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Past Meetings: April 13, 2000

This was the inaugural kickoff meeting, and it went very well. We had only started advertising the new PUG one week prior to the meeting date, so we really weren't sure what to expect in turns of numbers. We spent a lot of time just getting to know each other, and playing "Show & Tell".

Our Agenda ended up being:

• Welcome
  
  
• Meeting Logistics--established that we'd meet once monthly on the second Thursday of every month at Kensington Community Church. However, next month's meeting needs to be pushed back to May 18 (the third Thursday).
  
  
• Meet & Greet--we went around the room and told our stories. We enjoyed hearing how people got started on Palms, what they like best about their Palm, etc. Some points of interest:
  
  
  • Kip DeGraaf won the "most Palm devices owned" contest. Kip brought with him:
  • Palm Pilot Professional
  • Palm III
  • Palm IIIc
  • Palm IIIX
  • Palm V
  • Palm Vx
  • Palm VII
  • Symbol 1500
    
    
  • We had three Palm Developers in attendance:
  • Tom Denton of Denton Software Group
  • Doug Gordon of GHCS Software, developer of GEDPalm
  • Tom Zerucha, developer of Concorde Bible and Keypad hack
  We invited all three to speak at an upcoming meeting to demonstrate their software, as well as give away a licensed version to attendees.
  
  
  • Kara Morrison, a reporter from The Detroit News, was in attendance who wrote this article on Palm Pilot Mania which was published in the April 29, 2000 paper.
    
    
  • We had one member in attendance, Juno Smalley, who doesn't yet have a Palm but wants one and was hoping to get some ammunition for convincing his wife he should get one. If you have some good ammo for Juno, please e-mail him at JunoAdult@aol.com!
    
    
• We had a Words Per Minute contest to see who had the fastest Graffiti time. Coordinator Tracy Dreslinski won, with 30 WPM using Graffiti. Steve Bom got 129 WPM but that was after he created a shortcut that contained the contents of the entire sentence! DPUG challenges any other PUG to a WPM contest--can anyone beat 30 WPM using straight Graffiti? If so, e-mail Tracy
  
  
• We passed around a "bad" Palm IIIc; this one exhibited BGS (Bad Graffiti Syndrome).
  
  
• We enjoyed some giveaways:
  • Copies of Tap Magazine for everyone
  • Two licensed copies of iSilo (reviews written by our winners will be posted shortly to our Reviews page)