Letter from the President

The Tulsa Computer Society is a 501(c)3 educational organization whose purpose is to help people in NorthEast Oklahoma learn how to better understand and utilize their personal computers. It has approximately 400 members, and about 20 special interest groups, each of which has its own monthly meeting, so there is a meeting almost every night of the month (and more than one meeting on some nights). By having so many special interest groups, members can choose the meetings that interest themselves the most, and thereby configure the Tulsa Computer Society to their own personal interests. With all of the possible permutations, it is concievable that with 400 members, there are 400 different "views" of what the Tulsa Computer Society is.

Some of our meetings are basically question and answer sessions, where attendees can ask questions ranging from the extremely basic, to the very technical, and the leaders will either attempt to answer the questions, or see whether there is anyone in the audience who can provide an answer.

Some of our meetings involve presentations by TCS members, showing how to use some new software or hardware they just purchased.

Some of our meetings involve presentations by Vendors, showing the features in some of the latest releases from their companies.

Most of our meetings are at night, but we do have a Daytimer's Special Interest Group, which meets at 10 a.m. on the second Wednesday of each month, for people who either have difficulty driving at night, or who work second shift, and the third Saturday of each month is our Super Saturday, with two meetings about the internet, a general Question and Answer one, from 10:00 am to noon, followed by a specific subject related to the internet, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.

Regardless of when the meeting takes place, and regardless of its format, the purpose of all of our meetings is to help people learn more about how to use their personal computers.

The motto of the Tulsa Computer Society is:

Computer Users Helping Computer Users

Tulsa Computer Society 12/02/98

Don Singleton, President
don@donsingleton.com