Steven Pemberton Starting a SIGCHI Local Group in the Netherlands The Start Since 1985 there has been in the Netherlands "Workgroup HCI" (in Dutch, werkgroep MCI) a Special Interest Group within the Dutch NGI, active in the Netherlands. This group organised monthly meetings within the Netherlands, as well as a number of conferences. A number of the active members of MCI were also members of SIGCHI, and in 1993, when CHI 93 / INTERCHI 93 came to Amsterdam, the executive committee of the MCI provided the three co-chairs of the conference (Bert Arnold, Gerrit van der Veer and Ted White). At the time there was a plan within MCI to start a local SIGCHI SIG, but due to the ACM policy at the time of not allowing 'national' local SIGs, and because of a change of executive committee, the initiative never reached fruition. In 1995 (not knowing of this earlier plan), three active members of SIGCHI, Eddy Boeve, Hans de Graaff and Steven Pemberton, got together to discuss the possibility of organizing a local SIGCHI group in the Netherlands. Despite the existence of MCI, they thought it would be valuable for both SIGCHI and the Netherlands if there
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