XCOM Meeting 26 October 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 7:15 pm at Panera, Briar Creek.
present:

• Smythe, Pres
• Duane, 1st VP
• Allen, 2nd VP
• Chips, secretary
• Cort, treasurer

Future Meeting Programs

November Meeting program:

• How to make / do gifts w/ Mac apps (iPhoto)
  • How to make photo gift books, calendars, cd's, etc with iPhoto.
  • presenters will be officers.
  • this will be good for making personal Christmas presents.
  • make Christmas cards w/ built-in templates - Allen
  • calendar - Duane (Cort will bring an example)

• AddressBook print features
  • a quickie
  • Smythe can show it
• MacScan preso & give-away.
  • Smythe or Chips to do preso.

• Further group discussion about changing TMUG monthly meeting date or location
  • Since Hope CC has discontinued outside groups from using their facilities on Monday nights.
  • Discuss with the group about the change - either to 2nd Tuesday night at HCC or another place on 2nd Monday night.
  • Some members who were / are not able to meet on Tuesdays would like another alternative.
• Christmas / holiday party planning

December Meeting program

• Photo Booth
• Refreshments & other conviviality
  • volunteers include: Mary Ellin Eissel, (no one else yet)
• A multi-prize raffle
  • • Time Capsule
    • iPhone / iTouch accy
    • Mac mini
    • a nice monitor

future meeting suggestions:

older / previous meeting suggestions:

• TMUG.org website – what's there & how to do it…

• 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,

• another sit & share?
• social networks - LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Plex, etc
• a swap meet...?
• games demo?
• 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 `09:

• 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)

digital photography follow-up:

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

Treasury & Membership Reports

• Members in good standing:, with renewals due, in grace, & recently expired.
• There were 39 in attendance at the October meeting – 36 members & 2 visitors; 3 renewed at the meeting.
• Cash in Wachovia checking account: $4448.74 & $100 in petty cash.
• 72 tickets were sold for the iPod nano raffle, netting $181. The ordered iPod cost $192.87, including shipping.
• [reported by Chips & Cort, as of 10.26.09]
  

New Business

• Smythe suggests that we plan an local Apple expo
  • early 2010 (Jan - Feb)
  • get local Apple retailers, i.e. Ten-Plus, Best Buy, Apple, etc
  • need to get volunteers to help

• Since Hope CC has discontinued outside groups from using their facilities on Monday nights, we are moving to Tuesday night October 13.
  • We need to discuss with the group about the change
    • - either to 2nd Tuesday night at HCC…
    • - or to another place on 2nd Monday night.
• Allen & Smythe will follow up with John May about using Point-in-Space to host tmug.org.

Old Business

• Allen wants to use the mailing labels to send out "We missed you at the last meeting" to encourage more participation from our membership.
• Recommended by Smythe or Allen to ask the members what they want to see raffled and what price for tickets.
• we need to update the tmug.org domain whois info
  • the technical contact is still listed as Paul Lemieux
• 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 Night Vote at November Meeting

Even though we voted about changing the meeting night last month, we had not posted the meeting early enough to comply with the By-Laws, so we're going to "officially" vote again during the November meeting. We will do it after the Q&A so that more people will be in attendance. We will give more details about the process the Executive Committee (XCOM) used to decide on the recommended night, and the constraints faced by the current location. If anyone cannot make it to the meeting on 10 November (a Tuesday night), please let the XCOM know by sending to the temporary address of "meeting" at tmug.org. (Make it look like an email address.)

meeting adjourned

at pm by Smythe.

Velomac 21:05, 26 October 2009 (EDT)