NewTlug Meetings:2006-05-23

From GTALUG

This month's NewTLUG meeting will be held Tues May 23rd., at Seneca College on the YorkU campus.

Date:

Tuesday May 23rd.

Time:

7 - 10pm

Presenter:

Gerry Singleton <gerry@pathtech.org> Gerry created and published the OpenOffice.org User Guide - the one that comes packaged with Open Office. He is Co-Lead of the current team that contributes documentation to the project.

Gerry's Professional Affiliations include: Usenix/SAGE, Association of Professional Computer Consultants of Canada, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, IEEE Computer Society,and IEEE Communications Society, Association of Computing Machinery, SIGDP and SIGC MM.

Topic:

OpenOffice - tips and tricks plus howtos and discussions. Gerry intends to talk about the following in more or less Q/A session: 1. Styles -- paragraph, character, and page 2. Master documents - how to more or less. He will bring the user guide as a demonstration. 3. Digital Signing including how to get free certs. We may also look at a couple of spellcheck issues in OOo.

Location:

Room S2148 Stephen E. Quinlan building (SEQ) - Seneca@York note that this room is different from the usual one. Building number 40 on the map: http://www.yorku.ca/web/futurestudents/map/KeeleMasterMap.pdf The Seneca@York Campus, which is physically located in the south east part of York University, at Keele/Steeles. (note that this room is different from the usual one)

Directions: For detailed directions and info on public transit, please see: http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~praveen.mitera/seneca-directions.html

Parking: Paid parking is available on campus (about: $8). Building #84 on the map above is a close-by parking garage. - note #87 the parking lot is no longer for visitors so PLEASE use the parking garage (#84)