The following is a current list of OS/2 related user groups in Europe:
AUSTRIA Anwender/2 OS/2 User Group Merangasse 82/II/8, A-100 GRAZ Tel: 43-316-384283 or 43-316-388566 BBS: 43-316-388566 Description: Supporting IBM OS/2 and all related applications. Running one of the major OS/2 BBSes in Austria. Supported by IBM Austria, Anwender/2 has about 800MB of downloadable files online 24 hours/day. There is a large library of OS/2 books and videos, provided by IBM OS/2 User Group support, and most of the leading OS/2 manufacturers support the user group. New OS/2 users are always welcome. Meeting Schedule: Every other Wednesday Location: 'Mondscheinstueberl', Graz. See BBS for details. Contact: Norbert Fuerst or Michael Widmann President: Norbert Fuerst Dues: ATS 600/year, including bimonthly magazine and free BBS and library access, and lower rates for onsite support or OS/2 training. OS/2 Forum Austria POB 331 A-1013 Vienna Tel: +43(1)815-4429 Fax: +43(1)815-7930 X 22 BBS: Unknown E-Mail: rony.flatscher@wu-wien.ac.at WWW: http://www.os2forum.or.at Description: OS/2 Forum Austria has been accepted by IBM Austria as the representative for Austria's OS/2 users. Today, it has over 200 members, many of whom represent their respective companies. Meeting Schedule: Unknown Location: Various Contact: Rony Flatscher President: Unknown Dues: Unknown BELGIUM OS/2 User Group Belgium Goudveilstraat 5 B-3360 Bierbeek Tel: +32-16-46-39-78 Fax: +32-16-46-39-78 BBS: +32-16-46-15-38 WWW: http://www.os2ugbe.org/index.htm E-Mail: driesmans.j@tornado.be Meeting Schedule: 2nd Friday Location: Kultureel Centrum 'De Kam', Beekstraat 172, B-1970 Wezembeek-Oppem; Tel: 02/731.43.31 Contact: Alex Wyckmans (awyckma@ibm.net) President: Wim Teughels (wteughe@ibm.net) Vice President: Maurice Derden (ma3den@ibm.net Secretary: Johan Driesmans (driesmans.j@tornado.be Tresurer: Dirk Vermeersch (dverm@ibm.net Public Relations: Alex Wyckmans (awyckma@ibm.net) WebMaster: Maurice Derden (ma3den@ibm.net Staff: Mark Spiessens (maspies@ibm.be) Kin-Shing Tchang (ktchang@ibm.net) Pieter Dubois (duboisp@ibm.net) Newsletter: Warp Magazine (monthly) Dues: 500 Bfr Description: The OS/2 UG Belgium is for everyone who is using OS/2. There are a lot of demos, hints & tips and last but not least the technical workshops. If you're having a problem with your configuration under OS/2 or need assistance in a certain application, bring in your PC in the Technical Workshop. We'll fix it for you. OS/2 Working Group G.U.I.D.E. K.U. Leuven Faculteit E.T.E.W. Deinst Informatica Naamsestraat, 69, B-3000 Leuven Tel: 32 16 32.67.16 Fax: 32 16 32.69.69 BBS: None E-Mail: Karel.VanderHaegen@econ.kuleuven.ac.be IBM Mail ID: G1LNKK5Q@IBMMAIL Description: As part of the European IBM user group G.U.I.D.E. the Belgium OS/2 Working Group G.U.I.D.E. joins Belgium corporate OS/2 users, and members of G.U.I.D.E. Belgium-Luxembourg to discuss OS/2 and related topics. Meeting Schedule: Approximately 4-5 times per year Location: Various Contact: Karel Van der Haegen President: Karel Van der Haegen Secretary: Dirk Rober Dues: G.U.I.D.E. corporate membership required. CZECH REPUBLIC Czech OS/2 User Group (COUG) Computer Data a.s. Trebohosticka 2283 100 00, Praha Tel: +420-2-7078224 Fax: +420-2-703875 BBS: +420-2-703886, +420-2-703879 WWW: None E-Mail: codalan@login.cz Meeting Schedule: Third Wednesday each month Location: at mailing address Contact: Daniel Docekal President: Daniel Docekal Dues: Unknown Newsletter: DA(m)NNEWS (published irregularly) GERMANY OS/2 User Club Tel: Unknown BBS: Unknown E-Mail: keal@stat15.bauingenieure.uni-stuttgart.de Meeting Schedule: Unknown Location: Unknown Contact: Roman Huber President: Roman Huber Dues: Unknown OS/2 User Group Deutschland PC & PR GmbH Kolner Strasse 51 Mechernich-Kommern D-5353 Tel: Unknown BBS: Unknown Meeting Schedule: Unknown Contact: Heide Davis President: Unknown Dues: Unknown OS/2 User Group Hamburg Muehlenweg 1 22880 Wedel Tel: 49-4103-6604 Fax: Unknown BBS: Unknown E-Mail: Unknown Meeting Schedule: Unknown Location: Unknown Contact: Michael Mrosowski President: Unknown Dues: Unknown OS/2 User Group of Flensburg Swinemuender Str. 3 24944 Flensburg Tel: +49-461-32880 BBS: Unknown WWW: Unknown Meeting Schedule: 3rd Wednesday Location: Treffpunkt Muerwik Contact: Olaf Scherdin President: Unknown Dues: Unknown RAMchip PC User's Group, OS/2 SIG CMR 429, Box 1029 APO AE Tel: 49-6302-7783 BBS: Unknown Meeting Schedule: Unknown Location: 200th TAMMC Contact: Spencer L. Lewis President: Unknown Dues: Unknown Team OS/2 Region Trier e.V. c/o Sascha Weber Postfach 3928 Trier, RHP 54229 Germany Tel: None Fax: 06501-180616 BBS: None E-Mail: team@teamos2.ipcon.de WWW: http://www.teamos2.ipcon.de/ Founded: November 1998 Members: 19 Contact: Sascha Weber (team@teamos2.ipcon.de) Newsletter: None Meetings: 3rd Wednesday, 7:30 pm Location: Trier Dues: DM 90 / DM 60 Team OS/2 Ruhr e.V. Wittekindstr. 39 Duisburg, NRW 47051 Germany Tel: 0203-284521 Fax: None BBS: None E-Mail: dschaebel@nordrhein.de WWW: None Founded: May 1997 Members: 33 Contact: Detlef Schaebel (dschaebel@nordrhein.de) Newsletter: None Meeting Schedule: Unknown Location: Duisburg Officers: Unknown Dues: DM 120 Description: The members of this user group come from the NRW-Area called "Das Ruhrgebiet," the following cities are included: Duisburg (sure), Essen, Duesseldorf, Oberhausen, Dortmund, Bochum, Muenster. All users are welcome: specialists and "normal" users. Team OS/2 Schweinfurt - Wuerzburg Germany BBS: +49-9721-187294 E-Mail: snglueck@cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de WWW: Unknown Founded: October 1995 Membership: 15 - 20 members Contact: Stefan Glueck Schedule: last Friday or Saturday, 7pm Location: Schweinfurt and Wuerzburg (alternating) Dues: None Description: General Team OS/2 User group. Open for everybody who is interested in OS/2. We are a sub-group of Team OS/2 Germany. TUM OS/2 Users Group c/o Fachschaft MPI, TU Muenchen Arcisstr 19 Munich, D-80290 Tel: +49-89-7236912 BBS: None WWW: http://www.leo.org/archiv/software/os2/os2-ug/ E-Mail: os2-ug@informatik.tu-muenchen.de Meeting Schedule: Mid-month (varies, see WWW), 6pm-7pm Location: TU Muenchen, Room S1128 Contact: Florian Hawlitzek President: Unknown Dues: None ITALY OUGP (OS/2 User Group Palermo) Auletta Studenti Facolta' di ingegneria viale delle Scienze Palermo, PA 90128 Tel: +39-91-593686 BBS: +39-91-489642 (Virtual Dream BBS) E-Mail: ematum@freenet.hut.fi Founded: June 1996 Contact: Emanuele Tumminia Meeting Schedule: 2nd Monday, 5pm Location: Auletta Studenti - Facolta' di ingegneria - viale delle Scienze Dues: Unknown Description: Spread the use of a REAL 32 bit O.S. at university and everywhere! For all that want know more about OS/2 and how to get the most from it. NETHERLANDS Hobby Computer Club (HCC) HCC OS/2 gg Postbus 149 3990 DC HOUTEN Tel: +31-30-637 87 88 Fax: +31-30-637 89 30 BBS: HCC OS/2 gg HOFSTAD BBS&colon. +31-70-3947842 (Sysop - Bert van Rhijn) HCC OS/2 gg CORAC BBS&colon. +31-20-6370729 (Sysop - Michel Rozengarden) HCC OS/2 gg Alexander BBS&colon. +31-10-2860600; +31-10-2860587 (Sysop Cor Slot) E-Mail: mtillema@hccfido.hcc.nl WWW: http://www.uunet.be/hcc/ Meeting Schedule: Varies Location: Varies Contact: Menno Tillema OS/2 SIG Leader: Nico Kralt, Voorburg NL BBS Sysop: Bert van Rhijn Dues: Hfl. 68/year; Includes club magazine, "Computer!Totaal". Membership: 1200 Newsletter: DRAAD/2 (published 4 times a year) Holland User Group OS/2 (HUGO) Lange Kerkdam 113 Wassenaar, BT 2242 Tel: 01751-41492/18301 Fax: 01751-11789 BBS: 01834-2427/5097 (Lighthouse BBS) WWW: http://www.mensys.nl/hugo/index.html Newsletter: HugoNotes (published monthly) Meeting Schedule: Varies Location: Varies Contact: Paul van Keep (Secretary) (pvk@ACM.org or paulvk@ibm.net) President: Marcel H. Bruins (Tel: 04950-21791) Dues: Unknown NORWAY OS/2 Brukerforum Norge (OS/2 BFN) (OS/2 User Group Norway) Steinbekken 4 Klafta 2040 Tel: +47 63 97 89 46 Fax: None BBS: None E-Mail: haraldb@bigblue.no WWW: http://www.os2bfn.no/ Contact: Harald Bjornstad (haraldb@bigblue.no) Newsletter: OuroborOS/2 (Quarterly) Schedule: Quarterly, 6pm Location: IBM Norge, Kolbotn Founded: 1994 Membership: 246 Leader: Harald Bjornstad Officers: Steinar Johansen (steinar3@online.no) Henrik Lorange (hlorange@os.telia.no) Per Steinlein (pseinle@c2i.net) Goeran Arnesen (goran.arnesen@cinet.no) Dues: NOK 100 Description: OS2BFN (OS/2 Brukerforum Norge) is an individual forum for users and companies using OS/2. In 1998 the forum started focusing more about our on-line internet site, http://www.os2bfn.no/ In our site you will find all the OS/2 related news, articles and OS/2 solutions. The site is updated 2-4 times a week. In our seminars (4 times a year) we focus on important issues about OS/2. (WSOD, Java, Visual Age, Network computing and Warp/Warpserver/Domino) We have an IRC channel. OS2BFN is for all users of the OS/2 operating system, but also for those with other special interest of OS/2. By the end of 1998 we are going to announce a pure company related site with focus on servers, network and cost-effective solutions. TeamOS/2 Midt-Norge (TeamOS/2 Central Norway) Per Kvists vei 6 7058 Jakobsli Tel: +47-73-91-68-19 Fax: None BBS: None E-Mail: teamos2@multinet.no WWW: http://www.multinet.no/~teamos2 Founded: 1993 Membership: 59 Contact: Harald Eilertsen (haraldei@stud.unit.no) Newsletter: "Absolute WARP!" (Quarterly) Meeting Schedule: Varies Location: Varies District Leader: Harald Eilertsen Newsletter Editor: Jan-Morten Havstein Dues: Free Description: TeamOS/2 Midt-Norge is the regional TeamOS/2 group of the Central Norway region. Based around the city of Trondheim, we try to promote OS/2 and OS/2 based solutions. We also try to help get new OS/2 users up and going and help around with any problems they may have. Generally we try to create a community of OS/2 users. RUSSIA Russian OS/2 User Group (ROSUG) c/o International Computer Club (room 53,54) Proyezd Serova 4 Znanie Building Moscow 101813 Tel: 095-921-0902 BBS: Unknown Meeting Schedule: 3rd Tuesday, 11am Location: Orlikov per 3, korp A Contact: Constantin Protopopov 095-492-0837 President: Unknown Dues: Unknown SWEDEN Swedish OS/2 User Group (Svenska OS/2 User Group) Upplandsgatan 67 Stockholm 113 28 Tel: +46-8-330916 Fax: +46-8-329965 E-Mail: info@os2ug.se WWW: http://www.os2ug.se/ Meeting Schedule: Unknown Location: Unknown Contact: Michael Rotter Founded: 1991 Membership: 300 Newsletter: None Dues: Unknown SWITZERLAND Common Switzerland, OS/2 SIG P.O. Box 380 8424 Embrach Tel: +41-1 876 02 80 Fax: +41-1 876 02 10 E-Mail: rbsloot@ibm.net WWW: http://www.common.ch http://www.common.ch/OS2PAGE.HTML Meeting Schedule: Varies Location: Varies Contact: Rene B. Sloot (101642.12@compuserve.com) SIG Leader: Rene B. Sloot (101642.12@compuserve.com) Dues: Unknown Description: Common Switzerland is primarily dedicated to issues surrounding the AS/400 operating environment. However, this SIG is dedicated to OS/2 and run by members of Team OS/2. OS/2 User Association (Schweiz) Im Bruenneli 15 CH-8127 Forch Tel: +41 (0)1 8876940 Fax: +41 (0)1 8876941 BBS: +41 (0)1 8876942 E-Mail: reglin@ibm.net WWW: http://os2web.inserto.ch/os2ua/ Founded: July 1993 Membership: 60 Contact: Roman Eglin Newsletter: (Homepage & mail Schedule: 1st Tuesday, 7pm Location: Varies; see web page President: Frank J. Dekker Resp. f. Administration: Roman Eglin Treasurer: Oliver Minzloff Dues: 100,- Swiss Francs (approx. 75-80 US$) No fee for the meetings. Description: Purpose is to promote & support OS/2 and exchange information and experiences. Open to everyone with an interest in OS/2. UKRANIA Kharkov OS/2 User Group Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering 47 Lenin Ave Kharkov 310164 Tel: 7-572-32-1062 BBS: Unknown Meeting Schedule: 1st Tuesday, 3pm Location: Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Computer Center, Room 106 Contact: Vladimir O. Krouglov President: Dr. Levon K. Amdilyan Dues: Unknown UNITED KINGDOM EurOS/2 c/o Martin Brampton Moore Stephens St. Paul's House Warwick Lane London EC4P 4BN Tel: +44-171-334-9191 Fax: +44-171-246-6055 BBS: +44-171-334-0337 (Moore Stephens Infoline) E-Mail: euros2@ibm.net or 100303.2007@compuserve.com WWW: None Meeting Schedule: 1st Thursday, 4pm Location: Moore Stephens Training Centre, 1 Snow Hill, London EC1A 2EN Contact: Martin Brampton Chairman: Martin Brampton IBM Vendor Liaison: Rose Gerlach (rrgerl1@ibm.net) Founded: February 1, 1996 Dues: Unknown Description: The purpose of the group is to encourage contact among people who want to make their OS/2 implementation a smashing success. With monthly meetings in London, electronic exchange of information and an on-line magazine, EurOS/2 is getting its bearings among committed OS/2 users, especially in the business community. OS/2 UK Users Group WWW: http://www.warp.in-uk.net/ E-Mail: os2uk@scotgate2.demon.co.uk NOTE: Group is in the formation stages (as of June 15, 1998) Personal Systems Society 20 CSG/MW APO AE 09466 Tel: 44-869-240414 BBS: Unknown Meeting Schedule: Unknown Location: RAF Croughton Club Contact: Steve Walker President: Unknown Dues: Unknown