OPENING AND RECURRING MONTHLY ACTIVITIES
Meeting called to order at 6:40pm by D. Gingras.
Last meeting minutes approved unanimously.
Current membership (D.Gingras):
29 grace members + 95 regular members = 124 current members
Attendance at last nights general meeting:
29 + 4 guests from charter = 33 total attendance
Treasurer’s report (Bert), submitted separately.
Related discussions to treasurer’s report include:
- Revenue continues to increase.
- $340 deficit this month due to…
- (a) $149 SSL certificate for 3 years, and also
- (b) lower dues, this month only via paypal, no checks received.
- Emails have not been going out on schedule.
- Postcards encouraged to be sent to those at end of grace period.
- Changing registration procedures at general meetings, so DACS can be more proactive to find lapsing members or those needing renewals.
- Discussion of credit card swipe mechanism to get credit card info at general meetings, or create QR code for simple connection.
MEETING DISCUSSIONS, TOPIC-BY-TOPIC
Long discussion on subject of numerous people attending John Patrick’s session who did not want to register and how to get their email info. No conclusions.
Discussion of the closing moments of last night’s meeting done by host Tom Z in an organized, professional manner.
Discussion of post-meeting raffle items changing to not feel/look like cheap items.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE UPDATE
- Next month’s presentation topic: Internet/cyber security, by Ira Wilsker.
- Skype is prohibited by Danbury Hospital for variety of reasons.
- Before presentation at DH, audio/video inputs/outputs must be tested in order for Wilsker to do his presentation from a remote location, and backup plan for content needed in case the connection doesn’t work that evening.
- Windows 10 presentation by Jay Ferron. Scheduled for August 4th General Meeting.
- Internship update: two students so far as IT applicants, still need marketing intern.
- Discussion of requirements for marketing intern still needed.
- Civimail still problematic: Dick suggests MailChimp as alternate email server.
- This discussion began 7:47pm, ended at 7:59 (12 minutes).
- Further discussion of email account connectivity, no conclusions.
- MS Office workshops could become a DACS workshop series soon; wrapup meeting with Microsoft, SCORE, and DACS June 4th at 11am.
- Jim Scheef agreed with others that student Rob Willard’s student group presentation to Tom Zarecki’s marketing class at WestConn was excellent.
- Dick says the current DACS tag line is not consistently used throughout all platforms and should be until new tag line is created and approved. FYI current tag line is: “from mobile to desktop, we enlighten, inform and educate”.
- Dick considering attending APCUG conference in Las Vegas later this year.
NEW BUSINESS
- PR piece for newly-elected DACS officers should go to press contacts – Tom Z to write this and send to R. Teasdale for distribution.
- Cathy – discussion of hashtags and handles for DACS; Tom Z provided some elaboration and explanation and possible options. No conclusions reached.
- Board agrees to look into DACS t-shirts by size.
- Some DACS Board members will attend the Virtual Density workshop on patents and trademarks at the Danbury Innovation Center tonight after this meeting.
- New DACS workshops possible: MS Office and Video Production strong possibilities.
- All DACS workshops need to be added to the DACS calendar, some are still missing.
Meeting adjourned at 8:35pm (D. Gingras)