January Bits & Bytes is online!
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Our General Meeting in January will take place at
the Largo Cultural Center:
Our new venue has an interesting feature: they'll be
selling Latte at their concession stand for a half-hour before the
meeting and during the break. That's different - will they have a
wine list later on in the year?
Our January meeting will feature Dave Gussow and
John Torro from the St. Pete Times. Dave is the editor
of the Tech Times that appears Monday inside of the Business Times,
and John is the writer of the popular "Solutions" column.
They are among our club's most popular speakers.
This is the 3rd year in a row that we have been lucky
enough to have a visit from them. While our meetings are always open
to the public, we make a special effort to invite other local user groups
to this meeting so that they can drop by and get acquainted.
Door Prizes & Giveaways
Normally, we have problems having enough drawing items
for prizes at our meetings. For a change, we already have enough
items to take care of us during the coming year. The Board has also
decided to change the way our drawings are held each month in order to
inject a little more fun into the process. Come on out and enjoy the
fun.
We'll have a copy of Windows XP Professional Version
to award at the January meeting. I say "award" because I understand
that I can't say "raffle". Hmmm, okay. We sometimes exchange
some drawing tickets for your hard-earned portraits of George Washington
(we're art lovers at TBCS). Then we have someone draw one of those
tickets, and we have an awards ceremony for the person with whom we
exchanged the drawn ticket and we give them some software. This
month the software happens to be WinXP.
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Our SIGs (Special
Interest Groups)
all meet at our Resource Center (map:
http://www.tampa-bay.org/maps.htm).
All of our SIGs are free to our members.
SIGs are a great place to get more personalized attention, and get your
questions answered. The following SIGs will meet this week:
Monday, January 6, 1-3pm
Beginning Embird
SIG. Led by Jan Norman
lnorman1@tampabay.rr.com
Monday, January 6, 6:30-8pm
Computer Q&A SIG.
Led by Cathy Benedict
cathy.don@verizon.net
Dale Atchison will build a computer from scratch for one of our
members. A great place to learn more about the inner workings of your
computer. This month Dale will be assembling a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4
computer with a Gigabyte of RAM memory and running Windows XP
Professional.
Tuesday, January 7, 1-3pm
Novice SIG. Led by Jan Norman. EVERY Tuesday
afternoon.
lnorman1@tampabay.rr.com
Lots of Windows basics info presented here.
Tuesday, January 7, 7-9pm
Visual Basic SIG.
Led by Tom Kiehl
tomk@anonabay.com
Thursday, January 9, 7-9pm
Web Design SIG.
Jim Cook
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