XCOM Meeting 28 September 2009

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meeting called to order

by Smythe at ~7:15 pm at Panera, Briar Creek.
present:

  • Smythe, Pres
  • Duane, 1st VP
  • Allen, 2nd VP
  • Chips, secretary
  • Cort, treasurer

Future Meeting Programs

October Meeting program

  • Since Hope CC has discontinued outside groups from using their facilities on Monday nights, we are moving to Tuesday night October 13.
    • Snow Leopard – Since Francis Shepherd can't be there on Tuesday, Oct 13, we will pass on the preso
    • Discuss with the group about the change - either to 2nd Tuesday night at HCC or another place on 2nd Monday night.
  • Allen will do a preso on creating a movie with an iPhone 3G s & iMovie 9.
    • He will take video with the iPhone at meeting & use pre-recorded video.
  • We will also raffle an iPod nano.
    • Tickets will be $3 each or 2 for $5.
    • We'll buy the iPod at the meeting (with TMUG credit card) so winner can get choice of color & option to engrave.
    • We will get an 8 GB for $150.
    • If we sell ~$180 worth, we will get a 16 GB.

November Meeting program:

  • How to make photo gift books, calendars, cd's, etc with iPhoto.
    • presenter TBA.
    • this will be good for making personal Christmas presents.
  • MacScan preso & give-away.
    • Smythe or Chips to do preso.

future meeting suggestions:

  • Christmas / holiday party planning
    • Photo Booth at Christmas party
    • raffle prizes
      • Time Capsule
      • iPhone / iTouch accy
      • Mac mini
      • a nice monitor

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?
  • 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 44 in attendance at the September meeting – 41 members & 3 visitors; 2 joined & 5 renewed at the meeting.
  • Cash in Wachovia checking account: $4,233.81 excluding 1 uncleared check ($56.99), 1 membership to be deposited ($35) & $100 in petty cash.
  • [reported by Chips & Cort, as of 9.28.09]

New Business

  • Since Hope CC has discontinued outside groups from using their facilities on Monday nights, we are moving to Tuesday night October 13.
    • We need to discuss with the group about the change
      • - either to 2nd Tuesday night at HCC…
      • - or to another place on 2nd Monday night.
  • Allen & Smythe will follow up with John May about using Point-in-Space to host tmug.org.

Old 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.
  • 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 - ] 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 8:30 pm by Smythe.


Velomac 20:53, 28 September 2009 (EDT)

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