XCOM Meeting 23 March 2009
From TMUG - The Triangle Macintosh Users Group
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meeting called to order
by Smythe at 7:30 pm at Panera Restaurant, Patterson Place, Durham.
present:
- Smythe, 1st VP
- Chips, secretary
- Fred, treasurer
- Cort Boylan, past 1st VP
- Duane, past officer
accounted for:
- Stefan, president (via iChat from 4Pi)
Future Meeting Programs
April Meeting:
- officers elections
- report of search comittee's officer nominees
- nominations from the floor - at May mtg
- member election of officers - at May mtg
- TV / movie / cable alternatives for your Mac
- Slingbox - Duane
- streaming - hulu.com, Netflix, various network options (e.g. NBC.com, USAnetworks.com, abc.com, etc.) - Smythe
- eyeTV - Stefan
- Boxee - Charles &/or a guy Stefan works with
- 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.
May Meeting:
- Internet Radio (wait until May or later)
- (Slacker Radio, Pandora, AOL Radio, station websites)
- This covers both the Mac and iPhone/Touch devices.
future meeting suggestions:
- another sit & share?
- 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: 94, with 9 renewals due, 4 in grace, & 8 recently expired.
- There were in attendance at the March meeting – 36 members & 2 guests; 1 renewed at the meeting, 2 others have joined or renewed by mail this month.
- $170.00 was collected for the iPod Touch TMUG Stimulus Package raffle; the cost was $246.44.
- Cash in bank: $6,141.83.
- [reported by Chips & Fred, as of 3.23.09]
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 April mtg
- take nominations from the floor, elect, & accept officers at May mtg
- Smythe suggests that we should blog Q&A each month
- we need to identify someone to do it
Old Business
- We need to follow up with Bob Chandler on his iMac prize. He said he would talk with his wife & decide which model Mac they want to get.
- The power cables we have to supply power for users at the meeting are limited in that the receptacles are only at the ends.
- Cort will take on adding "junction boxes" at intervals to the longer cord.
- 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 ~8:40 pm by Smythe.
Velomac 20:38, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
