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Hewie Poplock |
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I attended my first user group meeting armed with a yellow legal pad and 21 questions. Although only 4 of them got addressed at that first meeting, I knew that computer user groups were an invaluable source of help, information and friendship. That was in 1982 at an Osborne User group. I have been active in the user group movement ever since.
After purchasing my first PC, I joined the local PC user group and immediately became active. It wasn't long before I was on the Board of Directors and involved with some SIGs. I moved in the late 80's to the Orlando, Florida area and joined the Central Florida Computer Society. I am a 4 time Past President, a 15 plus year leader of the Windows SIG, and a 15 plus year program chair. I am currently the Vice-President as well as continuing as program chair and Windows SIG chair. I attended several of the early APCUG annual & semi-annual conferences in the early & late 90's in Las Vegas and in Atlanta. For several years I was the APCUG rep for CFCS. I attended some of the first meetings of the Florida Association of User Groups and became active and over the many years served as a Director, President, Vice President and Secretary. I acted as Program Chair for the 2009 FACUG conference which featured many presenters speaking about social media and introducing many attendees to some of the latest technologies, including streaming many of the sessions. In my spare time over the years, I have been a sysop of my own BBS and assisted my user group sysops. As the world turned to the Internet, I moved there with my own website in 1995, and it continues to this day. I also have written the Hewie's Views & Reviews column for the CFCS newsletter since 2000. I like to help computer users and give back much of what I have learned over the years. I look forward to working with groups in a region and to help them to communicate with each other.
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