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April 6, 2000 Meeting Announcement
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

Microsoft will demonstrate Windows 2000 Professional at the April DVPC meeting. Is Windows 2000 right for you? What are the advantages of Windows 2000? How compatible is it with Windows 98? With Windows 98 applications? With Windows NT? Should you upgrade? Or should you wait... and if you wait, what are you waiting for? Learn everything you ever wanted to know about Windows 2000 but didn't know how to ask at our April 6th meeting!
April is also DVPC election night. See the list of candidates in this issue of Diablo Blue, and be sure to come to the meeting and vote! Of course, you have to be a member in good standing to vote, so if it's time to renew your membership please do so at the registration desk when you arrive at the meeting.
DVPC meetings are held in the lobby conference room in Building B at the Bank of America Technology Center office complex in Concord, located near the northeast corner of Clayton Road at Galindo (see the Map to Monthly Meetings). Please use the main entrance of the building, which is in the center of the front of the building that faces Clayton road. This month's meeting is back in Building B, our normal meeting location.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. We will have the next installment of PC 101, a class run by Craig Peterson on how to use the computer, at 6:15 p.m. This month we will start using the text titled "Teach Yourself Computers and the Internet Visually". Members

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President's Corner
by Alan Mildwurm
April is election month at DVPC. And, perhaps breaking with DVPC tradition, I am going to make an election promise. We are losing at least one board member to college and perhaps one or two more to other things. I want to thank all of our board members for their efforts this past year. Your board works very hard to organize and set up our meetings and events. They are all volunteers and most have a life outside of DVPC. (There may be an exception to this but he is on a 12-step recovery program). Believe it or not, there is a lot to do to make things work.
Now for the promise -- without new blood on the board, we will not be able to do as much as we do. Quite honestly, we have a lot of ideas to do more but we don't have the "person-power" (I hate political correctness) to implement some of these ideas. Coming to the meetings is great but how about doing something to shape the future of DVPC? This year should be an interesting year in computing- new law

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You Asked for It!

We've been asked to make Diablo Blue available in Adobe Acrobat format, so it can be read as a unit. Well, here it is folks! It's a huge file to download (as PDF files often are), 649K, but if you have the bandwidth, or the time, go for it! You'll need Adobe Acrobat, and/or the Acrobat plug-in for your browser, to be able to read this PDF document file.

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