[DM-MUG] Minutes of Board meeting on Monday night

[Victoria L. Herring]

Here are notes of what we discussed at our meeting.  Please feel free 
to comment, on or off list.  Thanks.

1.  Holly, Ray and I met from 8p-9p at Caribou Coffee;  we propose to 
meet at 7:00 pm on the Monday evening following the DM-MUG meeting, 
location and details to be determined.  If there was/is a way to do 
some sort of iChat or other group chat online we could look at that, 
but for the forseeable future we'll meet in person.

2.  Meetings of the group in full will continue to be held on the 4th 
Tuesday of the month as scheduled, as long as Haddock is fine with us 
using their location.  It would be nice if people would volunteer to 
bring snacks/goodies at times.

3.   We will start promptly at 7:00 pm with about a 15 minute 
introductory session where we'll go around the room, introduce 
ourselves and get to know each other, and everyone who wants to 
contribute a tip, URL, nifty keystroke, idea for a widget or 
whatever, can offer it to the group [minutes will summarize the 
information provided].  Then we will have two programs and questions 
will be dealt with as we go along.

4.    From  7:15 - 8:15 we will have a program on a set topic 
announced ahead of time.  Generally these  programs will focus on 
basic or beginning information about Macs, programs, etc.  Then from 
8:15 - 8:45pm we'll have a discussion of a topic that may be more 
advanced or demanding, and we'll then finish up with the last 15 
minutes open up to Q & A or mingling or small group meetings to 
discuss among ourselves what we have enjoyed about or learned from 
the meeting or to ask questions of the people who presented or have 
information to share.

5.  We should try to leave by 9:00 pm so Haddock personnel can also 
close up and go home.  People who present should bring a handout to 
the meeting or provide it to the secretary so he can send it out with 
the minutes.

6.  The person[s] who presented should either send out materials or 
handouts or provide them to the Secretary for him to send them out 
with his minutes.  The minutes after the meeting will review what 
went on and be sent to the full list and then even if people weren't 
able to attend, they could discuss and ask questions about the 
topics.  While it'd be great for as many people to come to meetings 
as possible, it's just not feasible and at least if we send out the 
minutes and handouts to the list, everyone can share and learn.

7.  Topics or ideas that seem to be of some interest [among many 
others] are:  use of iPhoto, iTunes, iChat, Garageband, TextEdit, 
Keynote, Pages, presentations, basic maintenance of your computer, 
security topics, backing up, using Photoshop Elements, using other 
programs,  holding a swap-meeting where people could bring things 
that they want to give away or exchange, tips and tricks of various 
keystrokes, Scanners and Printers and the Mac, iPod use and 
accessories, iWeb and making a website.  If anyone has ideas for more 
topics, or ideas for particular focuses of these topics [narrowing 
the topic so we can actually cover it in 30-45 minutes including 
demonstrations and Q & A] please send that information to me or to 
Holly [VP Programs] or the list if you like.

8.  Because we are a MUG, we have a number of benefits provided to us 
by Apple.   http://www.apple.com/usergroups/ .  We can have a free 
.Mac account, we individually can save money from various vendors 
[there are a number of deals and discounts noted on the Apple site], 
buy items from the Apple MUG Store and save money plus 1% goes back 
to the group, etc.  See also http://www.mugcenter.com.   We'll gather 
more information about these benefits and get it out to everyone as 
soon as we can.

9.  Holly is going to send out a poll to find out ideas of others 
about the above and other issues or topics.  Please send your 
responses directly to her via the link in the email.

Thanks much for 'listening' and we're looking forward to an exciting 
and productive year.  Victoria


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