Contents:
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1) Editorial
2) February Highlights - Letter from the Vice Chair
3) March Calendar
4) OCCS March Presentation Announcement
5) Special Report - "OCCS Considers Hosting Software Workshop"
6) Tele-seminar announcement

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1) EDITORIAL

The members of the Orange County Chapter of the IEEE Computer
Society are proud of the dedication and invaluable contributions of time
and energy of our volunteers. This month we are taking steps to enhance
our activity by arranging a mini-workshop. Please read the special report
section of this newsletter covering this. You can contribute to the Workshop's
success by active participation. We also encourage your suggestion and
ideas about future seminar or technical activities which will benefit our
society members.

Please feel free to send or forward your ideas and comments.

Regards,
Galib Samdani
E-News Editor, IEEE-OCCS
galib.samdani@computer.org

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2) February Highlights - Letter from the OCCS Vice Chair

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OCCS FEBRUARY PRESENTATION
The February Computer Society presentation was another
triumph for Dwight Borses. He delivered a superb graphics
based presentation, covering both introductory information
about imaging technology as well as discussing the State of
the Art of CMOS imaging sensors. Bravo, Dwight.

We were crowded again. Members are reminded to RSVP,
even if you are skipping dinner, to ensure that we have a big
enough hall and enough seats for all our attendees. Six RSVP's
were no-shows, so your Chapter had to pay for those dinners.
Should we make no-shows pay for their missed dinner before
they can attend another meeting? Email us to let us know:
occs-excom@mail.ieee-oc.org

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OCCS MARCH PRESENTATION
Michael Scharf, of Results Network, will provide information for the
Engineering Entrepreneur on how to find and use the financial and
other resources of Orange County, to create a successful new
business. The formal announcement is provided below.

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OCCS EXECUTIVE COMMITEE MEETING HIGHLIGHTS:
Dave Close was appointed chair of the Linux/OSS Workshop
Committee to determine and propose the form of the workshop.

Fidelis Ndeh-Che was appointed chair of the Jobs Liaison Committee.
Excom minutes and past newsletters are online on the Officer's
page of the IEEE-OCCS.ORG website.

A new dinner pricing policy established to ensure continued
operation of the Chapter. Please RSVP, then show up.

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IEEE EXECUTIVE COMMITEE MEETING HIGHLIGHTS:
Fidelis Ndeh-Che was appointed chair of the Jobs Liaison Committee
at the Section Level, to ensure that positions of interest to unemployed
IEEE members get posted to our OCCS-JOBS maillist. Go to our Jobs
page to subscribe to the email list, or to get info so your company's
Human Resources department can post jobs on the maillist:
http://www.ieee-oc.org/jobs

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IEEE ORANGE COUNTY MEETING HALL
Your IEEE Section is looking for a Home. We are exploring the adoption
of a Section Office/Meeting Hall. We hope to find an angel (successful
OC organization with excess space) to donate office space and maybe
meeting room space (400 - 2000 sq-ft) for the Orange County IEEE
Section and its Chapters. Let us know if your company may have extra
floor space, or would be interested in making such a contribution to
your IEEE. Benefits include non-profit tax incentives, visibility, name
recognition, and access to an exceptional high-tech labor pool.

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IEEE ORANGE COUNTY ELECTION RESULTS
We welcome the newly elected officers of the IEEE Section:

Chair: Pierre Perra, pierre@computer.org
Vice Chair: Khaled Amer amer@amernet.net
Treasurer: Paul Mountcastle paul_mountcastle@xontech.com
Secretary: Curtis Browne curtbrowne@computer.org

We look forward to a new spirit of harmony and cooperation among
the executive committee members in order to better serve the IEEE
membership.

- Don V Black, Vice Chair
IEEE-OCCS

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3) March Calendar

March 2, 2003
NOCCC - North Orange County Computer Club
http://www.noccc.org/

March 3, 2003
IEEE-OC Executive Committee Meeting
http://www.ieee-occs.org/

March 4, 2003
Game Developers Conference
http://www.gdconf.com/

March 8, 2003
IEEE-OC Consultants Network
http://www.occn.org/newsletter.htm

March 10, 2003
Unix Users Association
http://www.uuasc.org/oc.html

March 11, 2003
ACM-LA SIGGRAPH
http://la.siggraph.org/calendar.html

March 13, 2003
IEEE-OC Consultants Network
http://www.occn.org/newsletter.htm

March 13, 2003
OCJUG - JAVA Users Group
http://www.ocjug.org/

March 13-15, 2003
IEEE 7th Working Conference on Current Measurement,
San Diego
http://www.whoi.edu/science/AOPE/cmtc/

March 18, 2003
Orange County ACM SIGCHI
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/OCCHI/OCCHI_MARCH03.pdf

March 19, 2003
IEEE-OC Computer Society
Linux/OSS Workshop Organizational Meeting
http://www.ieee-occs.org/Announcements/2003/030319.htm

March 20, 2003
IEEE PES/IAS - Orange County
http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/ocs/open.html#PES

March 22~26, 2003
IEEE Computer Society Virtual Reality Conference
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.vr2003.org/

March 24, 2003
IEEE Computer Society Orange County Chapter Seminar
Topic: "Resources for Successful Entrepreneurs"
http://www.ieee-occs.org/

March 31 - April 02, 2003
IEEE International Test Synthesis Workshop - ITSW,
Santa Barbara, CA (link has problems:)
http://cadlab.ece.ucsb.edu/~itsw/ITSW.html

Search the list of IEEE conferences at:
http://www.ieee.org/conferencesearch/

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4) OCCS Full March Presentation Announcement

Date : March 24, 2003

Topic : Resources for Successful Entrepreneurs

Speaker : Michael Scharf
The Results Network

Time: Social Hour: 6:00 p.m.
Dinner : 6:30 p.m.
Presentation : 7:00 p.m.

Location: Wyndham Gardens Hotel
3350 Avenue of the Arts
Costa Mesa, CA
(714) 751-5100

Cost of dinner: w/ RSVP No RSVP
Member $25.00 $30.00
Student/unemployed $15.00 $30.00
Non-Member $30.00 $35.0

Pay at the door by cash or check (no credit cards)

Note: You must RSVP for dinner. If you fail show, we must
still pay for your dinner.
No charge for Presentation only
RSVP by email to curtbrowne@computer.org
Questions to Don V Black at dblack@dcgFX.com (or 1-949-548-1969).

ABSTRACT
Michael Scharf will provide information for the Entrepreneur on how to
find and use the financial and other resources of Orange County, to
create a successful new business. Mr. Scharf will discuss the current
(2003) funding environment, it's not as bleak as you might think. In
addition to the traditional funding sources, Venture Capitalists, and
angel investors, Michael will discuss alternative funding sources.
These sources include direct and indirect government grants,
alliances with large companies, and other private investors.

Our presentation will conclude with a discussion of how to prepare
yourself, and your business idea for presentation to investors. Bring
paper and a pen, as you'll get a chance to pitch your own business
ideas to Michael and the audience. The audience will take away an
understanding of the current funding market, knowledge of the Orange
County and Southern California resources useful to launch new ventures,
and the four key questions every successful new business needs to answer.

Michael Scharf's introduction about funding your own startup was so
well received last August, that the Society felt it should bring him back
to tell us in greater detail, about the resources available to an Orange
County startup.

BIOGRAPHY
Michael Scharf earned his MBA at California State University (Northridge),
and his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. He has
developed and taught workshops and programs on strategic planning,
online marketing and direct marketing.

"Leadership Yields Results" is the core belief underlying Michael's
executive development practice. With 25 years of experience growing
companies, Michael has developed and shared this vision with executives
and entrepreneurs in a variety of industries around the world. Today,
Michael works with experienced and new business leaders to coach them
towards their goals.

Prior to launching his six year old company, Results Network, Inc., Michael
was a marketing executive at a number of high-tech and financial services
companies. His experience included the launch of a number of new ventures
as well as extensive turnaround work.

Michael Scharf, President
Results Network, Inc.
3972 Barranca Parkway, J-450, // Irvine CA 92606
email: Michael@Scharf.ws
Phone: 949-653-0401, Fax: 775-248-0462
Visit Us On the Net at: www.ResultsNetwork.net
"Leadership Yields Results"
Applications Conference (MTAC) in 1996. Dwight is a California licensed
Professional Engineer in Control Systems and is a Fellow of the Institute
for the Advancement of Engineering (IAE).
Dwight Borses, Member of Technical Staff
Field Applications Engineering, SW Region
National Semiconductor Corporation
Irvine Field Sales Office Phone (949) 453-4776
Email d.borses@ieee.org

An HTML version is online here:
http://ieee-occs.org/Announcements/2003/030324.htm

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5) Special Report - "OCCS Considers Hosting Software Workshop"

What: Linux/OSS Workshop Orgaizational Meeting
When: March 19, 2003 7:00PM
Where: Kaplan's Deli // 3211 Harbor Blvd // Costa Mesa, CA 92626
(714) 557-6611
Who: Dave Close, Committee Chair
Email: workshop@ieee-occs.org
Phone: (714) 434-7359

The Computer Society Chapter is considering hosting a workshop devoted
to current software technology, particularly open source software. The
workshop might be a single full-day event or it might be a series of
evening events. We would hope the workshop could be held sometime before
the end of this summer. Some possible topics which have been suggested are:

- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and {Perl, Python, PHP}, a combination
widely used for Web-based applications

- Collaboration software. Tools which permit cooperative software
development by multiple persons not located at the same place.

The goal of the workshop would be to provide participants with sufficient
understanding of the technologies to know when it might be appropriate to
use them. It may also be possible to provide an introduction suitable for
beginning to develop projects using the technology.

Holding any sort of workshop will require a large number of volunteers.
We will hold an organizational meeting of those interested in helping
with this project on Wednesday, March 19, at 7 PM. The location of the
meeting is Kaplan's Deli at the southwest corner of Harbor Boulevard and
the San Diego Freeway (405), phone 714 557 6611. We won't have food
service during the meeting, but you can bring food in from the dining room;
if you want to eat, please arrive early.

If you would like to help and can attend, please let us know right away
by email to workshop@ieee-occs.org. If you can't help but would like to
contribute ideas for the workshop, please send them to the same address.

- Dave Close, Committee Chair

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6) Tele-seminar Announcement:

"CREATING EFFECTIVE WEB SITES"

A TeleSeminar on March 13, 2003, 11:00 AM to 12 Noon
Cosponsored by the OC and LA Area IEEE Consultants' Networks,
and the ASME Small Business Group (OC and LA)

Are you interested in creating or upgrading a web site for your business? If so, then this
FREE TeleSeminar was conceived for you. We'd like to invite you to join web strategy and
information design experts, Wendy Nield & Ken Berger, for this special one-hour "LIVE" program
where you will discover how to transform you business from good to great by learning the keys
to creating a positive customer experience online.

You Will Learn:

• Why your website doesn't drive your business but why your business drives your website.

• How to use what you already know about your business to make your customers' experience on your website great.

• Why creating a website that exemplifies your business principles, strengths and value will make the web your
company's most powerful communication tool.

This program extends the information presented in our previous web site development programs, and emphasizes
tailoring structure and content for maximum effectiveness. The program moderator is Mr. Pete Nelson of The Valeo
Group, a speaker at one of our prior meetings.

You can dial in to the live conference call and participate without ever having to leave your office or home.

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Be Our Guest & RSVP For This FREE TeleSeminar Today!

Click Here To Register ---> www.wireware.net/UserExperience/index.html

All registered attendees will also be emailed a booklet that further expands on the material delivered during
the presentation. This document will be emailed to you in preparation for the seminar after you register.

March 13, 2003 - 11:00 am to 12:00 PM (Pacific Time)

The demand for this unique and valuable program is understandably high and we have limited lines available for
this TeleSeminar. Take advantage of this opportunity to participate in this exchange of ideas and insights on how
User Experience can profoundly affect your company's bottom line. After registration you will be given the seminar
phone number (512 area code) and a password. Approximately 3 days prior to the seminar you will receive the visual
materials to accompany the presentations. Just prior to the 11:00 AM (Pacific Time) seminar you call to log in and
enjoy the experience.

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WHAT'S A TELESEMINAR?

TeleSeminars are interactive, live seminars conducted over the telephone using TeleConferencing bridges.
They are conducted just like a telephone conference call. There are NO LONG COMMUTES to a central meeting location
as participants may connect by phone from any location, such as your office or even your home. These types of programs
provide an incredibly cost effective and time efficient way for individuals and companies to participate in educational
courses and deliver all the benefits of traditional, in-person seminars but with the added value of convenience, in
terms of time and money.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

For more information on Wireware, their methodology, speaker biographies, and an introduction to the seminar, please
visit www.Wireware.net . For more on Mr. Nelson please visit www.thevaleogroup.com .

If you still have questions please contact Ron Oglevie at ronoglevie@aol.com or 714-526-6642.

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