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How YDKM started "You Don't Know Mac!" was born at the base of one of mankind's greatest needs -- food. Well, sort of. It was actually at a MUG picnic in 1998, where CMUG members were enjoying the company of fellow Mac users outdoors by the Willamette River that summer. Good food, friends and conversations that always seemed to come full circle to Macintosh. One conversation turned to trivia, and then there was reference made to Jellyvision's popular CD trivia game, You Don't Know Jack! -- a pair of eyes widened... and then the words "you don't know MAC!" could be heard up and down the Willamette Valley. Seed planted. Idea sprouted. Now we just had to pull it off... MUGshot '88 was first of its kind Actually, 10 years earlier, an Oregon MUG was the host for probably the first statewide User Group event of its kind anywhere -- an event titled MUGshot '88. CMUG was the host, and it was held on the campus of Oregon State University. Steve, then CMUG president, created MUGshot '88, and the full-day event featured a combination of guest speakers from Apple (UG program manager, and HyperCard team), Ashton-Tate, and others; workshops and open discussions on user group operations, sharing resources; and providing tools -- all the Oregon UGs represented (Apple II and Mac, back then) took home software donations from some of the industry-leading vendors at the time ...to be used by and benefit each UG. MUGshot '88 proved a statewide UG event could work, and work well. It was the foundation for what would be born a decade later. Trail blazing events in Oregon Oregon has a rich history of "path finding" or "trail blazing" and its Macintosh User Groups carry on that tradition. Check out the unique projects and events some of our groups have created... some of them are to envy (or emmulate). Special computer, special people Each year YDKM has improved, and has honed its purpose and efforts. The success of YDKM is not possible without the efforts of many, the collaboration of our groups, and the support of many generous companies/vendors, including Apple. Below, we spotlight a few faces and talents that make YDKM Event Day possible:

John Scott Code wizard > John Scott was YDKM's HyperCard programmer extraordinaire. It was his handiwork that made our Trivia HyperCard stack sing and come alive as the centerpiece for our annual Trivia Contest on stage during our first 4 years. His work is as colorful as that shirt he is wearing in the photo here! He was at the controls of the stack operation for the first 3 of our YDKM events. John has been a Mac user since 1985, a Hypercard enthusiast since 1987, a CMUG member and occasional board member since 1991, and works as an NT network administrator and technical writer.

If you look close, you can see Kelly in this photo wearing a white dress, sitting on a white cow, eating a marshmellow in an Idaho snow storm. Okay, maybe that's not what YOU really see here... she's a bit bashful, actually. Maybe we'll try to wiggle a photo of her in here soon, if she'll let us.

< Kelly Gates MacArtist superb Kelly Gates, a CMUG member who lives in Idaho, had been doing the cover art for issues of CMUG's monthly magazine, Mouse Droppings. A professional artist, Kelly enjoys her Macintosh roots and tools. We pulled her off the potato farm and said 2 words, "Macs and trivia!" She replied with our dazzling YDKM logo/icon -- a combination of the simple elements of the Mac OS face and the tie-in of our slant on Jellyvision's "You Don't Know Jack!" bald head look. Perfect! And the first few years Kelly modified our logo with a twist that reflects the host MUG town for that year's YDKM event's theme or reflection of the MUG host town (for example, notice the starfish on our MacHead's dome for the 2000 contest in Newport on the coast?).