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Board Meeting Minutes January 28, 2010
Submitted by Jane Neff on Wed, 2010-02-03 10:44.
Club Business
SMMUG Board Meeting Agenda
January 28, 2010
5:30 PM, Voelkers, Colorado Springs, CO
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Board Member Roll Call:
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Present or Absent
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President
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Jeff Jensen
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Vice President
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Mark Griffith
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Secretary
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Jane Neff
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Treasurer
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Joe Staten
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Director
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Mike Baker
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Director
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Bob Binder
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Director
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Jim Loomis
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Director
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Skip Mundy
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Director
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Mike Marus
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Director
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Mark Pedri
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Director
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Rich Voelker
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Director
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Ralph Woodard
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Director
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Milt Woodham
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Other Members
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Roger Appleton
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1. Call to Order Jeff Jensen 5:35
2. Roll Call Jeff Jensen
3. Approval of Last Meeting Minutes Minutes approved Jeff Jensen
4. Membership and Treasury Report Joe Staten
Current Membership:
51 (47 renewed for 2010, 4 life members (incl. Harrington per last night's vote))
Current Balance:
$2902.81
$ 165.70 PayPal transfer in progress
$ 125.00 Deposit to be made this afternoon
5. Old Business
a. Program Schedule:
4 February – Word Processing on the Mac by Mark Pimentel
4 March - Audacity by Jane Neff & Skip Mundy
1 April – Following the board meeting there was a flurry of email and the board decided to OK Skip’s team to do Facebook since this was our original idea for the April meeting and ichat was proposed at the board meeting when we didn’t think we had a presenter. Thank you Skip for your persistence in making this program happen.
I finally received an email from a husband/wife team who are excited to present Facebook and social networking software at our April 1st meeting. They are really into this stuff and I think will do a great job, including the set up of a SMMUG Facebook page live as part of the demo. I told them to expect to present for 45 min. and allow 15 min. for questions.
Let me know if you want me to lock this down for April.
Skip
The Board approved this via email
6 May -possible fresh ink
3 June - To be determined
b. Meeting Prizes 6 prizes this month
Bob Binder, Prize Chairman
c. Reorganization of SMMUG Website Jeff Jensen
Version 6 of Drupal running on Jeff’s machine
Drupal 4 is the version that we are now running
Tom Harrington has offered to help transition
Rich Voelker suggested…Define the website, then have board members vote on the services that you want to offer. Once you decide what you want to do pick the vehicle that you want to use. Perhaps a classified section. Send suggestions to Rich richvoelker@mac.com by Monday Feb 15, 2010.
6. New Business
a. Goals & Focus Areas for 2010 Jeff Jensen
b. Corporate SMMUG status –reports due, new non-profit cert, etc. Joe Staten
c. Communication 1) MS Word agenda (PDF also) 2) Email 3) Cell phone numbers
email address at smug.org
d. Business Cards? 3 X 5 Cards? Jeff Jensen
Generic business card and 3X5 publicity cards..Skip Mundy will reproduce cards, Office
Generic business card and 3X5 publicity cards..Skip Mundy will reproduce cards, Office
Max, 500 of each, will give to Jane to distribute at the next board meeting.
e. Publicity Planning Mike Baker
Advertising is a form of marketing…We have been using word of mouth, costs nothing, you have no control over it. Widen outreach, 3X5 cards. Four mac stores. Appleclubs throughout the state. Public libraries…Coffee shops..free or semi free wifi
Keep in touch letting William Baker know where you are posting SMMug cards
f. Q & A Tom Harrington’s Departure, including new approaches.
The Board formally proposed that Tom be given a life membership.
Unanimous approval.
g. Club communication tools
Presentation Materials are posted on the website
Jeff will contact Mark and discuss posting his word processing presentation on the idisk
7. Around the Table
The Board was encouraged to sign up for their smmug account.
yourname@smmug.org This account receives mail addressed to the board and SMMUG
Jeff will be checking this account every 7-10 days if you need to contact him:
Jeffj.1492@gmail.com
Mike Marcus will do the Q and A at the February meeting and Jane Neff will take copious notes and post on the website
Smmug mug is being sent to Jon Parshall ,with a thank you for a great presentation.
8. Next meeting: 25 February 2010, 5:30 PM, at Voelkers
9. Adjourn
Possible Future Programs
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· New Apple presentation
· Pages and Numbers presentation
· Excel (several requests)
· Virus detectors
· Firewalls
· Defragging
· Quicken (several requests)
· Log in to remote machines using scp, Back to my Mac
· Firefox, writing an add-on, Grease Monkey, essentials of ECMAScript (Javascript)
· MacSpeech’s Dictate software
· Audacity
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· Audio HiJack
· My SQL
· Postgres
· Keynote
· Blogs
· Replacement s/w for Apple Works
· Photoshop Elements
· How e-mail works: POP3, etc
· Creating certificates
· Signing e-docs, sending encrypted e-mail
· FTTP, STFP, FTPS, file transmitter, GUI clients
· PCrossover Mac
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· Internet, domain server, run your own server, getting a domain, what is http?
· Create web-pages in html (L. Pellerin?)
· Using a spreadsheet for finances
· Getting stock quotes (L. Pellerin?)
· Getting bank data and checkbook
· Apple TV
· iPhone
· iPod Touch
· iPods
· Internet chat programs (Skype, iChat, AOL Messenger)
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Goals for 2010
R 1. Increase membership by 10% by mid-year -- 14 new members since Jan 1, 2009 or ~ 16% increase in membership.
R 2. Have at least one “name brand” presenter by the end of the year -- Bob “Dr Mac” Levitus presented at our Apr 09 meeting.
3. Create and maintain a Member Resource page ________________
Focus Areas for 2010
- Target younger demographic (How? Measure of merit?)
- Target middle (age 30 to 50) demographic (How? Measure of merit?)
- Target new users (How? Measure of merit?). New User Quick Start with Q & A?
1) Write up. 2) Paper FAQs
- Target switchers (How? Measure of merit?)
- Strengthening MUG relationship with Apple. Mark G.
-Visual learners using ichat to learn new ideas.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane Neff
