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 how they came to join the group and their favorite experiences in DACS. Thank-you, Jim!
According to my dictionary the word society comes from the Latin word socius, which means a sharing. I hope we can share our knowledge of computers more and more in the Danbury Area Computer Society. Always wear a name tag at our meetings, and make it a habit to speak to someone new each time we meet.
For our April general meeting John O’Donnell, a reference librarian at Danbury Library, will speak on genealogy.
On May 3rd John Patrick will tell us about the new version of his older book, “Net Attitude.” He knows a lot of people in the hospital, which is why he would like to start at the earlier time of 6:30.
Last month I got an introduction to CiviCRM from Richard Teasdale when we sent press releases to over twenty news organizations. Wikipedia introduces the software like this:
“CiviCRM is a web-based, open source, internationalized suite of computer software for constituency relationship management, that falls under the broad rubric of customer relationship management. It is specifically designed for the needs of non-profit, non-governmental and advocacy groups, and serves as an association management system. CiviCRM is designed to manage information about an organization’s donors, members, event registrants, subscribers, grant application seekers and funders, and case contacts. Volunteers, activists, voters as well as more general sorts of business contacts such as employees, clients, or vendors can be managed using CiviCRM.”
DACS uses Civi to keep track of contact information for many of these groups, including news organizations in the Danbury area. We send out a press release each month, to publicize the general meeting and the speaker. If you are interested in helping us with this activity, please let me know.
Happy Spring!
Dave Green, President