Called to Order: 7:20PM
Attending: Dick Gingras, Bruce Preston, Richard Corzo, Jim Scheef, Andy Woodruff, Lisa Leifels, Bert Goff
Guest: Cathy Quaranta
Minutes of Last Meeting: Accepted
Treasurer Report
Balance on hand 10/1/2014 |
$3,441.92
|
INCOME | |
Check/Cash | $105.00 |
PayPal | $150.00 |
less PayPal fees | -$3.95 |
Dues Subtotal | $251.05 |
Total Income | $251.05 |
EXPENSES | |
Meetup Fee (2x/yr) | $72.00 |
Newsletter Postage & Supplies | -$11.20 |
Newsletter Printing | $78.00 |
Newsletter Subtotal | $66.80 |
Renewal Postcard Postage & Supplies | -$5.10 |
Resource Center Phone/Internet | $71.94 |
Total Expenses | $205.64 |
Balance on hand 10/31/2014 |
$3,487.33 |
Bank Balance | $3356.16 |
PayPal Balance | $30.12 |
Confirmed Balance | $3487.33 |
Announcements
- Dick G: “I am excited about our renewed alliance with Microsoft and the added exposure it means for DACS. I want to further explore how we can create more of an alliance with Apple and would like your suggestions on this.” Apple is also looking at how to get corporate support for us.
- Updated membership applications now available online.
- Networking is good. We all need to evangelize DACS so we get the exposure we need. Find the people who can help us get the word out. We need to grow our membership and attendance at our GM. Dick is absolutely convinced that we can do it. Use the business cards he printed for now. Put your name and DACS email address on them and hand them out. Last night was another good example of a great presentation that went unheard by many people who would have come if they only knew about us.
- New Milford Chamber of Commerce Nov. 19th, Dick can’t attend but several DACS members plan to attend.
Old Business
- Web site status
- Donate button – Bert working with PayPal. Not ready yet.
- SSL certificate – Richard Corzo – $49/year does not cover sub-domains, which we may need for Civi. Sub-domain coverage comes at $149/year. Richard will look elsewhere. Jim will look at self-signed certificate just for Civi.
- PR status – Richard Teasdale.
- Should we use Civi to distribute PR so we can track who bothers to open their email? It was initially thought that Civi returns aggregated count, but Jim found record of individual report of open(s).
- Who will set this up? Not assigned.
- Membership committee
- Current status – Richard C.– looking at generating report(s) from sign-up sheet. Richard and Jim will be working on getting the databases to agree. Continuing discussion as to synchronizing time periods and ‘grace’ period.
- Dick G. wants to distribute a ‘play list’ – a written definition of roles and activities of committee. He had a similar document from years ago, but feels it is too detailed for our needs.
- Expand our Civi mailing list to as many as 2000 recipients from Access database for GM announcements
- Richard is working on getting membership database out of Drupal.
- Jim reported that all 170 of the weekly e-mail were sent out. Delivery summary reports all were opened, no forwards, no replies. 14 click-through events were processed.
- Discussion of how Civi might be used at GM check-in instead of requiring paper process. It appears to not be an available function.
- Program committee
- Lisa needs to get reviewer for November presentation, will approach several.
- Upcoming events – events are scheduled through Feb. There will be a meeting scheduled for next week.
- Cathy – February has an “Engineer’s Week”. Perhaps promo, tie in with our video streaming? Lego League another possibility?
- Cloud Computing has 8 individuals expressed interest. Anand Tirumani (SIG Leader) is out of country, but is due to return sometime this week.
- Un-named SIG being formed for work with Raspberry Pi and controllers etc.
- Media SIG – might get boost from video streaming presentation in Feb.
- Windows SIG – nothing reported.
- Discuss the suggestion of trying a short special meeting or technical discussion prior to the main presentation in place of AskDACS occasionally. This might be on a topic that leads to a new SIG/workshop. Suggestions solicited.
- PayPal status – Bert working on it.
- Insurance status – Bert working on it.
- Microsoft Matching Gifts status – Bert waiting for response.
- Mobile Devices SIG – needs a ‘reset’ as to its focus. Jim is suggesting that the weekly e-mail now have specifics as to what the SIGs will be doing. Previously the SIG leaders were only sending to SIG members.
New Business
- Annual meeting notice requirements: Board Members up for re-election – Slate of candidates, need short biographies, pictures election – Richard Corzo, Dick Gingras, Bill Saturno, Andy Woodruff, Cathy Quaranta (new candidate). Richard Teasdale will not be running.
- Any other business that needs to happen?
- Voice vote
- Announce via Meeting Notice – Website, weekly e-mail
Ongoing Discussions
- Solicit more suggestions for 25th year celebratory events and preparation. – Only 2 months away! Great ideas about commemorative DVD of newsletters, videos, Industry timelines of events, DACS milestones, etc
- Determine best way to donate or discard items we don’t need. Publish in a special mailing?
- Discuss & implement revenue producing options – Status: No further action.
- Discuss unified Ad/sponsorship rate suggestions – awaiting Bill Saturno’s availability/
- CiviCRM WordPress integration:
- Drew Kwashnak is managing the project and attempting to get the Civi Dev Team (virtual) meeting date
- Drew is setting up a “sandbox” on BlueHost consisting of CiviCRM/WordPress. Transfer a copy of the current CiviCRM/Drupal membership data to test with and determine how to integrate with dacs.org.
Adjourned: 9:30PM