Re: Computers at meetings
Re: Computers at meetings
- Subject: Re: Computers at meetings
- From: Phill Hoxie <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:55:13 -0800
Richard,
Our group faced the same kind of problem and the Board decided to
buy, for the User Group, a reconditioned Power Book. It is maintained
by the Program Manager and software is added as needed. Certain
Group records are also keep on it. We do have Macs at our meeting
place (a middle school) but this is much more convienint as the
software reviewer or presenter can use the computer at home to
prepare their presentation and be sure that all is working.
Loading software into the schools computers did not work well as
their were conflicts created and sometimes the presentation could not
be made as the software would not work for whatever reason.
We have had the laptop for about a year and it has worked very well for us.
Phill Hoxie
Sierra MUG
Murphys, CA
email@hidden
I'd like to hear from others of you as to what you do as regards having a
computer at your meeting site. There is no "resident" Macintosh in the room
we use, so one (usually a Powerbook) has to be furnished. This raises
practical problems, such as there being only a handful of laptops among
people with irregular patterns of attendance.
A recurring scenario is one of a member willing to present a demo but
needing a Mac to do it. And of course the software to be demoed has to be
loaded in by the computer's owner, and then (usually) the presenter's prefs
file substituted. Obviously, one can't rely only on the laptop owners for
demoes.
Are any of you bringing desktops or iMacs to your meetings? How are you
handling the matter of member-presenters not being able to bring their own
computer to present a demo, thus needing to use another? If there is a Mac
"in residence" at the meeting site, how does the software that will be
demoed get loaded in?
--Richard
Richard Huggins
Tyler Area Macintosh Users (TAMU), Tyler, TX
My e-mail <email@hidden>
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