Choice of entrée(s) served with a house salad, choice of coffee, tea or milk

• Cajun Chicken Fettuccine grilled chicken breast with fresh mushrooms and roasted red peppers in a light Cajun cream sauce.

Board Meeting  5:00
Registration      6:00 
Presentation      7:00
Dinner                8:00

Take highway 880 towards San Leandro, exit at Davis Street,
proceed east to 14th Street, turn right. Strizzi's is located on the left hand side of 14th Street and free parking is in the back of the restaurant.

Please RSVP prior to 5:00 PM on the Friday prior to the meeting. $25 for members and $30 for non-members or late members registration. Payment will be accepted at the door.

Brian Beverly is a registered patent attorney in Oakland, Ca.  He will discuss copyright protection of computer software programs.  Topics will include basics of copyright registration and notice, the extent of protection of copyrighted software, permitted uses of another's copyrighted software, rights of independent contracts, and international copyright protection.

I reported in last month's column that the NCPU User's Group was in good shape, but 1998 is going to bring some fairly significant changes to the group. First of all, we have had a very difficult time producing a list of volunteers to sit on our Board of Directors for the next year. As a result of that, a number of the existing board members agreed to run for election again, with the caveat that we reduce the meeting frequency to 4 times per year. This was proposed, discussed, a motion was made and the vote was carried for a 4 meeting per year agenda starting immediately.

The February program was previously scheduled and it was agreed to move ahead with this meeting. The new schedule of meetings for the balance of this year will be: April 21st, August 18th and November 17th. The group will most likely host the annual Christmas Party again this year in December.

The NCPU members that have volunteered to run for the board this year, without additional restrictions, are:
Jim Brown, Tammy Koehn, Sally Hober, Jeff Jakus, Jerry Robinson, Dave Weaver, Linda Gardner-King and Homer Benjamin
Ballots will be prepared and mailed to the membership soon, and the new Board of Directors will be installed at the April meeting, where officers will then be elected.