Washington State Democratic Chairs Organization

Following up on an action item taken at the January 24th WSDCO meeting, we have just received word from the Washington State - Public Disclosure Commission that they will be available for a two-hour training course in Tacoma:

Friday April 24, 2009 - 2:00 pm through 4:00 pm
Murano Hotel
Torcello/Burano Rooms
1320 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma WA 98402

PDC Representative Jennifer Hansen will make a PowerPoint presentation and provide handouts. Normally, the PDC teaches in an environment where laptops/pcs are available; for those potential attendees, please bring a laptop, if possible. Otherwise, you will want to follow along with Jennifer's presentation.

Please email Susan Sheary, WSDCO Chair, at kcdcc1@gmail.com, if you and/or your treasurer will attend.
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The following is a step-by-step procedure to load the PDC Online Reporting system onto your laptop:

How To Update JAVA and ORCA Version

Go to www.pdc.wa.gov
Click on the FILER RESOURCES tab
Choose the “download software” link located under the ORCA LINKS heading
Update your version of JAVA (this will take you to the JAVA website)
When you have JAVA loaded and have verified the installation, go back to the “download software” link on our site
Click on “Download ORCA” and load it on your computer
ORCA will open automatically when it is done loading
Click on the ORCA WEB UPDATES icon
Click on the update button located in the bottom right corner (the button does not have a label)

ORCA will close to update and re-open when it is done. You can see what version you have in the top left corner of the page after the update. You should have version 1.038.

If any potential attendees have a MAC rather than a PC, the software is available on our website in the same location under the “Apple/Mac” tab. They will not have to use the update button inside of ORCA. The download process from our site will provide them the current version.