UU+Tech+Acronyms

There are many web sites devoted to defining acronyms used in Information Technology circles. Some of the best:


 * [|AcronymFinder.com] -
 * [|Whatis.techtarget.com] - nice indexed definition of Technical Acronyms. Challenge yourself and [|see how much you know about Tech acronyms]!
 * [|Wikipedia]

That said, there are a few acronyms used in this Wikispace that we are defining here, including the abbreviations used by some Southeast District member congregations:

CMS || Church Management System: a software package that provides special functions tailored to managing Church activities and finances. Range from sets of spreadsheets to integrated payroll and church management services. A ChMS may be implemented as a special version of a Content Management System (CMS), so sometimes the acronyms are used interchangeably. || C3HUU || Community Church of Chapel Hill, UUA (also C3HUU or C3HUUA); Chapel Hill, NC || Weapons of Mass Destruction, "WMDs were never found in Iraq." ||
 * ChMS
 * C3H
 * [|ERUUF] || Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship; Durham, NC ||
 * FUD || Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt, example: "Micro$oft has sown FUD about Linux." ||
 * [|GUUF] || Greenville (SC) Unitarian Universalist Fellowship ||
 * IT || Information Technology: in the context of a church, this used to mean "the PCs/Macs, printers, and network wiring that enables them to communicate with each other and the Internet." Now the term "IT" is far more encompassing and may include the posting of sermons online (text and audio, in some cases video), including processing of any information related to the function of our congregations. ||
 * ITS || Information Technology Services: a fancy name for the person or persons who work on IT stuff in an organization ||
 * NAS || Network Attached Storage - dedicated disk storage device that attaches to a computer network instead of just to one computer. Usually attached via ethernet to a network switch with multiple ports or via wireless network (WiFi). A NAS setup on the Internet is the "Cloud" storage model in a nutshell. ||
 * [|ORUUC] || Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church; Oak Ridge. TN ||
 * [|SUUSI] || Southeast Unitarian Universalist Summer Institute; past SUUSI's have been held annually in the Radford/Blacksburg area of Southeast Virginia ||
 * [|UUCA] || Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville (NC) ||
 * [|UUCC] || Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte (NC) ||
 * [|UUCG] || Unitarian Universalist Church of Greenville (NC) ||
 * [|UUCS] || Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Spartanburg (SC) ||
 * [|UUFR] || Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh (NC) ||
 * WMD || Write Mostly Data. Data written out, but rarely ever again retrieved. "Much information that goes on web sites is WMD." OR
 * WYSIWYG || What you see is what you get! ||
 * YGWYPF || You Get What You Pay For ||