Local CITRT Meetings

Atlanta Church IT RoundTable Meeting

We meet every other month or so (sometimes more often) on Church IT Topics of interest. Our next meeting is September 18th at First Baptist Church Atlanta on VOIP. Can you join us? Send an email to Jeffrey Thompson at First Baptist Church Atlanta jeffrey@fba.org

• Feedback From Atlanta CITRT

Houston Church IT RoundTable Meeting

If you are interested in joining the Houston Church IT RoundTable Meeting Post a comment or email me at scott.reichling {AT} sagemontchurch {DOT} org

• Feedback From Houston CITRT

Michigan Church IT RoundTable Meeting

Travis would like to extend a formal invitation to any churches/I.T. personnel in Michigan who would like to become part of this group. No official meeting dates or anything have been decided; kind of a grass-roots effort to see if interest exists and what such a group/meeting would look like.

• What would this group look like in terms of goals/objectives?
• What would weekly/monthly meetings look like?
• Would this include some sort of website/communication portal so members could communicate?
• What “value-adds” could be done to make the group really beneficial. Possible data hosting exchanges, equipment sharing, etc?

** copied from Travis Kensil's blog

SW Missouri Church IT RoundTable Meeting

Our first official meeting is June 9 at 9:00am at Panera in Joplin, so we have about a month to get the word out. We set up a Google group here and that may serve as a way to communicate to our community.

So whether you are in Joplin or Springfield or Lamar or Carthage or even Bentonville, make plans to attend the first SW Missouri Church Tech RoundTable.

** copied from Jim Walton's blog

Washington DC Church IT RoundTable Meeting

We had a great roundtable at Fairfax Community Church today (11/25/07), thanks to John Falke for some great smoothies, blueberry pomegranate anyone?

Here are a few of the items we discussed:

• Spring MinistryTECH? conference and adjoining roundtable.
• Free Sharepoint training.
• CITRT IRC Channel
• Spiceworks - free, ad supported help desk and network management software.
• GenControl? - desktop remote control program for Windows networks.
• Google Apps for Your Domain and Microsoft Exchange (emphasis on calenders/resource management)
• FellowshipOne? - John showed us their home grown check in station.
• Storage solutions for Mac/Windows - Anton suggested a box running Centos/Samba or Openfiler with 2 GB of RAM and 16 x 500 GB raid edition SATA drives in a 13+2+1 configuration gives you 6.5 TB usable and will run about $4800.

John Falke will be hosting a Photoshop CS3 for Ministry Seminar on November 8th. Our graphics guy attended the last one and is going to this one - he tells me that it is definitely something you don’t want to miss!

** copied from RoundTable Notes

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-- JeffreyThompson - 15 Sep 2007