Minutes - 11 July 2008

Minutes of the July 11, 2008 meeting of the Sioux Falls Seniors Computer Club:

President Norm Knox called the meeting to order in room 204, and expressed pleasure at the number of members attending. The minutes of the June meeting were read and approved with one revision: The coming ECHO Symposium at the Center will be held on September 30. Actions by the club in connection with the ECHO Symposium are presently pending. There was no old business. Under new business, Vice President Bill Goebel announced the topic of the next meeting will be "off-site Internet storage".

Following the business part of the meeting, the club members moved to the Sertoma B room. In Sertoma B, Garth Peterson ran a demonstration of wireless access from the club's notebook computer to the Center's wireless router. Sertoma B is close enough to the router for successful wireless access while the computer classroom and room 204 are not. Following this demonstration, the meeting continued in the same room. Club members discussed security concerns and various technical problems, led by Bill Goebel. Bill mentioned that while flash drives are very useful, they are not immune to failure. Also,the program msinfo32 which can be run from the run box available on the Start Menu, can give information about memory usage or overloading Windows.

Respectfully submitted by Garth Peterson, Secretary.

NOTES OF INTEREST

Computer Learning Center Open House Tuesday, July 29 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm. Bring a friend! Spread the news! The Center will host a Computer Learning Center Open House. This is an opportunity for current students to expand their knowledge and learn more about our new end-of-summer and fall class schedules. Current Computer Learning Center students who bring a friend to this open house will receive a $5 coupon for their next computer class. Free Seminars include: MS Office Programs 9 Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher), New Computer Classes in Spanish, Photo Shop Elements, and Q & A. Computer instructors will be available to answer questions and help guide you on your learning process through the computer world. For more information, contact Lisa Howard at 333-3307.

Free Computer Seminar Wednesday, July 30th. The Sioux Falls Computer Learning Center has another free computer seminar scheduled for Wednesday, July 30th, at 12:00 noon. This is an opportunity to learn more about the VISTA operating system, Word(2003), Internet surfing and e-mail. Bring your questions for our very knowledgable instructors. Class schedules will be available for August through October. Seats are limited; call 336-6722.

Membership Listing: A listing of members as of July 11, 2008, can be seen by clicking "membership" in the Label section on your right.

The email that was sent out with the minutes had two attachments that showed the club's membership list in July. E-mail addresses are not included. The first attachment (DOC file) can be opened with Word, and the second (TXT file) can be opened with Notepad. The second attachment can be opened and then copied and pasted into a spreadsheet, or it can be opened and searched for a house number or phone number if necessary. Refer to those documents in your email if you so desire.