XCOM Meeting 25 May 2009

From TMUG - The Triangle Macintosh Users Group

Contents 1 meeting called to order 2 Future Meeting Programs 3 Treasury & Membership Reports 4 New Business 5 Old Business 6 meeting adjourned

meeting called to order

by Smythe at ~7:10 pm at Panera Restaurant, Patterson Place, Durham.
present:

• Smythe, 1st VP
• Chips, secretary
• Fred, treasurer
• Cort Boylan, past 1st VP

accounted for:

• Stefan, president - on the road returning from climbing in WV

Future Meeting Programs

June Meeting:

• officers elections
  • nominees:
    • Smythe - Pres
    • Duane - 1st VP (lead)
    • Allen - 2nd VP
    • Chips - Sec
    • Cort - Treas
  • other nominations from members present
  • election of officers

• program topic -- digital photography
  • camera options & choices
  • iPhoto `09
    • facial recognition
    • Geo-location
  • web photo storage
    • Flicker
    • Smug Mug
    • Picasa
  • photo stitching w/ DoubleTake
  • photo editing
    • Preview
    • GraphicConverter

• Bob Chandler should lead the Q&A.
  

July Meeting: ??

future meeting suggestions:

• • create your own website
    • web host
    • tools / apps

• • Internet Radio
  • (iTunes, Slacker Radio, Last fm, Pandora, AOL Radio, SOMA FM, station websites, etc)
  • This covers both the Mac and iPhone/Touch devices.
• TV / movie / cable alternatives for your Mac
  • Slingbox (um hmm…) - Duane

• alternatives to MS Office
  • open Office, NeoOffice
  • Pages, Nissus Writer

• screen capture
  • Grab. Cmd-Shift-3, SnapzPro,

• TMUG.org website – what's there & how to do it…
• another sit & share?
• social networks - LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Plex, etc
• 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:, with renewals due, in grace, & recently expired.
  
• There were in 38 attendance at the May meeting – 36 members & 2 guests; 2 renewed & 1 joined at the meeting, 0 others have joined or renewed by mail this month.
  
• Cash in bank: ~$5,055.
  
• [reported by Chips & Fred, as of 5.25.09]
  

New Business

• we need to updae the tmug.org domain whois info
  • the technical contact is still listed as Paul Lemieux

Old Business

• The follow up with Bob Chandler on his iMac prize is he & his wife have decided on an iMac.
  • Fred has sent Bob / Macvantage a check for $1199
  • Stefan will complete the 990 form.
  • Chips (re)located TMUG's FIN / EIN & passed it to Fred
  • Since we wrote a check to Macvantage to purchase the iMac, do we need to complete & file an IRS 1099?
• 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.
• Smythe suggests that we should blog Q&A each month
  • we need to identify someone to do it
• 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 ~8:50 pm by Smythe.

Velomac 21:10, 25 May 2009 (EDT)''