[NFBSATX] Fwd: [NFBT] Fwd: iBUG Today Events for February
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The upcoming free iBUG training and social events for February are listed
below. Note: all times listed are Central Time (U.S.). The events may be
navigated by headings with your screen reader. All events are available on
the iBUG Zoom conference platform unless otherwise noted.
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*Event:* iBUG Trekkie Talk: Star Trek – The Next Generation, S7E20,
S7E21 *Date of Event:* Thursday, February 1, 2024
*Time*: 8:00 to 9:30 PM
*Details*: Join our discussion group to pre-watch and then meet to discuss
the Star Trek episodes. The iBUG Trekkie Talk discussion group is
facilitated by iBUG members Kenny Norton and Jody Ianuzzi. Everyone
(including non-Trekkies) is welcome to participate. For more info about
Trekkie Talk, please visit the iBUG Trekkie Talk website:
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*Contact Name*: Sandhya Rao
*Contact Email*: sraotexas at gmail.com
*Event:* iBUG Unplugged: Winter Pasts and Pastimes *Date of
Event:* February
3, 2024
*Time*: 8:00 to 10:00 PM
*Details:* You are invited to join us for another episode of iBUG
Unplugged. This month, we will talk about our favorite winter activities,
hobbies, sports, comfort foods, and warm beverages. Come share your
favorite memories and special events of winters past with other iBUG
members and friends at this month’s iBUG Unplugged, facilitated by
Terry-Ann Saurmann.
*Contact Name*: Michael McCulloch
*Contact Email*: mdmcculloch1 at gmail.com *Event:* iBUG Mac Buzz *Date
of Event:* Tuesday, February 6, 2024
*Time*: 5:00 to 6:00 PM
*Details*: Mac Buzz is a free Q&A help session for anyone with MacOS and
Mac hardware accessibility questions or issues. Mac Buzz is facilitated by
advanced iBUG member, Herbie Allen. Note: iBUG Mac Buzz has moved from the
Clubhouse app to the iBUG Zoom platform.
*Contact Name*: Herbie Allen
*Contact Email*: herbie.allen at gmail.com
*Event:* iBUG VILA Book Club *Date of Event:* Thursday, February 8, 2024
*Time*: 6:30 to 8:00 PM
*Details*: Join us to discuss and critique this month’s featured reading:
To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision by James
Stavridis, DB112372
At the heart of Admiral James Stavridis’s training as a naval officer was
the preparation to lead sailors in combat, to face the decisive moment in
battle whenever it might arise. In To Risk It All, he offers up nine of the
most useful and enthralling stories from the US Navy’s nearly 250-year
history, and draws from them a set of insights that we can all put to use
when confronted with fateful choices. Conflict. Crisis. Risk. These words
have a distinct meaning in a military context that we hope will never apply
identically in our own lives. But at the same time, as Admiral Stavridis
shows with great clarity, many lessons are universal. To Risk It All is
filled with thrilling and heroic exploits, but it is anything but a shallow
exercise in myth burnishing. Every leader in this book has real flaws, as
all humans do, and the stories of failure, or at least the decisions that
have been defined as such, are as crucial as the stories of success. In the
end, when this master class is concluded, we will be better armed for hard
decisions both expected and not. 7 hours, 45 minutes
Facilitator: Louis Maher
*Contact Name*: Michael McCulloch
*Contact Email*: mdmcculloch1 at gmail.com *Event:* iBUG Café *Date of
Event:* Saturday, February 10, 2024 (Note day change this month only)
*Time*: 4:00 to 5:30 PM
*Details*: Join us for this free "deep dive" training session on the Apple
TV box and tvOS.The iBUG Café training session is facilitated by advanced
iBUG member, Sree Roy.
*Contact Name*: Sree Roy
*Contact Email*: sreebroy1 at outlook.com
*Event:* iBUG Mini-Buzz *Date of Event:* Tuesday, February 13, 2024
*Time*: 5:00 to 6:00 PM
*Details*: This free Q&A help session is for anyone with iOS and iDevice
(iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV) accessibility questions or issues.
The iBUG Mini-Buzz is facilitated by Michael McCulloch and Sandhya
Rao. Note: iBUG Mini-Buzz has moved from the Clubhouse app to the iBUG
Zoom platform.
*Contact Name*: Sandhya Rao
*Contact Email*: sraotexas at gmail.com
*Event:* iBUG Trekkie Talk: Star Trek – The Next Generation, S7E22,
S7E23 *Date of Event:* Thursday, February 15, 2024
*Time*: 8:00 to 9:30 PM
*Details*: Join our discussion group to pre-watch and then meet to discuss
the Star Trek episodes. The iBUG Trekkie Talk discussion group is
facilitated by iBUG members Kenny Norton and Jody Ianuzzi. Everyone
(including non-Trekkies) is welcome to participate. For more info about
Trekkie Talk, please visit the iBUG Trekkie Talk website:
https://www.ibugtoday.com/trekkie-talk/
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*Contact Name*: Sandhya Rao
*Contact Email*: sraotexas at gmail.com
*Event:* iBUG Mac Buzz *Date of Event:* Tuesday, February 20, 2024
*Time*: 5:00 to 6:00 PM
*Details*: Mac Buzz is a free Q&A help session for anyone with MacOS and
Mac hardware accessibility questions or issues. Mac Buzz is facilitated by
advanced iBUG member, Herbie Allen. Note: iBUG Mac Buzz has moved from the
Clubhouse app to the iBUG Zoom platform.
*Contact Name*: Herbie Allen
*Contact Email*: herbie.allen at gmail.com
*Event:* iBUG Android Insight *Date of Event:* Wednesday, February 21,
2024
*Time*: 7:00 to 8:30 PM
*Details*: Do you want to know about the accessibility features of Android
devices? Do you want to know how Android devices are different from Apple
devices? Do you want to become more proficient using an Android device? If
you answered “yes” to any of the above questions, then come join us for our
free iBUG Android Insight training session, facilitated by iBUG advanced
members, Ava Carruth and Harshid Trivedi. Android Insight is open to anyone
desiring to become more proficient with the accessibility features on
various Android devices.
*Contact Name*: Ava Carruth
*Contact Email: *avacarruth3 at outlook.com
*Event:* iBUG Apple Workshop and iDinner *Date of Event:* Saturday,
February 24, 2024
*Time*: 2:00 to 4:00 PM
*Details*: The iBUG Apple Workshop explores all things from the
Apple-verse. Join us for this free training session to learn more about
the iOS and macOS accessibility features of Apple products. The iBUG Apple
Workshop is facilitated by Michael McCulloch and Sandhya Rao. In addition,
for those in the Houston area, you are invited to join us at our monthly
iDinner following the iBUG Apple Workshop, 5:30 to 7:30 PM, location
TBD. RSVP required to Sandhya Rao, sraotexas at gmail.com by Noon, February
26. Dinner is self-pay.
*Contact Name*: Michael McCulloch
*Contact Email*: mdmcculloch1 at gmail.com
*Event:* iBUG Mini-Buzz *Date of Event:* Tuesday, February 27, 2024
*Time*: 5:00 to 6:00 PM
*Details*: This free Q&A help session is for anyone with iOS and iDevice
(iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV) accessibility questions or issues.
The iBUG Mini-Buzz is facilitated by Michael McCulloch and Sandhya
Rao. Note: iBUG Mini-Buzz has moved from the Clubhouse app to the iBUG
Zoom platform.
*Contact Name*: Sandhya Rao
*Contact Email*: sraotexas at gmail.com
*Event:* iBUG Mac-N-Talk *Date of Event:* Tuesday, February 27, 2024
*Time*: 7:00 to 8:30 PM
*Details*: Are you thinking about getting a Mac? Are you wondering if you
will be able to learn the MacOS on your own? Do you have issues or
questions about the accessibility features of your Mac? If you answered
“Yes” to any of these questions, you should join us for the free iBUG
Mac-N-Talk training session facilitated by advanced iBUG member, Chanelle
Allen.
*Contact Name*: Chanelle Allen
*Contact Email*: chanellem.allen at gmail.com
*Event:* It’s iBUG’s Life *Date of Event:* Thursday, February 29, 2024
*Time*: 7:00 to 9:00 PM
*Details*: It’s iBUG’s Life is a conversation on independent living and
various life skills issues, adaptations, and tips for the blind. It’s
iBUG’s Life is facilitated by iBUG members, George Battiste.
*Contact Name*: Michael McCulloch
*Contact Email*: mdmcculloch1 at gmail.com
*Event:* iBUG Buzz *Date of Event:* Weekly – Mondays
*Time*: 7:00 to 9:00 PM
*Details*: This free weekly Q&A help session is for anyone with iOS and
iDevice (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV) accessibility questions or
issues. The first 45 minutes are dedicated to the beginner or novice
user.
*Contact Name*: Sandhya Rao
*Contact Email*: sraotexas at gmail.com
*Event:* iBUG Buzz Radio Program *Date of Event:* Weekly
*Time*: Wednesday, 1:30 PM, rebroadcast the following Tuesday, 5:30 PM and
Wednesday, 5:30 AM, or On Demand
*Details*: A weekly half-hour condensed highlights version of the Monday
night iBUG Buzz Q&A help session covering common accessibility questions
and issues with iOS and iDevices (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple
TV). Also, apps useful to the blind and visually impaired are
demonstrated. Listen via Sight into Sound Radio, using the special digital
receivers from Sight into Sound, Sero app on your smart phone or via the
internet by going to the Sight into Sound website at the following link and
select the "Tune in Now" button at the times indicated above or on demand
by selecting the “Podcast” button: http://www.sightintosound.org
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*Contact Name*: Michael McCulloch
*Contact Email*: mdmcculloch1 at gmail.com
*Event:* iBUG Night at the Virtual Movies *Date of Event:* Weekly –
Fridays
*Time*: 7:15 PM pre-movie social time, movie starts at 8:00 PM
*Details*: To bring old friends together and to meet new ones, we have
created iBUG Night at the Virtual Movies on Friday evenings. We meet prior
to the film for a pre-movie social with song games, jokes and plenty of
argle-bargle. The movies are the audio track (no video) with audio
description. Discussion and movie trivia will follow immediately after the
movie. Visit our website each week to check out the movie feature:
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*Contact Name*: Sandhya Rao
*Contact Email*: sraotexas at gmail.com
*Event:* iBUG Buzz, iBUG Apple Workshop, iBUG Café, iBUG Mac-N-Talk and
iBUG Android Insight Podcasts *Date of Event:* On Demand
*Details*: To review a past iBUG training session, check out our podcasts
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Insight Podcast. Also available on your favorite podcast app by subscribing
to the appropriate iBUG podcast.
*Contact Name*: Michael McCulloch
*Contact Email*: mdmcculloch1 at gmail.com
*Event:* iBUG Buzz, iBUG Apple Workshop, iBUG Café, iBUG Mac-N-Talk and
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