January 2010

January 2010

Last Updated (Sunday, 14 February 2010 19:04) Written by Jan Fagerholm Saturday, 13 February 2010 00:00

Minutes were taken by Jan Fagerholm as Secretary Bayle Emlein was at CES.

The meeting was called to order by Chuck Horner, president, at 7:35 PM.

Greetings were made by Chuck to attendees explaining the move to the new location. The new adminstration at the HAS location has proved unreliable making access to the multi-purpose room at HAS available at our meeting time. Subsequently, the Executive Committee decided to move the Main Meeting location to the Calvary Baptist Church at 28924 Ruus Road in Hayward at the invitation of Chuck Horner. The Executive Committee has held its meetings there for some time and was able to approve the location from this experience.

SIG Announcements:

Bud Gallagher announced the upcoming Windows 7 SIG on Saturday, Jan. 9th at 1:00 PM. Bud also related his experiences with problems created by the System Mechanic utility program sold to PCC members at the November Main Meeting. Many members had problems with their Windows systems after installing the software. Bud volunteered to follow up with Iolo Technologies and resolve the problem.

Chuck Horner updated members on the status of the newly merged Palm SIG and Windows CE SIG becoming the new Mobile SIG. Chuck and Dan Dolgin are working out a schedule for the new meetings.

Jan Fagerholm announced the upcoming Spectacular Linux SIG meeting on Saturday, January 30th. The topics will likely be the new boot process in the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 edition and how to configure the new GRUB 2.0

Jan also made an announcement for the Hardware SIG on Saturday January 9th at 8:00 PM. (Thanks to Tom Smith for prompting.)

Board of Directors Election:

Annual elections for the PCC Board of Directors was held. Nominations were closed and the ballots were passed out and collected. Votes were counted during the presentations.

Presentations:

Diane George presented the new PCC Web site based on the Joomla content management software. The new software adds many capabilities to the site to support member activities. SIG leaders are encouraged to post their activities to the site, and there are new opportunities for forums and discussion.

Jan Fagerholm presented some of the Open Source applications available for the Windows platform, including OpenOffice office suite, the GIMP bitmap image editor, the Scribus desktop publishing, and Inkscape vector image editing. These are free and available for download from their Web sites.

Election Results:

The results of the elections for Board of Director were announced, as follows:

Bayle Emlein

Jan Fagerholm

Chuck Horner

Elsie Smith

Michael Wong

The meeting of the new Board of Directors will be held in January to select Executive Committee officers for 2010.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:45 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Jan Fagerholm for Secretary Bayle Emlein