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This seems to be the quarter of 25th birthdays. Our advisors have informed me that Pikes Peak,
Quad Cities, Utah Computer Society, and Sarina PCUG in Canada are all celebrating their 25th
birthdays or aniversaries, or whatever you want to call it. APCUG wishes them a very happy 25th,
and we hope they are around for another 25 years. And if we have missed any UGs who are also
celebrating their 25th birthdays, we wish you another 25 years as well.
It is also a quarter of new birth, and we welcome the Northwest Florida Association of Computer User Groups into existence. We also welcome the UGs that have just joined APCUG this year: Sun River St George Computer Club (St George, UT) and Rochester New York SeniorNet Learning Center (Rochester, NY).
I am still looking for several more volunteers to serve on the On Line Services (OLS) committee. Do you have anyone in your UG that you feel can help us come up with online solutions to help APCUG and its member User Groups? I need someone with experience with cgi-scripts, someone with experience with WebSite Statistics (we used to have LiveStats on our server, but somehow it disappeared, and I would like to replace it with something more current), a volunteer or two who really know Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and someone who knows how to set up and maintain a Linux Web Server. Initially I am focused on services that APCUG uses, but if volunteers have ideas for services that APCUG can install and make available to its member UGs, I am definitely interested in that as well.
I am also looking for help with the Publications committee. Right now APCUG Reports is published using Adobe PageMaker (version 6.5), because that is what I used when publishing the TCS Tabloid Newsletter, but I would like to begin using Adobe InDesign, and need some committee members familiar with it. I am hoping to use it, together with Microsoft Share Point services so that we can have several people working on the layout, so that if any one person is sick or unable to work, we can still get the issue out on time.
We certainly expect to have a LOT more information available next quarter, but for those of you who want to begin planning now, our 2008 conference will begin Thursday, January 3rd (late afternoon) and it will run through Sunday, January 6th (end at 12 Noon). Additional information is available on page 15, as well as information about three contests we will be holding this year: Website, Newsletter, and Photo. Winners of all three will be announced at the 2008 APCUG Annual Conference, along with the winners for the Jerry Award Competition (preliminary information on Jerry Awards is on page 25).