In the early days of OSFW, “social media” consisted of a monthly, printed newsletter. The newsletter title was Son Of GPIC, where “GPIC” stood for “Grand Pagoda Insurance Company, an obscure reference to Godzilla movies of the day. At each of our mohthly meetings, one of our “ritual questions” is to ask for GPIC items, i.e., items of general interest to our community.
Today, the group’s Facebook page serves as the location for the modern equivalent of the old newsletter. We currently supplement this by posting meeting announcements, the annual financial statement, and, as of 2023, the meeting minutes on this website. GPIC lives on in those minutes.
This purpose of this page is to post documents that provide a hstorical record of the organization, at least to the extent that records are available.
We have a partial archive of these newsletters in PDF form. To download the PDF, just click on the month below. You’ll need a PDF viewer to open and read the document.
GPIC Archive 1994-1998
GPIC Archive 1999-2003
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 99 | Jan 00 | |||
| Feb 99 | ||||
| Mar 99 | Mar 00 | Mar 01 | Mar-Apr 03 | |
| Apr 99 | Apr 00 | Apr 02 | ||
| May 99 | May 00 | May-Jun 03 | ||
| Jun 99 | Jun 00 | Jun 02 | ||
| Jul 99 | Jul 00 | Jul-Aug 01 | Jul-Oct 03 | |
| Aug 99 | Aug-Sep 00 | |||
| Sep 99 | Sep 01 | Sep 02 | ||
| Oct 99 | Oct-Nov 02 | |||
| Nov 99 | Nov 03-Aug 04 | |||
| Dec 99 | Dec 00 |