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Free Computer Q&A at Third Place Commons 


For Fall to Spring 2023-2024, we are alternately online via Zoom and in-person at the Stadler Meeting Room in the Third Place  Commons, just north of Seattle in Town Center at Lake Forest Park  (directions and time below).   These small group sessions are presented as a community service.  Typically sessions are on the fourth Sunday of every other month with an adjustment to the third Sunday to avoid weekends adjacent to Thanksgiving and Memorial Day.
Since we are alternating between in-person and online, we will be in-person at the Stadler room in September, November, February, and April.  Online sessions will be on Zoom in October, January, March and May.  No sessions in December, and June-August, our traditional Summer break.
Fall will start our 14th year of sessions.  Usually the session begins with a presentation on a topic of  general interest.  Then we spend the rest of our time chatting about the questions you bring to the room or submit in advance as time permits. Details are below: 

Next Session: September 24th, 2:00 PM (in-person)


Topic:
To Be Determined
We will set the next seasons topics by Mid-July...and you can help suggest topic for us!  Send email for with your ideas for the next year of Q&A sessions by July 7th with the subject line "New topics for next season."

Upcoming sessions:       
    •              Oct 22, 2023        (Zoom) Topic: To Be Determined
                   Nov 19, 2023      (in-person) Topic: Windows 10/11 Forum







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Some of the topics covered since 2011 include:
Creating/Using Wireless Networks
Web Fact versus Web  Fiction
Taming the Email Beast
Understanding Software Updates
Avoiding Malware
Cloud Computing
Traveling with Technology
Windows 10
Using Portable Devices and Public Wireless Wisely
Making Sense of Social Media
Printers in Today's Mobile Computing World
Protecting Data with Backup
Laptops, Tablets, Smartphones: What and Why to Buy?
Safe Passwording
Why is My Computer So Slow?
Web-based and Local Email
Good and Bad of Online Buying
Telling Good Tech Support from Bad
Digital Legacies - Handling an Online Life Left Behind
Five Ways to Secure and Protect Yourself Online
Bloatware and the New PC
Does a Intelligent Personal Assistant Make Sense for You?
Your Computer Questions  and  Concerns
Either submit your questions in advance or  bring them  to the session to
share.  You can also bring your laptop to show  problem or illustrate your
question. Highly technical or system-specific  questions may be beyond the scope of the session and require a separate one-on-one session.  Submit your  question in  advance if you aren't sure whether it can be answered during the  Q&A.
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Submit Your General Topic
Have a topic idea you  think would be interesting to discuss?  Email your topic ideas to me.  Best topics are ones that are not specific to any one device but common to many or all  devices.  Defining technology, security or privacy concerns or "how to"  can also be helpful. 

Location &  Time


Normal in-person meeting space:
Third Place Commons - Stadler  Room
(The glassed-in meeting room located next to Dumpling Generation.) 

Town Center at Lake Forest Park, upper  level 
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park, WA  98155

Typically the Fourth Sunday of each month(excluding holidays)
 2:00- 3:30 PM.
 Directions to Town Center

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