A meeting of your board of directors was held on Wednesday, October 8, 2014.
Attending were Richard Corzo, Dick Gingras, Bert Goff, Lisa Leifels, Andy Woodruff.
Guests: Charlie Bovaird and Annette van Ommeren.
The meeting was called to order at 7:10 PM. The minutes of the last meeting were accepted.
Treasurer Report
Balance on hand 9/1/14 |
$3441.78
|
INCOME | |
Dues | $294.88 |
Total Income | $294.88 |
EXPENSES | |
Newsletter Postage | $41.30 |
Newsletter Printing | $78.00 |
Renewal Postcard Postage & Supplies | $6.46 |
Resource Center Phone/Internet/Supplies | $71.94 |
Web hosting 3 yrs, Fixed IP | $97.04 |
Total Expenses | $294.74 |
Balance on hand 7/31/14 | $3441.92 |
Bank Balance | $3411.80 |
PayPal Balance | $30.12 |
Confirmed Balance | $3441.82 |
Announcements
Dick attended the Apple Workshop which turned out to be a great networking opportunity. He met with Denise Del Mastro, Executive Director, Greater New Milford Chamber of Commerce (NMCC) and Laura Lewis, an Apple employee/presenter and NMCC member and was invited to the next New Milford of Commerce meeting.
Dick also visited the Microsoft store and introduced himself to the store manager who put him in touch with Carolyn Bighinatti, the ‘reestablished’ Community Development Specialist at Microsoft. Carolyn attended our October general meeting and Dick brought up the Microsoft matching gift program with her and she said she was on board. Dick also asked Microsoft about sponsorship and he is working with them to see if they are willing to donate gifts to be raffled off at our general meetings.
Dick was invited by Denise to attend the NMCC ‘Business Scene’ on 9/25 and networked with area business leaders.
Dennis Daugherty, director of the regional SCORE office and DACS member put Dick on the mailing list of the Danbury City Center. He received an invitation and attended the ‘Merchant Mixer’ on 10/2 where he was introduced to a number of local business leaders including Andrea Gartner, the Executive Director of Danbury City Center. Andrea invited Dick to submit the DACS meeting poster for them to circulate with their mailing list (about 5000 names) each month. Their website is http://citycenterdanbury.com. Wednesday is the deadline each week for submitting events, and Bert suggested that we send Andrea a description of DACS two Thursdays before our general meeting and follow this up with the poster the following Thursday.
Dick was invited to attend the Lunch and Learn seminar cosponsored by SCORE on 10/19 and he passed the invitation on to the rest of the Board.
Old Business
- Web site status
- Donate button – Bert said that we can’t add a donate button using PayPal until we clarify with PayPal that we are setup as a non-profit, which he is in the process of doing.
- Richard Corzo said that he could fix the 401 error on PayPal, now that he has been given access to PayPal.
- SSL certificate – Richard Corzo said that the SSL certificate is still not working and that there is a solution through BlueHost. Annette said that BlueHost is promoting SSL and there is a fee of $49/year, but she thought it would work. Dick approved spending the $49/year fee.
- PR status – Richard T. – We are going to table this because Richard Teasdale wasn’t at the meeting.
- Dick would like to track what PR is being sent out so we can follow up and see who is looking at it.
- Dick would like both Drupal and Civi to be updated to the current software to endure that all of the recent security patches get installed.
- Membership committee
- Drew Kwashnak suggested that the CiviCRM SIG be a Virtual Meeting.
- Submit written definition of roles and activities of committee – Charlie said he had write ups of all the steps done by the membership committee and that he would put a document together summarizing all the steps.
- Expand our Civi mailing list to as many as 2000 recipients from Access database for GM announcements
- Program committee
- November 4: Bruce Preston – Secure Digital Communications
December 2: Julia Truchsess – 3D Printing
January 6: John Barry – Jobs and Technology
February 3: Tom Joyner- Video Streaming TechnologyDrew Kwashnak suggested the idea of trying a short special meeting or technical discussion prior to the main presentation in place of AskDACS occasionally.
- November 4: Bruce Preston – Secure Digital Communications
- Microsoft Matching Gifts – Bert met briefly with Carolyn and she needed to know our IRS information about DACS being a non-profit.
- New SIG/workshop suggestions – Dick said we got enough signatures to start the Cloud Computing SIG. Dick is going to get in touch with Anand to setup a date.
Richard Corzo said that it would be good to get the Cloud Computing SIG into the next newsletter if we can settle on a date.
Richard Corzo suggested getting a Microsoft employee to start a Windows SIG.
Solicit more suggestions for 25th year celebratory events and preparation. – Only 3 months away! Great ideas last month about commemorative DVD of newsletters, videos, DACS milestones, etc. Bruce generated an industry milestone list. Richard Teasdale converted an old VHS tape into an MP4 file. Jim will gather online DACS.DOCs back to 1998. Bill S. will do scanning of old documents. Dick will see if Marc still has old PageMaker files.
We need to list all of DACS assets and replacement costs. Charlie began working on creating an inventory of the equipment in the DACS resource center. He is in the process of assigning a number to each item and taking a photograph of each item. Andy suggested that we create a list our assets including important documents and software that are not located in the resource center. Bert will provide Dick G. with list of various electronic accounts.
New Business
Richard Corzo reported that he is seeing a message at the bottom of the DACS Meetup page reminding us to pay for the dues. Annette said that the Meetup dues are paid every 6 months, she will check into this and pay the dues of they are due and ask for a reimbursement.
Dick suggested that we update the DACS brochure, in time for use at an upcoming event. There was a discussion about what should be updated, including the list of SIG’s. Richard thought we could add a section called coming soon for our new SIG’s. Then we discussed the relative importance of this task and the likelihood of whether the improved brochure version would lead to additional members. Andy suggested that we table this effort for now, because we have more important issues to address.
Meeting adjourned: 9:39PM