XCOM Meeting 4 January 2010

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meeting called to order

by Smythe at ~6:55 pm at Panera, Briar Creek.
present:

  • Smythe, President
  • Duane, 1st VP
  • Allen, 2nd VP
  • Cort, treasurer

absent & accounted for:

  • Chips, secretary

Future Meeting Programs

January Meeting

  • program: text recognition software
    • Alec Whittaker will demo Dragon Dictate
    • Smythe will show Dragon Dictate for iPhone
    • Other speech recog apps, including MacSpeech???
  • Donation to Hope Church
    • Dec 2008 we gave the church $500.
    • XCom recommends that we make a donation for this year (2009).
    • Does the membership want to do this again?
    • How much do we want to donate?
  • regular ole' Q&A
    • moderated by Bob

February Meeting topic

  • Word alternatives, e.g.
    • Pages
    • Nissus Wrter
    • Mariner Write
    • WriteRoom
    • Open-Office / Neo-Office "Word"
    • (others)
  • -or- tax prep apps

future meeting suggestions:

  • Macworld update / iSlate release
    • Francis Shepherd
    • Plan for March

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 36 in attendance at the December 8 meeting – 35 members & 1 visitors; 3 renewed at the meeting & 1 joined; 1 renewed by mail in Nov.
  • Cash in Wachovia checking account: $4,264.80 & $100 in petty cash.
  • [reported by Chips & Cort, as of 1.4.10]

New 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

Old Business

  • Donation to Hope Church
    • Dec 2008 we gave the church $500. We should discuss a donation for this year, especially if it needs membership approval.
  • 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 ~8:30 pm by Smythe.


Velomac 21:03, 4 January 2010 (EST) (in absentia)

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