The list below shows all BetaPlus Club meetings back to Sept 2006.

The list is in reverse order - latest years first. Scroll down for the earlier years.

Date

Title

Speaker/Organiser

 

 

 

 

CLUB YEAR 2010/11

 

Sep 28th

Club business, Groups Fair
What Do You Want From Your Club?

Chairman
BMcG

Oct 12th

What You Can Do With Your Wii

Jennifer Schofield (Marcom)

Oct 26th

Club Hints and Tips

Internal speakers

Nov 9th

Rural Broadband
Broadband activities in West Sussex

Geoffrey Boys
Michael Hicks, WSCC

Nov 23nd

Visit

Southern Electricity Call Centre

Dec 7th

News and Hints
Club Facilities

Phil Bunce
Steve Pearce

Dec 14th

An exploration of some other things you can do with your computer
Christmas Party

Richard Brownfield

Chairman

Jan 11th

New Club Messageboard
Sharing Photos on the Web
Backing Up data

Barry Blaydes
Steve Pearce
Phil Bunce, Bruce McGavin

Jan 25th

Communicating with brain-damaged individuals

Dr Paul Gnanayutham

Feb 8th

Measuring human movement in 3D

Prof. Mike Whittle

Feb 22nd

Taking a Computer firm to Court
News and Tips
What's new on the Club Website

Pat Stewart
Phil Bunce
Barry Blaydes

Mar 8th

Monitoring the Movement of Glaciers

Dr. Kirk Martinez, So'ton University

Mar 22nd

Visit (all day)

BMW Cowley

Apr 5th

Teaching Outlook to commercial firms

Suzanne Driver

May 3rd

DIG A: Photo project
Creating and using a spreadsheet
Family History: Links to the Past
Internet & Computer Problems

Mike Williams
John Kitchener
Roy Winchester
Ernie Piper

May 17th

Visit (and lunch)

Wickham Vineyards

May 31st

Computing Languages: Python
Digital Imaging B
Mobile Communications
3D printing
Web Group

John Worley
Ernie Piper
Roy Gask
John Worley
John Miles

Jun 14th

From Design to Patent: CAD and the development of a car turntable

Mark Starnes

Jun 28th

AGM
Ultimate Questions and Ultimate Answers

Chairman
Paul Pridmore

 

CLUB YEAR 2009/10

 

Sep 29th

Club Business
Study Groups 'Fair'
Surgeries Feedback

Chairman
Study Group leader
Steve Pearce

Oct 13th

Interactive Websites
Social Learning (inc. Twitter)

John Halliday
Geoffrey Boys

Oct 27th

PDF files
What you can do with your Wii

Steve Pearce / John Worley
Jennifer Scofield (Marcom)

Nov 10th

Inmarsat

Michael Butler

Nov 24th

VISIT

HMS Collingwood (Gosport)

Dec 8th

Computers and National Security

Peter Varnish (Security consultant)

Dec 15th

 NB: 11am start
More of Bruce's Best Bits
Xmas party

 
Bruce McGavin
Chairman

Jan 12th

Cancelled due to bad weather

 

Jan26th

Shopping & Banking Online

WSCC Trading Standards

Feb 9th

Free software tips

Dick Hammond

Feb 23rd

Windows 7

Technical Study Group

Mar 9th

Intelligent Energy Systems: How Artificial Intelligence can help combat global warming’.
 

Alex Rogers, Southampton University

Mar 23rd

New Media & Technologies - members' experience

Steve Pearce, Pat Stewart, Bruce

Apr 20th

VISIT

Portsmouth Water Company, Farlington

May 4th

Technical Update

Chris Jones

May 18th

VISIT

Chichester Harbour Solar Powered Boat

Jun 1st

Face recognition in Picasa
Creating a website from your family tree
Finding software to manage your finances
How the Club helped me with my problem
Study & Project Groups for next year

DIG A
Family History
Home Finance
Presentations Project
Geoffrey Boys / Steve Pearce

Jun 15th

Chichester Singers website
Windows Scheduler
Bluffers's guide to computer languages
Collaborative workspaces for groups & clubs
Working together - members' discussion

Jill Selwood
Barry Blaydes
John Worley
Steve Pearce /
  Geoffrey Boys

Jun 29th

AGM
Surviving the summer without Betaplus

Chairman
Paul Pridmore

 

CLUB YEAR 2008/9

 

Sep 30th

Club Business
Study Groups and 'Fair'
The new Club Website

Chairman
Study Group leader
Barry Blaydes

Oct 14th

Technical Update

Chris Jones

Oct 28th

Social websites
How Automation gave me the sack

Geoffrey Boys
Philip Wilson

Nov11th

Google and Marketing

Sam Brownfield

Nov 25th

VISIT

Veolia Recycling Centre

Dec 9th

Manage Your photos with Picasa
Domain Names

Bruce McGavin
Jo Howard / Pat Stewart

Dec 16th

Flight Simulation
Xmas party

Bob Nagle
Chairman

Jan 13th

Household Management - the New Mrs.Beeton

Jo Howard/Pat Stewart

Jan 27th

Skylab
Sharing data between PC and laptop

Mike Whittle
Steve Pearce

Feb 10th

Developments in Computers and Education

Steve Whiting WSCC

Feb 24th

Scoring music on the Computer
Simple Websites

John Beck
Jo Howard

Mar 10th

Security: Biometrics and Human Behaviour

Professor Mark Nixon

Mar 24th

VISIT

West Sussex Records Office

Apr 7th

What's in your computer?

Candu Computers

Apr 28th

Surgeries and Discussion

Club members

May 12th

Meeting cancelled

SE Ambulance HQ, Lewes

 May 26th

Feedback: Web, Technical & Database Study Groups
Sharing Documents Project Group

Group members

Jun 9th

Feedback: Family History, Internet and Digital Imaging Study Groups
Various Project Groups

Group members

Jun 23rd

AGM

Chairman

 

 

 

 

CLUB YEAR 2007/8

 

Oct 2nd

Club Business
      Study Groups 'fair'
Hints & Tips

Dick Hammond

Chris Linford, Bruce McGavin

Oct 16th

Chris Jones

Alan Richmond

Oct 30th

Hobbies and Computers:
  Civilization (strategy game)
  Second Life (online virtual world)
  Games online
  Crosswords

Bruce McGavin
  Bruce McGavin
  Jo Howard
  Geoffrey Boys
  Paul Pridmore

Nov 13th

Thinking Inside the Box (upgrading your computer)

Richard Brownfield

Nov 27th

Visit: Tangmere Aviation Museum

Dick Hammond

Alan Davies

Dec 11th

Creative Writing
Christmas party

Alison Norrington

Jan 8th

Hints & Tips for Dummies
Powerpoint

Alan Davies
Ernie Piper

Jan 22nd

Computers & Veterinary Surgery
 

Andy Vawer (Downland Veterinerary Group)

Feb 5th

Website design

Philip Payne (Admiral Lord Nelson School)

Feb 19th

The Breitling Orbiter

Mel James

Mar 4th

Various topics (e.g. wireless networks)
plus members' questions

Chris Jones

Mar 18th

Outside visit: RPM Printers

Chris Linford

Apr 15th

Medical websites, databases, Vista: the Beta Plus Short Projects
Organise you photos with Picasa

Steve Pearce, Barry Blaydes, Bruce McGavin
Bruce McGavin
 

Apr 29th

EGM: Change to Constitution
Members' Surgeries
What's new at the Internet Group?
Using Styles in Word

Chairman
Alan Richmond
Ernie Piper
Caroline Taylor

May 13th

Outside visit, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (N.B. all day)

Chris Linford

May 27th

Family History update
DIG those images
Web group feedback

Steve Pearce
Bruce McGavin
Barry Blaydes

Jun 10th

Music Technology

Pete Sidwell

Jun 24th

AGM
Video Editing

Dick Hammond
Richard Brownfield

 

 

 

 

CLUB YEAR 2006/7

 

Sept 19th

Club matters

Dick Hammond

 

Members Survey Discussion Groups

Chris Linford

Oct 3rd

Technology Update - Microsoft VISTA

Chris Jones

Oct 17th

Computers & Farming

George Torrence

Oct 31st

Add impact to your posters, etc.

Barry Blaydes

 

Organise your thoughts!

Steve Pearce

Nov 14th

Information Services at Chichester University

Terry Hanson, Director of Information Services

Nov 28th

OUTSIDE VISIT

Southampton Container Terminal

Dec 12th

XMAS PARTY

 

 

Fun video clips & pictures

Bruce McGavin

Jan 9th

Q&A Session, members' questions

Ernie Piper

Jan 23rd

Archaeology / Fishbourne Roman Palace

Alan Richmond

Feb 6th

DIG feedback
Keyboard Shortcuts

Linda Pead
Bruce McGavin

Feb 20th

Diving on the Titanic
Keyboard shortcuts

Rob Goldsmith
Bruce McGavin

Mar 6th

Online Learning
Data Storage and Backup

Jo Howard
Bruce McGavin + Jo Howard

Mar 20th

OUTSIDE VISIT

Chichester Festival Theatre

Apr 3rd

The Broadband Revolution

Geoffrey Boys

Apr 17th

Speech Recognition
"Surgeries"

Barry Blaydes
Alan Richmond organising

May 1st

Project Feedback: Online Chat
Project Feedback: Recover Your Old Recordings

Barry Blaydes
Richard Brownfield

May 8th

Publisher
Study Groups feedback: Video Editing, Web Group

John d'Este Eastes
Brian Oakley-Smith, Barry Blaydes

May 22nd

Outside visit

To be advised

Jun 5th

Technology Q&A session

Chris Jones

Jun 19th

Your grandchildren - what can they do on a computer?
Study Groups feedback: Family History, Internet Group

Jennifer Bottomley
Steve Pearce, Geoffrey Boys

Jun 26th

AGM
Internet Mapping - Where are we now?

Chairman / Secretary
Paul Pridmore