Things don’t just happen by themselves. It takes people like you to make it happen. There are many activities on the back-burner just waiting for someone like you to take ownership. We need you to add value and help shape the future of DACS. Here are just a few areas where we need your help:
- Recording secretary to take minutes. We also want more of you to share your ideas at Board meetings.
- SIG/Workshop coordinator to coordinate workshop formation, venues, schedules, expedite meeting reviews.
- Workshop leaders: Windows 10, MS Office, Video production and distribution.
- Membership committee members: maintain the CiviCRM membership platform and ensure membership data is kept current. Implement ways to increase DACS membership.
- Newsletter & Website Editorial staff, authors, meeting reviews.
- Marketing committee members – If you like what we are doing, please help to spread the word about DACS, our excellent presentations each month, our new video productions, and the workshops we run and co-sponsor with other groups throughout the month. Use social media to spread the word. Help plan and participate in the Mad Hackers Technology & Innovation Fair on October 17th.
- Program committee chairperson: Help arrange for new speakers, meeting reviewers, tell us what new presentations you would like to see or email us directly at programs@dacs.org.
Don’t wait for me to contact you. Please tell me what you can do to help make DACS great.
Lisa Leifels has done an outstanding job heading up the Program Committee. She has lined up most of the great presentations this past year, coordinated with the presenters ahead of time, and arranged the meeting previews and reviews appearing in our newsletter and website, many times authored by herself. Unfortunately she needs to step down from this role.
Jim Scheef has been a major contributor to DACS for more than 20 years. He has served as DACS President, webmaster, SIG (workshop) leader, Membership committee, Board member, and other prominent roles. Though he will still be playing a major role in many DACS activities he has resigned from the Board of Directors. We look forward to his positive contributions to DACS into the foreseeable future.
We had a great turnout last month at our Windows 10 presentation by Jay Ferron. It was packed with nuggets of useful information that only a Microsoft insider and MVP could provide. We had a lot of interest expressed in starting a series of Windows 10 workshops. All we need now is someone to lead the workshop. Anyone interested? Please send email to Workshops@dacs.org.
Unleash your creative talent by creating a video production. Four recent General Meetings have been recorded with the hope that we can start broadcasting them via YouTube. I hope to produce a recording of our meetings on a regular basis but we need your participation! I encourage everyone who wants to learn to create, edit, produce and distribute good video, whether it’s from your smart phone or using professional equipment, to participate in a new Video workshop. We will learn tips and techniques from each other. It will be hosted for DACS at Charter headquarters in Newtown, CT. To learn more just send me email at VideoWorkshop@dacs.org.
25th anniversary – We need your help! Let’s make this yearlong celebration a success. We want to create a much broader awareness of DACS as we participate in new activities, and create collectables of interest to DACS members and the general public. Talk about your ideas with Cathy Quaranta at the check-in table at our next general meeting or let her know by email. We need to prepare now for the 2015 Mad Hackers Technology & Innovation Fair at the Danbury Library on October 17th.
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– Dick Gingras, President