ACGNJ 2012 Planning Meeting
John Raff, Dave McRitchie, Don McBride, Malthi Masurekar, Wendy Bell, Brenda Bell, Evan Williams, Mike Reagan
5 pizza pies, and salad, were procured from Maria’s restaurant
Wendy Bell joined ACGNJ for two years as part of a family membership with Brenda Bell, who renewed for two years.
Ideas for future meetings were solicited starting at about 7:20
It was noted that a complete schedule should be solidified as early as possible in order to notify local newspapers, local libraries, and NJ.com of our schedule and topics; also, that we should use our presence on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to advertise these events well. (We are looking to expand our audience beyond our core membership.)
The ideas presented were:
Suggestion |
Member |
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Microsoft Office 2010 |
Wendy |
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Microsoft Office 2013 |
Wendy |
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Microsoft Surface |
Wendy |
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Android Development |
Evan |
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Arduino |
Dave |
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iPad Development |
Evan |
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Geocaching and Geolocation Games; Geotagging Pictures |
Frank |
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Near Field Communication |
John |
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Libre Office vs. Microsoft Office |
Don |
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Mobile Commerce/Payments |
Brenda |
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Web 3.0, semantic context, etc. |
Don |
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Digital Photography, Picassa, ACD, digital darkroom, image file formats, color spaces (RGB, CMYK, etc.) |
Evan (Wendy to present) |
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Cloud Computing |
Dave |
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Office as a Service |
Evan |
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Home Automation |
John |
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Blogging platforms |
Evan |
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Moderating blogs, forums, online conversations (IRC, e-mail lists, etc.) (flame wars, trolls, offensive content, etc.) |
Brenda, Evan |
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Flavors of Linux |
Evan |
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Web analytics and SEO |
Brenda, Evan |
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Macintosh / Apple |
(Dave Marra to present) |
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Back to School (homework sites, education sites, online learning, etc.) |
Brenda |
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Elections (main), Christmas Party (windows pains) |
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Windows 8.0 |
Brenda, Wendy |
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Windows Home Edition – Basic Tasks |
Brenda, Wendy |
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How to Build a Web Page (includes blogging, hosting, analytics, SEO) |
Evan |
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Internet Security, Phishing, Spam, Scams |
(Wendy, Evan) |
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Using eBay |
Don McBride |
As we began to slate the first few items into the schedule, we generated additional ideas and combined ideas to come up with the following schedule:
|
Date |
Meeting |
Tentative Meeting topic |
Speaker |
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9/7/2012 |
Main Meeting |
Back to School (Distance Learning) |
Evan Williams |
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9/21/2012 |
Window Pains |
Microsoft: Windows 8 & Surface. (Backup Program: Microsoft Office 2010) |
(Wendy Bell to procure speaker) |
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10/5/2012 |
Main Meeting |
Electronic Publishing, Digital Photography, and color spaces |
Wendy Bell, Brenda Bell, Evan Williams |
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10/19/2012 |
Window Pains |
Flavors of Linux |
|
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11/2/2012 |
Main Meeting |
Home Automation |
John Raff |
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11/16/2012 |
Window Pains |
Macintosh |
Dave Marra |
|
12/7/2012 |
Main Meeting |
Annual Elections. Tentative program: Mobile Payments |
(Frank Warren to speak on Mobile Payments) |
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12/21/2012 |
Window Pains |
Christmas/Holiday Party |
|
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1/4/2013 |
Main Meeting |
Office Basics – How to use - Word, Excel, PowerPoint |
Brenda Bell, Wendy Bell |
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1/18/2013 |
Window Pains |
Web Sites I: How to build a Web Page; Web analytics |
Evan Williams |
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2/1/2013 |
Main Meeting |
Web Sites II: Blogging and Blogging Platforms |
(Evan Williams, Brenda Bell) |
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2/15/2013 |
Window Pains |
Web Sites III: Internet Security - Including Phishing & Scamming |
(Wendy Bell) |
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3/1/2013 |
Main Meeting |
Android Development |
Evan Williams |
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3/15/2013 |
Window Pains |
TCF Fri. - Sat. – no topic scheduled |
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4/5/2013 |
Main Meeting |
Geocaching and Geolocation Games |
Frank Warren |
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4/19/2013 |
Window Pains |
Internet TV |
Don McBride |
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5/3/2013 |
Main Meeting |
Office as a Service, Google Docs, and Office Suite Shootout |
|
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5/17/2013 |
Window Pains |
Using Ebay - Buying & Selling |
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6/7/2013 |
Main Meeting |
iPad Development |
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6/21/2013 |
Window Pains |
Near Field Communications (tentative) |
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This leaves the following program ideas unscheduled and available as backup programs:
Arduino
iPad and iOS development
Moderating online forums (forums, blog comments, newsgroups, guestbooks, IRC, Facebook pages, etc.) against trolls, flame wars, scams, and offensive or irrelevant content
Cloud Computing, Cloud-Based Document Storage and the Mobile User’s dependence upon these services; also, SaaS (Software as a Service)
We ended the meeting just before 10PM.