BOARD MEETING

JANUARY 5, 2012

President Barry Spinka called the meeting to order at 9:02 a.m.

PRESENT:  Barry Spinka, Cathy Downes, Linda Scherfling, Billie Phillips, Doris Young, Jim Schulz, Virginia Geile

ABSENT:  Pat DeRosia, Bob Heath

VISITORS:  Bill Kelly, Gail Sollee

MINUTES:  (Linda Scherfling) Moved, seconded and carried unanimously to dispense with the reading of last month’s minutes, and to accept them as submitted.

PRESIDENT:  (Barry Spinka) Barry said that the 2012 Schedule has been completed and turned in to RCSC.  About a week ago, he made a sign for the printer in Room B that says 50 cents per page over 5 pages.  Ink costs run approximately $75; there is a box by the printer for money.  Gail made note of the fact that people are still printing extra copies without paying.  Discussion followed on who would be collecting money from the box.

VICE PRESIDENT:  (Cathy Downes) SIG attendance was 1,487 in 2011 as compared to 1,203 in 2010, a good increase.   Internet, Win 7 & E-Mail, as well as Roundtable SIGs have been doing very well.  There are a good number of upcoming presentations; five this month, six for February and three for March.  Jim Marine is very enthused and has put in a lot of work on his Flight Simulator presentation for January 12th.  Pam Raisanen will give two presentations:  Basic Video Editing on 2/17 and Downloading Free Programs on 3/15.  Cathy has not been able to get in touch with Katie Gertz regarding her session on Social Networking.  Bill McLaughlin will be presenting Google, Android Tablets, Etc. on February 6th.  This should be a very informative session dealing with current app problems and battery life.  E-Book Downloading will be presented by Kristie Nolasco on March 23rd.

The Board then discussed our own recent problems with IE-9 and Google, and benefits of Firefox and Roboform.

TREASURER:  (Billie Phillips) Treasurer’s Report through 12/31/2011 was given by Asst. Treasurer, Doris Young.  She stated that she and Pat are still working on the Inventory Report and will complete it this month.  However, this should effect very few changes.  Doris reported that we made our contribution to RCSC in December of $2500 and we still came out ahead.  She was able to transfer money from checking to savings this month.  The total income for December was $5,401.97.  We took in $4,665 in membership dues and $725 for classes.  Total expenses for the month were $4,098.26.  Barry asked about the bank charges and Doris answered that these were for new checks, deposit slips, and operating expenses.  The copy machine is still our largest recurring expense.  Treasurer’s Report was accepted as submitted.  

MEMBERSHIP:  (Bob Heath) Billie gave the CCSC Membership Report in Bob Heath’s absence.  Copies of the report for December were distributed to the Board.  At the end of December we had 1,823 Year-to-Date Paid-Up Members.  We acquired 50 new members during the month and 246 renewed.  Billie said we are running a little behind on membership, but we did have 19 new people sign up yesterday.  We did lose one member today because he wanted to renew his membership, but did not have his Rec Card, only his renewal form.  He became very upset and left the club.  There were 1,370 club members and 192 guests in attendance last month with 24 days of activity.

Barry wanted us to know that we now have a member, Claudia Hinson, who will run for Membership Chairperson next year.  As we all have been made aware, Bob Heath will not be running again, and he wanted to have plenty of time to train his replacement.  Claudia has been very active in the Club and presently does data entry for the Monitor Chairperson.  Gail added that she has made up about 50 new member packets and that if anyone sees we are running short on these, just give her a call and she will come in to assemble more.

PROPERTY:  (Pat DeRosia) In Pat’s absence, Barry wanted to thank Bob Heath and Dick Faust for the super job they did setting up data entry and the server, including GoToMyPC.  They also got the printer working!  Back-ups have been set up weekly, attendance daily.  Barry also asked about the possibility to download Roundcube, a simple e-mail program.  The possibilities of using Pegasus were also discussed and he asked Billie to take a look at this.

Computer issues addressed included #14 in Room C with the on/off button being off center and therefore, not working.  It was determined at this time that the machine will be turned on and left on.  Cathy mentioned that the 5-prong speaker plugs cannot be removed easily at all from the walls, in fact the whole attachment comes out of the wall.  Temporary adjustments were discussed.  Barry will contact Allen Kleinhaus to fix this problem.

EDUCATION:  (Jim Schulz)   Jim stated that it’s getting busier all the time.  There have been no complaints about a shortage of classes.  Bob Lohse has volunteered to come from Sun City West and can teach Excel, Power Point, Graphics in Word, MS Word and Photo Story 3.  He has an extensive knowledge of computer classes and has taught here before.  Barry asked about the possibility of Excel being taught the last week of January or at least in early February.  Jim replied that if Bob is not able to do this, he will.  Barry then asked Billie if she could send out an e-mail to club members when the date is set.  The Board agreed that Billie does an excellent job of keeping everyone in the club informed of upcoming events and classes.

MONITORS:  (Virginia Geile) Virginia reported that January monitor slots have been filled and she is now working on February.  She did lose five regular monitors in the last six weeks, but has gained three new ones.  In response to Barry’s question about Monitor Training Classes, Virginia feels they are helping.   Cathy suggested the possibility of having two paid monitors.  Barry agreed we need some good core people and this was discussed.  Bill Kelly felt our monitor situation is about the same as it’s always been.

PUBLIC RELATIONS:  (Doris Young) As Asst. Public Relations Chairperson, Billie reported that she has submitted our article for February to SunViews.  She has not received notice yet as to our month in 2012 to run a full article for publication.  She had a very good article in the Independent.  Billie has been busy trying to send out e-mail memos for the Club well ahead of time.  Her web class beginning on Saturday is more than full.  She will have extra students in the back of the room monitoring the class.  Billie is hoping that someone from her class will be able to take over the News page for the Club.  In addition, Billie informed us that Bob’s webspace has now been put on our website.  Dick Faust now has new webspace and we have a link on our website to get there.

Barry questioned continuing our Twitter link.  Since it doesn’t seem to be really functional, we will let it suspend.  Billie will take off the link on the web page.  Discussion followed on usage of our web site and Twitter.

OLD BUSINESS:   None.

NEW BUSINESS:  Billie reported that Dean Gordon had called her suggesting a class on e-book creation or how to make an electronic publication.  He uses Smashwords and has written material on this, but was not interested in teaching.  It was noted that we are doing a presentation on e-books for downloading.  Barry thought this could probably be referred to Life Long Learning.  Using LinkedIn was also discussed.

There being no other new business, the meeting was adjourned at 10:03 a.m.  The next meeting will be Thursday, February 2, 2012, at 9 a.m.

Respectfully submitted by:  

Linda Scherfling, Secretary  

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  Barbara Johnson  - Aides Coordinator
 

Class  Aides Needed

In the Fairway Recreation Center, classes are being held in three classrooms.
Barbara Johnson  has volunteered to be the Aides Coordinator for our club.
This involves obtaining aides and computer operators for classes as requested by the class instructors.

Any Computer Club of Sun City member can volunteer to be an aide by contacting Barbara Johnson  by e-mail at: suncitycomputerclub@gmail.com

Benefits for being an aide:

Skill refreshment by helping others (you do not need to be an expert in Windows 7, Vista, or XP).

Free class for members serving 16 hours as an aide or as a computer operator.

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Class Registration Procedure

end of long lines for Class Sign-ups.

You can walk into the club during normal club hours to sign up for all future classes.

 Classes that are available are in individual Course Notebooks, located in the main lobby.

Each Notebook contains registration envelopes, numbered, for the amount of spaces available in each class.

Do not take these envelopes home.

Envelopes must be completed in the Computer Club, with your check or exact cash enclosed and sealed in the envelope.

One envelope and one check or cash per student. Look in the course binder for the course fee.

Make checks payable to "CCSC."

Fill out all blanks on the envelope (your  name and Recreation Card Number).

Give the completed envelope to the monitor who will deposit it into the specified file box.

students should bring a USB flash drive to classes,

or they can purchase a 4 GB USB flash drive at the club for $10

 (correct change, please).

Sign-up is on a first-come, first-serveD basis.

For a Printable copy of these procedures

Click Below

Sign Up Procedure

How To understand This Binder Setup

Our Instructors look forward to meeting all of you

and hope you have as much fun learning as they do teaching.

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Computer Club's Email Addresses

 

The email addresses for our members to contact us are as follows:

President: president@computerclubofsuncity.phxcoxmail.com

Vice President: vicepresident@computerclubofsuncity.phxcoxmail.com

Treasurer: treasurer@computerclubofsuncityphxcoxmail.com

Membership Chairperson: membership@computerclubofsuncity.phxcoxmail.com

Education Chairperson: education@computerclubofsuncity.phxcoxmail.com

Monitor Chairperson: monitors@computerclubofsuncity.phxcoxmail.com

Publicity Chairperson: publicity@computerclubofsuncity.phxcoxmail.com

 

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Do You have a New Email Address or Change of Address?

Please keep your email address up to date so we can notify you of meetings, events and presentations at the club.

Address Change Notice  - We have three ways to do this -      

1. You may fill out a Change Notice Form at the club and turn it in to the monitor.

2. You may email the Membership Chairperson with your new address or email changes.
Send an email to the Membership Chairperson at membership@computerclubofsuncity.phxcoxmail.com to notify us of your changes.

3. Your may print the Change of Address Form and bring or mail it in to the club.
Click here to access a printable copy of this Change Notice Form.

CHANGE NOTICE FORM Use this form for reporting your new e-mail address or any address change. Please print this form, and turn it in to the club monitor to help us keep you informed. Click here to access a printable copy of this Change Notice Form.

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Adobe Reader      

To obtain the printable calendar or forms via the Internet, you need the Adobe Reader program installed on your computer.

This free program can be downloaded onto your computer using the Internet.
Check our Downloads page to download this program; or to avoid downloading problems,
you can obtain the Adobe Reader program on a CD for a 50-cent donation.

See the monitor at the club in Fairway Recreation Center for your copy.

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Free - Online classes - HP learning center - classes available 24/7
    

This will give those of you who cannot make it to the club for lessons an opportunity to take online classes,free of charge.

Classes are available for beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses.

Migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7

If you decided to sit on the sidelines and stick with Windows XP when Windows Vista was released, you weren't alone. Now it's time to reconsider your ties to Windows XP. This class will help you plan for and migrate your Windows XP operating system to Windows 7. You'll learn what Windows 7 offers, how to transfer files and peripherals to a Windows 7 computer, as well as how to finalize your setup.

Click here to enroll in Migrating from Microsoft® Windows® XP to Windows® 7.

Classes available in Word - Excel - PowerPoint - Access - Outlook - Publisher - How to Build your First Web Page - FrontPage -

Digital Photography - Adobe Photoshop  - Adobe Illustrator - Web Animation - Security - Networking  - IT -  Microsoft Visual Basic -

Combating Spam and Spyware and many more. Classes are subject to change.

Sign up and register at:  http://www.hp.com/go/learningcenter  

Classes change monthly, so don't forget to refresh your web page every time you visit.

This is a great opportunity to get free classes while they last!

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Updated 01/31/2012 by Billie Phillips