Since the start of the club in 1996, meetings have been held monthly. Almost all meetings have some sort of theme, and below you can find details of all the ones that I can remember! We are now meeting twice most months, and having subjects that span multiple meetings - please visit the list of forthcoming meetings [0] to see what we are planning to cover in the future.
On this page I have collected together electronic versions of some of the talks/hands on tasks that have been given - as new meetings are held I will add them to this page automatically, sadly some past meetings have been lost altogether, and I have had to leave gaps in the lists. In addition, not all meetings will have had anything produced that could be reproduced here (sometimes I work without any written notes, or meetings are run as discussions or demonstrations). The files will probably mainly be in pdf format - I am sure you will have something capable of reading this on your system! If not, please head across to www.adobe.com [1], and download a copy of the Adobe Reader. Please note that the files can be quite large (>1Mb).
Everything that has been produced for meetings, and is suitable for distribution, will soon be below, in (reverse) chronological order. If you'd find it easier, many documents are listed by Subject on our Resources [1] pages.
2007
| Date | Subject |
|---|---|
| February | Introduction to Microsoft Windows [1] |
| January | What is a computer? [1] |
2006
| Date | Subject |
|---|---|
| July 14th | Demo of Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 beta versions |
| July 28th | New hardware technologies [1] |
| August 11th | Computer hardware upgrading – hands on? |
| August 25th | General Q&A session (Bank holiday weekend) |
| September 8th | Using Internet Search Engines |
| September 22nd | FOSS - Open Source Software |
| October 13th | Using Google and Internet Search Engines |
| October 27th | Annual General Meeting |
2005
| Date | Subject |
|---|
2004
| Date | Subject |
|---|---|
| December 24th | No meeting (Christmas Eve) |
| December 10th | General + Christmas Party |
| November 26th | The Computer at Christmas! - discussion and demonstration |
| November 12th | Windows XP Service Pack 2 - what is it? How to install? - demonstration |
| October 22nd | Annual General Meeting |
| October 8th | Backing up your files and settings [1] |
| September 24th | Installing an Alternative Operating System - demonstration |
| September 10th | Questions Session |
| August 27th | An Alternative View - other operating systems - demonstration |
| August 13th | Looking to the future - 64bit computing / BTX motherboards etc [1] |
| July 23rd | Automating Tasks - Advanced, using scripts [1] |
| July 9th | Automating Tasks - basic using Task Scheduler [1] |
| June 25th | No meeting due to holiday |
| June 11th | General session |
| May 28th | Installing/Re-installing Windows - in practice - demonstration |
| May 14th | Installing/Re-installing Windows - preparation [1] |
| April 23rd | Burning CDs/DVDs - AUDIO - demonstration |
| April 9th | No meeting (Good Friday) |
| March 26th | Burning CDs/DVDs - DATA [1] |
| March 12th | Questions Session |
| February 27th | Basic PC Skills - maintenance - demonstration |
| February 13th | Basic PC Skills - file management - discussion |
| January 2 | Home Networking 2 - no handout as practical demonstration |
| January 1 | Home Networking 1 [1] |
2003
December 2003 - 2 - No meeting
December 2003 - 1 - Q&A/Christmas Party
November 2003 - 2 - Digital Imaging 2 (no handout)
November 2003 - 1 - Digital Imaging 1 [1]
October 2003 - 2 - AGM
October 2003 - 1 - Q&A Session (no handout)
September 2003 - 2 - Internet 2: The story continues [1]
September 2003 - 1 - Introduction to the Internet [1]
August 2003 - 2 - Using Publisher in Anger [1]
August 2003 - 1 - Introducing Publisher [1]
July 2003 - 2 - Integrating Office Applications Continued [1]
July 2003 - 1 - Integrating Office Applications [1]
June 2003 - 2 - General (no handout)
June 2003 - 1 - No meeting
May 2003 - 2 - Spreadsheets 2 [1]
May 2003 - 1 - Spreadsheets 1 (no handout)
April 2003 - 2 - Word processing 2 [1]
April 2003 - 1 - Word processing 1 [1]
March 2003 - 2 - Computer Ownership [1]
March 2003 - 1 - Q&A session (no handout)
February 2003 - 2 - How does a computer work? [1]
February 2003 - 1 - What is a computer? [1]
January 2003 - 2 - Databases hands on [1]
January 2003 - 1 - Databases intro [1] + handout [1]
2002
December 2002 - General/Christmas Party
November 2002 - Viruses and Security [1]
October 2002 - AGM
September 2002 - CHURCH CENTENARY
August 2002 - Photoshop (Margot & Gwen) [1]
July 2002 - General
June 2002 - MEETING CANCELLED
May 2002- Hardware upgrades [1]
April 2002 - Spring Cleaning
March 2002 - Star Office hands on
February 2002 - Powerpoint hands on [1]
January 2002 - Linux: Destroying the Myth
2001
December 2001 - General/Christmas Party
November 2001 - Hands on DTP [1]
October 2001 - MIDI [1]
September 2001 - AGM
August 2001 - Word processing stage 2 [1]
July 2001 - Spreadsheets 2
June 2001 - General
May 2001 - Databases 2
April 2001 - Mail merging hands on
March 2001 - Word processing Hands on
February 2001 - Viruses
January 2001 - Backing Up, CDs, Zip etc.
2000
December 2000 - General/Christmas Party
November 2000 - Hands on HTML [1]
October 2000 - Visual Basic [1]
September 2000 - AGM
August 2000 - Databases [1] + handout [1]
June 2000 - General & Spring Clean [1]
May 2000 - MEETING CANCELLED
April 2000 - Word processing (Irene Burchell) [1]
March 2000 - Graphics manipulation
February 2000 - Simple Maintenance
1999
December 1999 - General/Christmas Party
November 1999 - Back to Basics [1]
October 1999 - Insurance and Ownership [1]
September 1999 - AGM
August 1999 - Hands on DTP
July 1999 - Internet session
June 1999 - general
May 1999 - Cleaning and Maintenance - PCW [1]
April 1999 - Return to CPM, DOS [1]
March 1999 - PC Debate + Basic 98 [1]
February 1999 - Mini Office Professional - PCW
January 1999 - Year 2000 bug [1]
Pre 1999
Prior to January 1999 meetings were generally only concerned with the Amstrad PCW range of computers - no record of these meetings now exists.