XCOM Meeting 27 July 2009
From TMUG - The Triangle Macintosh Users Group
I decided not to try to plug these minutes into Chips' template on the wiki. Here's brief recount of what was discussed at the meeting. Please correct as necessary. Cort
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meeting called to order
by Smythe at ~7 pm at Carolina Ale House Restaurant, Briar Creek.
present:
- Smythe, Pres
- Duane, 1st VP
- Allen, 2nd VP
- Cort, treasurer
accounted for:
- Chips, secretary (Perhaps by iChat (velomac@mac.com), but at least in spirit if I can't get to an internet connection after getting to GSO from MKE.)
Future Meeting Programs
August Meeting: Social Networks and Web Communities
- Allen to report on MacHighway and options for TMUG server
- discuss social networks and web communities
- Demo of Safari version 4.0 by ?
September Meeting program:
- Comic Life
future meeting suggestions:
- Chrome, Opera and Firefox demos
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
- screen capture
- Grab. Cmd-Shift-3, SnapzPro,
- 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)
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 x in attendance at the July meeting – y members & z visitors; 1 joined & 2 renewed at the meeting.
- Cash in Wachovia checking account: $4091.42 excluding two uncleared checks
- Real account balance is $4043.82 which includes 3 membership renewals received at the PO Box since the July meeting
- Money Market and CD Rates from Wachovia
- Based on a $3,000 investment, the current MM interest rate is 0.6% and the 6 month CD interest rate is 0.7%.
- The officers agreed to leave our cash in the checking account and drop the idea of CD's or any other interest bearing instrument.
- July Raffle
- iPod Touch cost $180 against $165 in ticket sales
- Cort wrote check to Allen for the iPod Touch
- [reported by Chips & Cort, as of 7.27.09]
New Business
- 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.
Old Business
- we need to updae 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 - ] 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
before 9 pm by Smythe.
notes were transferred from Cort's XCom email of 8.4.09, 1:34 pm
Velomac 18:49, 5 August 2009 (EDT)
