Final what? Final B.U.G. As in, Final : Berlin User Group.
These days we have found a wonderful home at the Akademie der Kunst.
Final Bug or BFCPUG as it was know in 2003 was the brain child of Jakob Werhman. Jakob had a production company and wanted in on the Apple scene. He found out how to found a user group, and found some partners.
Thus the original user group was co-founded by two further people. Pascal von Hasse and Alister Owen.
Meetings took place in Wedding where Jakob had a large loft for living and working purposes. At the begin there was much excitement but after a number of years thing were stagnating. At which point I showed up. Jakob was tired of answering all those mails, not to mention the inevitable my SQL dumps. So I told Jakob that I would try and manage the whole thing for a year. There was even a time when the User group meet at my flat.
The same people have been turning up for years and there is a healthy fluctuation of new people. In many ways the stuff that goes on, on the sideline is the most interesting.
The user group is after all a network and people will inevitably exchange mail addresses and phone numbers
excerpt from an interview that Paul Murray gave for the Weltexpress in June 2008
