Board Meeting 25 Feburary 2010

SMMUG Board Meeting Minutes

February 25, 2010

5:30 PM, Voelkers, Colorado Springs, CO

Board Member		Roll Call
President	Jeff Jensen	P
Vice President	Mark Griffith	P
Secretary	Jane Neff	A
Treasurer	Joe Staten	P
Director	Mike Baker	P
Director	Bob Binder	P
Director	Jim Loomis	P
Director	Skip Mundy	A
Director	Mike Marus	P
Director	Mark Pedri	P
Director	Rich Voelker	A
Director	Ralph Woodard	P
Director	Milt Woodham	A
Other’s Attending
Member	Roger Appleton	P

1. Call to Order Jeff Jensen

Meeting was called to order at 5:32 pm by Jeff Jensen.

2. Roll Call – as shown above. Jeff Jensen

3. Approval of Last Meeting Minutes All

Minutes were approved as posted on the website under Club Business.

4. Treasury Report Membership: 63 Joe Staten

Bank Balance: $3,868.64

Corporate status for SMMUG: Joe Staten has paid the $10 State fee and filed for the state of Colorado, and filed the Form for the Fed via the IRS for 2009. He is writing up the sites and the process, which will be placed on the Board portion of our SMMUG iDisk. Thanks to Joe Staten and Gerry Simonson for all their work in figuring out what needed to be done, how to do it, and doing it, and additionally for confirming our non-profit status.

5. Old Business

a. Program Schedule: New Program Chairperson

We still have no volunteer for this position (or for the Scribe position).

4 March - Audacity by Jane Neff & Skip Mundy

NEED SCRIBE FOR 4 March meeting - ** Mark Griffith will ask for help in his monthly email blast to the club. If we get no volunteer, there will be no minutes for Jane Neff’s Audacity presentation. (** indicates an action item)

1 April – Social Networking by ??? - Facebook Skip Mundy

Skip sent a follow up email on this – this is what is planned for April. ** Skip to confirm

6 May - Fresh Ink Mark Pedri

** Mark Pedri to follow up on this to find out what will be presented

3 June - iChat Ralph Woodard, Jeff Jensen

1 July - Skype. Mike Marus suggested that iChat and Skype should go back to back, all agreed. We should ask Gerry Simonson to present since he uses Skype a lot and knows it.

5 August – Pizza Party, general discussion and networking among members.

2 September – ??

Future potential programs: Update on banking and iBank Data trials (Skip/Joe/Jeff), iCal, Address Book, Apple Mail, iPhoto, Excel

b. First 45 minutes of the 4 March meeting – was discussed a length, and we decided to try 4 tables by subject. These will be discussion groups by topic. There will be 4 tables, each with a subject and facilitator. These are:

Table	Topic	Facilitator
1	OS X Features	Ralph Woodard
2	iWork	Mark Griffith
3	iLife	Jeff Jensen
4	Other Applications	Joe Staten

Free Rotation: People can move from table to table as they wish during the 45 minutes. At the end, all will move their chairs to our traditional classroom set up for the Audacity presentation.

This is a tryout of a new idea. The Board is considering new ideas to be tried on perhaps a quarterly basis. We are interested in growing the club by attracting new members. If you have an idea for the first 45 minutes of our meetings, please contact a Board member.

d. Meeting Prizes Bob Binder, Prize Chairman

Bob Binder has sent the list of 5 prizes to LD for the newsletter, and the list will be included in Mark Griffiths email blast. Also, Bob has ordered the mug for Jon Parshall for his excellent presentation of Crossover Mac, and Bob has started the process of purchasing a commemorative gift box for Tom Harrington.

e. Switch web site to new tool &/or host Rich Voelker

This was tabled as Rich Voelker was out of town This will be discussed at the next Board meeting. However, we only received one volunteer for our proposed new-site team (we need 3 or 4) to switch to a new tool and/or a new website. So for now, Ralph and Jeff will work with Tom on approaches to update our version of Drupal from version 4 to version 6.

f. Business Cards? 3 X 5 Cards? Skip Mundy

Skip Mundy designed these, got them approved via email, and back from the printer and to the Board meeting, even though he was unable to attend. The 3 × 5 cards and generic business cards (no individual names) were taken by members to be used for publicity. Our publicity chair, Mike Baker took the remainder. Great job Skip Mundy and Jane Neff.

g. Publicity for the past month, future Mike Baker

Mike Baker has posted some 3 × 5 cards, and will focus this month on Libraries and downtown stores and coffee shops. Jeff Jensen has managed to get postings at the Senior Center and Pikes Peak Community College. Jeff Jensen is making the flyers and posters for the Board and members to distribute.

We will give out the stickers for members to put on their cars at the 4 March meeting. ** Joe Staten will bring the remaining stash of these.

6. New Business

a. Put program on smmug wiki for coordination Jeff Jensen

Mike Marus felt this was one too many of the places. So instead, in post meeting consideration, Jeff will post this as an editable comment to the minutes, which will be posted on our website under Forums > Club Business.

b. Membership Chair? Program Chair? Scribe? No volunteers for these. Mark Griffith suggested we could ask for member volunteers to be Program Chair, which traditionally has been a Board member. All agreed this was fine.

c. Tom Harrington’s Departure, including new approaches to our website.

** Ralph, Jeff, and Tom will work on updating Drupal.

** Rich Voelker to present requirements for our website at next month’s Board meeting

7. Around the Table

8. Next meeting: 25 March 2010, 5:30 PM, at Voelkers

9. Adjourned at 7:00 pm.

Possible Future Programs

 New Apple presentation  Pages and Numbers presentation  Excel (several requests)  Back-ups  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

 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  ΠCrossover Mac  Handbrake 

 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)

Principles for 2010

1) All members are created equal

2) Create Value for all members, from the newest to the Mac to the most experienced

3) No single point of failure

Goals for 2010

1. Increase memberships with emphasis on new members: a) new-to-Mac; b) new-to-computers; and 3) switchers

Moved and approved to make the goal 12 new members for 2010. This number does not include renewing members.

2. Have at least one “name brand” presenter by the end of the year.

Approved as a goal, must get moving on this. Our program list is pretty full already for this year, which is a good thing.

3. Create and maintain a Member Resource page; This has been accomplished. The bold items below are items that you must select or type to see the resource folder (iDisk). The > are sequential selections or steps. The resource is called “smmug-Public”. To get this to appear on your desktop, do the following:

- Go to: Finder > Go > iDisk > Other User’s Public Folder

- Then in the Member Name box that appears, type: smmug, and then click the Connect button

- After a short wait (depending on our Internet connection speed), the smmug-Public iDisk will appear on your desktop as a window

- When you are finished viewing or downloading items from smmug-Public, be sure and click on the eject symbol () in the navigation box on the left of the iDisk window. The smmug-Public iDisk will be put away (dismounted) and disappear (after a short wait).

Folders on the smmug-Public resource include “Meeting Presentation slides”, which contains Mark Pimentel’s slides for his Word Processing demo in January, and “Posters and Flyers”, which contains the posters and flyers for you to print and post at your favorite hangout or coffee shop. Always ask for permission to post before posting.

Future presentation slides or summaries will be posted in the “Meeting Presentation slides”, folder. Detailed meeting notes could be posted on this smmug-Public resource too.