Home Automation Home automation has been a fascination of mine since someone said a computer could control a thermostat. At the May meeting Tom Gerhard showed us several years’ worth of his home automation projects. I was disappointed when we ran out of time just as Tom was going to get into the … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2015
DACS Board Minutes, June 3, 2015
OPENING AND RECURRING MONTHLY ACTIVITIES Meeting called to order at 6:40pm by D. Gingras. Last meeting minutes approved unanimously. Current membership (D.Gingras): 29 grace members + 95 regular members = 124 current members Attendance at last nights general meeting: 29 + 4 guests … [Read more...]
Social Media Workshop Notes, May 2015
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn The new Social Media workshop kicked off its first meeting in May. Meeting attendees talked about their personal experiences with social media and what they'd like to get from these workshops. The similarities and differences between the major social … [Read more...]
Apple Monthly Workshop Notes – June 2015
Mac OS X El Capitan, iOS 9 In June we discussed the announcements that Apple made the day before at their World Wide Developers Conference. They announced the new features of the next version of iOS (iOS 9) and OS X (10.11), and their newest operating system watchOS 2, which will be an update for … [Read more...]
DACS President’s Column
July 2015 The video recording of Tom Zarecki's Social Media April presentation will be available on Charter Cable community access channel 192. Tuesdays, July 2 & 9 at 3 pm and Thursdays, July 4 & 11 at 8 pm It will appear on their YouTube channel after the July 11 airing … [Read more...]
Video Production – with Charter Community Channel 192
By Cathy Quaranta The June 2, 2015 DACS General meeting presentation was a good example of the ‘revitalized’ DACS – increasing technical skills, building the DACS community and starting new workshops. Tom Zarecki started the meeting with some DACS info about the new workshops and then … [Read more...]
Internet Security
Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2015, 7:30 PM Location: Danbury Hospital Creasy Auditorium Presenters: Ira Wilsker It’s getting to the point that every time you turn on the news there is another story about a security breach that compromises a large group of people’s personal data. The most recent … [Read more...]
June 8th: Online Business Workshop
Our next meeting will be in the Brookfield Town Hall, in the same room as last month, Room 135. We will meet on the 2nd Monday of each month. The workshop will focus on how to start an online business, or to extend an existing business into the online world. Of course those who already have an … [Read more...]
June 18th: Single Board Computer Workshop
Following up on his presentation last month, this time Tom Gerhard will tell us about how he developed the software used in his home automation projects. Tom has been working on this for several years, three Raspberry Pis have become the glue linking the legacy bits together. There will be time for … [Read more...]
June 17th: Linux Workshop
As usual our topics will include all things Linux with an eye out for good open-source software for our computers. One discussion and presentation is scheduled for this meeting: demonstrating and using the open-source application, Frescobaldi, on a computer using Ubuntu. Frescobaldi uses Lilypad to … [Read more...]