There is some changes to the management of DMUG: the group, spirit and passion that created this group is still there and both Co-Presidents feel they will lend themselves to move us in new exciting directions.

I, Ivan Barreda, will be Co-President of Outside DMUG operations. This means I will be the Leader of Meetup.com, the Art Institute and outside recruitment, partnerships and activities.

Ben Poole, will end up bieng Co-President of DeVry operations. He will be in charge of all meetings, recruitment and activities inside DeVry. He will be the DMUG spokesperson at DeVry events like Club Council and Club Days.

Some ideas we are throwing around are:
1) More meetings that work around more schedules instead of bieng locked to a DeVry Schedule.
2) A group with a stronger presence outside DeVry.


I apologize for the lack of meetings, I got the graduation and job hunting bugs and they can't seem to let go, as soon as I am cured I will move to scheduling meetings.

Yes,

After all the commotion and outrage that Adobe would snub all Intel Mac users from enjoying Photoshop natively can now rejoice because the new (beta) version of Photoshop is here. What we want to do if be your guide to the new version, give you tips and tricks on all the new stuff there.

We will have a book giveaway, and food will be provided. I want to extend my apology for the last meetup, I was at the Microsoft Vista Launch Tour. There are many reasons for this, first and formost is that Microsoft is sponsoring our user group and I believe that the 2nd largest Mac developer (after Apple of course) and using thier software deserves support. Feel free to e-mail me or comment on my decision and I will be glad to go over it in detail.

Some of you know about thier work and some don't.

Thier work in the community is both an educational and rewarding experience. Just like Steve Jobs won over John Scully by saying (paraphrasing) would you rather sell sugar water to kids or change the world, this is again an oppoortunity to change the world.

Naoto Fukasawa is an extremely popular designer in Japan, he worked for the powerhouse industrial design firm IDEO but now on his own studio. The concept is that you create products that are used in ways that are "transparent" to the user and require little to no knowledge or training on the item. An iPod is an example of this, without a manual or knowledge of using a scroll wheel, most of us felt right at home on the iPod and use it like professionals without needing a training manual.

The same concept is starting to apply to computing and specifically ubiquitious computing, computing that is everywhere from the floors to household objects. We will have a discussion on its impacts, implications and whether the future of the network bieng everywhere is a good or bad thing.

The meet will be January 17, 2007 (First meeting of the year) at Noon in Room 102 at DeVry University but we may have an encore session and as such I will update accordingly.

I can't believe it, the little guy came on the scene October 21, 2001 and was lambasted and ridiculed for it's existance. Yes, he came as Mac-only in the beginning and every interation since then made him smaller, more affordable and a more capable digital music player.

Five years and 67 million iPods later, he has certainly grown and we will go back to the beginning and show how it came to be. We will also discuss ways to get more out of your iPod.

The meeting times will be Tuesday Deceber 5 at 5PM and Wednesday, December 6 at Noon and free food will be provided.

Yes, a few months ago something sinful happened, some said the impossible happened. Windows on a Mac happened, our upcoming meeting sessions will cover all the alternatives to have your Mac and Windows and use them both too.

The two meeting sesions are as follows both at DeVry University Room 109: Tuesday, October 3 at 2PM or Wednesday, October 4 at 5PM.