Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - What? Word Processing!?!
What? Word Processing? Can't be.
Be we are going to cover word processing and in a very interesting way. When trying to brainstorm a good meeting, XCOM posed...
...I need word processing software, but, I don't need it enough to spend money on it. (developers everywhere cry a little )
...I really just need a program to take a few notes, but, be able to take and access notes on my computer, my iPhone or any computer for that matter.
...I need to write and not be distracted by bells and whistles of a word processing program. In fact, I need distraction free writing.
One product isn't going to cover all that, but, we have an array of simple solutions to some common writing problems. Come to the next TMUG meeting and see how we address these workflow problems.
Of course, we will still have our Question and Answer session. That always includes something new. So, please join us for our next TMUG meeting, we'll be glad you did.
TMUG Meeting Day Change Update
Even though the TMUG membership present at the October 13th meeting voted to change the meeting day, we had not posted that we needed to do this early enough to comply with TMUG's By-laws. (Read the original September 28th announcement below.) The Executive Committee (XCom) had explored the options of changing the meeting night to a different day of the week and week of the month, and selected the 2nd Tuesday as the replacement meeting night, due to the constraints we have with the current location of Hope Community Church. XCom was unable to find another location with convenient access, low cost, and sufficient facilities that was available on the 2nd Monday, or another night. An "official" vote was held at the November 10 meeting following discussion by the members present. Until space is again available at Hope on the 2nd Monday, or another location is determined, TMUG will meet on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at Hope Community Church.
(Attendance at the November meeting was 35, including 2 visitors.)
TMUG Meeting Day Change
There is a conflict with a new internal meeting at Hope Community Church, and they have cancelled all outside groups on Monday nights for the foreseeable future. They have set aside Tuesday nights for us, pending club approval.
Most of us have little or no memory of TMUG meeting on a night other than Monday, but for several years at the EPA, we had a similar situation: They rented the auditorium out to Wake Forest to use for an MBA program on Mondays, and we were welcome to Tuesday - period. Part of the problem of being in loaned space.
At the October meeting (which will start at 6:30 PM at Hope Community Church, as usual), we will vote on whether to officially change future meeting nights to Tuesday or to seek a new location that is available on Monday. Your XCOM is recommending Tuesday. Having sought out new space three times in the last ten years, I casually mentioned that anyone voting to stay on Monday be placed on the committee to find a new location, but I was voted down. But, should the motion to stay on Monday be passed, the XCOM will NOT be solely charged with finding the place. We will elect a group at that same Tuesday meeting from the membership to proceed with this search, and report back to the XCOM at their next meeting.
This is not dereliction of duty or blackmail (well, not in a bad way), but many of the members of this committee have moved us from the EPA to the Eno River UUF church to NCML to Hope, and are not wanting to play the game again. We have a fine facility that is free, near an Interstate, has great parking and security, and is between Raleigh and Durham. Sure, we all wish it was 5 miles west, to be more central, but this is current reality. There's not a lot in the way of free / cheap real estate out there.
We are wide open to suggestions in other directions, but we WILL be meeting on Tuesday, October 13, since the current location is not available on Mondays, and we were unsuccessful in finding even a temporary location for the night. (Francis Shepherd was already scheduled elsewhere on Tuesday, so cannot present Snow Leopard. We will bring in the new features of the OS little by little over the next few months.) I will be at Hope on the 12th to assist anyone who isn't on the list and doesn't check this web site. If you know anyone who does not stay connected in either of those two ways, please let them know of the change.
Thanks.
Smythe Richbourg, President
9-28-09
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Velomac 13:54, 8 December 2009 (EST) (again!)
