[wellylug] WellyLUG Future

[Richard Hector]

On 29/04/18 13:03, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-04-27 at 22:25 +1200, Jethro Carr wrote:
>> I’m not sure how far back it was actually founded before then.
> 
> I attended the first Wellington Linux Users Group meeting, which was
> held in a meeting room at Wellington City Council. I'm thinking '94 or
> '95 kind of time. Kevin Sartorelli, who was one of the founders if I
> recall correctly, probably has more information. Google Groups isn't
> being very helpful, but it was probably discussed in nz.comp.
> 
> The old mailing lists may be lost in the mists of time, but they were
> hosted on The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand's systems and managed by
> Kevin.

I think Wellylug was a breakaway group from LAW, perhaps started by
Jamie Dobbs? AFAIK it started meeting at the Johnsonville Community Centre.

> Sadly the oldest entry in the Wayback Machine for Richard Hector's old
> website for it is from Feb '99:
> http://web.archive.org/web/19990508065549/http://www.dvs.net.nz:80/lug/

Not me. Don't know whose that is. I see the domain isn't registered, so
that doesn't help ...

I've never been involved at an organisational level.

Richard