sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi) (05/18/91)
FogNUG
NeXT User Group at San Francisco State University
2nd meeting summary
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FogNUG is the NeXT User's Group at San Francisco State University.
As of May 2, 1991, FogNUG is a recognize student group at SFSU.
Only Faculty, Staff, and Students of SFSU can be voting members. Interested
participants are welcome to come to our meetings, held on the 1st Thursday
night of each month.
Our electronic mailing address: fognug@sutro.sfsu.edu.
(all posting to this alias will be sent out directly to ~200 members, no
moderation is done)
If you would like to be added to our mailing list, write us at
fognug-request@sutro.sfsu.edu
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The FogNUG 2nd meeting was held on May 2, 1991, at Science 201, S.F.S.U.
The meeting started at 7:15pm with Prof. Lawrence S. Kroll giving a humorous
opening speech. He then introduced Peter Preuss, president of FogNUG.
There were about 40 people attending the meeting.
The officers of FogNUG were introduced:
- President: Peter Preuss
- V. President: Steven Bau
- Secretary: Muljadi Sulistio
- Treasurer: Van Lic Do
- Advisor: Prof. Lawrence Si Kroll
Members decided that FogNUG need not charge a membership fee until there is a
need. At that time the Executive Committee should present a proposal to
the members for a vote. We also discussed possibilities to raise money from
shareware/freeware.
Peter Graffagnino (of NeXT Computer) brought a NeXTdimension machine to our
2nd meeting. Yes, a NeXTdimension instead of NeXTstation Color. Thanks to
Jim Inscore and Peter Graffagnino.
There are some SIGs (Special Interest Groups) and projects planned:
- getting in touch with other NeXT user groups.
- having a SIG on Kanji, and contact with NeXUs,
a Japanese NeXT User Group.
If interested, please contact bau@sutro.sfsu.edu
- X Windows on NeXT, and porting SRGP (GKS clone) and Simple PHIGS
(3D rendering package) into the NeXTstep environment. Contact
sulistio@sutro.sfsu.edu
- NeXT Developers SIG, contact jenniwoo@sutro.sfsu.edu
- Music, contact martin@futon.sfsu.edu
We decided that meetings will take place on the 1st Thursday of each month at
7pm. The meeting room location will be announced later. Our third meeting
will take place on June 6, 1991.
A logo design contest was announced. The prize is the book "Programming
Display PostScript" (a $24.95 + tax value). The logo will be selected by
members at the next meeting. Please use a NeXT Computer to design the logo.
FogNUG welcomes companies who wish to give demonstrations of their products
at our meetings. If you are interested in giving a demo, please contact:
preuss@sutro.sfsu.edu or sulistio@sutro.sfsu.edu. Since FogNUG is running
without financial support, we will appreciate if companies would give us a
donation (hardware or software is fine) to help us to operate.
The meeting was handed over to Jim Inscore, technical writer from NeXT
Computer,
Inc. He distributed 50 copies of the NeXTstep Advantage book. (He is one of
the authors.) He showed how simple and easy it is to write programs using
Interface Builder. He is working on transporting Simple PHIGS and SRGP (a GKS
Clone), used in the CSC Graphics course, into the NeXTstep environment.
The next speaker was Jack Reynolds from HSD Computer. He demoed his company's
color scanner using NeXTdimension. The picture looked nearly the same as the
original photograph. He mentioned that the color scanner is bundled with
PaperSight software. Thanks!!!
At the end of the meeting, Peter Graffagnino gave a demonstration on
NeXTdimension.
We hooked up the NeXT Dimension's 'NTSC Video In' to the 'video out' of one TV
monitor, and were able to watch TV commercials on the big 21" NeXT monitor.
The picture looks very nice! And grabbing a TV frame and dragging it into
mail send windows is as easy as cut&paste in other applications!
We would be happy to see you at out NeXT meeting, on June 6, 1991.
Feel free to bring all your friends.
Special thanks to FogNUG volunteers:
Jason Lee, Alwyin Stewart, Tom Tongyang
Sincerely
Muljadi Sulistio
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