XCOM Meeting 25 August 2008
From TMUG - The Triangle Macintosh Users Group
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meeting called to order
at 7:22 pm by President Stefan Jeglinski
meeting held at Panera Bread, Patterson Place, Durham, Monday August 25, 2008.
present & accounted for:
- Stefan, president
- Smythe, 1st VP
- Chips, secretary
- Fred, treasurer
TMUG server
Stefan reported on status of the server. It's been up for 37 days w/o going down or rebooting.
Cort installed the backup drive in the new OWC miniStack enclosure on 8.1.08.
Smythe suggested MacHighway as an alternative host for TMUG.org to RTMX & our G4 server, in case we need to replace the server Mac. The price is much less. Stefan will investigate.
Future Meeting Programs
September Meeting:
- Stefan will present, with focus on iPhone. He will send blurbs to list & write the webpage announcement. The program will potentially focus on member responses.
Smythe has talked with TMUG member Rob Terrell, who should be able to present his iPhone / iPod Touch app - Sumo!
- Q & A – Bob Chandler (Stefan will double check.)
- Smythe will talk w/ Trish Huffman about doing a chat room for Q&A & the meeting. Smythe will talk with Allen about live blogging the meeting, or at least the Q&A.
- We will give time to Tim McBrayer to report on his ISP survey results, if he responds positively to Smythe. Tim responded that he doesn't have time to do this now, but maybe in Oct or Nov.
October Meeting:
- ComicLife, tentatively, by Stefan
- ???
future meeting suggestions:
- no contact yet Mark Williams, founder of Modality
- EyeTV
Treasury & Membership Reports
- Members in good standing: 94, with 4 renewals due & 5 in grace.
- There were 37 in attendance at the August meeting – 33 members & 4 guests; 1 new member joined, 2 renewed. 3 others have renewed this month.
- There are now 129 entries in the TiGA, including 37 renewals & new memberships since June 1.
- Cash in bank: $5,956.32
New Business
- [none]
Old Business
- Stefan - status of our G4 server & connected FW drive enclosure (see above).
- Smythe has identified a Karaoki PA from Best Buy for ~$80. The Durham Best Buy did not have it in stock on 8.25.08, so Chips bought an alternate model w/ an iPod™ dock for $91. We will evaluate it at the September 8 meeting.
meeting adjourned
at 8:52 pm by Stefan
