Fareham — Dec 6th 2008

This months meeting took a different approach, we concentrated on finding out what we all wanted from the meetings in the new year, producing a list of what we wanted to cover. In between the coffee and doughnuts we had a very interesting discussion covering the items below and even managed to solve a few technical problems members had as well.

Topics for 2009:
Adobe Indesign / DTP Alternatives
Adobe Photoshop / Elements etc.
Scanning old photographs
Blogging
Website publishing / statistics
Password control, Keychain & Alternatives
Virus & mailware
Unix system commands / batch processing alternatives
Visits to other area groups / get togethers

Volunteers:
Slide scanning - Alan Lewer
Presenters, Visiting lectures research - Derek Wright
Adobe Photoshop, Curves - Steve Green
Adobe Indesign DTP - Terry Willis

Other Items:
Loan of club projectors
Visiting professional presenters

A very sucessful meeting in very good company. I doubt if I've noted all the subjects discussed and have probably missed out a few volunteers. Please let me know if I have.

Thanks to everyone for a great meeting!

Comments

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Derek Wright said…

I also volunteered to do a demo on Aperture with Photoshop however it will be on a G4 Powerbook which is a little slow.

Stuart Affleck said…

I couldn't make the meeting- Christmas is somewhat busy at work, I was in on overtime- sounds like it was really good. To throw my hat in the ring RE presentations- I've been (time and motivation permitting) archiving months of press cuttings in digital form, so if anyone's interested in the how's and why's of that (e.g. how to use OCR software, and why perhaps you shouldn't, at least if you have several hundred pages to scan!) I'm happy to do that. On the subject of anti-virus software, I recently acquired VirusBarrier, so I could also show that, and also DriveGenius (for those who remember Norton Utilities, this covers much the same ground with OS X).
Handily, I now have, thanks to a Western Digital pre-Christmas competition, got a 250GB pocket hard drive- arrived today- so rather than lugging the Mac Pro to Fareham I could just borrow someone's Intel Mac and boot it with the drive, cloned from the Pro, with everything ready to go.
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