| February 28, 2014 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
On Thursday, February 28 in the Hondius Room at the Estes Valley Public Library, EPICUG members and the public are welcome to attend and encouraged to participate in the first annual EPICUG:\TECH\SWAP. If you have outgrown the need for a piece of technology in your life, bring it to the Library. If you need a piece of technology, come look for it – if you don’t find it, you’ll definitely find something irresistible.
Rough Schedule & Terms
SETUP 7:00 – Bring your items for swapping. Do not show up early, there will be ample time for setup. Tables will be provided. Some power extension cords and power strips will be provide, but feel free to bring your own. Suitable items include: computers, displays, laptops, printers, scanners, other accessories, electronic games, cameras and accessories, telephones, iPods, other mobile devices, cables, tech-related books. not-installed-software, manuals, unwanted Christmas gifts, etc. Do not bring items that you are not willing to part with.
ROUND-THE-CIRCLE 7:15± – You have the opportunity to describe your offerings to all in attendance. You may only offer items for free – we cannot operate a cash sale at the Library. If you hear about an item you want, speak up right there and then, and it’s yours!
ARBITRATION – If more than one person want a specific item, they have to describe what they want to do with it, and the group votes.
SOCIALIZE 8:00 ± – After everyone’s had a chance to show their stuff, roam around, ask questions, enjoy some light snacks, goggle over the Atari, pick up that power adapter you hedged on earlier.
CLEANUP and RECYCLE 8:40 – Reuse is the intent of this event, but if there’s leftover gear nobody wants, Access Recycling of Loveland has offered to take it all free of charge, even batteries! The only exception is cathode-ray-tubes. If you’d like to recycle a CRT, please contribute $8.
Please come and geek out. If you’d like to volunteer to help take the leftovers to Loveland, please let me know. Here is a time-lapse of a New York Tech Swap.
Lee Lasson has done a blog post, followup to the Windows 8 presentation this past Thursday. 
There have been several posts on the website since this meeting announcement, so this is a reminder that tomorrow night, Thursday, January 24 at 7:00 PM in the Hondius Room at the Estes Valley Library, Don Shelley of Estes Valley Networks and Lee Lasson of Front Desk, Inc. will present a hands-on demonstration and will answer questions about Windows 8, the latest iteration of Microsoft’s desktop and tablet computer operating system. Windows 8 visually departs from its predecessors with a clean new Swiss styled interface and support for touch-based gestures. Learn about the upgrade process and about the different versions of Windows 8 and which is best suited for your hardware and software needs. All EPICUG meetings and events are free and open to the public.
On Monday, February 4, at 7:00 pm in the Hondius Room at the Estes Valley Public Library, EPICUG is pleased once again to welcome 
Thank you to Jeff Gamet for a terrific presentation last night on CES 2013. If you missed it, Jeff is presenting at COMUG in Boulder this evening. Jeff mentioned his blogging and podcasts. Here is a link to 
The EPICUG Board met Monday evening, and discussed among other topics the calendar of meetings for the year. Due to lightening our meeting load in the summer and compromising our calendar with the library’s, our meetings are more “scattered” than in past years. In other words, we don’t have regular, first-monday, third-wednesday, and four-thursday meeting like before. For that reason, we are no longer theming meetings as “mac”, “pc” and “mobile”, at least not in association with specific calendar dates.
