Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS)
DACS headquarters – 198 Main Street, Danbury, CT
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Board Meeting Minutes
Meeting called to order at 7:26PM by president Dick Gingras.
In attendance: Bert, Lisa Liefels, Richard Corzo, Jim Sheef, Dick Gingras, Tom Zarecki, and special guest Rob Willard
Meeting topics:
- Minutes approved from last meeting. Passed w/one abstention.
- Membership report. See Bert’s submitted worksheet.
- Attendance report: 69 people were at last Tuesday’s monthly meeting.
- Treasurer’s report, submitted separately by Bert.
- $400 in donations total the night of the healthcare seminar last Tuesday.
- Program Committee report (Lisa): no meeting last month. Next month’s general meeting on Tuesday, June 2. The topic will be video production. Charter cable will be sponsoring an upcoming workshop, plus their own internship program.
- Webcast virtual technology conference on Internet security.
- Workshop discussion of which day of week is best…no decision reached.
- Discussion of posting on DACS website, topic: “how to start a workshop”
- Tom Z to get publicity to Richard Teasdale, get last year’s as an example.
- Two more 9AM to 10:30AM Saturday workshops at Microsoft on May 9 and May 16. Attendance at last Saturday’s workshop was 13.
- Ongoing workshops still being debated.
- Tom will be soon announcing date for monthly social media workshops.
- Guest: Rob Willard’s presentation that he and his team of interactive marketing students of Tom Zarecki’s class at WestConn last week.
- Need to increase links to DACS.org from
- Google mobility test
- Google analytics
- Topics from various people to build resumes, need diversification
- Aggregate web sites are winning these days
- Huge discussion on social media
- Needs to be an outreach to people to tech future workshops
- Tracking student membership, ideas discussed. Simply allow all student IDs.
- Half price for student ID for membership – Vote: unanimous $20 half price
- Richard proposed changing board meetings to Thursday after gen. meeting
Voted down.
- Bert suggests thank you note for donations.
- 9:44pm meeting adjourned.