Topic: President's letter September 2008

[BillB]

The Winterfeast Party is coming up fast in December. We are considering moving from St. Gabriel’s Church to either the Levine or Tyvola Senior Center. Terry Bozarth is researching our options at the senior centers and will report with costs and advantages. She will be out of town for an extended period starting at the end of September, so we need someone to work with her and be the coordinator while she is gone. Of course, most of the commitments need to be made very soon as holiday schedules fill fast. If you have any opinions, or would like to help with planning the party, please contact me at President@pc3.org.

The Membership “Committee” – Jack LaPointe and Barbara DeMase, with support from Dewey Williams and myself – is trying to organize all our various levels of membership. We hope to have an attendance sheet at every meeting and ask that you sign in so we can gauge your enthusiasm. Periodically we will also ask you to verify your contact information. If your address, phones, or other status changes; please pass it on to Membership@pc3.org. Also, please keep your information current for the Bytes & Bits mailing list at http://pc3.org/bytes/?p=subscribe&id=2 (this link is at the bottom of all our newsletters). The mailing list is automated and independent of our membership lists, so you need to update both places. And remember, we will never sell or make inappropriate use of your information.

Our Special Interest Groups are one benefit of a paid membership and our SIGs are going strong. Dewey Williams moderates the Web Design SIG that meets the first Wednesday and talks about issues of interest to people who want to publish online. The Microsoft Office SIG with Warren Shanahan as the teacher is currently looking at advanced features in Word. I am starting an Online Collaboration SIG at Levine on September 17. Check the calendar for details on all our meetings.


What goes around comes around

Remember it used to be that when you bought an add-on CD drive it would come with a floppy disc of utilities to install it? I recently bought a floppy drive. That’s right; it came with a CD of utilities to install it.

Bill Barnes, President, PCCC
9/1/08