Jerry Awards
for Community Service Projects
by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the January 2000 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter
The second annual Jerry Awards for User Group Community Service
Projects were announced at the Annual User Group Summit meeting at
Fall Comdex 1999. These awards are named for APCUG founder Jerry
Schneider whose commitment to encouraging and facilitating user group
involvement in the community has led to numerous outstanding outreach
programs. Many APCUG groups are involved in community service
projects of all sizes and scope. The purpose of the Jerry Awards is to
recognize and reward these projects and to encourage new and
expanded involvement. These projects exemplify how the mottoes of
"user helping users" and "user groups helping user groups" have evolved
into "user groups helping the community."
Over 20 groups submitted their projects this year. Through the
generosity of charter sponsors Oracle Corporation, Microsoft, and
Adobe Systems and new sponsor MGI APCUG was able to select 9
projects to receive a 1999 Jerry Award. These groups will receive an
award certificate along with a check for $500 to be used to further their
worthy projects. The Tulsa Computer Society's Computer Refurbishing Project
was one of the 9 projects honored by an award.
See http://www.apcug.org/community_service/99jerries.htm for all winners
and http://www.apcug.org/community_service/99jerries.htm#tulsa to see
TCS's submission.
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