The DACS 25th Anniversary Banquet was a resounding success, thanks to Jim Scheef, who did most of the work organizing the event. He not only publicized the dinner and printed name tags for all attendees, he gave an oral history of DACS from his perspective. Then he invited all members to speak about … [Read more...]
September 2014
From all the outstanding feedback I got about our August general meeting, I missed a great presentation from Bob Gostischa on protecting Yourself, Your Computer, and Your Identity. The beginning of August must be a popular time for vacations since a lot of you and I missed this presentation. I have … [Read more...]
President’s File – August 2014
I am writing this column while enjoying the beautiful summer weather outside on my deck and looking forward to my upcoming vacation. I am reminded of how tethered we are to our computers and the internet, even on vacations. Smartphones are ubiquitous and tablets are catching up. They are powerful … [Read more...]
President’s File, July 2014
I want to thank Anand Tirumani for presenting his Cloud Computing keynote last month. I know I learned more about cloud computing in general and especially Amazon’s S3 services. Thank you Anand. June has been a very busy month for DACS. The Mad Hackers Fair was a great success for us. We signed … [Read more...]
Drupal May 10, 2014
The April meeting was a discussion of the bulk emailing feature of CiviCRM. Our installation generates an error message when sending bulk mail but is able to send "regular" email just fine. This has everyone most perplexed with no solution so far. CiviCRM is a "Constituent Management System" … [Read more...]