President's Message
September 2010

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 More than a couple people were confused by the August 15th date for our Sunday meeting. We did not plan it that way and would have preferred that it was the normal first Sunday, however, that would have been an impossibly short period of time to get the newsletter together and delivered to the membership. The second Sunday was already spoken for, so we had to settle for the third Sunday. If you have looked at the calendar, you may have noticed that we have our next meeting on September 12 which of course is the second Sunday. The first Sunday, September 6, is Labor Day and far too many members want the long weekend for various activities other than attending the North Orange County Computer Club meeting. I received a phone call from Chapman University scheduling office that added one additional little confusing item to our meeting on September 12. They apologized, but said they had overlooked an additional conflict for the usage of Irvine Lecture Hall. They wanted to know if it would be okay if our activities were moved to the main auditorium, called Memorial Hall, on that date. I assured them that we could do that with a minimum of confusion, and would be happy to accept the change in venue.

If you go to http://www.chapman.edu/map/map.pdf and download the PDF map of the Chapman campus, you will find that Memorial Hall is designated as building number one and is located about 100 yards west of where we normally meet. Yes, this and a few other things are confusing but I have confidence that our members can cope with it and a few other items that I have yet to mention. One of those primarily concerns the Linux group and classroom 131A where they normally were meeting. The scheduling office tells me that classroom 131A should be available again in September and from there on. The other item has to do with the ongoing saga of parking in the underground structure. Apparently having the ticket machine where you could purchase a parking permit at the entrance to the parking structure was creating a traffic flow problem as most users of the parking structure have a permanent permit. As a consequence, the machines were moved to an area not far from the bottom of the ramp but out of the main traffic flow. All of the other stuff that we have talked about for the last two years still applies. If you do not purchase a $2 parking permit from the machine and place it on the dash of your car you are likely to get a parking ticket which costs $40.

For the first time in quite a while it looks like we will be able to announce who the main speaker is going to be for several months in advance. That information should be available elsewhere in the Bytes, however, I would like to announce here that Ben Lochtenbergh, club member and one of the Directors of the club, will be doing a presentation on Microsoft's Media Center program in September. More later.

Jim Sanders

September 2010 Posting by Jim Sanders, President NOCCC

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