County Goals: Feasibility of using Be as a MacOS replacement in a high school computer lab (and in general), Be security, Be's usability as a gaming platform, and most importantly, BeOS for Intel. Primary contact: Braden McGrath URL: http://www.lightstream.net/~inferno/ Ohio -- Cleveland Group Name: CeBe Goal: CeBe will be initially dedicated to general application development and general promotion of the OS. Primary contact: Larry Latson, Jr. URL: None as of yet. Ontario, Canada -- Kichener Group Name: Be Yourself -- User Group for the Technology Triangle Serving Ontario, Canada (Kitchener/Waterloo,Cambridge, Guelph). Primary contact: Piotr Pytlik URL: http://www.doublep.com/events/be/ Ontario, Canada -- Toronto Group Name: To-Be - Toronto Be Users Group Primary contact: Bryan Zarnett URL: http://www.comnet.ca/~jmckee/be Oregon -- Eugene Group Name: EBUG Primary contact: Michael Peacore URL: www.pacwest.net/mpeacor Oregon -- Portland Group Name: PDX BUG Goals: Foster an interest in Be and provide a forum where Be developers and those interested in Be can meet and discuss ideas and share information. Explore the graphics and multimedia possibilities that Be offers. Explore the Internet possibilities Be offers. Primary contact: Dale Arlt URL: http://www.teleport.com/~pdxbug Oregon -- Eugene Group Name: D.E.B.U.G. Goals: To generate more general interest in Be in Eugene, OR Primary contact: Bryan Newman URL: http://www.efn.org/~bryan/debug Pennsylvania -- Lehigh Valley Group Name: The LoVe BUG Goals: Goals: Create a challenging yet fun environment in the Lehigh Valley (located in eastern Pennsylvania) where anyone involved with or merely interested in the BeOS will feel welcome. Develop a community where people can learn about the BeOS, users can master the OS, and developers can rub elbows with others passionate about the possibilities and have a forum to exhibit their accomplishments. NOTE: Anyone is welcome, regardless of geographic location. We plan to create as real a presence via the Net as we do in person. Primary contact: Frank Seesink URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~fseesink/lovebug Pennsylvania -- Drexel University Group Name: BUsers Goals: Promoting the usage of BeOS on varying platforms; specifically targeted applications include science and engineering. Primary contact: Dave Beck URL: Not yet available. Puerto Rico Group Name: PR-BUG Primary contact: Emmanuel J. Alvarez at ealvarez@prtc.net URL: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Loge/1489/be.html Quebec, Canada -- Montreal Group Name: CUBE (Club d'Utilisateur de BE or Club of Users of Be) Serving the Montreal area. Primary contact: Nicolas Langlois at adept@total.net URL: http://www.moebius.qc.ca/CUBE Saskatchewan, Canada -- Regina Group Name: BeARS (Be At Regina, Saskatchewan) Serving the Regina area. Goals: To promote the BeOS as an extension or alternative to the Mac OS. Primary contact: Bill Maguire URL: http://tdi.uregina.ca/~mugors/bears/ South Carolina -- Lugoff Group Name: The Power Users' Group Primary contact: Adam Johnson URL: not yet available Tennessee -- Nashville Group Name: TN-BUG Primary Contact: J. Russell Cook URL: http://www.nashville.net/~russellc/tnbug Texas -- Austin Group Name: Austin Be User Group Serving Austin, Texas. Goals: To promote the BeOS and its possibilities as a cross-platform. To bring together those individuals who are looking for new possibilities in this growing and exciting industry. Primary contact: Ben Kimball URL: http://www.purity.com/be/austin-bug/ Texas -- Dallas Group Name: DaBUG (Dallas Be Users Group) Serving Dallas, Texas. Primary contact: Patrick S. M. Gratton URL: http://www.pobox.com/~dabug/ Texas -- Houston Group Name: GHABUG (Greater Houston Area Be Users Group) Primary contact: Paul Swansen URL: www.tolouse.com Virginia -- Charlotteville Group Name: CKBE Primary Contact: Josh Sahrmann URL: http://www.grayphics.com/~Be Virginia -- Northern Virginia Metro area Group Name: NOVA BUG Goals: To get developers together, increase interest and motivation about what they and others are doing. Hopes that socialization of developers in conjunction with getting end-users will be fun and potentially profitable to everyone. Primary contact: Norman B. Robinson URL: http://www.tux.org/novabug/ Mailing List: (subscribe benova) at macjordomo@emjay.waveworks.net Washington -- Silverdale Group Name: DoBeDo Goals: To provide a common meeting time and place where Be developers can share programming techniques, development ideas, and philosophies in the hopes of fostering innovative uses of the BeOS. It provides an interactive session where developers can help each other with their individual projects and perhaps collaborate to start new ones. DoBeDo will also provide neophyte developers a place to get down-and-dirty with more experienced professionals and other people with no lives outside of computers. Primary contact: Mike Manzano URL: http://www .bisc.com/lynx Washington -- Seattle Group Name: FireBUG: Seattle/Northwest Be User Group Serving the Seattle/Tacoma/Vancouver area Primary contact: Julie Petersen URL: http://www.abiogenesis.com/firebug Washington -- Port Townsend Group Name: TUGBOAT Goals: Dedicated to sharing ideas and educating the public about the BeOS and other advanced technologies and the possibilities associated with them, as well as providing support for existing users. We hope to discuss philosophical, as well as technical issues associated with these technologies. Meetings are bi-weekly. Primary contact: housojay@olympus.net URL: http://www.abiogenesis.com/firebug Washington, DC Group Name: WDC Be User Group Serving Washington, D.C. Primary contact: Paul Popernack West Virginia -- Danville Group Name: W.V.B.U.G. Mission: To spread the word about Be. Be is a new, unique, powerful operating system, that we believe more people should know about. Primary contact: Justin Deal URL: http://members.aol.com/benewsline/ Wisconsin -- Madison Group Name: MadBUG Goal: To create a place where those who already have some experience the BeOS and those who don't know about it yet can get together. Primary contact: Sean Murphy URL: http://www.beos.org/madbug/ Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Group Name: MilwaukeeBUG Goal: Our goal is to form a general user group that will promote the BeOS so that more people use it, making us more successful as developers. Primary contact: Sean Harper URL: http://www.mkebug.com User Groups in the Pacific Australia -- Leederville Group Name: BeOZ -- Australian Be User Group A forum for developers and users in Australia and the surrounding region. Primary contact: Rick Chipper Australia -- Sydney Group Name: AUSTBUG Goal: To establish the BeOS as the greatest, and to provide an open and informative platform for sharing and encouraging information on the BeOS ad all associated with it. Primary contact: Edward Cox URL: http://austbug.ausweb.net.au Australia -- Queensland Group Name: Downs BUG Goals: To try and win over people in the mulit-media, graphics, networking and SOHO fields. Primary contact: Andrew Tuxford URL: Not yet available. China Group Name: Be Group China Primary Contact: Leslie Leung Chiming E-mail: gzagfa@pub.gz.gdpta.net.cn China -- Wuhan Group Name: BUG-CHINA Goal: Studying the possibility of producing new generation of computer which can combine the "Creation, work and recreation" together in one machine. Primary contacts: Hong Feng URL: http:/www.linkcorporation.com/index/ronsdata.html Guam Group Name: BeGuam Club Goal: Setting up for BeOS users in Guam. Primary contacts: Patrick Kelly and Alex Sian. Main BeGuam e-mail address: be@guam.net URL: A web site is under construction. Indonesia Group Name: Indonesia BUG Goal: To broaden our knowledge and get to the latest of multimedia. Consider BeOS the major platform replacing MacOS. Primary contact: Adinoto A. Kadir URL: not yet available Japan Group Name: J-BUG -Japan Be User Group Goal: Japanazation of BeOS and multibyte character and language support. Meetings are held every two months in Tokyo. J-BUG has about 80 (or more and still increasing) Geeks in all (most of the members are developers). Primary contact: Satoru Osanai Mailing list: A mailing list is available at Be-user@kyoritsu.co.jp Korea Group name: MACAN BUG MACAN has been an Apple Macintosh Users Group in Korea since 1990. About 30 members meet every Saturday 3:00PM at a local computer shop. (Total membership: around 200) Recently, members have expressed interest in the BeOS and will discuss BUG issues at the Saturday meetings. Members are also studying how to develop BeOS applications, specifically multimedia applications. Primary contact: JongChan Lee Malaysia Group Name: MalBUG (Malaysia Be Users Group) Primary contact: Mukhsein Johari New Zealand Group name: Kiwi BUG Goal: Anything Be related including its promotion and development as a programming and multimedia platform. Primary contact: Paul Day URL: http://www.r3.co.nz Thailand Group Name: BeThai Primary Contact: Wan Chun Hung E-mail: chun@samart.co.th User Groups in Europe Denmark Group Name: BUGDEN (BeOS User Group DENmark) Primary contact: Jorgen Larsen URL: http://sunsite.auc.dk/bugden Mailing list: bugden@sunsite.auc.dk and bugden-request@sunsite.auc.dk England Group Name: UK!-BUG Goals: To provide a general support group for BeOS developers in the UK. Primary Contact: Matt Willsher URL: http://www.ukbug.ml.org FTP: ftp://ftp.ukbug.ml.org England -- North Devon Group Name: BeLine Goal: Interested primarily in the BeOS for Internet, sound, video, and multimedia. Primary Contact: Nat McGowan URL: http://www.beline.home.ml.org England -- Over, CAMBS Group Name: CambsBUG -- Now in conjunction with UK!-BUG Goal: Interested in all round BUG with special recommendations for good Be apps. Primary Contact: Ked Shayer URL: http://ukbug.ml.org/cambsbug France Group Name: FrBUG - le groupe Francais d'utilisateurs de BeOS - Primary Contact: Hubert Figuiere URL: http://www.frbug.home.ml.org Germany Group Name: DeBUG (The German Be User Group) Primary contact: Peter Stegemann URL: http://www.ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de/%7EDeBUG Germany -- Geissen Group Name: BUGIntel Goal: We are interested especially in video editing and sound. Primary contact:George-William Gallhofer URL: http://membes.aol.com/BeOSIntel Netherlands Group Name: DuBeUs (Dutch Be usergroup) Goals: Our goals are the general spreading of the Be virus in Holland and helping developers make the impossible possible Primary contact: Hans Speijer URL: http://subway.student.utwente.nl/DuBeUs.html Norway Group Name: BUG-NORWAY Primary contact: Jorgen Lid Widing URL: http://chaos.wit.no/widing/be/ Portugal Group Name: BUG Portugal Goal: Main interest in Graphics, Sound, Video, and Networking Primary contact: Antonio Pinho URL: Not yet available Spain Group Name: HispaBUG Goal: To program and the explain the BeOS. Primary contact: Stanley C.R. Roche Busk URL: http:/www.mackeros.com Sweden Group Name: BeUserGroupSweden Goals: To gather Swedish Be developers and users together. Primary contacts: Mikael Hjerpe , Bjorn Tornqvist , Magnus Hjelmer URL: http://BUGS.rsn.hk-r.se Sweden Group Name: SDF Goals: Computer User Group that wants to promote the BeOS among its members (mostly Intel box owners), with a special emphasis on networking. Primary contacts: Erik Karlberg , URL: http://www.uf.se/ufs.sdf/ Switzerland -- Lausanne Group Name: BUG en Romandie Goals: Promote Be and the BeOS. Primary contacts: Olivier Borgeaud , URL: http://www.borgeaud.com User Groups in the Middle East Israel Group Name: Macman's BUG Goals: Goal: Understanding and learning about the BeOS Primary contact: Oded Cohen URL: http://staff.netvision.net.il/~macman

Are you a Be User Group organizer, thinking about starting a group, or expanding your current group's charter to include the BeOS? If so, you'll want to check out the Be User Group formation page and join the beusergroup mailing list to get plugged in with other organizers.