From: John Barrie Subject: neSOFTdev Jan 11 meeting Date: Monday, January 03, 2000 3:48 PM 1) 2000 2) neSOFTdev 2000 3) Jan 11, 2000 4) O'Reilly Door Prizes 1) Happy New Year! Happy New Century! Year 2000 looks like it will be the "Greatest Year of Them All" for our profession. Send me your thoughts for our occasional newsletter if you think the same. Ever thought about writing an article or column; now is your chance. It is a great opportunity for you to take charge of your career; you are doing that, aren't you? 2) What we are doing in the new millennium: Our new theme is "Occasional Meetings and Content of Your Design" The schedule for the year 2000 meetings is not as it has been for the past 10 years. I think that quarterly meetings would be just right, or, perhaps online meetings! It is still our preference to have members do the presentations so meetings will happen when someone volunteers or something crosses my desk. I have no clue on how this will shake out. It is all up to you. Be assured you will always get a meeting notice when there is a meeting unless you change email providers and do not let me know. We will try and keep the second Tuesday as our meeting day. The meeting place stays the same unless stated otherwise. Anybody have experience with the online meeting stuff? Anyone wish to do the research to find a free service or someone who will sponsor our online meetings?) The real focal point of neSOFTdev however, will be our newsletter. Help make it a success (see 1). 3) Surprise: We will hold a regular meeting on Jan 11, 2000. Here is the agenda. The first 20 minutes although different for us is presented to help you enjoy your work more. Let me know if I should do more of these things at our meetings. 7:00 P.M. Don't Take Notes: Collaborate! A Digital Meeting Assistant (DMA) is a collaboration tool enabling organizations to capture, manage and share information, improving the productivity and creativity of any meeting. DMA's allow businesses to distribute information, from central and remote locations, accurately and in real-time. Mimio is the first DMA and the first in a family of collaboration tools from Virtual Ink Corporation (www.mimio.com). Scott Hilton (shilton@HBCommunications.com) will demonstrate the use of Mimio in the design process. Virtual Ink donated a Mimio to neSOFTdev to use in our newsletter and ongoing projects. Now, how many of you have designed a system on a whiteboard. All of us right. Well, how many have also said, Gee, I wish I didn't have to copy this all down and by the way did anybody copy the other diagrams?" Well here is the solution. Come see it in action and see if you can get your manager to get Mimio for your team. 7:30 p.m. I have asked Allen to demonstrate how to do tutorials and help in Java and Oracle. I do not know of anyone who knows the subject better than Allen and he is a member of neSOFTdev. So, I guess that makes him "Our Guru", right. Come support your fellow member's contribution. Allen Beebe will demonstrate Java-based help systems (Sun's Javahelp and Oracle's Help for Java) and cover some of the issues involved in implementing each help system for use in a browser-based Java application. Allen is working on developing a help system for Java-based network management software at Cabletron Systems, Inc. 4) O'Reilly has sent us some Holiday door prizes!