National Capital Macintosh Club

The National Capital Macintosh Club is the incororated name of the club. For several reasons, we have modified our "operating" name to MUGOO, or Macintosh User Group of Ottawa. Why the change?

1. NCMC was difficult to promote to prospective members since it wasn't apparent what the acronym stood for. Few people associated "NC" with "National Capital" and "Macintosh", the main focus of the club was buried in the name. MUGOO puts Macintosh right at the beginning. "MUG" is also a common string of letters used by Mac user groups and many people refer to this type of club collectively as "MUGs".

2. The regional amalgamation of cities and municipalities along with the success of the Ottawa Senators have increased the profile of the city name. When we use "National Capital", Americans thought we were from Washington DC.

3. MUGOO.com was available and the ".com" domain is the default for browsers. Also, NCMC.on.ca was not as memorable and difficult to promote.

4. [Muh-goo'] sounds really neat.

Sponsors

Many thanks to the small businesses and corporations that make this website and other MUGOO activities possible.

Eton Systems - message board server and email robots provided and hosted by Eton Systems, maintained by Neil Herber

Five Span ideas - for providing site development and maintenance.

2Black Dogs - web pages maintained by Laurence Head

Algonquin Design School - for hosting the Design and Graphics SIG with Alain Paradis. This SIG replaces the one that Ross Slade hosted at his studio for many years.