Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 28 Aug 1992 11:15:40 CDT
From: Darius Vaskelis <U39648@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: chi.general
Subject: Re: OS/2 Users Group?
Distribution: usa

>I was wondering if anyone had information on a Chicago area(312 or 708)
>user's group for OS/2.  I have been unable to get this information
>from other sources so I decided to give this a try.

Here's some information on the Chicago OS/2 User Group from its BBS,
GREATER CHICAGO Online!! at (708) 895-4042, two lines up to 9600 bps
(v.32) and v.42bis:
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            Chicago OS/2 User Group Meeting Dates - 1992

   We have booked the dates for the 1992 Meetings.  All the meetings are sched-
   uled for Friday's.  Here are the meeting dates for 1992.  Mark your calendar
   now.

   o   January 17
   o   February 21
   o   March 27
   o   April (none scheduled - COMDEX is April 6 - 9, 1992)
   o   May 1
   o   June 12
   o   July 17
   o   August 14
   o   September 18
   o   October 16
   o   November 13
   o   December 11

   All meetings are held at One IBM Plaza, Room 2716, 330 North Wabash Avenue,
   Chicago, unless otherwise announced in advance.  We may schedule additional
   meetings if there appears to be a good opportunity to provide information.

   We will try to adhere to the schedule above.

   If you have any questions about the OS/2 User group or wish to be added to
   the mailing list, please send a note to the SYSOP.

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Here was the agenda for the last meeting, note that this meeting ALREADY
took place, I'm only presenting the information to show what a typical
meeting is like:

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August OS/2 User Group Meeting

The Chicago OS/2 User Group will meet on Friday, August 14 in
Room 2716, One IBM Plaza in downtown Chicago.  The Plaza is
located at 330 N. Wabash Avenue on the north side of the Chicago
River.  Meeting time is 9:00 AM to 2:45 PM and coffee and donuts
will be available at 8:30 AM.

RSVP: Please call Mary Haas at (708) 218-7474 if you plan to
attend this month's meeting.

The Chicago OS/2 User Group is open to all OS/2ers who want to exchange
information about OS/2.  Persons who reside outside the Chicago Metro
area are welcome to attend and/or be added to the mailing list.  If
you'd like to be added to the list, send a note to the SysOp on this
board with your correct mailing address and we'll make sure your
name is added.

Agenda for August's Meeting:

       o   8:30 AM    Coffee and Donuts

       o   9:00 AM    Introductions
       o   9:05 AM    Programmer's Workstation & Host Graphic Tools

          Now that OS/2 2.0 is here, many of our corporate programmer
          members have asked to see what a "true programmer's workstation"
          would look like.  This presentation will highlight one such
          solution which uses a successful combination of Microfocus
          COBOL and Bachman Tools.  The second portion of this segment
          will focus on merging host data with graphics using IBM's
          Audio Visual Connection.

          We think developers will find this session very worthwhile.

       o  11:15 AM    OS/2 Documentation Overview

          This session includes a discussion of recently released
          OS/2 Redbooks!

       o  11:45 AM    Lunch (at attendee's expense)

          There are many fine restaurants in the vicinity of The Plaza
          including Harry Caray's, Mother Hubbard's, Uno's, Due's, and
          the IBM Cafeteria (which isn't bad either).

       o   1:05 PM    Describe, Inc.

          A demonstration of Describe's 32-bit Word Processing Software.

       o   2:15 PM    Open Discussion

       o   2:45 PM    Meeting Adjourns

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It's primarily focused on OS/2 2.0 (32-bit) but is probably useful for
OS/2 1.x (16-bit) users as well.

- Darius
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