BCUG Workshop/Meeting Schedule
Nov 14, 2024 to Dec 21, 2024
See ALL our workshops and their usual meeting dates/times/locations
Below is the latest information including any changes from the usual venue
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Workshop/Meeting
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NEXT MEETING
Date Day of Month Time Location Topics
Excel/Spreadsheets 19-Nov 3rd Tues 7:15 PM Will meet on Zoom Topics below will continue to span several sessions and relate mostly Fred's preparation for a high school reunion: Readdressing Various Techniques To Find Last Name From A List Which May Contain Two Or More Parts - Such As: Fname Birthname Lname/MarriedName (if married); John Adams vs John Quincy Adams vs John R Smith: 1) Using F9 to evaluate Google and/or Copilot formula suggestions; 2) Reverse, StrReverse Functions (in some Excel versions) and Sequence Function to reverse text; 3) Relook at VBA I once demonstrated to parse text right to left; 4) Determining if an email or name from list A is or is not on list B
Graphics 21-Nov 3rd Thurs 7:00PM Will meet on Zoom Bill Silverman will present - An Evening Of BS (Bill Silverman) - Containing various fun topics including: zoetropes, 3D advertising on buildings, anamorphic art, 3D printing update, and Bill’s slide show based on National Geographic photos of the King (not Elvis, not George, certainly not Donald, but Tut !). Alan Kasoff will present: Meet Claude3, A Safer AI,… And Better Than OpenAI’s GPT-4 And Google’s Gemini.
PC Roundtable 26-Nov 4th Tues 12:00 PM Will meet on Zoom Bring in your software and hardware questions and the group will try to help you resolve any issues and problems that keep you from enjoying all that your computer can do. Computing is much more fun when we all help each other.  
BCUG General Meeting 28-Nov 4th Thurs 7:00pm Not meeting in November  November General Meeting is canceled due to conflict with Thanksgiving.
BCUG General Meeting 5-Dec 1st Thurs 7:00pm Note change in date for December. BCUG Annual Meeting with selection of officers on Thursday DECEMBER 5. Information about a presentation for 12/5 should be posted shortly. Due to conflict with end of year holidays, there will be no BCUG General meeting on 12/26/24. 
Word Processing 5-Dec 1st Thurs 6:30 PM On hiatus  
Access-VBA 10-Dec 2nd Tues 7:00 PM Will meet on Zoom Watch this space for updates. 
Linux 11-Dec 2nd Wed 7:00 PM Will meet on Zoom Watch this space for updates.
AppleWaves 14-Dec 2nd Sat 10:00 AM Temporarily on hold  
Excel/Spreadsheets 17-Dec 3rd Tues 7:15 PM Will meet on Zoom Watch this space for updates.  
Graphics 19-Dec 3rd Thurs 7:00PM Will meet on Zoom Alan Kasoff will present: How Robots Are Learning To Draw And Paint. Fred Kagel will present: Bringing Order To The Chaos Of Decades Of Old Family Images - Identifying people, finding dates and locations, adding captions.

See Map for building locations for Brookdale locations:
        ATeC: The Advanced Technology Center - park in Lot 6 or 5, walk along satellite dishes
        MAN: Main Area North - park in Lot 4 or 5        
   
     MAS: Main Academic South Building - park in Lot 6 or 7.
        HTHS: High Technology High School is at southeast end of Lot 4. 

Check www.brookdalecc.edu or www.hths.mcvsd.org for school closings.

ML: Middletown Library; 55 New Monmouth Rd, Middletown

MCLMB: Marlboro branch of the Monmouth County Library, 1 Library Court & Wyncrest Drive, Marlboro, NJ 07746

EPL: Eatontown Public Library, 33 Broad Street, Eatontown, NJ 07724

TFPL: Tinton Falls Public Library, 664 Tinton Avenue, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724

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