F R P C U G S I G S
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIGS)
GENERAL SIG INFORMATION: The Special Interest Group (SIG) is on the leading edge of action for the Front Range PC Users Group. Recently, Mike Morris has developed some interest in a Digital Image SIG and, also, in a Desk Top Publisning (DTP) SIG currently meeting monthly. See the events calendar for times and places of these SIG meetings. You may contact Mike at by email at k-byte(AT)frpcug.org
The idea of the SIG is to bring people of similar interests together to see what happens. It's as simple as that.
DIGITAL IMAGING SIG -- (A NEW ACTIVITY!)
The Digital Imaging SIG has grown out of the Digital Imaging Clinic lead by Rick Mattingly, and the increasing use of digital cameras by members. Topics can include cameras, scanning, or software. The hot topic currently is software for organizing and, especially, modifying images once out of the camera and into the computer.
DESKTOP PUBLISHING (DTP) SIG -- (A NEW ACTIVITY!)
The Desk Top Publishing SIG has developed out of the Advanced Word Classes by Mike Morris and his presentation on the subject at a FRPCUG General Forum meeting.
TECHNOLOGY SIG
One of the longer running SIGs in the club and run by Charles McJilton, this group meets on the third Thursday of the month at Blue Bird Manufacturing, 1421 Webster Ave. Fort Collins, CO. See the events calendar for time and location. The meeting content varies greatly depending on the issues and problems brought by the members for resolution. The group is a consolidation of one-time active, previous groups including the HTML & Website Development, Networking, and Linux Interest groups.
The projects of this group vary from achieving wireless internet access with someone's laptop, to evaluating various combinations of CPUs, motherboards, memory and video cards for the optimmized machine. All operating systems (OS) are poked, massaged, cussed and discussed. The tenor of the meetings is one of a surprisingly intellectual enterprise, though this view is sometimes not supported by the banter. It is, in spite of a casual approach, a time of ferment and sharing. Ferment tops sharing most days.
PROPOSED: WEB DEVELOPMENT SIG and a LINUX SIG
This WEB SITE has been developed as a learning process, mostly undertaken during the "SHOP TALK" sessions on Saturday mornings at 11:00 AM. These are scheduled help sessions on the events calendar and anyone wanting to participate in this learning event is encouraged to come to the Fort Collins Senior Center lobby. We have been particularly interested in cascading style sheets (css), html & xhtml coding, and Java script calls to date sensitive images. All of this is new to this reporter, and has been a very interesting learning experience.
It has been proposed that we formalize this effort into an active SIG. All participants would be open to this. We're open to nearly anything fostering the educational purposes of FRPCUG.
INTEREST IN A PROPOSED COMPUTER RECYCLING SIG IS FLAGGING
The Computer Recycling SIG was proposed to assist in the reprovisioning of reclaimed and rennovated computers for the Adult Learning Center, for their clients, and/or to rebuild computers with Linux OS for local nursing homes and retirement centers on an "as needed" basis.
Both of these activities have run into snags at the moment. We will continue to investigate further the feasibility of such activities or SIGs.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS (A SIG?? OF COURSE NOT!)
The BoD meets the Wednesday after the General Meeting of the Front Range PC User Group at 7:00 PM in the office meeting room of the Fort Collins Senior Center. Our Board functions very much like a SIG and is open to the public to attend. In many ways, anyone who wants to see something happen, programs planned, educational programs mounted, special presentations, classes presented, or anything else that someone thinks needs to be done... well it can be proposed, and very likely can be instituted, undertaken, taught or whatever.
Our club is exactly that: Our Club. We have a bunch of bright people with interests in computers and they want to be helpful to others as they are learning more about computers and how to use them more fully, more wisely. What a neat thing it is!
