Minutes of Mid Atlantic OS/2 Users Group Meeting of 01/11/98.
The regular monthly meeting of the Mid Atlantic OS/2 Users Group was called to order by the President, Rich Jacox, Sunday, January 11, 1998 at 1:30pm in the Virginia Beach Central Public Library's Auditorium. The minutes of the previous meeting were not read, in keeping with the usual and customary procedures of the Users Group.
The subject of this month's meeting was Home Page Publisher, demonstrated by Rich Jacox. It is a GUI based editor that allows editing of HTML codes as well. It is what is currently used to maintain the User Group's home page. It is a package that should be seriously considered for Warp users who maintain web pages.
In other news Rich mentioned that OS/2 Warp 4, FixPack 6 will be out next month. It will include fixes for removeable drives, and newer hard drive hardware protocols.
Club Business: It was informally agreed to by all present, that the next meeting will be held on February 21 at 6:30pm at the Golden Corral, located at 1436 Kempsville Road, Virginia Beach. It is located at the intersection of Kempsville & Indian River Road, (467-3424). Linda Ruiz is responsible for making reservations for 15-20 people. Members and guests are heartily welcome.
The topics for the next 5 meetings were informally agreed upon, they are as follows: February - Beef, Chicken & Seafood (all members). March - Scanning, OCR & Impos/2 (Harry Schueren) April - Smartsuite beta (Joshua Eckland) May - Visual Age for Java (Pat Victorio) June - Voice Type/Navigation & MMOS2 (Linda Ruiz)
At 3:20pm the regular meeting adjourned to break into small discussion groups.
Linda Ann Ruiz, Acting Secretary/Treasurer
Minutes of Mid Atlantic OS/2 User's Group Meeting of 12/20/97.
The regular monthly meeting of the Mid Atlantic OS/2 Users Group was called to order by the Acting Vice President, Pat Victorio , Saturday, December 20, 1997 at 10:30 in the Virginia Beach Central Public Library's Auditorium. The minutes of the previous meeting were not read, in keeping with the standard operating procedures of the User's Group.
Randall Sandoval again demonstrated video on OS/2 running on WinOS2. He also demonstrated several graphic editing programs. His equipment included: a AMD K6/133 with 64MB RAM, 512K Cache, Trident 8960 video card, AceCad graphics tablet, Hitachi camcorder, speakers, 3GB drive.
He demonstrated the capabilities of Adobe Premiere - it's storyboard pasteup metaphor. He compared and contrasted that the the pixel editing per frame capability of Autodesk's Animator Studio. Animator Studio is more flexible in the file formats it can save too. Whereas, Premiere, supports more television like editing and programming features. Premier supports loading of fade/wipe (transition) plug-ins.
Randall also demonstrated a freeware product called Wayfarer. It can replace WinOS2's program manager. It provides more capabilities than Program Manager, in a manner similar to the OS/2 Workplace Shell.
Randall also talked about MetaCreations Dabbler, which although limited in it's import capabilities, is useful for some projects. Finally he demoed TrueSpectra PhotoGraphics - the standard edition. He demonstrated the resolution independence feature that allows for superior editing - without encountering jagged lines & edges at increasing zoom levels.
Randall also demonstrated YAOS - Yet Another OS/2 Shell. Among the more choice features is the near miss - you type in a portion of a directory, and YAOS manages to put you there, without "\"s or even the complete name.
Rich Jacox gave away 2 copies of Avarice. The two winners were Larry Schmitz & RC Thomas. He had a copy of Desktop Observatory, which he will hold on to for a later meeting.
At 11:15 the regular meeting adjourned to break into small discussion groups.
Linda Ann Ruiz, Acting Secretary/Treasurer
Minutes of Mid Atlantic OS/2 User's Group Meeting of 11/22/97.
The regular monthly meeting of the Mid Atlantic OS/2 Users Group was called to order by the Acting President, Rich Jacox, Saturday, November 22, 1997 at 10:30 in the Virginia Beach Central Public Library's Story Room (2nd floor). The minutes of the previous meeting were not read, in keeping with the standard operating procedures of the User's Group.
Regular elections were held, however since only five members were present, the elected officers are considered 'acting' until such time as they can be approved by the mininum amount of active members as required by the User Group's bylaws.
Linda Ruiz was nominated for Secretary/Treasurer by Rich Jacox & seconded by Pat Victorio. All members present voted for approval.
Pat Victorio was nominated for Vice President by R.C. Thomas, & seconded by Linda Ruiz. All members present voted for approval.
Rich Jacox was nominated for President by Linda Ruiz, and seconded by R.C. Thomas. Three members voted for, one voted against approval.
A question was put to the floor to investigate conducting such business by proxy via e-mail. It will be considered in the future again.
Randall Sandoval demonstrated video on OS/2 running on WinOS2. He also demonstrated several graphic editing programs.
At 11:10 the regular meeting adjourned to celebrate OS/2's 10th anniversary with cake & drinks.
Linda Ann Ruiz, Acting Secretary/Treasurer
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