DCN News - May 3, 2013

In this issue:

1. DCN at Celebrate Davis 2013
2. Ask a Davis tech expert
3. Is this the promotional calendar you’re looking for?
4. Video-talking with China, without wires or a toll charge
5. The “I’ve been hacked!” class is taking shape, plus a last call for the Web Calendar course

1. DCN at Celebrate Davis 2013
We’re not giving away a lot of physical stuff this year at Celebrate Davis on May 16 … but we are offering instructions, knowledge and advice on how to use technology to support community in Davis. Come by our booth to ask us about any of our free tools or services, or to join these specific events – see next three items:

2. Ask a Davis tech expert
Ask one of Davis’ technological experts: From 6 to 7 p.m., talk about computers, networks or related subjects in Davis with Rob Nickerson, DCN board member and owner of Davis Internet company Omsoft.

3. Is this the promotional calendar you’re looking for?
This might be the promotional calendar your nonprofit is looking for: From 7 to 8 p.m., learn more about DCN’s updated Web Calendar, which local organizations can install on their websites to help promote their events and activities. The Web Calendar can also link to a master Community Calendar hosted on DCN's site. During this hour, Steve McMahon, the DCN board member who created this service, will be on hand to discuss the calendar and answer questions.

4. Video-talking with China, without wires or a toll charge
Your parents would have said this could not be done: At least once between 7 and 8 p.m. (exact times to be determined – visit our booth to check), watch a demonstration of an intercontinental video call from us to Tsui Chang, a DCN board member temporarily living in China. A free video wireless call from across the Pacific, to an open field in Davis, would have been stupendously impressive 30 years ago. Now it shows how technology can help sustain communities, even when distance pulls us away. Come see how it’s done. If you know Tsui, say hi.

5. The “I’ve been hacked!” class is taking shape, plus a last call for the Web Calendar course
We have two springtime classes left this year – one on the Web Calendar May 9, and one called “You’ve Been Hacked or Infected: What to Do Next.” We’re still putting that panel together, but we have a date --June 18-- and will have more details soon. Read more about either class at http://www2.dcn.org/dcn/classes/classSchedules/.