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Dines together on second Wednesday of each month at 6 pm then meets
Jubileecommunity.org team's mission is to provide technical support for the Jubilee! Community so that we remain connected between the times we are all together physically. The team provides the most cost-effective technology to empower us in the sharing of information, ideas, and announcements with Jubilant's and others who are interested in Jubilee! activities. This includes, but may not be limited to, construction and maintenance of the Jubilee! web site, creation and maintenance of the various Jubilee! email lists, and supporting Jubilant's and the Jubilee! staff with our technological know-how. These tasks are performed with a sense of gratitude, generosity, love and connection—with one another, with all Jubilant's, with all of humankind, with all living things, with the entire Earth.
Contacts: Kayren McKnight, 298-3453, or Bill Scobie, 628-2515 or webteam@jubileecommunity.org
Who We Are
The jubileecommunity.org (jubilee community dot org) team is a fun and friendly group. Most of us are enthusiastic technophiles who simply enjoy the web and new electronic communications. Fortunately our team also is home to a few techsperts who really know what goes on inside our computers and out in cyberspace. Together we're learning about technology and how it can help jubilee be as vibrant in virtual reality as we are in real life.
Our Purpose
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| Our role is to create and maintain a web site for the Jubilee! Community. We work to make sure that this web site is a valuable source of information for Jubilant's and the larger Internet community. |
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Our Meetings |
We meet approximately once a month to plan where we're heading. Before each meeting we share a meal and fellowship and basically catch up on each others' lives. This "food" portion of our gathering is following by our official "business" meeting where we look at and discuss next steps. This might include planning for an event like our "Click & Snack" or the Pathways Retreat. Sometimes it is simply a matter of figuring out if we'll be doing anything different on or with the web site |
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Our Invitation
If you are interested in helping create or maintain jubilee's web presence, we'd love to have you join us for a meal and a meeting to learn more. You can have a passing fancy for the Internet, fancy yourself a web-expert, or pass a computer without thinking about cyberspace.. your dedication, camaraderie, creativity, and spirit are what we're most interested in. If you think the "dot org" team might be the place for you,
e-mail us at webteam@jubileecommunity.org. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Virus and other security info for Windows-based PCs
Viruses are a fact of life if you use email. Although they can spread other ways, via the web and through sharing files by diskette or CD, email is currently the most common way to get and pass along a computer virus. I won't go into the technical difference between various type of computer viruses, like worms and trojans, we are just concerned about how to prevent infection.
Rule 1: Use antivirus software and ensure that it is scanning incoming email attachments. And, keep up with virus definition updates, most antivirus software can be set to do this when you are connected to the Internet
Rule 2: Really try to avoid opening attachments when you don't know the sender. This rule used to be more useful, now many worms make a message to you appear to be coming from a friend.Some of the more common viruses (worms) right now have a three-pronged method to spread.They start by coming as a "cute" or "fun" thing from an address belonging to someone who has you in their email address book. Once you look at that attachment, say by opening it, the worm makes some additions to your system, including installing a piece of software to mail out copies of itself to addresses in your address book. The tricky ones use an address from your address book to make the message going out look like it is coming from that person, rather than from you. No longer can you believe that the From: line really indicates who sent the message. Many worms also make subject lines that look much like what many people seem to use among friends. And, the worm will keep sending out copies of itself until you clean up your machine.
Rule 3: Keep up with the Critical Updates from Microsoft if you are running Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP. As holes are discovered in Internet Explorer and Outlook and Outlook Express, Microsoft develops and releases Critical Updates. In Windows ME and XP, these are checked for in the background when you are connected to the Internet. You can also go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Microsoft no longer release security patches for Windows 95.
Suggested antivirus software
Some web team members have had good experiences with Norton Antivirus 2003. If you have Norton 2002, make sure that the liveupdate feature is enabled.For a spot check of whether your machine is infected, try http://housecall.antivirus.com And, remember, there are some messages going around about purported viruses which are actually hoaxes.
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