Meeting Preview: JR Inkjet will give the main presentation. As usual, Mary Sheridan will conduct a computing and Windows discussion for the first 30 minutes of the meeting.

By Mary Sheridan, President, Tampa PC Users Group
mcpease@mindspring.com

It feels like summer already and it isn’t even spring. Oh well, that’s Florida. We had a great meeting last month with a full house, and that’s always exciting. William LaMartin did a presentation on using a digital camera. The pictures he’s taken are simply beautiful. I keep waiting for the cameras to fall into my price range, but they aren’t there yet.

The Spring Conference for the Florida Association of PC Users Groups is the weekend of March 2^nd. Since the newsletter goes out around the first Wednesday of the month, this will be old news. I’ve been quite busy getting ready for the conference, and I’ll be much happier when it’s finally over.

On May 2-3, 2001, the doors at the Tampa Convention Center will open to 4,000 corporate and government/education business professionals for the region’s largest Business-to-Business technology event of the year, the Third Annual Tampa Bay Information Technology Exposition & Conference (ITEC). ITEC will feature more than 2000 products and solutions, representing the latest developments in Computers, Telecommunications, Internet/Intranet, Software, Networking, Imaging and Records Management, Multimedia, Video Conferencing, Client Server, Network Security, Disaster Recovery, ATM and much more. The Tampa PC Users Group will have a booth at this event and we need volunteers. I’ll get the tickets to anyone who may be interested in attending as soon as I receive them.

At the last meeting, it was suggested that we establish a novice user class in the computer lab at MOSI, if we are able to hold the regular meetings in a different part of the museum. I have a call in to Al Pesche at MOSI, so I don’t have anything definite yet. There is a need for the novice classes, and we have members who are willing to act as "teachers" for the class, so it may prove to be workable.

We are planning to change the time of the regular meeting from 6 PM to 6:30 PM. Several people are having a difficult time being there at 6 PM. The changes won’t take effect until May.

It’s always fun working with this great group of people, and I hope to see a big turnout for the next meeting. u