Markus, Good luck with your club in the Hudson Area. I am sure there are a few grey haired ex DEC employees who would be interested in joining. However, have you checked out the local LUG (Linux User Group). There are several in MA with the oldest being the Boston Group (Formerly Boston Computer Society).
Good Luck in promoting FC6. In my local Lug (HantsLug) it is a bit of an an uphill battle against the majority who seem for some strange reason to prefer distros like Debian and Ubuntu (sigh) however I do get some envious looks when they see me running DB2, Oracle and WebSphere on my FCn systems.(If only IBM would sort out the threading libraries for MQ...)
Stephen Davies