DACS HQ – Resource Center, 198 Main Street, Danbury CT Wednesday, March 4, 2015 MEETING OPENING Called to order by Dick Gingras at 7:20PM. Attendance: R. Corzo, D. Gingras, B. Goff, L. Leifels, J. Scheef (via Skype), S. Henderson (late arrival), A. Woodruff, and T. … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2015
DACS President’s Column April 2015
Membership committee – We need someone to help Cathy Quaranta at the membership table for the next two meetings. This is a great opportunity for you to meet and greet everyone who comes to our general meeting and is one of the more enjoyable responsibilities at DACS. Cathy cannot be at our May … [Read more...]
New Online Business Workshop
Because of popular demand, the first “Online Business” workshop will take place at 5:30 PM on Monday, April 6th in the Robilotti Conference Center directly across from the Danbury Hospital Auditorium. This is the day before our general meeting! More than half of you expressed an interest in … [Read more...]
March 2015 Single Board Computers Workshop
Raspberry Pi For our March meeting we turned to the Raspberry Pi. No one expressed having reached guru status so the meeting started from the beginning with what is needed to use a Pi and how to do the initial setup. Many of those attending had purchased a Pi in the preceding month, so everyone … [Read more...]
How to Start an Online Business in Your Spare Time
by Sean N. Henderson Presented by : Mike Brooks, Monday, March 16th, 7:30 p.m, at the Danbury Hospital Auditorium. Many new faces were in attendance for DACS’ rescheduled March 2015 General Meeting on starting an online business. The presenter, Mike Brooks, with Nuclear Chowder Marketing, gave … [Read more...]
March 2015 Apple Workshop
Apple TV / MacBook / Apple Watch At the March meeting we discussed Apple’s March 9th “Spring Forward” announcement where the biggest news was pricing and availability details on the Apple Watch, but they also had some Mac and other news to share. The price of the Apple TV streaming box has … [Read more...]
Building Websites in the Cloud – CANCELED
The organizer, Joshua Drew, will try and reschedule this workshop in the future. Learn how to use Microsoft Azure to power your website. This workshop will show you how to quickly create web applications using popular frameworks such as Wordpress, Joomla, NodeJS, PHP and more. You will learn how to … [Read more...]
Your ‘Digital Diet’ of Social Media
Presenter: Tom Zarecki Date: Tuesday, April 7, 7:30 p.m. Location: Danbury Hospital Auditorium by Tom Zarecki What works? How much is too much? Just the MENTION of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any other social network to some people can trigger a reaction anywhere from … [Read more...]
March 19: Single Board Computers Workshop
This month we turn to the Raspberry Pi for beginners. We’ll look at the latest model, the Pi 2, as well as past models. here's an interesting article about how the new Pi 2 will run a version of Windows 10. I’ll demonstrate the initial setup of a new Pi, and then we’ll look at some … [Read more...]
March 17: Web Design Workshop
Disaster strikes and your WordPress website goes down. You try to fix it, but after a moment of panic your remember you have backups. (You do have backups...?) You may have backups, but do you know how to actually restore a WordPress site from a backup? It's a 'process' and during a crisis would be … [Read more...]