The Dayton Microcomputer Association (DMA®) is an Ohio non-profit
organization dedicated to the education of, and providing information to,
microcomputer users and to the general public. DMA® members use and
own a wide variety of computers and possess various levels of computer
experience. Effective February 4, 2003, annual dues are $25 for regular
members, which includes a subscription to The DataBus newsletter,
and $12.50 for associate members living at the same address. Associate
memberships must run concurrently with a regular membership.
DMA® General Meeting (Revised May 15, 2007)
Beginning April 24, 2007, general DMA® membership meetings
will be held at 7:00 P.M. in the “Warrior Room” of Huber Heights Athletic Foundation Hall,
5367 Fishburg Road, Huber Heights, the last Tuesday of each month,
except December, unless otherwise stated in the meeting announcement.
We moved from U.D. in August 2005 to W.S.U. due to construction.
We moved back to U.D. for a few months, but didn't have enough space,
so we moved again. We'll continue meeting at HHAH Hall for at least
a year. See the meeting topic page
for this month's meeting location and topic.
Guests are always welcome.
Our monthly general meeting consists of a brief opening, SIG reports,
announcements, and a 60-90 minute program by a guest speaker. Click here for information
about this month's meeting. To automatically receive occasional mailings
describing the upcoming monthly meeting topic and other DMA® news,
use this
page.
Board Meeting
The regular DMA® Board of Trustees meetings are held on the first
Monday of each month at 7:00 P.M. at 119 Valley St. Meet the
current board members.
Board meetings are open to all. Members are
welcome.
DMA®'s Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings
Amateur Radio SIG (Revised Aug. 1, 2008)
DMA(R) is proud to announce the formation of an Amateur Radio SIG.
We held our first meeting on Tue. Nov. 5th 7 PM at 119 Valley St.
At our first meeting we talked about the following:
what date of the month to continue to meet - 1st Tuesday each month
where to hold future meetings - 119 Valley St. (Note: Beginning with the Aug., 2008 meeting, we will meet at the DARA clubhouse, 6619 Bellefontaine Rd., Huber Heights)
what we hope to accomplish
and share some stories
If you are interested and or unable to attend please email
k8dma@dma.org.
See our web site for more details.
73's
George
WD8NHI
Contact: Todd or Shawna Collins or George
Ewing, the Amateur Radio SIG Facilitators, at:
k8dma@dma.org
or call the Collins' at (937) 545-7015.
To join our mailing list, please use this
page. Archives of previous messages are here.
Apple Dayton SIG (Revised April 12, 2007)
The Apple-Dayton SIG holds its meetings on the third Monday of
each month at 7:00 P.M. at 5367 Fishburg Road in Huber Heights.
If you own, use, or are thinking of purchasing an Apple computer
you are welcome to attend and learn about the the latest hardware and
software releases involving the Macintosh operating system.
The Classic Computer SIG of the Dayton Microcomputer Association,
Inc. is the keeper of the Dayton Computer Museum. Classes in older
computer hardware and software are taught by the Curator, Gary Ganger,
on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month from 3 to 5 P.M. at the Sugar
Grove Bible Church, 7875 S. Kessler-Frederick Road. The church is located
3 miles north of US-40 between Englewood and Vandalia on Frederick Pike
just inside Miami County past Miller's Grove, and across from Miller
Brothers Construction.
The meetings consist of computer classes on the older computers that
are no longer sold. They are open to the public at no charge. DMA®
members are encouraged to come and get answers to their computer questions
that are not available from the local computer stores. The classes cover
software and hardware and how to upgrade or repair common troubles.
Software covers spreadsheets, word processing, music, graphics, DOS,
Win3.1, Win95, Win98, WinNT, and Win2K. Hardware covers memory, disk,
CD, floppy disks, zip drives, power supply replacement, cleaning, etc.
All classes are tailored to the needs of the members and can be most
subjects at any time. If you call Gary at 237-5021 during the week, he
can prepare to answer your questions or many times a quick answer on the
phone is all that you may need. Past classes showed how to connect the
computer to MIDI keyboards and writing music on the computer. Making a
spreadsheet to balance your checkbook. Making a form to fill out for
daily records. Replacing a bad CD recorder and cleaning. Downloading
your photos. Replacing a bad power supply. Running anti-virus software
and updates. Rebuilding hard disk systems after a crash. The classes can
also show the pre-PC computers that are in the Dayton Computer Museum.
The students from Wright State will be getting information for their
class work as assigned by their professors. Local computer stores
have sent customers to the meetings to get help on the older machines.
You have questions? We really have the answers!
Hi, Dayton Oracle users! The inaugural meeting was Monday March 10,
2008, 5:30 pm at Mary-Ann's
Kitchen, 33 N Ludlow St., Dayton, OH.
Mary-Ann's is downtown, across the street from the CVS
and the post office in the old Elder-Beerman building. See this Google
map for location. There's plenty of street parking available on
the block for $0.25 per 1/2 hour, and you should only need one.
Unless and until further notice, we'll plan to use this as a consistent
meeting time/date (2nd Monday, 5:30, Mary-Ann's). Bring your suggestions
for future meeting topics as well.
There's no expense to the meeting, though you'll probably want
to buy a soda and/or a meal. Since we are a Special Interest Group
of the DMA®, DAY-O members are
encouraged to consider DMA membership ($25/yr).
I hope to see you there!
--
Catherine Devlin, SIG Leader
Digital Photography SIG (Revised Aug. 23, 2006)
Calling all digital photographers
DMA® has formed a digital photography
SIG. Ideally, the SIG will have two meetings a month; one to learn
about digital darkroom techniques, the other to go out into the field
and learn how to use our cameras. This will be a free-form SIG meeting
to discuss all aspects of digital photography in a friendly small group
atmosphere. We will be open to all digital systems including still,
digital movie, scanning of regular photos, and capturing movies from
analog (VHS and 8mm) formats. The group will use tools such as Photoshop,
Photo Editor VideoWave and Moviemaker to optimize our work.
If you are interested in participating
or in becoming a group leader for the field
portion, please contact Nancy Christolear or Dave Lundy (937) 426-1132, or e-mail digiphot-contact@dma.org.
Our first meeting was held in the CompUSA Training Center at SR 741 and
SR 725 from 7:00 - 9:00 PM Thursday, January 2, 2003. We immediately
discovered that we needed a larger meeting room, so moved to Wright
State University. Due to increased enrollments, W.S.U. doesn't have
classrooms for us now, wo we've moved to 119 Valley St. Our current
schedule is 7:00 p.m. the fourth Thursday each month at 119 Valley
St. - please see our events page
for current meeting details.
Please
contact Nancy Christolear or Dave Lundy (937) 426-1132, write to digiphot-contact@dma.org,
or check our web site for more details.
Dayton Dynamic Languages Users Group (New Nov. 14, 2007 - updated Dec. 9, 2008)
The Dayton Dynamic Languages Users Group was born out of the Dayton Perl Mongers, which widened their interests to
include other languages such as PHP,
Python,
Ruby on
Rails, CGI, etc., in addition to Perl.
It will meet at the same time - the 2nd Wednesday each month - at Dayton
Chess Club, 18 West Fifth St., Dayton. For more info, contact Paul
Visscher or Paul
E. Ahlquist Jr..
The Gaming SIG / mini-LAN party, led by Frank McClain
and David Neely, is held for 24 consecutive hours starting
at 4 pm the last Saturday each month at 119 Valley St. See DLF
Mini LAN's forum for details.
Genealogy/Ancestral SIG (New Feb. 3, 2004, updated Dec. 30, 2008)
First meeting Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004
The DMA® board approved starting a Genealogy/Family
History SIG. This has been mentioned to me over a year
ago and I had considered it even before it was brought
up. Anyone interested in joining this rewarding activity
should contact Jay Finley (cell 937 825-0691) or Darlene Sye at Genealogy-contact.
Effective August 24, 2006, we changed our meetings from the
fourth to the first Thursday, so we now meet at 119 Valley St. on
the first Thursday each month at 7 pm.
Darlene has added her name to the HELPLINE providing software assistance
for Personal Ancestral File (PAF 5.x) genealogy software.
Beginning Oct. 18, 2006, Jay Finley is the new SIG leader. Darlene will
continue to assist with the SIG.
Jan. 2009 meeting postponed
We will not meet at our usual time in January, since that's New Year's
Day. We plan to have the meeting later in January when our host, the
Brethren Heritage Center, in Brookville, OH, has completed their move.
For current info, please subscribe to our mailing list at this
page. Archives of previous messages are here.
Jay Finley & Darlene Sye
Hands-On SIG (New Dec. 1, 2004 - updated Oct. 27, 2008)
The Hands-On SIG has a new leader, beginning with the May 24, 2006 meeting.
Welcome Elliott Lake! Elliott has some ideas and would like additional input
from the SIG. They are:
Divide the meeting up into segments (like the Linux SIG).
General Q&A session followed by the meeting topic would be an example of this approach.
Short presentation about a piece of software being used by a group member. This would be about a 15 minute presentation.
Hands-on problem solving of equipment problems / software problems. This will require the member with the problem bringing in the system, if possible.
Returning to the certification training, starting with A+.
In-depth presentation about software being used by a group member. This would be a 30 - 60 minute presentation.
Study the use of Linux and MS in the workplace.
Thanks, George, for your five years of service as the group leader. You
did a great job and deserve the chance to sit back and relax.
The Hands-On SIG will be meeting only on the 4th
Wednesday of each month, 7 PM, at 119 Valley St., Dayton.
There will not be a meeting in Oct. 2008. See directions here.
To join our mailing list, please use this
page. List members may read archives of previous messages here.
SIG Leader
Elliott Lake
Dayton Linux Users Group (Revised April 12, 2007)
The UNIX/Linux Special Interest Group holds regular monthly meetings
at Wright State University, Dayton, OH at 7:00 P.M. on the third Thursday
night of each month. These meetings are open to anyone interested in UNIX
or Linux and we welcome both the experienced and inexperienced user.
Please visit our events page for
current information.
Call Tony Snyder at (937) 275-7913 for more information, and check out our
new web site.
You may subscribe to Linux-SIG mailing list for occasional
correspondence regarding UNIX and Linux by visiting the Linux-sig info page and read archived messages.
Perl Mongers (Revised Nov. 11, 2007)
The Dayton Perl Mongers was originally set up to discuss the
Perl programming language. But over the years, interests have
widened to include other languages such as PHP, Python, etc.
Therefore, it was decided to rename the Dayton Perl Mongers to
Dayton Dynamic Languages Users Group,
which will meet at the same time and place., namely the 2nd
Wednesday each month at Dayton Chess Club, 18 West Fifth St., Dayton. For more info, check
the DAYTON.PM web site, or contact Paul
Visscher or Paul
E. Ahlquist Jr..
The unofficial snack or meal of the computer enthusiast
is enjoyed following each DMA® General Meeting at location TBA.
Undisciplined exchanges of opinions and follow-up discussions regarding
the recent DMA® presentation, & many other subjects, begin at
approximately 10:15 and last until the restaurant staff tires of our
presence. This valuable (although unofficial) knowledge-gathering event
has become traditional & is open to all. It is commonly referred to
as the "Pizza SIG".
Software Development SIG (Revised Jul. 10, 2007)
Dale Childs and Glady Campion are attempting to "reboot"
the Software Development SIG. We will meet at 119 Valley Street on the
second Thursday of the month 7:00pm - 9:00pm. Meetings will start by going
around the table to hear what projects the attendees are currently working
on. The main topic may be a how-to demo or a discussion. Expect topics
to be current and related to all aspects of software development.
History: Starting in March 2003, the former Delphi Development SIG (GDDG)
expanded its focus to general software development and became known as the
Software Development SIG. The SIG took a few months off in 2007.
For more information, please contact Glady Campion, campiong at dma.org
Subscribe to the
software-development@dma.org
mailing list for occasional technical
correspondence regarding this SIG by using this
page. Archives of previous messages are here.
To report additions, corrections, or updates, please e-mail
Dave Lundy.
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Thanks to Stephen Sullivan for site design suggestions.
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