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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: BADGE January 1990 Meeting POSTPONED; Please Read
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Date: 15 Jan 90 01:33:57 GMT
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doug@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (douglas.sulpy) in <7345@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> writes:

"	Damn. And I was planning on driving out from 'Jersey :-).
	... Is it possible to restrict such meeting notices to the appropriate
	 area?
"
pertaining to the BADGE meeting postponement announcement.

This type of message surfaces about once a year, so for the benefit of
those who are new to Usenet and to comp.sys.amiga.*, I'll present a brief
summary of why these postings are a Good Thing(tm).  :-)

The Bay Area Amiga Developers' GroupE (BADGE) is an organization of serious
hardware and software developers for the Amiga computer.  The charter is to
promote and facilitate the development of new Amiga products by providing a
forum for communication between developers.

Many of the people who attend BADGE only read comp.sys.amiga.tech.  The IEEE,
ACM, ACL, AIAA, etc. tech journals also list meeting notices since those are
the only journals their members read.

Many attendees come from out-of-state and out-of-USA (e.g. West Chester,
Lowell (MA), Europe, etc.)  and are unable to see restricted distribution
articles or local-newspaper announcements.

BADGE attendance (probably) comprises the largest gathering of Amiga
developers in the world outside of the DevCons; the Amiga itself was
developed here (Silicon Valley; Los Gatos, CA) by several BADGE members.

Among the regularly-attending (ex-)Amiga members are included Dale Luck,
Jim Mackraz, Rob Peck, Neil Katin, Carl Sassenrath, Bob "Kodiak" Burns, etc.

Other casually-attending (ex-)Amiga members include Jay Miner, Bart Whitebrook,
RJ Mical, Sam Dicker, etc.

The list of commercial developers attending reads like the list of products
available for the Amiga.

Get the picture?  :-)

Thad

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]