XCOM Meeting 22 February 2010

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meeting called to order

by Smythe at 7:45 pm at Carolina Ale House, Briar Creek.
present:

  • Smythe, President
  • Allen, 2nd VP
  • Chips, secretary
  • Cort, treasurer

absent or accounted for:

  • Duane, 1st VP

Next Meeting Program

February Meeting

  • Elections of officers
    • nominating committee report
      • nominations to be presented to membership at February March meeting
      • elections due to happen in March, but moved to April
      • new officers to take office after elections at April meeting
  • start doing a "conversation starter" before the break
    • "the favorite Mac or iPhone app you are using right now"
  • Chips has done a quickie tip / hint before the break at last 2 meetings.
    • He would like to continue this "Chips' Tips".
    • Followed by a door prize drawing.
  • Guy Brooks will show his "hack-in-tosh" / "MacBook mini"
    • a Dell (?) net-book with UNIX & OS X 10.5 installed
  • 5 minute member presos (???)
    • volunteers needed
  • personal accounting alternatives (???)
    • Quicken is the "de facto" app
    • Money
    • MoneyWell
    • iBank
    • Ch-Ching
    • Mint (on-line)
  • Q&A
    • moderated by Bob

Future Meeting Programs

April Meeting topic

  • Apple's iPad release
    • Francis Shepherd to present
    • iPad should be available by then
    • any other other Macworld &/or Apple updates

future meeting suggestions:

older / previous meeting suggestions:

  • TMUG.org website – what's there & how to do it…
  • create your own website
    • web host
    • tools / apps
  • Internet Radio
    • (iTunes, Slacker Radio, Last fm, Pandora, AOL Radio, SOMA FM, station websites, etc)
    • This covers both the Mac and iPhone/Touch devices.
  • TV / movie / cable alternatives for your Mac
    • Slingbox (um hmm…) - Duane
  • alternatives to MS Office
    • open Office, NeoOffice
    • Pages, Nissus Writer, Mellel, WriteRoom, Mariner Write
  • screen capture
    • Grab. Cmd-Shift-3, SnapzPro,
  • another sit & share?
  • social networks - LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Plex, etc
  • a swap meet...?
  • games demo?
  • no contact yet Mark Williams, founder of Modality. Smythe sent them another query.
  • Photoshop or another photo editor? probably not.
  • remote connection apps: e.g. Back To My Mac, GoToMeeting, WebEx, Glance
  • Remote Presentations?
  • Remote access?

other ideas posited to the general list in mid-January `09:

  • Remote presentations (Glance, WebEx, GoToMeeting, BackToMyMac)
  • Web and iPhone/Mac note syncing programs (SyncBook, SyncNotes, EverNote, Fliq)
  • Social Networks - in real life (LinkedIn, Flickr, TweetUps, Forum software)
  • Intelliscanner - Paul Scandariato (He wrote back - not until summer or fall)

digital photography follow-up:

  • camera options & choices
  • iPhoto `09
    • facial recognition
    • Geo-location
  • web photo storage
    • Flicker
    • Smug Mug
    • Picasa
  • photo stitching w/ DoubleTake
  • photo editing
    • Preview
    • GraphicConverter

Treasury & Membership Reports

  • Members in good standing:, with renewals due, in grace, & recently expired.
  • There were 28 in attendance at the February 9 meeting – 27 members & 1 visitor; 2 renewed at the Jan meeting; none since.
  • Cash in Wachovia checking account: $4,141.20 & $100 in petty cash.
  • payment to Southeast Voice and Data for Dec. and Jan. server colocation of $79.90, check not cleared.
  • Panasonic projector added to Safeware insurance policy at $1,000 value which will increase premium by $4.73/year.
  • Cort has an assortment of a variety of old, mostly OS 8 & 9, software & hardware. Also old TMUG bank statements.
    • We need to decide how to dispose of it.
    • Smythe suggests that we list the software & hardware & offer it to TMUG members.
  • [reported by Chips & Cort, as of 2.22.10]

New Business

Old Business

  • PayPal account
    • We have an account which has been dormant for several years. It appears to be a standard business account, but we should change it to a non-profit account (if that is possible) to secure reasonable transaction rates:
      • - no monthly fee
      • - 2.2% service charge and $.30 per transaction
    • A few members have asked if they can pay their dues by PayPal. Do we want to pursue?
    • Smythe & Trish have talked with Jeff Gordon to get the login info & transfer the details
    • Cort will complete the follow up & will try to transfer account to a non-profit
  • formsite.com
  • Smythe suggests that we plan a local Apple expo
    • early 2010 (Jan - Feb)
    • get local Apple retailers, i.e. Ten-Plus, Best Buy, Apple, etc
    • need to get volunteers to help
  • Allen & Smythe will follow up with John May about using Point-in-Space to host tmug.org.
  • Allen wants to use the mailing labels to send out "We missed you at the last meeting" to encourage more participation from our membership.
  • Recommended by Smythe or Allen to ask the members what they want to see raffled and what price for tickets.
  • we need to update the tmug.org domain whois info
    • the technical contact is still listed as Paul Lemieux
  • Smythe suggests that we should blog Q&A each month
    • we need to identify someone to do it
  • TMUG server
    • [from Oct `08 - ] Stefan has talked with MacHighway. One of the issues is that they don't use a Postfix email / Cyrus for IMAP system. (no new info)

meeting adjourned

at ~ pm by Smythe.


Velomac 14:54, 22 February 2010 (EST)

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