By Elise Edgell

Our March meeting is a Photo Day. SIGs are encouraged to work the theme into each SIG.

Need some help with your digital camera? Bring it (along with the User Guide) to the meeting if you would like some help with using it, or finding out how to use some of the more esoteric features. Samy's Camera will send us some experts in digital photography and video.

Get your portrait taken. One of our members, John Hlavac, will be set up in a room to give tips on, and show how to take good portraits. You might also want to check out his setup and learn something about lighting.

I would like to thank Irene Chou of Ingram Micro for presenting a most interesting meeting in February. I thought that it was very interesting to listen to her criteria for selecting new gadgets that will make it in the marketplace. Her viewpoint on the subject is very different from mine. Of course, I just look at new gadgets as things that I would be interested in buying, not what would really have wide appeal and therefore be a good seller and of interest to a distributor or retailer. I bet that NOCCC members are more apt to be early adopters and therefore willing to buy the items that are considered too innovative and complicated for the general public.

Do you have some ideas about how NOCCC could be better, attract more members, have better SIGs, more interesting presentation for the Main Meeting, or any other creative ideas? Instead of griping about how the club is being run, stop and consider whether you can contribute some time to making next year the best yet for NOCCC. Elections are coming up. June is not that far away. One way to run for office is to let the nominating committee, chaired by Ted Littman, know that you are interested. The other way is to get nominated for the position you want and then run for office.

Even if you are not interested in running for an office or a place on the Board of Directors, we can always use volunteers at the meetings. In the morning, we need people to help setup the tables, be sure the SIG rooms are open, that the elevator is unlocked, that the restrooms are unlocked, and many other easy to do tasks. It is particularly important that we know who is able to help in the morning because there are not as many people around as in the afternoon.

We also need volunteers to help with the closing. This includes putting away the tables, packing up the video projector and other equipment used in Irvine Hall, making sure that all notices that may have been posted about our meeting are taken down and thrown away, trash picked up and disposed of, etc. Volunteers make the difference so that the few members who are currently helping do not get burned out.

Bring you camera and I'll see you at the March meeting. Remember to check the schedule to be sure that your have the new time and location for SIGs and the Main Meeting.

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