The Capital Area Sysop Association (CASA) is an association of
SysOps from the Washington, DC metropolitan area designed as a
social organization to provide a group of SysOps access to one 
another for assistance with hardware and/or software questions.
The organization invites speakers from the computer industry to
address the group on a monthly basis.  If you are a SysOp and 
would like to meet many of the other SysOps in the area, this is
an excellent place to do so.  Please visit one of our meetings.

The Capital Area Sysop Association (CASA) meetings are held on the 
second Saturday of each month at an appointed location.  Should that 
date fall on a national holiday, then the meeting is held on the 
third Saturday of the same month.  Meeting times are 1:00 PM until
4:00 PM.  Exceptions to this schedule are posted on our host BBS as
messages in both the Main and CASA conference.  We normally have a 
guest speaker for each meeting.  

There is no admission fee.  All meetings are open to current members 
and guests.  All legitimate Sysops are invited to attend a meeting as 
our guest to preview the content.  Non-members are encouraged to join 
CASA to receive the benefits associated with membership.

The membership fee is a one-time payment of $ 10.00.  The monthly dues 
are only .50 per month.  Mail your membership fee of $ 10 and your 
monthly dues of .50 per month (our year starts on January 1st) to:

Capital Area SysOps Association
Post Office Box 2963
Merrifield, VA 22116-2963

Membership includes a monthly newsletter, other mailings as needed, access 
to the private CASA conference on The Virginia Connection BBS, access to 
our monthly meetings and access to members who can (and will) assist you 
in your times of need.  

Our host BBS is a 20 node system and can be accessed by both members and 
non-members.  This BBS is located in Reston, VA and the telephone number 
is a local metropolitan Washington, DC number:  (703) 648-1841.  Once you 
register, you will receive access to most of the nodes - a couple of nodes 
are reserved for RIME, FIDOnet, ILink, and SmartNet mailruns, etc.  

Meeting Schedule and Locations
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Meetings held in the odd months (Jan, Mar, May) are held at 
CHI CHI's restaurant in Springfield, VA.  

Directions to CHI CHI's:  

Take the beltway (I-495) to Northern Virginia Exit at Route 95 
South.  Take the first exit into downtown Springfield, VA.  Drive 
about two blocks and immediately upon going under the overpass 
turn right into their parking lot.

CHI CHI's
7010 Old Keene Mill Road
Springfield, VA
(703) 569-9400

Meetings held in the even months (Feb, Apr, etc) are held at the 
Phineas restaurant in Rockville, MD.  

PHINEAS
1580 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD  20852
(301) 770-5025

For additional information, call (703) 648-1841 data or 
(703) 758-7984 voice.