Silicon Valley Macintosh User Group

The Silicon Valley Macintosh User Group (also known as Silicon Valley Mac User Group or SVMUG) is an active Macintosh user group based in the Silicon Valley area.
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==History==
SVMUG was originally established on June 15, 1992 in San Jose, California as BMUG South, the "other" meeting group of the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group (BMUG). Monthly meetings from the 1990s to 2000 were held every 3rd Monday in the Town Hall meeting room at Apple Computer's 1 Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino.The BMUG South Meeting, Berkeley Macintosh Users Group. Archived 1996-10-19.Resources: Northern California professional societies, The Computists' Weekly vol.2, no.26. 1992-06-24. The original BMUG went bankrupt and disbanded in 2000,About PlanetMUG, PlanetMUG. Accessed 2021-07-03. but BMUG South continued to meet through the work of volunteers.A Letter To All BMUG Members by the Board and Staff of BMUG, Berkeley Macintosh Users Group. 1999. Archived 2000-08-17.
===After BMUG===
In January 2001, the BMUG South meetings were moved to the Beatles Conference Room of Apple's DeAnza 3 building at the southwest side of Infinite Loop.BMUG South, Berkeley Macintosh Users Group. Archived 2001-01-26. The group was renamed SVMUG in 2003 and continued to meet at the Apple campus.BMUG South / SVMUG, Yahoo! Groups. Archived 2003-04-18. In 2013, the monthly meetings were moved to Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California.General Information. Silicon Valley Macintosh User Group. Archived 2013-10-27. Meetings have been held online at svmug.org since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2000.
==References==
==External links==
*Silicon Valley Macintosh User Group official website
**The BMUG South Meeting (archived 2002-10-29, 1998-12-02)
*SVMUG at Google Groups
**Silicon Valley Mac User Group at Yahoo! Tech Groups (archived 2007-10-11)
*SVMUG at Twitter
*Silicon Valley Macintosh User Group at YouTube
Category:Macintosh user groups
Category:User groups in the United States
Category:California
Category:1992 establishments