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Boardroom Notes...
(Ed. Note: The LA Fox Board of Directors met on Thursday, Dec. 4th, 1997, at Denny’s on PCH. The Board is strictly a volunteer organiz ation responsible for policies and general direction of LA Fox. The Board meets 2-3 times per year and any current member (paid-up) may attend and/or volunteer their services to be on the Board. What follows is the outcome of that meeting.]
Membership Period/Payment of Dues
These membership fees will become due and payable from
member
of the group at the January meeting, rather than the past practice of renewing membership during the “anniversary” month of membership. If you won’t be able to attend the January meeting, and wish to remain a member-in-good- standing, you should mail your dues to Twila Miller, 1601 North Sepulveda Blvd. -#191, Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266. (The membership fees cover the cost of the meeting room at the Torrance Airport
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which nas doubled
in
the last year, the cost of publishing the newsletter
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which has increased over 30% in the last year, transportation and/or lodging for any of our guest speakers who travel to Los Angeles to speak to the group, as well as other miscellaneous expenses incurred in running the group.)
ber 31 of the current year.
will be pro-rated based on when in the year the person joins. In other words,
if
a person joins in July of 1998, the amount of the dueswould be 1/2 of regularmembership, or$24. Afterthat, the person’s dues would become payable on January 1 of the following year.
1998 will also be due and payable at the January meeting on a
pro-rated basis depending on when in the year the person
joined. (For example, if a person joined the group in October of
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Party.
It’s coming up on that time of the year again. We’ll be having a
White
Elephant Gift Exchange again this year. As always, there’ll be plenty of tasty treats along with good cheer and fellowship. And a special guest. For complete details, except for the special guest, see the article on page 9.
January
19,
1998, 7:30
PM
Les Pinter.
While working
on a Ph.D. in economics at Rice University in Houston, Texas, Les joined with
two
high-school friends to develop the Magic Wand, one of the first word processing programs for microcomputers. In 1990 he sold the source code to Microsoft, which used it in the development of Microsoft Word. During the development of a dBase Ill application for LucasFilm, Les discovered that FoxBase ran his applications 7 times faster, and was immedately hooked on Fox. He began The Pinter FoxPro Letter, (now in its eighth year) a newsletter published both in the US and in Moscow (a Russian language edition).Les has written 6 books on programming in FoxPro for McGraw-Hill. He is a Contributing Editor for Point DBF, the French data base magazine, a technical editor for IDG books, and writes “The Cutting Edge” column for FoxTalk. His consulting practise in California includes both corporate customers and firms that market applications written in FoxPro. He gives in-house seminars in English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Les is a private pilot, and once played lead guitar in the road band for Jerry Lee Lewis.
[Sorry. ..just had to stick that it in, Les!]
February 16, 1998, 7:30 PM
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Jonathan
Melvin. Jon’s topic for the evening will be “Creating and Operating an Enterprise
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The LA Fox Developer
A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application Developers in Southern California
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Out and About
by Barry R. Lee
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The December meeting of LA Fox will be held on Dec.15, 1997, at 7:30 PM at our regular meeting place (the Torrance Airport, 3301 Airport Drive, in Torrance). For details on how to get there, see the map on the back page.
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