Midlands IBM Retirees Club - August 2023 Newsletter

The Club’s AGM was held by Zoom on Monday 14 August; the draft minutes are available on this website.

Meetings of the Tech Club are taking a summer break and will resume in September or October.

Following the closure of IBM Club Warwick, we are pleased to welcome 20 new members and we hope to see as many of them as possible at our future events.

Michael Fabianski, Newsletter Editor. E-mail: ibmmidretnews@gmail.com

E2308CNL: Canal boat day trip and picnic, Wednesday 23rd August

Sixteen intrepid voyagers entered the wilds of Wootton Wawen for the club’s day trip on the Stratford canal. It turned out to be pretty much a rerun of last year’s, except with less sun. The intent had been to travel in the opposite direction, but it turns out that one of the two boats can’t do that trip and turn round in a single day, and the other could only do so with a team of well-oiled locksmiths (I think that’s what I mean) to ensure we wouldn’t be held up at the 8 locks there and back.

Everybody seemed well pleased with the day out.

Paul Gover

Click on any of the images below for a larger picture.

The following events are currently planned for 2023:

E2306CFS: Tuesday 5 September Gloucester Warwickshire Steam Railway; See July newsletter for details.
E2310RAM: OctoberAutumn Ramble with lunch.
E2312XML: DecemberChristmas lunch.

Photographs from Past Events.

Click on one of the links below to view a selection of photographs from past events.

Sub-Groups of Retirees Club and Employee Club

Rambling

It is hoped to organise occasional rambles with options so that participants can choose a length of walk to suit them.

Please contact Terry King, terryaking@hotmail.com for more information.

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IBM Retirees Technology Group

The IBM Tech Club meets using the Zoom video conferencing platform at 11.00 on the third Friday of each month. The club is a place where you can talk to IBM folk about matters technical. For example, help or advice on buying or using computers, smart phones,touch pads; engineering, electronics, wifi, bluetooth, cryptography, bitcoin, using computers to making movies, songs or musical works, best software, streaming, the internet, photography, diy, and anything else about the modern world you would like to understand better.

Apart from the technical discussion we try to have a talk by a club member at each meeting. This depends very much on members volunteering to prepare and show something they are interested in.

At 11 o’clock on the day of the meeting click on the link below. It should take you straight into the meeting.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88338135221?pwd=eFYyUTdKZjRUSlR4V0RqZmFYMmlCQT09

Meeting ID: 843 2044 7852
Passcode: 735347

If you need help with Zoom contact John Rickman (rickman@argonet.co.uk) in good time before the meeting.