Fareham — Mar 27th 2010

A little different this week... We started with Coffee & Doughnuts, which seemed to go down very well, but followed this with some news of future changes.

Terry Willis announced he would be standing down as Local Area Representative after the meeting and would no longer be taking an active organizing role in the meetings. Things looked bleak for a moment or two, but swiftly changed as collectively a number of members offered to take up the running of the meetings.

We spent a good deal of time discussing the various options, with many good ideas coming forward. David Teale offered to take up the organizing role, but with the support of a local committee of members. We look forward to future news and events from the new team, keep watching this blog space for the latest news.

We followed this with a short discussion, led by David, on "Auto-CAD" style programs which are available and had an interesting demo by Doug on a PDF plugin for "Preview" which allowed booklet printing, which provoked much interest.

A short networking session followed, as we all tried to connect via 'file sharing' so we could pass files around the collected members. In between this, cups of coffee and yet more doughnuts it proved a very interesting meeting.

Thanks to all who attended.

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Mick Burrell said…

All of us who have ever attended a Fareham meeting in the past have a lot to thank Terry for - all his hard work and of course the frequently mentioned coffee and doughnuts! David has a lot to live up to but I'm sure he'll manage.

Stuart Affleck said…

Hear hear! Terry's done a great job, I'm sure I speak for many when I say I hope he continues to play a role in the Fareham meetings. Missed the meeting, and won't be at another one for a while (unfortunately, every meeting for the next few months seems to clash with something else I have planned for the same weekend....until November!). But I'm sure David will do a fine job.
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