[AUSOM-Announcements] December Meetings @ AUSOM

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AUSOM Incorporated
The Apple Users Society of Melbourne, is Australia's leading Apple  
Macintosh User Group and this AUSOM-Announcement is a brief summary  
of the various meetings we conduct during the month and in the  
immediate future. For more information about AUSOM please call our  
Administration Office on 1300 360 813, email us at  
office at ausom.net.au or visit out website at http://www.ausom.net.au/


MEETINGS DAY - Saturday, December 1, 2007
Members and visitors attend Box Hill Institute, Building 8 Elgar  
Campus on the corner of Whitehorse and Elgar Roads (Melway 47B9) on  
the first Saturday of each month (except January) between 9.30am and  
5.00pm for a wide variety of meetings on the use of the Apple  
Macintosh computer in digital photography, iPods, home movies,  
genealogy, finance, databases, the Internet, Excel, Word,  networking  
and many other topics. The location is convenient to tram and train  
and there is ample parking. Lunch may be purchased on site and  
vendors sell small computer items such as CDs, DVDs, ink jet  
cartridges, cables etc. We have a monthly raffle of valuable prizes  
such as iWork software, the iPod shuffle etc.

See http://www.ausom.net.au/meetings.html for a map and further details.


MAIN PRESENTATION - Saturday, December 1, 2007

TOPIC: AUSOM Video Festival
Two Years in the making... The AUSOM Video Festival, introduced by  
Roger Threlfall, and showcasing the work of Digital Video SIG members  
over a two hour period.

This is part of Meetings Day at the Box Hill Institute (see above)  
and will commence in Rooms 213-215 in Building 8 at 1pm.

For more information go to <http://www.ausom.net.au/nextmeeting.html>


MULTIMEDIA SIG - Tuesday, December  11, 2007
Meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Balwyn Baptist Church  
(cnr Whitehorse Road and Parring Rd  Melway 46F8) from 7.30pm to 10pm.

TOPIC: Skitch
Keith Lang from Plasq, the makers of Comic Life, will present Skitch

Your friends are global; you can send them links, but what if the  
action is on your screen? Point out a quick suggestion to a colleague  
or pass on that funny moment from an IM chat, post images to MySpace,  
eBay, forums or via email. Skitch is the Internet age's Camera and it  
Rocks!

For more information go to <http://www.ausom.net.au/multimedia.html>


RETIREES AND OTHERS SIG - Wednesday, December 12,  2007
Meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the Balwyn Baptist Church  
(cnr Whitehorse Road and Parring Rd  Melway 46F8) from 10am to 12noon.

TOPIC: Making Cards with Pages
Steve Cooper will demonstrate how easy it is to use Apple's 'new'  
word processing and page layout application to make attractive cards  
from your photos or other graphics.

TOPIC: Windows on your Mac
Dick Johnson will demonstrate the use of BootCamp to enable the use  
of the Windows operating system on your Intel Mac.


AUSOM COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT MEETINGS
The AUSOM Committee of Management (CoM) usually meets on the  
Wednesday night two weeks before the next Main Meeting (this is  
usually, but not always the the 2nd Wednesday of each month) at 247  
Flinders Lane Melbourne Victoria Australia.

If you'd like to submit information for the Committee's  
consideration, please email com at ausom.net.au or write to; AUSOM  
Committee, 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000.  If the submission is  
received by the Monday evening prior to the Committee Meeting, it can  
be placed on the agenda for consideration at that next meeting,  
otherwise it may be held over until the meeting.

Next CoM Meeting: Wednesday December 12, 2007
Email to: com at ausom.net.au


DISC OF THE MONTH:
AUSOM regularly produces a Disc of the Month that goes on sale on the  
First Saturday of each month at our Main Meeting.

This month's Disc is a DVD - The Awesome iLife & iWork Companion

The Awesome iLife & iWork Companion includes;
14,000+ Music Pieces including Clips, Bumpers, Sound Loops &  
GarageBand Loops
12,000+ Clip Art Images
7,400+ TrueType Fonts
2,200+ Shapes, Buttons & Lines
1,800+ Sound Effects
300+ Stock Photography Images
200+ Templates & Themes for Keynote, Pages & Numbers
80+ iMovie Plug-ins
40+ Video Clips
10+ Themes for iDVD & iWeb
Various utilities that enhance or complement both iLife & iWork
…all contained on a single DVD!

The "iCompanion" can be purchased for just $15 each from the Saturday  
Meeting, or by contacting the AUSOM Office on 1300 360 813.

For full details on this DVD and past releases please visit
http://www.ausom.net.au/disc-of-month.html


MAJOR RAFFLE: 24" iMac
AUSOM is raffling a brand new 24" iMac and tickets are now available  
for purchase either by calling 1300 360 813 [If you get the answering  
machine, please leave your name, telephone no and say you are calling  
regarding the raffle] or from the Main Meeting.

Tickets are only $5.

The Raffle will be drawn at 4:00pm December 1, 2007

For more information, please visit http://www.ausom.net.au/raffle.html



AUSOM RELOCATING IN 2008
The Main Meeting Days will be relocating to Swinburne University,  
Prahran Campus as of the February meeting (there are no AUSOM  
meetings held in January).

The Campus is located quite close to the intersection of High St and  
Chapel St, Prahran and easily accessible by various forms of Public  
Transport (tram stop right out the front, a train station only a few  
minutes walk away) and there are plenty of options for driving a car  
and parking close by.

All our regular Special Interest Groups and other activities will  
continue as per normal and we hope to see you our new home.

To find out more on where this is and how to get to there, please visit;
http://www.ausom.net.au/swinburne/



AUSOM ANNOUNCEMENTS
Invite others to join the AUSOM Announcements list by visiting  
<http://www.ausom.net.au/lists.html> or calling our office on 1300  
360 813. You can find further information about forthcoming meetings  
at our website <http://www.ausom.net.au/nextmeeting.html>

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