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VAC - Virtual ACS Canberra - upcoming Australian Computer Society
(ACS) in Canberra, Australia

Current as at: 
14 April 2000 

*** WHAT IS NEW IN THIS ISSUE? ***

I have included details on upcoming ACS Canberra events below. 

I have started an e-mail list for the ACS Canberra informal Optical
Technology Special Interest Group (OTSIG). One can join that list by
writing to:
acsotsig-l-subscribe@onelist.com

There has been a lot of interest in the tax treatment of Information
Technology contractors, lately. There has also been a lot of interest
expressed in attending the ACS Canberra one day 'Setting up an IT
consulting company' seminar, being held on Wednesday, 24 May 2000. The
April 2000 issue of CAPITAL ACS includes pre-reading for this seminar.


That issue also includes details of sponsors of the ACS Canberra
Information Outlook 2000 (IO2000) conference, and an article titled
'Information technology in the new millennium' which focuses on the
material that speakers will be covering at the IO2000 conference in
Canberra on 10 November 2000. 

Clients and staff of IO2000 sponsors can attend the 24 May 2000
seminar at a discount price. Persons referred by ACS members can also
attend the seminar at a discount price. 

We have printed 1000 more copies of the April 2000 CAPITAL ACS. There
will be ample spare copies of these at the April 2000 ACS Canberra
meeting on 19 April 2000. One can also contact Meryl on Tele: (02)
6247 4830 or e-mail mmorgan@acslink.net.au if you would like spare
copies of April 2000 CAPITAL ACS mailed to you for your own use, or
passing to friends, staff, customers, or colleagues who you feel would
find it of interest.   


****** UPCOMING ACS CANBERRA BRANCH MEETINGS  ******

You are encouraged to re-post Virtual ACS Canberra (VAC) to your
electronic Bulletin Board, and/or Staff Newsletter Editor. 

If you are not already receiving these notices via email, and would
like to, just send an email message with anything or nothing in it to:
acscanb-l-subscribe@onelist.com
and that will start the process of you being added to the ACS Canberra
Branch email list. These is no charge for this service.

******   ACS CANBERRA BRANCH MONTHLY MEETING
Date:   Wednesday, 19 April 2000 
Time:   7.00 pm for 7.30 pm
Topic:   Internet Publication Marketing Strategies
Presenter:   Tom Worthington, author of Net Traveller

Location:   Computer Science and IT Building (Bldg 108)
   Room N101, North Road, Australian National University

More details on this talk are at:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/index.html
or more specifically:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/index.html#acs

Normally it costs $10 to attend ACS Canberra Branch monthly meetings
(payment by credit cards and cheques accepted), unless one is a
member, or a guest of a member of the ACS, or the organisation one
works for is a participant in the ACS Professional Recognition Program
(PRP), in which case there is no charge to attend ACS Canberra Branch
monthly meetings.  Many organisations in the ACT are participants in
the PRP, including the ACT Government. Details on organisations which
are part of the PRP are at:
http://www.acs.org.au/services/preferred.htm

For this monthly meeting, members of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in Australia (ICAA), and the Canberra Society of Editors
may also attend at no charge.

Software Quality Association (SQA) meetings are held on the same night
as ACS Canberra Branch meetings, at the same venue as those meeting,
from 6 pm. More details on SQA meetings can be found on the ACS
Canberra Branch Web events site at:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/index.html
or more specifically at:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/index.html#sqa

Theme for this SQA meeting: Implications of alternate data entry
methods (presenter TBA,
organised by Henk Thijssens)

Will examine some of the issues associated with using alternate data
entry methods such as Voice and Image recording 

Administrative systems traditionally have relied on keyed data entry
for the recording of events and values.  Elaborate and smart systems
control techniques have been developed to control that what was
intended to be input was in fact processed, unless identified on
�proof� lists or �exception reports�.
Over the past fifteen years we have seen acceptance of alternative
data entry methods, such as Bar-coding, OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) reading of numerical and text symbols, either directly
from typed or even handwritten documents or from the processing of
document-images, captured through Image capture equipment, and now
even Voice entry has become a commercial reality. 
It is the intend of this meeting to explore some of the new control
and auditing techniques that may be applied to such input method;
after consideration of some advanced applications. 

The SQA meeting is followed by nibbles and light drinks at 7 pm.

More information is available by ringing Meryl Morgan on 
(02) 6247 4830, via e-mailing mmorgan@acslink.net.au or at
http://www.acs.org.au/act/

******   ACS CANBERRA BRANCH MONTHLY MEETING
Date:   Wednesday, 17 May 2000 
Time:   7.00 pm for 7.30 pm
Topic:   Computer Ethics: Future Directions
Presenter:   Dr John Weckert, Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt
University. John is Co-director, Australian Institute of Computer
Ethics and Chair of the ACS ELSIC Computer Ethics Taskforce.

Location:   Computer Science and IT Building (Bldg 108)
   Room N101, North Road, Australian National University

More details on this talk are at:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/index.html
or more specifically:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/index.html#acs

Normally it costs $10 to attend ACS Canberra Branch monthly meetings
(payment by credit cards and cheques accepted), unless one is a
member, or a guest of a member of the ACS, or the organisation one
works for is a participant in the ACS Professional Recognition Program
(PRP), in which case there is no charge to attend ACS Canberra Branch
monthly meetings.  Many organisations in the ACT are participants in
the PRP, including the ACT Government. Details on organisations which
are part of the PRP are at:
http://www.acs.org.au/services/preferred.htm

For this monthly meeting, members of the Australian Institute for
Computer Ethics (AICE), the Australian Association for Professional
and Applied Ethics, the Computer Education Group of the ACT, and the
Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) may also attend at no
charge.

Software Quality Association (SQA) meetings are held on the same night
as ACS Canberra Branch meetings, at the same venue as those meeting,
from 6 pm. More details on SQA meetings can be found on the ACS
Canberra Branch Web events site at:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/index.html
or more specifically at:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/index.html#sqa

Theme for this SQA meeting: PSM Process and Quality (presenter Mike
Kearney)

Will discuss the concepts associated with PSM (Practical Software
Measurements) 

The SQA meeting is followed by nibbles and light drinks at 7 pm.

More information is available by ringing Meryl Morgan on 
(02) 6247 4830, via e-mailing mmorgan@acslink.net.au or at
http://www.acs.org.au/act/

******   ACS CANBERRA BRANCH SEMINAR
Date:   Wednesday, 24 May 2000 
Time:   8.30 am registration - for a 9.00 am start
This seminar will finish around 5 p.m. 
Topic:   Setting up an Information Technology (IT) consulting company
Presenter:   Harry Bluhm, Partner of Marlow Bluhm Chartered
Accountants

Location : Ainslie Football Club, 
52 Wakefield Avenue, Ainslie, Canberra  

Registration and more information is available by ringing
Meryl Morgan on (02) 6247 4830, or by 
e-mailing mmorgan@acslink.net.au or by visiting
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/2000-05-24.html


Regards

Andrew R. Freeman, FACS PCP   
Key e-mail: afreeman@pcug.org.au 
Location: Belconnen Canberra ACT Australia
Personal home page: http://www.pcug.org.au/~afreeman
Deputy Branch Chair, ACS Canberra Branch - 2000
Editor, VAC - Virtual ACS Canberra 
Meetings Co-ordinator - ACS Canberra - 2000

Deputy Conference Chair for the Information Outlook 2000 
(IO2000) conference being held on Friday, 10 November 2000
at Manning Clark Centre, Australian National University.
All details on the IO2000 conference, including links to sponsors, are at:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/io2000/index.html

Join free ACS lists via: http://www.acs.org.au/index-lists.shtml

ACS Canberra Web page: http://www.acs.org.au/act/
For more information on ACS Canberra 
Ph: (02) 6247 4830 or e-mail mmorgan@acslink.net.au