[nycfoxsig] Re: August Meeting: August 23, 6:30pm
- From: wc333@xxxxxxx
- To: nycfoxsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:13:44 -0400
How does keeping the meetings on the 3rd Thurs then when holiday conflicts
exists move the meeting to the 2nd Thurs for that month and if the 2nd doesn't
work, try the 4th as an alternate choice.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lew <lew1716@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: nycfoxsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 7:32 pm
Subject: [nycfoxsig] August Meeting: August 23, 6:30pm
Dear NYC Database SIG member:
Our next, and what is officially our first meeting as a SIG, will be held on
August 23 at 6:30pm. The location
is the same as that for the general NYACC meeting we attended last month: Room
806 in the Silver (aka "Main")
Building at NYU, 32 Waverly Place, NYC. All are invited, your non-VFP
colleagues
may wish to attend since the
topic, n-Tier Design, is a general design issue, not limited to VFP.
Speaker: Michael Babcock is the founder and President of the Central PA VFP
Users Group and a Microsoft
Certified Professional for VFP. He heads his own software company, MB Software
Solutions, which has a client
base in PA. Website: www.MBSoftwareSolutions.com.
Topic: n-Tier Design. n-Tier design is a concept that has emerged strongly in
the last several years and seems
to be the basic design paradigm (coupled with object orientation) that will be
employed for anything but the
smallest of projects in the years ahead. By rigorously isolating the user
interface from the business layer
(which governs how users interact with data) from the data itself, the model
allows for programming on
different platforms and the use of different back ends. A natural off-shoot of
this organization is unlimited
scalability.
Please take the time to review Michael's attached Power Point presentation. I
invite you to discuss this topic
here on the list prior to the meeting. Michael will be monitoring the
discussion
and may be able to tailor his
presentation to our interests on the 23rd.
Other items on the agenda:
1. Dues. While it is not entirely clear what our financial needs are, we still
don't know how much support we
will receive from our parent group, NYACC. Whatever their decision is, I feel
it
would be a very nice gesture
of hospitality to be able to take our speakers out for a modest diner after our
meetings. Remember, they
travel at their own expense and speak without compensation.
2. SIG Elections, Officers & event coordinators. Also not clear. I'd like to
team up with someone to
administer this list, if only to assure that it functions when I'm not
available. We certainly need a single
person to coordinate with our speakers, so someone will have to be willing to
make phone calls & communicate
with the list etc... We'll need to interface with NYACC. What do you think?
3. Normalize meeting dates. The 3/4th Thurs seems to work in general, but will
conflict with religious
holidays in the immediate months ahead. We need to reach agreements on this.
Let's reach some decisions about these three items on line, so we can vote on
them at the meeting without too
much debate. That way we can give Michael and our technical topic the time it
deserves.
-Lew
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