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Club name Essex Acorn User Group (EAUG)
Contact Dan Glading EAUG logo
Address 43 Spalding Way
Great Baddow
Chelmsford
Essex
CM2 7NZ
Telephone 01245 471463
Email eaug@aaug.net
Web site http://www.wattys.fsnet.co.uk/eaug.html
Meeting place Witham Library
Newland Street
Witham
Essex
Detailed directions are also available 		Map to Witham Library
Meeting dates 2nd Tuesday of the month, 7:45pm
Members 12
Subscription £16 (individual); £20 (family); £10 (student); £2 (visitors)
Coverage Essex

Further information

Essex Acorn User Group (EAUG) started life in October 1982 as NAMEBUG (referring to a BBC Micro user group) but was renamed, shortly before Acorn "disappeared", to reflect the platform source. Following the slump from the high membership numbers of the early days, we are now emerging from the doldrums, with numbers increasing all the time. We aim to ensure that every meeting has a theme and a speaker, even if (s)he is simply a member with some expertise. Located at the geographical centre of Essex, our meetings occur on the second Tuesday of every month in Witham Library (the spiritual home of Dorothy L. Sayers). Claims to fame? Well, some years back the group provided local organisations with marathon race reporting software and supervision at the events. A recent visitor, "dgs" (the moving spirit of the new London-based group ROUGOL), claimed to be a former member of our group, but we have been unable to confirm that from our earlier poor record-keeping!

Our meetings programme is based on opportunism. That is, events are not publicised more than about two months in advance so that when we are able to grab a significant visiting speaker, he can be inserted easily without too much disappointment for the displaced local speaker. For example, a planned presentation by our chairman on "Massaging Text With Edit" could possibly be shunted by (say) "A PCPro Message" given by ... wait and see! See where? The EAUG Web site and comp.sys.acorn.announce! This system has the disadvantage that non-Internet-connected folk can only discover such changes by phoning the chairman, as indicated in the accompanying contact details. Most of our members are connected.