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• Aviation: DGLR,
  RaES: Royal Aeronautical Society RAES web designers have done a bad job: Flash crap on the front page, + you can't generate a decent URL for Munich branch, best one can do is quote this & then you must click some more !
• Berkeley Unix: BIM: Berkeley In Munich
• Berkeley In Munich (BIM) BSD Unix Users Group - Muenchen Members vote where to meet, usually somewhere new each time. (A previous Munich BSD stammtisch died long ago after meeting in the same small bar. BAFUG (Calif. USA) have a different approach: 1st person to shout venue.)
• BSD Social Event (BSE) splintered from Berkeley In Munich (BIM), BSE included ex Camelot, (a club that died). They first joined BIM, agitated to change BIM to Camelot style, then left to be `Free'
  • `Free' to smoke (Bavaria has since made smoking inside illegal).
  • `Free' to talk Microsoft.
  • `Free' to bring non BSD/ non computing girl/ boy friends who dilute tech. content.
  • `Free' to avoid variety of venues. (BIM's voting was not used to achieve a fixed single regular location, but could have been.
  Acronym BSE was uses a decade before for Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis / Encephalopathy (What German's know as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) = Mad Cow Disease. Some BSE people have claimed to have known that before they chose the name. )
• Chaos Computer Club:Münchener Chaos Computer Club in Blutenburgstr twice a month, I helped a VAX 750 down the steps 2 years ago maybe (after VCFE), Hartmut Pilch's http://www.ffii.org is close by (.de equivalent of http://www.lpf.org) They have a bunch of DEC / VAX hardware etc.
• Contractors: MECC: Munich Electronic & Computer Contractors
• Engineers: Michael Faraday Institution e.V. (local arm of UK IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers)).
• Fidonet exists, but I have no information.
• GI Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V (allied to ACM & Munich branch
• Mainframes: Cray-Cyber.Org Monster mainframes lurk in a Munich cellar, & spring to life at scheduled times, offering public access ! They welcome helpers & activists, (well come to that I guess most clubs do).
• Drupal User Group May 2010 Conf, English
• Muenchner Linux User Group - MUC-LUG .
• Freifunk München (Part of a free co-operative WLAN in freifunk.net Germany, Austria etc.
  
• Gentoo Linux Usergroup Muenchen (MLUG)
• Java User Group,
• JBoss User Group
• kernelpanic.de (Rosenheim Linux)
• Linux User Group Ottobrunn (LUGOTT) (& München Süd-Ost)
• Linux Usergroup Wuermtal (WLUG)
• LUG Erding
• München sidux Stammtisch
• Munich Perl Mongers
• Munich Ruby on Rails User Group
• Münchener R(egio) Zope User Group
• Open Source Press Verlag - Books in german
• Open-Source-Treffen (mozilla)
• PHP User Group Munich
• Perl & Tex etc: public domain source groups exist: mail author details for inclusion.
• Python User Group Munich
• Qt User Group
• Systems Administrators Guild: SAGE
  • Munich
  • Germany
  • UK/ Britain SAGE
  • USA / American SAGE
• Sinclair-QL-Computerclub Treffen uns jeden ersten Donnerstag im Monat gegen 19 Uhr in Gaststaette Orama Walchensee-platz 4 (Griecische Taverne) 81539 Muenchen Giesing (jeden 2. Monat am dritten Samstag nachmittags treffen wir uns auch dort zum Hardwarebasteln und um Software konfigueren und um andere Probleme an unseren Computern zu loesen ! )
  Peter Blaha, Rosen-str. 5, 85609 Aschheim. Tel 089.9032649, Fax 089.9039200.
• Solaris - MUCOSUG - Munich OpenSolaris User Group
  Defunct I think ? Since oracle swallowed sun & solaris
  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/mucosug/ Redirects to https://solaris.java.net/
• TeX-Stammtisch - Search engine has only old results
• Ubuntu Users Group Munich
• TYPO3 User Group Munich clicks to facebook. Chuckle, lots of security concerns with fbook. & the URL doesnt click back. Vile
• Users: CAM: Computer Anwender Club Muenchen e.V, Tel Dr Uli Ender 089.186186 Email or Wolfgang Herz 08764.920099. They cater not just for PCs, but for Commodore, Atari, Apple etc. Their leaflet (1999) says: Stammtisch 3rd Tuesday each month, Gaststaette Florians-Garten, Situli-Str 7, U-Bahn Freimann Tel 089.32450092/93,
• Vintage Computer Fest Europa Each Easter the VCFE springs into activity.
• BG: Beer Gardeners An all year English speaking social group. & ski group & walk group etc. (More technical people than the average population, but Not a computer club.) places where one can use English. Doesn't really belong in this list, so listed last, but having an organiser in common, & the Industry language being English, being able to practice English in a social rather than technical setting may interest some.