NOMINATIONS:
 It's time for Elections:
 by Mike Taphorn / GCC President
 

We elect our officers every November. Most of our current board members are running for their offices again, but, we do have a few slots that were left open when Diane and Chuck left for greener pastures, so, I’ll go over the positions and who is running for them now…

Position Nominees are:

President:      Mike Taphorn
V.P.:                 Jim Tomlinson
Secretary:      Carlos Mariles
Membership: Chairman J.C. Spelce
Librarian:        Jason Whitener
Treasurer:      Charles Wallace
Webmaster:   Steven
Newsletter Editor: Dennis McMurtrey or Bob Butz

If you want to run for any of these positions, please come to the November meeting and let us know. We are always looking for fresh ideas...

DEMONSTRATION

Shawn Travers, from Microsoft, is going to be our guest presenter. The last time he gave a demo, he handled himself and all of the anti-Microsoft sentiment / jokes that came his way with aplomb. He has promised another good demo and you'll have to wait until the meeting to find out what it is going to cover. It's not a secret, it's just that I don't know what he is going to cover...I think he is bringing more Microsoft prizes too. Make sure you attend and be polite. He is a guest...

HOLIDAY PARTY PRIZES

We're starting to gather up the prizes. Let me know if you can help out with the rebate items or if you have something to donate to the Holiday Party give-away extravaganza.

See you at the meeting,
Mike

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 November Board Meeting 
 GCC Minutes
 by  Carlos Mariles/ GCC Secretary

To whom it may concern:

President Mike Taphorn opened the computer meeting by welcoming the membership, new members and guests. He then proceeded to explain about the door prizes and how it works. He also explained about the nomination of officers for our next fiscal year. Elections will be held next November meeting at the opening of our next meeting. Those running for office are as follows:

President: Mike Taphorn
Vice: Jim Tomlinson
Secretary: Carlos Mariles
Treasurer: Charles Wallace
Webmaster: Steven Gilroy
Librarian; Jason Whitener
Editor: Dennis McMurtrey or Bob Butz
M.A.L: Jerry Casteel
M.A.L: Chuck Hill
M.A.L: Bob Havlin (also corporate sponsor)

During the Nov. meeting nominations from the floor will be accepted either for themselves or to nominate someone else. All nomination will be accepted before the official voting.

Also during our next meeting we will have a Microsoft representative as our guest lecturer. He will explain to us about the different sites that we can go to in order to download programs to help with problems with our PCs.

Our next meeting will be held at the same location on Nov. 16, 2005 at 7:00 pm.

Respectfully yours,
Carlos

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 Monthly Updates To Be Included
 In Every  Monthly GCC CDrom of Freeware
 by Jason Whitener / GCC Librarian

First, I announced at the last Board of Directors meeting that I was going to release an update of frequently used programs on each disk release. You can call this a bootstrap, or Jason's monthly update or whatever, but regardless it will contain the newest versions on the most requested/needed programs that seem to be needed every single month.

Programs like Spybot Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware, Avast, AVG, Microsoft's AntiSpyware beta, are requested every month, and rather than dig into the disk releases from previous months, I decided that I'd update the file section with the latest versions of these programs, so each release will have the latest version of each piece of software. Most of the time I'm putting the disks together a few days before burning them, so I should be able to get the most updated versions prior to the disk release.

Admittedly this will take up some space on each disk release, but since I struggle to fill up the releases most of the time anyway, I think this is a small price to pay for having these often used programs at our fingertips each month. So each month, prior to burning the disk release for the month, I'll get online and update this file section, deleting older versions and adding programs as newer programs become available. If anyone has any suggestions for what all you'd like to see in this section, let me know.

Second, I've not gotten much of a backlog of responses as to what disks you'd like to see. I've gotten some help from Chuck Hill as to some tech podcast programming that I can add to the monthly disk release, as well as some good new tools. Generally, I bring a note book to both the BOD and general  club meetings to write down notes, so if you have any suggestions or ideas as to what you'd like to see in the next few disk releases, please let me know.

The game support disk I put together a few months ago was a bit of a flop, selling 6 or so copies, so I'll stay away from game stuff unless someone requests something. My big issue is that since I'm spending my time putting together something for a disk release, I want to make sure it's something that another club member will get some benefit from.

I realize many of you buy the disk of the month, and it sits on the shelf, untouched until you realize that you may have a copy of a program that you need on that disk, months later. That's what I want for the disk release. I like to put together releases that are functional, or potentially so. I know everyone will not pour over each disk, but it's good to know that I'm doing this for a reason. I know that the disks will probably get a lot more use now, if for no other reason than, they now have the updated virus/spyware/Trojan scanning software on them.

Lastly, I hope to see you all at the club meeting, and I hope to have a robust disk release for you. I'm having some computer problems right now, so we'll have to see as to what I can get put together. Probably going to be more of the portable programs, as many new ones have cropped lately.

Thanx for your support,
Jason Whitener

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 Shameless Plug: 
 Vote for Me!
 by Dennis McMurtrey / Acting GCC Newsletter Editor

This is my last GCC Newsletter, UNLESS I'm elected. So if you like this new look, I'd appreciate your vote. ( Sorry Bob, I couldn't resist. )

Also, I was wondering if the membership would like to see polls & surveys added to the monthly newsletter. It could be used to find out what you'd like to see for up and coming demos, events or other club related issues....just another idea of how I could possibly improve on the use of this newsletter.

I'd now like to give a plug to the Computer Room in Fairview Heights, IL. If any of you have NOT been to their store yet, please do so. I think you'll be surprised at the service you will get, the variety of the pc hardware on hand and the very low service charges for most pc repairs etc. I believe co-owner Kara maybe coming again to our Xmas Party bearing gifts. If not her, a representative will most likely show up. Their store number is 618.398.3000 </plug> - Dennis
 

 Jackpot: $250.00
 Only 18 cards left in the deck
 Get your jackpot tickets 1 for 1.00 / 10 for 5.00

We'll give away $25 cash and four prizes and then we'll draw five more cards out of the deck this month to see if we have a Progressive Jackpot winner for the $250.s here.

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