SUN CITY COMPUTER CLUB

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

July 6, 2006, 9:00 aM

CyberCenter Meeting Room

The Meeting was called to order at 9:00 A.M. by Dick Smith, President.

Present:

Peter Roll, Founder
Dick Smith, President
Dick Doane, Vice President
Linda Shanhouse, Treasurer
Rex Davenport, Programs Director
Grady Manley, Training Director
Nelda McQuary, Special Interest Groups Director
Linda Walke, Secretary
Gael Miller, Past President

Absent

Dave Hanna, Communications Director
Don Snapp, CyberCenter Director
Peggy Uselton, Membership Director

Approval of Minutes

A motion was made by Dick Smith on June 12, 2006  to accept by e-vote and publish on the Computer Club web site the revised minutes of the June 1, 2006 Board Meeting.  The motion was seconded and passed by e-vote.

Financial Report

Technical difficulties prevented Linda Shanhouse, Treasurer, from distributing the June financial report.  It will be sent as soon as possible.

DISCUSSION OF DIRECTORS’ REPORTS RECEIVED BY E-MAIL

Communications - Dave Hanna

          No Report

CyberCenter - Don Snapp

          No Report

Membership - Peggy Uselton

The number of club members as of June 30, 2006                           1,999

The number of new members who joined in June, 2006                         50

The total number of new members who have joined in 2006                 389

We now have 99.2% of 2005’s membership.               

          Ten new street names were added to the database in early June.   Jim Romine was very helpful and got the names for us.  

Programs -  Rex Davenport

July   3:         No meeting

July 10:         ProShow Gold (Amanda) (ProShow Gold SIG)

July 17:         TBA

July 24:         Update on Web Portal

July 31:         Computer Club 10^th Anniversary (at the Ball room)

August   7:    “Why Are Macs So Great?”

August 14:    Cox Migration

August 21:    “How Did You Do That” (John Bosch)

August 28:    “Computer Forensics” (Steven Gibson)The next meeting of the Program Committee will be July 11, 4 PM.

The July 31^st CyberSocial, previously scheduled for 6:30pm in the SC Pavilion, has been moved to the SC Ballroom at 1:00pm.

Training -  Grady Manley

Classes and Enrollment for June

          Classes                                             No.           Enrolled   

          Basic skills                                           4                 29

          Graphics                                              3                 20

          Mac                                                     3                 16

          Total                                                  10                65

Special Interest Groups – Nelda McQuary

With Kid’s Camp activity and vacations in June, attendance to SIG meetings was surprisingly high. 

Three of the SIG’s didn’t meet and Media Conversion didn’t report; however attendance still totaled188. Attendance to Kaffee Klatch, Hardware & Technology, Genealogy, and Digital Camera exceeded May’s attendance with 55, 32, 31, and 21 respectively.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

          Monitor Vests – Don Snapp and Gael Miller will provide any information Nancy Roll needs in designing a different vest for the Monitors to wear.

          Web Portal – The Web Portal is currently in its testing phase.  On July 13^th a report will be made and features demonstrated to the CA Board of Directors.  Timing, and publicity and presentations to the residents will be determined after the July 13^th meeting.

NEW BUSINESS

          System Administrators – Peter Roll, Dick Smith, Gael Miller, Dick Doane, Bruce Cottrill and Jim Hackett will be reviewing the duties and responsibilities of the System Administrators.  More emphasis will be given to training SAs on network recovery and trouble shooting.  More people should be trained to step in when these problems occur.

          Mentors – Dick Doane showed the tracking charts made up by Darrylin Coleman that are being kept to analyze the types and frequencies of requests that are being handled by the mentors.  All Computer Club members needing help are to be encouraged to fill out a request form for help form via the Club’s web page.  If this is not possible due to the nature of their computer problems, then the mentors can fill them out to record the work.

OTHER BUSINESS

          Junior Camp – The camp this year was deemed a success.  Based on all the favorable feedback, the time the campers spend in the computer lab is becoming the favorite highlight.  Processing DVD’s for the campers went smoothly.

          Gael reminded the Board that the Ball Room reopening is scheduled for July 14^th with a July 21^st fall back date.  Tables will be set up for Sun City Clubs to present their activities.  People will be needed from 10:00 – 2:00 at the Computer Club table.  The projector will be used for the first time on July 19^th at the New Homeowner Orientation.

The next Executive Board Meeting will be 9:00 A.M. Thursday, August 3, 2006, at the Sun City CyberCenter Meeting Room. 

The meeting was adjourned at 10:10 A.M.

Linda Walke                               

Secretary

Accepted on July 25, 2006 by E-Vote