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Longtime member and tutor, Annette Bierre, has recently written an article providing the much needed context for these Archives from our early days right up to the present. Click here.
Thanks mostly to those original members dusting off their old Newsletters, the Archives are 95% complete, including for the year 2002, which is now fully covered
Records about the founding of SNEB have also been filled in quite well. The first complete Newsletter we now have is dated April 2000 and this Archives page now shows that month when you first visit. Even so, you'll see that there is a March 2000 entry listing the Steering Committee, which had already formed in 1999.
Most of the above material has been obtained by digitising copies of old newsletters but remember that archives can include newspaper articles, photographs and any and all other sources of relevant information. Keep an eye out during the spring cleaning!
Obviously, in reproducing these archives, common sense editing is applied. For example, people's phone numbers and other private details printed at the time are omitted.
If you can remember names or words better than dates, try entering the key words in the Search Box below. Its the same as the one on the Home page. The results are returned in a separate window on your browser and are not quite as elegant looking but the information is all there. In fact, the search box returns results from all the other pages on this site as well as the archives
Welcome to the first monthly meeting of the new Senior Net Eastern Bays Inc. As there has been no formal election of officers, this mesage comes from the Chairman of the Steering Committee. Your committee has put in many hours since the public meeting. I will report on this today. A summary of what has been achieved is presented here. The public meeting drew over 200 people. As at this date there are 167 financial members - a wonderful response. We have secured very suitable premises for our class room. It could take up to three groups at a time, but for the moment we foresee only one, moving to two early next year. This leaves a small area for practise or small special interest groups. Unfortunately we have not so far struck gold for our funding. A. S. B. will help us after we have been going for a year.
We were too late getting our document of incorporation to approach Sky City. They have not so far, in New Zealand, assisted any Senior Net group. The next meeting of the Lottery Grants Board is not until August. Very fortunately because of the response of our members, also offers of loans and subscriptions in advance, we hope to be able to start classes shortly after Easter. Forms will be available in the foyer to fill in after the meeting, enabling us to gauge the requirements for each course. Please note:- there is no mention of E-mail and Internet on the form. They will come a little later - as soon as arrangements for their inclusion can be made. About 75% of those attending the public meeting indicated this as a wish. More will be said during the meeting on this point.
Telecom provides two free phone lines and free access to Telecoms Extra for the classroom. They also donate a start up grant of $2000. An important part of the Senior Nets activity is the opportunity given by this meeting to socialise and network about the clubs activities, also possible future activities. To this end I expect the meeting to last about one and a half hours, following which you are invited to meet together over a cup of tea. Please remember that the limiting factor in Senior Net is the willingness of members to become tutors. We believe that, where possible, members having received training should be prepared to do some tutoring in return. Not everybody will be able to do this, but where possible we ask you to consider participating in this area.
Today we welcome a very busy man who has been kind enough to spare the time to come and speak to us of his involvement with Senior Net. His name is Grant Sidaway and he has been aligned with Senior Net for 30 years. In fact Senior Net in New Zealand was brought here by him. Grant came from America to New Zealand and has been a champion of Senior Net ever since, especially in Wellington, where he now lives. He also has an engineering background and has been with Telecom for 7 years. We are very fortunate to have a speaker of this calibre, knowledge and experience in the field of computing, which we are about to embrace, to address us, knowing he will have our best interests at heart.
