The meeting was called to order at 7:04pm by the DACS President, Dave Green.
In attendance were Board members Richard Corzo, Dick Gingras, Dave Green (President), and Andy Woodruff. Bert Goff was not present. The minutes were taken by Richard Teasdale.
(Names in italics denote responsibilities for actions.)
- The Minutes of the 5/3/2017 Board Meeting were accepted.
Reports
- The Treasurer’s report for May was discussed. Bert reported by e-mail that year-to-date, receipts were still exactly the same as for the corresponding period last year. However, 15 members are in arrears. Liquid assets currently exceed prepaid dues by about $1,400.
- The Membership report was received from Jim Scheef by e-mail.
- 93 paid-up members (including 6 new), and 9 in-grace, for a total of 102.
- 27 people attended the June 6 General Meeting.
- The usefulness and value of the DACS membership of Meetup were discussed.
- No information was available about how visitors heard of the meeting, e.g. via Meetup. Andy reiterated that this information should be collected, and will contact Jim about it.
- Press Coverage:
- Dave reported that the press release for the June General Meeting was sent out to the usual recipients on about May 22. Copies of the press release were also sent to two local camera clubs.
- Website:
- Richard reported on the recent outage of the website. The main site and the CiviCRM site were down for about 2 days and new malware files were discovered. Several restores of the site plus a reinstallation of WordPress were needed to get it working again. The method by which the sites were attacked remains unknown. Various possibilities were discussed.
- A WordPress plug-in has been installed to automatically send to Twitter any new posts to the website.
Old Business
- Programs:
- The talk given by Mark Weiss and Andy at the June general meeting was discussed and reviewed.
- Ed Fitzgerald will speak at the July general meeting, on the subject of Using an iPad with someone who has dementia.
- Preview: Richard Teasdale.
- Review: Dave Green will identify someone to write the review.
- Richard will contact Tom Osbeck, a former President of the Westchester PC Users Group, to determine whether the person who addressed that group about artificial intelligence could speak at the August (or another) general meeting.
- Andy has arranged for Shannon Calvert, of the Westport Astronomical Society, to speak about astrophotography at the September general meeting.
- Andy is in communication with John Patrick, who may speak about home automation at the November general meeting.
- The board discussed the pros and cons of more coordination with other computer clubs in finding program speakers.
- Members Directory:
- Richard reported on the discussion at the May meeting of the Membership committee. Options discussed included the use of a plug-in or custom coding on the CiviCRM website, to permit members to contact each other and share information about their interests, without having to disclose e-mail or phone details. Another possibility, with similar functionality, was Meetup. Pros and cons of each solution were discussed. The question was raised whether APCUG has anything to offer, whereupon the board agreed to defer any decision until after speaking with Sam Wexler (see below).
- Renovation of the Resource Center (RC):
- No donation of used carpeting has been received from Meadow Ridge Senior Living Community in Redding.
- Dick will contact Bruce Tuomala about other possible sources of used carpet.
- Andy has found a source of several used chairs and two used tables for the RC at no cost. The board authorized him to rent a U-Haul truck to bring them to the RC.
New Business
- The July board meeting was rescheduled to Wednesday, June 28th, to avoid scheduling conflicts in the month of July.
- The board decided to invite Sam Wexler, from the Board of Advisors of APCUG, to an upcoming board meeting, to hear suggestions from him for improving membership.
- Snacks for General Meetings:
- Richard (snacks) and Richard Teasdale (drinks) will make the arrangements in July.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:04 pm.