DACS Board of Directors Meeting
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

By Bruce Preston

Called to order: 7:10 PM

Attending: Richard Corzo, Richard Teasdale, Lisa Leifels, Bill Saturno, Jim Sheef, Annette van Ommeren, Bruce Preston, Andy Woodruff
Visitor: Charlie Bovaird

Minutes of Last Meeting: accepted.

Treasurer’s Report for December 2012

INCOME

EXPENSES

Membership Report

Old Business

1. General meetings
• Wednesday, January 2: Marc Polansky from McCarthy Observatory—Astronomy and Computers at New Milford High School. Preview: Allan Ostergren, Review: Richard Teasdale
• February 5: Drew Kwashnak—Cloud Storage Services. Preview: Bill Saturno, Review: Richard Corzo
• March 5: Toni McKeen—Genealogy. Preview: Bruce Preston, Review: Richard Teasdale.  Jim will not be available for AskDACS at the meeting – Bill will cover.
• April 2: Laura Nute of Lynda.com and Kevin Corcoran of CTDLC.org—Online Learning. Preview: Elizabeth Talian, Review: Annette van Ommeren (tentative)
• May 7: John Patrick—State of the Internet. Need to review publicity in February. Preview: ________, Review: ________
• June 4: Jennifer M. Scott—Twitter. Preview: Lisa Leifels Review:_________
• July 2: Bruce will do PagePlus X6 - Desktop Publishing.
• Possible future topics:
  • Presentation on Facebook. Jim is working on how to best use Facebook as an organization, and might come up with a presentation on individuals may use Facebook.
  • Jeff Robbins—Drupal expert. Jeff is interested in doing a presentation but is not able to commit to a date at this time. Andy contacted him this month to let him know our calendar is full the first half of this year. Andy will follow up in May and ask that he let us know when he will be near the area. (He resides in Rhode Island.)  This is a “long shot” as to a presentation.
  • Years ago we did “Surfin’ Safari” as a segment about interesting websites.  Perhaps now we could do something similar with mobile devices – smartphone and tablets – what apps are found to be interesting, entertaining, etc.  This could be a ‘forum’ type meeting with multiple presenters for a full session, or it could be a small segment after AskDACS.  Investigate the eBook at Apple iTunes store – “The Telegraph: 500 Must Have Apps”
  • Approach Dr. John Murphy, President & CEO of Danbury Hospital, about doing a presentation on Electronic Medical Records, etc. – Danbury Hospital is leading edge on this topic.  Jim will approach.
  • Office 2013 sometime this fall?
  • Microsoft Surface Windows Pro (the Intel-based Microsoft tablet that will run Windows Applications.
2. Open positions
• Richard has found a member who appears to be willing to fill the membership chairperson/greeter position.  We are awaiting confirmation. The greeter has these responsibilities:
  • Sign in members
  • Sign in visitors, ask how they found us
  • Accept dues
  • Distribute raffle tickets
• Need a new ACPUG representative to replace Patrick Libert – primarily to post to the APCUG website, field questions, receive quarterly postings, door prizes, etc.  We also need a liaison with TechSoup – the fulfillment operation used by many software vendors for distribution to non-profits.  The TechSoup function is to receive distributions of product announcements and distribute to the Board.  This person would also be responsible for placing orders.
3. In addition our general meeting, we continue to post some of our SIG meetings on Meetup.
4. “Beginners” Workshop? Workshop could be held from time to time. Jim volunteered to do a workshop and Charlie volunteered to be an assistant. Jim and Charlie have scheduled Feb. 27th.  It is initially intended to be only offered to members.
5. Held the Windows 8 workshop at the Microsoft Store on January 7. About 20 attended including one or more visitors.
6. We switched from our former DSL provider to AT&T. Download speed is definitely faster, measured at about 5 Mbps. We need to monitor our next phone bill and make sure we don’t get billed by our old provider.
7. Due to a schedule conflict, Richard Corzo has changed the Apple SIG to the 2nd Monday of the month for the next 3 months.

New Business

1. Richard Corzo would like to follow precedent and step down as president of DACS upon completion of his 3rd year in office. Officer elections are held by the board in March.

Adjourned at 8:35 PM