DACS Board of Directors Meeting
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

By Bruce Preston

Called to Order at: 7:25 PM.
Attending: Richard Corzo, Andy Woodruff, Jim Scheef, Annette van Ommeren, Bruce Preston, Elizabeth Talian, Lisa Leifels

Minutes of Last Meeting – accepted as published

Treasurer’s Report for August 2012

INCOME

EXPENSES

Membership Report

Old Business

1. General Meetings
   
   • September 4: Millicent Branca of Google - Google Apps (Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Sites, and Google Docs), Google Voice, and Google+. Preview: Lisa Leifels, Review: Bruce Preston
   • October 2: Dave Marra - OS X Mountain Lion. Preview: Richard Corzo, Review: Frank Kromer
   • November 6: Joe Mazzeo & Dr. James Marcus - Trends in Mobile Apps. Preview: Bruce Preston, Review: ________
   • December 4: Jay Ferron - Windows 8. Preview: ________, Review: ________
   • The first Tuesday in 2013 is January 1. Because of uncertainty of availability of other days at the hospital until the schedule is established in late December, we have decided to cancel the January meeting.
   • Online Learning, focusing on personal or professional enrichment courses rather than academic. An example would be the offerings of Linda.com. Annette said that Udemy.com has courses on a number of topics. Harvard and MIT have teamed up to offer free online courses. Elizabeth contacted Laura Nute from Lynda.com and Kevin Corcoran of CTDLC. Laura Nute has committed to appear at the April meeting. She is also looking at including something on Coursera https://www.coursera.org) – Universities sign up to use their tool to offer courses. There are roughly 115 free course offerings today – about 40 of which seem to be computer related. She is looking at the March time-frame, unless Lynda wants to do a full hour in an earlier timeframe, and DACs is interested.
   • Bruce contacted Toni McKeen, who has agreed to speak on genealogy. She has committed for March.
   • Cloud storage services - Dropbox, box.net, Skydrive, Mozy, Carbonite, YouSendIt, etc. Proposed by Drew. This would be a comparison of functionality and platforms supported (i.e. Windows, Mac, Linux, smartphones, etc.). Could Drew pull this together for February? Jim and Richard could help with the mobile device support. Richard set up a thread on the DACS forum.
   • Presentation on Facebook. Jim suggested having someone talk about how to configure the security, privacy issues, what does “Like” accomplish, the difference between a group and a page.  Jim’s search on Facebook to date has not yielded any results whatever, so he plans to broaden his search.
   • Jeff Robbins - Drupal expert. Andy recently sent email to ask Jeff about his interest level and schedule availability for a presentation in 2013.  Andy will follow up.
   • Jim is working with Allan Ostergren about a possible tie in with the astronomy observatory group working out of New Milford H.S. such that they might show computer control of the telescope and capture of images.
2. Open positions
   • The membership chairperson/greeter position is still open.
   • Rob Limbaugh has relocated out of the area, so we need to find a new board member to replace him. Richard discussed with a possible candidate, but he declined.
   • Patrick Libert plans not to run again when his board term ends in December.
3. We have a one-year subscription with Microsoft Office 365. The portal is https://portal.microsoftonline.com and our SharePoint Team site is https://dacs.sharepoint.com/ . Does Lync conferencing work for everyone?
4. Bruce Preston had requested a solution to holding remote SIG meetings such as the MS Access SIG. Bruce tried AnyMeeting.com, Zoom.Us and Microsoft Lync.  All worked acceptably, however Lync corrupts his Outlook 2003 requiring a repair process every time Outlook is opened when Lync is installed.  Recently he indicated that Mikogo is free again, so this is no longer a problem.  He used Mikogo for the Sept. 11 SIG meeting.
5. We decided last meeting not to do another display at Danbury Library in September. Do we want to contact another library about a possible DACS display?  Lisa is working with the Newtown Library.

New Business

1. Mike Kaltschnee updated Richard on the new Danbury Innovation Center which replaces his original Danbury hackerspace idea. He also updated the membership at the September general meeting. They will incorporate as a separate organization and not be a part of DACS. Using the former bank property next to the Danbury Library, they may open up as soon as first quarter next year. Those interested can still go to http://danburyhackerspace.com/ where he has a survey specifically for interested DACS members.
2. We updated the DACS brochure and ordered 500 copies from Infinity Printing. The brochures are ready for distribution as we need them.
3. Jim made an announcement at the general meeting requesting a social media coordinator for Facebook, LinkedIn, and possibly also meetup.com. Jim did not get any nibbles after the meeting, but will continue looking for someone. The board approved an expenditure for MeetUp.com at the rate of $12/month (6 months commitment) subject to our prior getting a person to commit to perform the updates.  Elizabeth has a possible candidate.

Adjourned at: 8:45 PM.