[svlug] Re: SVLUG (fwd)

[Ian Kluft]

> From: George Bonser <grep at shorelink.com>
> Also ... how many LUGs are there in Denmark? Is this the only one? Heck,
> what if we added up all the LUG membership in California? I mean, how can
> a LUG from one little area compete with a LUG that is probably the primary
> LUG of a country? Denmark is smaller than Maryland. 
> 
> Actually, we should probably be bragging about HOW MANY LUG's we have in
> California, not how big any one of them is.

Well, Silicon Valley is supposed to have more geeks per square mile than
any other area in the world. :-)

But in interests of fairness, a quick web search...
   http://www.interbaltic.com/country/denmark.htm
   http://travel.state.gov/denmark.html
   http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/da.html
shows that Denmark has about the same population as the San Francisco Bay
Area, if you include all 13 counties, at over 5 million each.  It's hard
to compare numbers any further because there are at least 5 LUGs in the
Bay Area, SVLUG geographically only covers Silicon Valley, which has a
population of about 2 million.  But we have international attendance on our
mail lists.  So you can get numbers that say we have an advantage or they
do, depending ON WHAT weight you want to apply to which criteria.

So it looks like at this point, neither of us can say the other can't claim
by some criteria to be the world's largest LUG.  So, I'll suggest again that
we wait and see if they can hold this for the long term.

We may have to arrange a "fact-finding mission" next Summer.  (That would
be pronounced "European vacation." ;-)
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Ian Kluft  KO6YQ PP-ASEL                                  Cisco Systems, Inc.
ikluft at cisco.com (work)  ikluft at thunder.sbay.org (home)          San Jose, CA

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