SUN CITY COMPUTER CLUB

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

jANUARY 3, 2008, 9:00 aM

Activities Center Meeting Room #3 & 4

 

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

 

Present:

 

Gael Miller, President

Doug Steinke, Vice-President

Linda Walke, Secretary

Linda Shanhouse, Treasurer

Dick Smith, Communications Director

Weekly Newsletter

Webmaster Meredith Mitchell

Peggy Uselton, Membership Director

Rex Davenport, Program Director

Jodi Salyers, Training Director

 

Dick Doane, Past President

Peter Roll, Founder

 

Absent

 

Nelda McQuary, Special Interest Groups Director

 

Guests

 

Dave Hanna, Past Communications Director

Gary & Barbara Resnick

 

Approval of Minutes

 

Minutes taken by Linda Walke of the December 6, 2007 Executive Board Meeting were approved by e-vote on December 13, 2007.

 

Financial Report

 

Linda Shanhouse presented the December 2007 Financial Report. A motion to accept the report was made by Don Snapp and seconded by Doug Steinke.� The motion passed. The Financial Report will be filed for audit.

DISCUSSION OF DIRECTORS REPORTS RECEIVED BY E-MAIL

 

Communications, Dick Smith

 

At present, no one has been located to do the newsletter.� It will be suspended except for special announcements until someone can do it regularly.

 

Webmaster Meredith Mitchell

Newsletter


CyberCenter, Don Snapp

 

Approximately 322 luncheon tickets have been sold as of �January 3rd.  Thursday, the 10th will be the last day for ticket sales before giving the count to the caterer.  Dick Doane and the social committee will handle arrangements with the caterer. Of the tickets 322 tickets, 55 were sold through PayPal.

 

I completed the revamp of the Software bags in both the Classroom and in the Lab storage cabinets.  I believe there are items missing from some of them, but we will have to cope with problems as they arise.

 

I have acquired some microphone parts to place on the Tank, so that a mike will be located directly on the unit.  They have been installed. The equipment should work well for the Atrium presentations.

 

Don saw that a new 78 player for the old vinyl records is now on the market for around $175. I have reviewed this proposal with Doug Willoughby he agrees it would be useful.   Don Snapp made a motion that the board vote to authorize the purchase of a 78 player for Audio conversion purposes.� Doug Steinke seconded the message.� The motion passed.

   

Membership, Peggy Uselton

Membership Report December 31, 2007

 

Total at

End of Month

Joined This

��� Month

Joined This

��� Year

Percentage of

������� 2006

2006

2,353

 

724

116.5% of 2005

January

1,842

192

�192

78%

February

2,031

� 82

�274

86.3%

March

2,111

�48

�322

89.7%

April

2,162

35

357

91.9%

May

2,216

�38

�392

94%

June

2,265

�37

�429

96%

July

2,318

�48

�478

98.5%

August

2,389

�70

�548

101.5%

September

2,434

�45

�591

103.4%

October

2,467

�28

�619

104.8%

November

 

103

�722

 

December

2,660

�65

�787

113.0%

 

 

We have 1,498 members who have paid dues for 2008.

We have 1,162 who were members in 2007, but who have not yet renewed for 2008.

We have 488 who were members in 2006, but who have not renewed since then. It is time for these names to be removed from the data base.

Peggy expressed thanks to Janet Lull and Don Snapp for their assistance in processing the members that joined or renewed in the lab.

Barb & Gary Resnick, Gene Uselton and Frank Wentworth did heroic service in helping to process the ones who renewed or joined by way of PayPal.� Dave Hanna was always very helpful.

We will hold a New Member Reception on Jan. 29, at 10:00 in the atrium.� If you are a regular presenter at these receptions, and will not be able to participate, please arrange for a substitute and inform Rex Davenport whom to expect.

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Programs, Rex Davenport

2008

Jan.7 Burning CD's and DVD's Gael Miller

Jan. 14 Annual meeting All of us

Jan. 21 Vista or not to Vista? Bill Buppert

Jan. 28 Introducing the Redesigned

Computer Club Web Site Meredith Mitchell

 

Feb. 4 Genealogy SIG Leader

Feb. 11 Turbo Tax Chapman?

Feb.� 18 Senior net or DADS Peter Roll

Feb. 25 Backing up with Acronis D. Smith

 

The Program Committee will meet on Tuesday, January 8th, at 4 PM.

 

Training, Jodi Salyers

Class Enrollment for December 2007

 

Subjects Classes Enrollment

 

Basic skills 03 23

 

Graphics 02 17

 

Mac 02 09

 

Other 00 00

 

Total 07 49

 

As you are all probably aware, December was a short month for classes. Classes were held in the first two weeks of the month only, so that all the classroom computers could be changed out for the new dual-boot computers.

 

Class schedules for the year 2008 are going to be more dense, because we will be having basic classes for both XP and Vista.� For two weeks the computers in the classroom will be booted up in XP; the following two weeks will be Vista.� A notation in the Sunday column of the Training Calendar indicates which OS will be used that week.� We will follow this basic rotation, unless something arises to cause us to rethink this 50/50 split.�

 

For example, here are the classes scheduled for January 2008:

 

Subjects Classes

 

Basic XP 04

Basic Vista 04

Graphics 04

Mac 02

Other 04

Total 18

 

Special Interest Groups, Nelda McQuary

Digital Camera SIG Marlene Sloan and Jim Bilbro say that there is not enough interest by any one person or group of persons to commit to Leadership of this group; therefore it will be suspended.� The Digital Camera listings will not be removed from the SIG descriptions or web pages on our web site until it can be determined where all of Marlene�s Digital Imagining information can be placed.�

 

There are at least 25 members interested in getting together to discuss Photoshop CS2 and CS3, so Jim will continue with this Discussion Group on the 2nd Tuesday of each month in the CyberCenter Meeting Room.� This group is not considered a SIG.

 

The Board discussed the issue of attendance records for the SIG meetings not held in the Cyber Center.� Several options were considered.� Dick Smith has been tracking the out of CyberCenter SIG attendance.� Don Snapp has volunteered to manually enter the attendance until another solution is found.

 

Total attendance to all SIG�s in December was 235 with 3312 attending during 2007, which represented 114 meetings being held by SIG Leaders.

 

Old Business

 

Annual Computer Club Meeting and Luncheon on January 14th Since the deadline for giving the final ticket count is Friday January 11th, tickets will be sold through January 10th. One table will be reserved.

Disposition of Classroom Computers A motion was made by Don Snapp and seconded by Doug Steinke to give 5 of the replaced computers to the 5 Charter Clubs that have requested them.� The motion passed.� A motion was made by Dick Smith and seconded by Doug Steinke to replace the computer in the workshop used for slide scanning with an old classroom computer.

 

Set up of the new Classroom Computers � All 13 new classroom computers will be set up with XP on one drive and Vista on the other.� MS Office 2002 will be installed on the XP drive and MS Office 2007 will be installed on the Vista drive.� Photoshop Elements 6 will be installed on both operating systems of 9 computers.

 

On-line Membership and sale of tickets � The Board had a discussion of the in depth reports made by Past Communications Dir., Dave Hanna, and Barbara Resnick about the results of the on-line membership and on-line sale of luncheon tickets through the Pay Pal service.� One third of the entries were problems of various kinds.� Even though only a very few have not been resolved, the hours of work required were excessive.� It was concluded that the service would be suspended for the time being.

The following individuals contributed many hours to the on-line project. Thank you to all.

 

NEW BUSINESS

Georgetown Public Library request � An invitation was received from the Georgetown Public Library to have a member of the newly formed Library Technology Committee be from Sun City. It was suggested this invitation be presented to the Hardware and Technology SIG and to the Genealogy SIG.

 

OTHER BUSINESS

 

The next Executive Board Meeting will be 9:30 A.M. Thursday, February 7, 2008 at the Comfort Suites followed by lunch then the annual planning meeting.

 

 

The meeting was adjourned at 11:40 am

 

Linda Walke

Secretary