DRONE TECHNOLOGY
Manie Kohn will discuss the use of drone aircraft (UAVs) in real estate photography, emergency services and law enforcement. Manie’s standing in the industry as an educator, instructor and an industry leading “Drone-O-Grapher” has gained him unique relationships with Emergency Services and Law Enforcement including San Mateo County Sheriff Department, San Francisco Fire Department, San Mateo County Harbor Patrol.
2nd Annual Avenidas Technical Conference
PROGRAM:
3:30-4:00 pm | Registration
4:00-4:05 pm | Welcome Remarks from Avenidas President & CEO Amy Andonian
4:05-4:45 pm | Keynote speaker: Dennis Boyle, Founding Member of IDEO
4:45-5:00 pm | “How Seniors Can Shape Future Technology” by Eric Gee,
Avenidas Generations Lab Manager
5:00-6:00 pm | Hands-On Happy Hour and Interactive Exploration of Exhibits
6:00-7:00 pm | “Shark Tank”-like Pitch Event
7:00 pm | Raffle winners drawn. Event concludes.
NOTE: SPAUG is a sponsor of this event and will be exhibiting at the meeting
Elections and Computer Technology
Maurice Green, PhD
Computers have become indispensable in modern election campaigns.
Maurice Green has been involved in a number of local elections in support of grass-roots initiatives and local candidates. He will demonstrate and discuss some of the uses of computer technology in election campaigns.
design & Technology! making a difference
Abigayil Tamara, M.A., M.S.W.
Good design helps make a difference in the use of a product. Some products help increase functionality more than others. Technology has greatly increased this process, and we have seen rapid changes in many industries. Technological advances allow individuals of all ages, abilities and differences to be more productive, independent, and live happier lives.
The January 2019 SPAUG meeting will feature two separate lectures by SPAUG President Maurice Green:
- Tips and Tricks for Video Editing – Maury will demonstrate some of the special effects which can be achieved with a video editing program like Pinnacle Studio or Adobe Premiere. Topics will include exposure adjustment, lower third titling, combining stills and video and producing animated gifs.
- So You Want to Build a Website – This lecture will be the first in a series of lectures for the long anticipated WordPress class. We will discuss the evolution of websites from simple HTML to modern day mobile responsive CMS systems. The lecture will cover the basic elements of a website, setting up a local web server on your computer and installing the WordPress system.
Learn the basics about your public access channels and how you can best make use of them. This event is designed to answer your questions, explore what you’d like to do and help you get started. Includes signing up for classes and a tour of the facility. Recommended for all users of public access Channels 27, 28, & 30.”
PLEASE REGISTER on the website
Learn the basics about your public access channels and how you can best make use of them. This event is designed to answer your questions, explore what you’d like to do and help you get started. Includes signing up for classes and a tour of the facility. Recommended for all users of public access Channels 27, 28, & 30.”
PLEASE REGISTER on the website
Review of CES 2019
Andy Marken, Marken Communications
Topics to be announced
Good Old Fashioned “Random Access”
We will have a good old fashioned open meeting for discussion of various topics and your questions. Some of the topics to be discussed include:
- How to choose a new computer – from tablet to desktop
- Net neutrality – California has the toughest law, but is it enough?
- Backups – like New Year’s resolutions – are you doing them?
- Hacks and Hackers – new malware is everywhere.
As usual, the meeting will be held at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto and begins at 7PM. We will be meeting in the Library/Card Room across the hall from the Lodge Room.
For those who enjoy the schmooze, we will have our usual no-host pre-meeting dinner st 5:30PM in the Bistro Café on the first floor of the lodge.
Picking the Best Backup Approach
Gene Barlow, User Group Relations (via Skype)
This presentation will describe the four most popular backup approaches used today and tell you the strengths and weakness of each approach. After attending this presentation, you will be able to determine what is the best backup approach you should be using. We will then describe this approach in detail, so that you understand the best way to use this best backup approach. Gene Barlow represents Acronis and their True Image backup utility to the user group community. This product will provide you all of the popular backup approaches, but their incremental backup image approach is the best way to go. Again, how to setup and use this best approach will be covered in this presentation. Read more…
As usual, the meeting will be held at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto and begins at 7PM. We will be meeting in the Library/Card Room across the hall from the Lodge Room.
For those who enjoy the schmooze, we will have our usual no-host pre-meeting dinner at 5:30PM in the Bistro Café on the first floor of the lodge.
NOTE: This meeting will NOT be available on ZOOM.