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Meeting Agenda For May 2013

May 7 - Photo Contest

Both for our pleasure and for entries into the Southwest Conference photo contest, we’ll have a look at our own camera lovers and what they like to photograph. We missed doing this last year so it will be great fun for this meeting, both for those who took the pictures and for the rest of us to look at the display.

Those who are planning to attend the Southwest Conference are entitled to enter a photo in each of the categories. Because TUGNET is a participant, we can choose a photo to enter in each category whether the person who took those pictures is attending or not.

I hope we’ll have lots of participants because it will be much more fun. You can choose the category for your picture or we can help with that decision. The categories are: People, Nature and Landscape (flowers, outdoor scenes, nature images, sunsets, urban landscapes, seascapes), Animals and Phoneography (aka Phone Photography) - it’s all about shooting and editing with your cell phone or smart phone.

The SWCC rules, which we will follow are:

Photo Format
• Entries in the People, Nature & Landscape and Animal categories must be taken with a
digital camera; Phoneography category must be taken with your phone.
• Printed size may be 5 x 7 to 8-1/2 x 11, maximum
• Color or black and white
• No borders or frames

Contest Rules
• A photo may only be entered in one category; one entry per person in each category
• The photographer’s name, name/description of the photo, category and user group must be noted on the back of the photo (preferably on a label)
• By entering the contest, you are allowing the Southwest Computer Conference to publish the photo on its website or in other electronic promotional materials or print media
• Photos will not be returned
• Four copies of each photo entered in the contest must be received by May 24, 2013.

Photographers retain the copyright to their photographs.

That’s it. Let’s have all our members participating. You certainly don’t have to be an expert to have an interesting picture to enter. At a recent conference, a winning photo was taken by a camera - there was no special category then - and it was the first time that person had taken a picture with the camera or entered it in the contest. So, don’t hold back for any reason.

May 14 - Tech Talk with Jay Ross

We have been learning more about our computers and how to use them each time Jay Ross gives us a presentation. We have also learned a lot from the questions that have been asked. Jay considers the various operating systems when he chooses a topic to discuss, so none are left out. There’s no one who ‘knows it all’ or ‘knows enough’ and Jay even says that himself. We may have some doubt about that, but it’s absolutely true about the rest of us.

All the years I’ve been attending TUGNET meetings, there have been very few when I haven’t picked up a tip or a bit of information, at the very least, at any one of them, even when I thought the topic of the evening was not going to be interesting to me. Whatever the topic and whomever the speaker, there’s that golden nugget that comes out of it. I always say that everything I know about computers is due to our TUGNET meetings. I am quite sure that will continue to be true.

May 21 - How to Handle an Emergency and Much More

Between our presentations and articles in our newsletter, we are probably better informed about the various threats that exist against us that most folks. However, do you ever wonder what is most prevalent in your own neighborhood?

For this meeting we’ll find out about that from someone who deals with it every day. We’ll welcome Dario Delcore, Lead Officer, Los Angeles Police Department, Devonshire Division. Office Delcore shared a great amount of pertinent information during his previous visit in 2009. When talking to him about a return visit, he remembers being here and is looking forward to seeing everyone again.

Dario Delcore has been an LAPD officer for 23 years and has worked all of his career in a uniformed assignment, 911 response, training officer and specialized in crime prevention for the past 13 years. At the meeting he will cover crime statistics for the area, for the city and will discuss traditional methods of operation the crooks use to victimize. He will also take all questions.

You know this will be an indispensable meeting so you’d best plan to be here.

May 28 - Martie Sandell: Fabric Artist, Designer and Machine Embroidery Expert

We’ve had many presentations on what computers can do in various situations. Here is another way computers have changed the way things are done. Guys, this is for everyone since you, too, will be amazed at what programmers have accomplished.

Martie’s passion for sewing began as a young child. After teaching quilting for the Los Angeles College District she launched “Creative Makings by Martie,” a unique pattern line distributed internationally. Her award-winning garments have been featured nationwide on the runway for Houston’s Fairfield Processing Fashion Show; the Great American Quilt Festival in NYC; and exhibited at The American Textile Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts. Martie has been a regular contributor to trade and craft magazines, sharing her sewing knowledge while encouraging creativity in others. Her expertise found its way to the Internet when she began two online sewing/embroidery groups. Her whimsical appliqué and surface embellishment designs have appeared in magazine advertisements and as printed cut-and-sew fabric panels.

Martie was an Educator with two major sewing machine companies before joining RNK's Floriani Division. She currently travels the country teaching people the art of computerized sewing, embroidery and quilting. Sewing has definitely come a long way since her original manual straight stitch machine to her newest 10-needle computerized embroidery machine. She will have many examples to show which you will find fascinating. I have marveled at these in booths at CES and I know you will too.

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