XCOM Meeting 5 January 2009

From TMUG - The Triangle Macintosh Users Group

Contents 1 meeting called to order 2 TMUG server 3 Future Meeting Programs 4 Treasury & Membership Reports 5 New Business 6 Old Business 7 meeting adjourned

meeting called to order

7:15 pm by Stefan, present & accounted

• Stefan, president
  
• Smythe, 1st VP
  
• Chips, secretary
  
• Fred, treasurer
  
• Allen, immediate past president
• Cort Boylan, past 1st VP

TMUG server

• [from Oct - not discussed in Nov or Dec] Stefan has talked with MacHighway. One of the issues is that they don't use a Postfix email / Cyrus for IMAP system. (Stefan will fill in some details here.)
  

Future Meeting Programs

January Meeting:

• Apple preso by Frances Shepherd - Apple update and future directions (podcasting, pro apps, Apple TV / iTunes, MobileMe). Our Jan 12 meeting is the week after Macworld.
• He agreed to this in early October and has it scheduled.
• Q & A – Bob Chandler (Stefan will double check?)
  
• Smythe has talked w/ Trish Huffman about doing a chat room for Q&A & the meeting. She has a standing meeting on our meeting day, so would have to teach someone else to manage this. Allen live blogged the Aug & Sept meetings' Q&A. Hopefully he will continue this.
  

February Meeting:

• How to use Bonjour on your network
  • network with people close to you
• remote connection apps: e.g. Back To My Mac, GoToMeeting, WebEx, Glance
• Remote Presentations?
• Remote access?

future meeting suggestions:

• another sit & share?
• a swap meet...?
• games demo?
• ComicLife, Stefan, ppd from Dec as he was swamped w/ work.
  
• no contact yet Mark Williams, founder of Modality
  
• EyeTV
  
• Photoshop or another photo editor? probably not.

Treasury & Membership Reports

• Members in good standing: 99, with 8 renewals due & 8 in grace.
  
• There were in 55 attendance at the December meeting – 37 members & 5 guests; 13 joined / renewed. 2 others have renewed by mail this month, for a total of 115 memberships.
  
• There are now 306 entries in the TiGA, including 71 renewals & new memberships since June 1 & 90 member entries.
  
• Cash in bank: $5907.02
  
• [reported by Chips & Fred, as of 1.5.09]
  

New Business

• discussion of how to do the iMac Give Away drawing:
  • use blue paper tickets,
  • assign numbers from tickets to entrants
  • publish ticket numbers to TiGA list on website
• [from Oct - not discussed in Nov or Dec] Fred brought forth a discussion about "the membership" - Should we try to grow it? Is the average age higher than we would like? Should we try to aquire more younger members? Should we redirect the group's focus?

Old Business

• [from Oct - not discussed in Nov or Dec] Smythe will look into a compact, integrated PA amp / speaker system in the $300 price range & will report back to XCom.

meeting adjourned

at 8:40 pm by Stefan. Velomac 20:38, 5 January 2009 (EST)