SUN
CITY
COMPUTER CLUB
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
August 2, 2007, 9:00 A.M.
Activities Center Meeting Room #1
The Meeting was called to order at 9:00 A.M. by Dick Doane,
President
.
Present
:
Dick Doane, President
Gael Miller, Vice-President
Linda Walke, Secretary
Linda Shanhouse, Treasurer
Dave Hanna, Communications Director
Meredith Mitchell – Webmaster
Linda Walke - Newsletter
Don Snapp, CyberCenter Director
Peggy Uselton, Membership Director
Nelda McQuary, Special Interest Groups Director
Grady Manley, Training Director
Dick Smith, Past President
Peter Roll, Founder
Absent
Jim Crutcher, Programs Director
Approval of Minutes
A motion was made by Dick Doane on July 27, 2007 to accept by e-vote
and publish on the Computer Club web site the revised minutes of the July 5
th Board Meeting. The motion was seconded and passed by e-vote.
Financial Report
Linda Shanhouse presented the July, 2007 Financial Report. A motion
was made by Peggy Uselton and seconded by Gael Miller to accept the report. The motion
passed. The Financial Report will be filed for audit. A motion was made by Peter Roll and
seconded by Linda Shanhouse to accept the 2008 budget to be presented to the CA Finance Committee
for their approval. Dick Doane will submit to Chartered Club Committee, and they will forward it to
the Finance Committee for approval.
OFFICERS REPORTS
Peter Roll – Computer Purchases –
IMa
c
–
Windows Vista was captured from Dual-boot partition. It works just
fine in the Virtual Machine window.
Dell Inspiron 530 test machine was ordered and received with the specs previously
discussed. A copy of Windows XP Pro has been installed on a HD partition and the boot loads
successfully. The Inspiron 530 is installed in the Lab as L2-Charlie2. It will remain in this
location for testing by instructors and Computer Club members.
DeepFreeze – Twenty-five licenses for the new DeepFreeze v.6 Enterprise Edition
have been purchased. The first step will be to install 3 of these licenses on the test
machine to test their functioning in a multiple-Windows-OS situation.
Gael Miller –
Volunteer Lunch
–
The Ballroom has been reserved on September 22 for the use of the
Computer Club. Gael and Dick will now research possible menus and report back to the Board
their decision for a caterer.
Lab Open Hours
–
In September the Computer Lab hours will change to 9am - 3pm Tuesday
through Thursday, Monday and Friday 9am – noon, Saturday 10am – noon. This change will be
announced on the webpage, in the
Sun Rays, in the Weekly Newsletter and on the door sign.
Dick Smith – Hardware & TECH SIG
– Met with Gene Boley to work out the details of the meetings.
The time has been set at 10am on the 3
rd Tuesday.
DISCUSSION OF DIRECTORS’ REPORTS RECEIVED BY E-MAIL
Communications, Dave Hanna
Sun Rays –
Dave reported that has redrafted the Computer Club entry in the Sun
Rays. It will be somewhat shorter than in the past. Readers will be directed to the
webpage for more information. It should run in the September edition.
Paying Club Dues On-line -
Peter Roll, Gael Miller and Dave Hanna met with Ann Dodson to get
her opinion of two possible methods of handling on-line Club payments. The methods are to have Club
payments charged to the member's CA account and included in CA Billing or to use PayPal to allow
members to charge to their credit cards. Ann said that the CA billing approach will probably
eventually be included as a part of the CA Web Portal system but it is unknown when that feature
will be available. For the near term she favored the PayPal approach and saw no reason why it could
not be implemented. She said that she would mention the possibility of our using PayPal to handle
credit card payments to the CA Finance Committee at their regular meeting. She recommended that we
inform the Finance Committee of our plans if we decide to proceed.
The Board discussed various details that would have to be worked out if such an online pay
method was made available to the members. A motion was made by Dave Hanna and seconded by
Grady Manley to continue to study the requirements to implement a method of paying dues
on-line. The motion was amended by Peter Roll for Dave Hanna to head the committee and
reports their findings back to the Board for a final decision before a proposal is submitted to the
CA Finance Committee for their approval. The motion passed by a vote of 7 to 3.
Webmaster – Meredith Mitchell - Work continues on the 2
nd generation Website. A problem with the drop down menu is elusive but persistent
in seemingly random situations. Meredith hopes to find someone with in-depth knowledge of “
Open CMS”.
Newsletter – Linda Walke – The Weekly Newsletter is going well. Linda still
has problems getting to the ADMN to capture the email addresses. Both Doug Willoughby and
Peggy Uselton have been helpful in providing the list. People who want descriptive
information about various programs or meetings are encouraged to send them in before the Weekly
Newsletter goes out.
CyberCenter, Don Snapp
A CMOS battery was purchased from Dell to replace the unit in the
8100 Laptop. The unit controls the system time and system settings for the unit. John
Baumann was asked if he would install the part since he has played around with several laptops
and is well experienced in dealing with them. He was successful and after another week of
checking it out we expect to return it to inventory. The main battery is
shot. The 2
nd hard drive in Membie died. Fortunately Dick Smith has already replaced
it.
Membership, Peggy Uselton
Membership Director’s Report August 2007
The number of club members as of July 31,
2007
2,318
The number of new members who joined in
July
48
The number of new member who have joined in
2007
478
Current membership as a percentage of 2006’s
membership 98.5%
A New Member Reception was held on July 31. The meeting was
well publicized in the newsletter, on the website, at the Monday meeting, and to the members of two
SIGs. Approximately 33 new, and some not so new, members attended; several expressed interest
in becoming monitors, and/or participating in the training program.
Programs, Jim Crutcher
Aug
6 Navigating the
portal – Larry Douglas (Portal web master)
Aug
13
Buying a new Computer – Coordinated by Peter Roll
Aug
20
Web Browsers – Firefox, IE7 & Safari (Probably Jim Crutcher)
Aug
27
Open
Sept
3 Holiday
Sept
10 Presentation by Training
Director, Grady Manley
Sept
17 Google applications – Ruth
Lehman
Sept
24 Paint – Barbara Resnick
Special Interest Groups, Nelda McQuary
Genealogy SIG
– New Co-Leaders are
Betty Jean Steinke and Sarah Christiansen.
Hardware & Technology SIG –
New Leader is Gene Boley, assisted by Dick
Smith.
We are very happy to welcome these new Leaders.
Total attendance to all SIG’s in July was 143
- only 5 SIG’s, out of 13, met during the month of July.
Digital Camera will be the only one resuming in August.
There are 4 SIGS scheduled to meet in the CyberCenter during the
expanded Lab hours that begin in September. Whether the noise will be a distraction to either
group will have to be determined at that time. Any such problems will be solved with the new
meeting room assignments beginning in 2008.
Training, Grady Manley
July Class Enrollment
Subjects
Enrolled
Computer
Intro
10 (11*)
Mac
Safari
12
Windows
1
10 (11*)
Windows
2
10
Total
42 (44*)
*
Computer Intro and
Windows 1 each had one extra student who enrolled the day of the class. They
have not yet been added to the class enrollment on the database.
We have had several new volunteers for teachers and
assistants. Their qualifications seem to be excellent. They will be introduced into the
training program as they become acclimated to the curriculum and class procedures.
I have sent letters to the teachers informing them of the new
dual-boot Vista/XP (L2) computer in the lab. They are encouraged to come and experiment with
the new setup and respond with their opinions about dual boot and their particular program
function.
STANDING COMMITTEES
Social – Scheduled socials and meetings:
Volunteer Luncheon
– September 22 in the Ballroom.. The Past Presidents and Peter
Roll will work on a presentation.
CyberSocial
will be October 29 in the Ballroom.
New Member Reception
will be October 30 at 10am in the Atrium
Annual Membership meeting
will be Jan 14
th in the Ballroom - Dick Doane will contact the caterers who have contracts to service
the ballroom about their prices and menu options for the Annual Membership meeting, and the
Volunteer Lunch.
New Member Reception
will be Jan. 29
th in the Atrium
NEW BUSINESS
None
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The next Executive Board Meeting will be 9:00 A.M. Thursday,
September 6, 2007 at the Sun City Activities Center Meeting Room #1.
The meeting was adjourned at 11:10am.
Linda
Walke
Secretary