Report from the President

The good news this month is that the new equipment in the training is now fully functional and the fit out of the room almost complete. We should now be able to again start running weekend training courses for our members.

See the training section of the website and elsewhere in this newsletter for more details.

We have also welcomed back Allan Hepworth as our LAN manager who will look after the Centre server and network. With his help we should also have the media centre fully functional again real soon now. Watch out for sessions on "How To" on our high end systems. To enhance the usefulness of the scanning system we have now purchased a copy of PaintShop Pro X for use there.

The committee also looked again at membership fees and decided that the percentage discounts proposed had led to confusion and difficulties with the odd amounts resulting.  We have thus fixed new membership fees for concessions and seniors which will come into effect when the web site and necessary forms are all updated. The definitions of concessions and seniors remain as announced last month:

The concession membership fee will be available to any member holding or entitled to at least one of:-
The seniors membership fee will be available to any member 60 years of age or over.

The committee also decided on a procedure for disposal of PCUG assets no longer required, particularly the computers replaced in the recent training room upgrade.  Briefly, all items to be disposed of will be announced in an email to all members with members invited to make an offer up to an announced closing date.  Then, best offer wins, or in the case of more than one equal offer, the winner will be decided by lot.  We will be quite happy to accept positive, zero, or even negative offers - a negative offer of less than the current dumping fee for an old monitor is quite likely to be successful.

Finally, a reminder that the Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 3rd October, and now is the time to start thinking about how YOU can contribute to the PCUG in the next year.

Allan Mikkelsen


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