XCOM Meeting 27 April 2009
From TMUG - The Triangle Macintosh Users Group
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meeting called to order
by Stefan at ~7:25 pm at Panera Restaurant, Patterson Place, Durham.
present:
- Stefan, president
- Smythe, 1st VP
- Chips, secretary
- Cort Boylan, past 1st VP
- Duane, past multiple officer
accounted for:
- Fred, treasurer - could not attend due to another engagement
Future Meeting Programs
May Meeting:
- officers elections
- report of search comittee's officer nominees
- Smythe - Pres
- Duane - 1st VP (lead)
- Chips - Sec
- Fred - Treas ?
- nominations from the floor - at May mtg
- member election of officers - at June mtg
- report of search comittee's officer nominees
- we will further discuss via XCom list & decide on the meeting topic, solicting feedback from the TMUG-list
- We will plan to promote food sales from the snack bar again
- Smythe will coordinate with Hope
- Smythe will send email to list to solicit food orders
- Bob Chandler is lined up to lead the Q&A.
June Meeting:
- 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 - Duane (um hmm…)
future meeting suggestions:
- alternatives to MS Office
- open Office
- Pages, Nissus,
- screen capture
- Grab. Cmd-Shift-3, SnapzPro,
- TMUG.org website – what's there & how to do it…
- another sit & share?
- social networks - LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Plex, etc
- a swap meet...?
- games demo?
- ComicLife, Stefan, ppd from Dec as he was swamped w/ work.
- 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:
- 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)
Treasury & Membership Reports
- Members in good standing:, with renewals due, in grace, & recently expired.
- There were in 46 attendance at the April meeting – 40 members & 4 guests; 3 renewed at the meeting, 1 other has joined or renewed by mail this month.
- Cash in bank: $6,141.83.
- [reported by Chips & Fred, as of 4.27.09]
New Business
- Election of officers was overlooked for the March meeting. We need to proceed at the April meeting.
- appoint a "nominating committee" to identify candidates - Duane volunteered to do this
- present nominees to membership at May mtg
- take nominations from the floor, elect, & accept officers at May mtg
- hold elections at June mtg
- Smythe suggests that we should blog Q&A each month
- we need to identify someone to do it
Old Business
- The follow up with Bob Chandler on his iMac prize is he & his wife have decided on an iMac. Stefan will complete the 990 form.
- Smythe has talked Mike O. at Hope about providing limited food items plus beverages.
- The coffee bar will be open from ~6 - ~7:30.
- Stefan will confirm the details with Mike. Then he will post the specs to the list.
- Chips will update the web accordingly.
- We need to decide what to do with the old projector.
- We will poll the members what they would like us to do with it.
- Possible options include selling it on eBay, donating it to another non-profit (e.g. Eno River Assoc.), raffle it at a TMUG mtg., etc
TMUG server
- [from Oct - ] 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 ~8:44 pm by Stefan.
Velomac 20:51, 27 April 2009 (EDT)''
