In March 2011 the the internet club of Nyon “Club Soft” (Société pour l’Ordinateur et les Férus de Technique) will celebrate its 20th year anniversary. The club was originally founded by Jean-Paul Henet, a French expatriate now living in Nyon. Mr Henet previously worked with IBM, Univac, Leasco, Itel, and was both European President of Greyhound Computer and CMI Corp.
Mr Jean-Paul Henet
Mr Henet says: ” The premise of Club Soft is to quite simple – to help all users of PC and Mac computers. The club now has over 500 members to date and we organise several activities such as running courses on Windows, to the use of the Internet, how to use Word, Excel and we even give help on choosing a computer. Club courses are usually held in Trelex. Members come not only from Nyon but from many surrounding towns and villages from Gland to Gingins to Grand Lancy. Check out the courses they have run this year. There is one remaining course on December 16th on “emails, trucs and astuces”.
In addition, the club also hold mini conferences and once or twice a month invite experts to give presentations on subjects such as Windows, “cleaning your PC”, “viruses” etc. These presentations are followed by a question and answer session.
The club provides a permanent (free!) hot line for those who have a problem with their computer or an application and the club’s technicians can visit private homes too (all at a reasonable price). The club also has members who can provide assistance in English.
For further information check out Club Soft’s website