General Meetings

Presentations are given at the meetings on a variety of topics from speakers within the group as well as from outside sources. An open forum portion of the meeting allows members to find solutions to problems. Visitors are always welcome to attend the general meetings and meet our members.

Our meeting schedule:

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Our general meetings are usually held on the second Wednesday of each month.
NOTE: There are no meetings in the months of July and August.

We encourage our members to submit suggestions for future topics or speakers and to consider making presentations to the Group. Please send your suggestions or offers by email to our .

The following topics have been suggested:

• computer animation
• Web Blogging
• computer recycling
• GIS and mapping (NRCan)
• Adobe (According to Morris, no chance for someone from Ottawa)
• Retro computing – collector
• 3D scanning and movies (http://www.xyzgrb.com)
• Skype
• Using data bases (eg address lists) (Mark or Bob G?)
• Virtualization (Microsoft?)
• City of Ottawa’s e-services
• Microsoft Office 2010
• Google - how they are doing data centres
• Corel
• Backups
• How to Use your ISP`s webspace
• Xbox 360
• IBM’s big iron and lines
• Software development and tools (eclipse, git, make, build…)
• Photography

Check out our list of past presenters with links to their WEB sites.

GENERAL MEETINGS (details if available)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

Speaker: Bob Walker, OPCUG
Topic: Accessible Computing

Accessible Computing including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) from the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative. This includes making web content accessible for disabled users as well as making content accessible for normal users using limited devices such as mobile phones and tablets. The presentation will include sections on accessible design, text to speech applications, speech to text applications and a brief section on mobile computing.

May Raffle

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McAfee All Access 2012 is valued at $100.
Tickets are, as always, a good deal at $1 for one, a great deal at $2 for three or the unbelievable bargain of $5 for ten!

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIGs) AND FORUMS

Some SIGs meet on the night of the regular meeting, with rooms assigned during the general meeting, as well as holding additional meetings on other dates. Please visit each of the SIGs' Web sites to find out details on their guest speaker and meeting locations.

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Meeting Location:

General meetings are held at the Canada Science and Technology Museum located at 1867 St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa, Ontario. The museum is located about 10 minutes to the east and south of downtown Ottawa. Exit the Queensway at "St. Laurent South" and drive 2.6 km to Lancaster Road.

Click here for a map to the Museum

Typical meeting schedule:

• Auditorium opens at 7:00 p.m.
• Vendor/member presentation - 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
• Special Interest Groups (SIGs) - 9:00 to 10:00 p.m.

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