Club Database Regional user groups (UK)

Club name	Surrey & Sussex Acorn Users Group (SASAUG)
Contact	John Sawer (Chairman)
Address	White Cottage Shirley Drive Worthing West Sussex BN14 9AX
Telephone	01903 260666
Email	sasaug@argonet.co.uk
	sasaug@aaug.net
Web site	http://www.poppyfields.net/sasaug/
Meeting place	Horsham Methodist Church London Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 1AN	Map also available as a Draw file
Meeting dates	2nd Monday of the month, 7:30pm
Members	37
Subscription	£12
Coverage	Surrey and Sussex

Further information

Members are drawn from the outskirts of London down to the South coast, and also from Kent and Hampshire. Full membership is currently around 25 with a substantial number of evening members attending the more interesting events. An audience of nearly 50 turned up for the first demonstration of RISC OS 4 by Chris Evans of CJE Micros. Other presentations in 1999 were given by Spacetech, Atomwide, iSV, APDL, RISCOS Ltd (Andrew Rawnsley) and EFF, whilst one of our members gave presentations on Linux and PGP. A full programme is being planned for 2000, the January meeting featuring Toby and Mark Smith of The ARM Club.

We meet on the second Monday of the month at the hall of Horsham Methodist Church (where Stuart is the minister). Maps are available on the Web site (http://www.poppyfields.net/sasaug/) or by contacting the chairman (see above).

Several of our members helped out at RISC OS '99, and this year we will be assisting in the organisation of the event (under the watchful eye of Mark Smith!). At some shows we help out on the AAUG stand, where the indefatigable Neil Spellings always has things organised. In the AAUG 'village' at RISC OS '99, SASAUG had its own stand. Here, one of our members (Bill Antonia) was able to show off his weather satellite receiving kit. He set up his dish on the balcony and, with the aid of a receiver/decoder and no fewer than three computers, was able to download and display live images for the Western hemisphere. Other specific members' interests include video editing and the use of mathematical processes to generate geometrical surfaces.

SASAUG meetings are aimed at a wide range of interests and computing abilities. The resident 'experts' are on hand to help less experienced Acorn users. This includes responding to pleas for assistance with hardware and software from non-members.

The aim of SASAUG is to support and encourage the use of RISC OS machines, proving that there is an alternative to the lemming-like march to PCs.