SCOUG OS/2 For You - May 1998

First, I would like to thank everyone for their support. I am looking forward to the coming year partly because of the great work done last year by Rollin which provides such a good framework to start from and partly because of the challenge involved in establishing new goals and opportunities for our club and its members.

We do have a couple of major events on the horizon: first, we are going to try to repeat the quite successful SCOUG Open House of last year with a SCOUG 5th Anniversary bash at the September meeting (yes, SCOUG will really be 5 years old then!). It is never too early to start planning and we are already actively recruiting volunteers and/or ideas for this party. Some of the ideas discussed at the last board meeting were: SCOUG museum, SCOUG trivia contest (there seems to be a theme emerging here) as well as the usual demos, presentations, games and prizes.

WarpStock II will take place in Chicago in October and we will do what we can to provide support. There is a possibility of video conferencing or at least some type of live Internet feed; more on that as it develops.

Speaking of video-conferencing, we have also been approached by the San Diego OS/2 Club as to the possibility of connecting their club with ours via some sort of video hookup; this might be a good opportunity to test the feasibility of the concept before Warpstock.

On a more immediate basis, I would also like to get more active participation by a larger percentage of club members in performing the ongoing tasks that help make SCOUG a successful organization. These tasks include the monthly chores related to running the meeting as well as writing articles, website maintenance, newsletter production, serving on committees, or even just making suggestions for things we don't think of. In the past, these tasks have been done primarily through the efforts of a small number of dedicated people and I know that they would appreciate others sharing the workload.

To help organize volunteer efforts, we will be posting a sign up sheet at the meetings with the known tasks on it. Please take the time to review this list and sign up for something even if on an irregular basis or as a "backup."

Thanks in advance for your help in making SCOUG a continuing success.

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