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NYCDAUG, the New York City Digital Assistant Users' Group is pleased to announce the merger and incorporation of the
New York City Pocket PC Users Group into our PDA-centric user group family.

The merging of our two groups will help strengthen the Pocket PC platform's presence within NYCDAUG and will extend
NYCDAUG's benefits to the existing New York City Pocket PC Users Group members.
One larger, stronger group is better for everyone.

Sam Wagner, New York City Pocket PC Users Group's President will immediately become Moderator of the NYCDAUG Pocket PC Yahoo Group and will help formulate the expansion and redesign of the Pocket PC support pages on the NYCDAUG site.

In addition, our monthly meetings, will now ALTERNATE between OS Platforms.

Starting in March, NYCDAUG will hold a bi-monthly meeting for the Pocket PC OS PDAs and only
for the Pocket PC OS. This has been done to ensure this new expanded Pocket PC sub-group gets
the meeting time they desire. Sam will help drive the Pocket PC meeting content as well as other volunteers within this sub-group.

In April, we will have our monthly meeting focusing on Palm OS PDAs and as time and member interest allows, some coverage of Sharp Linux and/or other PDA devices as well. However, this meeting will continue to cover mostly Palm OS presentations as we have done in the past.

In May, we will continue this cycle with a Pocket PC centric meeting and in June a Palm OS meeting.

However, ALL NYCDAUG members are welcome to come to ALL meetings as long as you keep
in mind the platform and topic of discussion for each meeting.

This schedule is always open to revision based on member interest and participation so if you have products you would be willing to demonstrate
on any platform, let me know. User groups are user driven and the continued success of NYCDAUG is still based on volunteer participation.

The benefits to all NYCDAUG members are that this alternating monthly schedule should help our members focus more on their particular platform interests as well as letting any member who wishes to come to a monthly meeting be exposed to even more in depth coverage of that particular OS.
We also hope to gain more specific interest level if the meetings are every other month making each one a bit more special and richer in content.

I am also working with Palm Inc. on expanding its user group support program and with their own internal restructuring going on, this is an ideal time.
As a Palm user, this is equally important to me personally.

Meeting turnout and presenter content has been an ongoing problem in the recent past with meeting turnout lower than we would like. It would be nice to have more members at each meeting every other month than to hold low turnout meetings monthly. Everyone's interest should be taken care of even better this way while our multiple email lists and Yahoo Groups should satiate the daily "techno fix" we all need irrespective of the platform.

Please keep in mind this is not a move away from the Palm OS on any level. This is to place NYCDAUG in the strongest position possible for all
PDA platforms, helping us to live up to our slogan that we are "the PDA-centric User Group for all of you".

I am hoping these changes bring about an invigoration and renewed interest in member participation. We need more members willing to demonstrate at our meetings, to write reviews to post to our web site and PDA channels and ideally to volunteer to help organize a PARTY every now and then.
Please contact me in private with ways you are willing to help make NYCDAUG the user group YOU want it to be.

Peter M. Fine
President and Founder
NYCDAUG, the New York City Digital Assistant Users' Group