Monthly General Meeting
This is our large monthly meeting normally on the 4th Monday night 7:00 – 9:00 pm. Planned presentations, often with outside speakers, covering a wide variety of topics on technology. A raffle follows. Check Https://GGCS.org for topics and other useful information.
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
They normally meet monthly, are typically smaller groups compared to the General Meeting and have a specialized topic (at least in theory sometimes). The groups are listed below, and change over time. They can be part discussion group or planned presentations, depending on the leader.
School Support Program
This group meets each Saturday 10am – 1pm. It receives donated computers and other equipment, which it tests, repairs, and reconfigures. The equipment is then donated to schools. To Learn more Click here.
List of Special Interest Groups
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Third Wednesday, 7:00 PM via ZOOM
Contact Karen Stagg, 897-6824 for info.
School Support SIG
Every Saturday 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
General Information
Some people refer to our Golden Gate Compute Society’s School Support Program as our best kept secret. Actually, this special interest group (SIG) is no secret to many of our members or to many schools in the Bay Area. We just don’t seek as much publicity as we could. This relatively low profile allows us to manage the balance between the three main components of the program: the volume of computers donated, the people and space available to work on them, and the schools asking for computers.
Our focus is on providing computers in classrooms and school labs for student use rather than for administrative use. We work most closely with the local Ross Valley School District, which includes Wade Thomas, Manor, Brookside, and White Hill schools. The school district helps us by providing workspace, and we provide them first pick of the equipment we have available. However, we also support any school which comes to us for help, as long as we have computers available that will meet their needs.