TCS - Getting Started

Getting Started

by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the December 1999 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter

As announced last month, we have discontinued the Getting Started meetings on the first Wednesday in Owasso, due to extremely low turnouts. Because we knew several people were expecting to get started with the cancelled Getting Started with Windows meeting, we devoted the Special Projects meeting on November 2 to this subject, with a little bit of Internet for beginners thrown in. Docia McCloud came up with a very good idea for Getting Started which we will begin with in December; many people that want to come to Getting Started want to go to church on Wednesdays, so next year rather than having a Getting Started meeting in the evening on the Third Wednesday, we are going to have it in the afternoon, on the Second Wednesday, following the Daytimers meeting at Martin East Regional Library. There are two exceptions to this; the space is not available in the afternoon in February and May, so on those two days we will have only a morning Daytimer's meeting.

Daytimers is and will remain a general Question and Answer meeting, where what we cover will be determined by what the audience wants to talk about, and beginners are welcome there as well as our more experienced members. That meeting will remain from 10:00 am to noon. We will give people an hour to go and get something to eat, and then resume at 1:00 pm for a two hour Getting Started session, with a specific assigned topic focused on the very beginner.

We will begin with the afternoon meetings in December, but in order to give people plenty of time to switch over to the new structure, we will also have the evening meeting on the Third Wednesday in December at TU, and it won't be until January when we cancel that meeting.

We recognize that this will leave us with no evening meeting for beginners. We are not adverse to starting such a session, either at TU or up in Owasso, if we are assurred that we will have enough people to attend it to justify hauling in the equipment. If you would like to see such a meeting established, and will commit to attend regularly, please let me know which days of the week you would be most available, and if you have a strong preference for TU vs Owasso let us know that.

Nov 11 10:00 amDaytimers
Nov 16 7:30 pmGetting Started Spreadsheets & Databases
Dec 9 10:00 amDaytimers
Dec 9 1:00 pmGetting Started Graphics
Dec 16 7:30 pmGetting Started Graphics
Jan 13 10:00 amDaytimers
Jan 13 1:00 pmGetting Started Hardware
Feb 10 10:00 amDaytimers
Mar 10 10:00 amDaytimers
Mar 10 1:00 pmGetting Started Windows
Apr 14 10:00 amDaytimers
Apr 14 1:00 pmGetting Started Internet
May 12 10:00 amDaytimers
Jun 9 10:00 amDaytimers
Jun 9 1:00 pmGetting Started WP



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