Meeting of the Executive
February 16, 2006

EXECUTIVE MEMBERS

Secretary’s Report
There was no mail.
Apparently Hub would send us the magazine if they had a place to send it.
The minutes were approved as posted. Moved by Mike seconded by Ray Passed

Treasurer’s Report
Total Balance as of 08/02/06 $1,605.38
There was a problem with the cheque for the mail boxes as the former president’s signature was still on the books at the bank so the cheque bounced. We need to get the proper signatures registered at the bank;
Dave moved authorization of $132.70 for the mail box. ($15.00 for the cheque). Seconded by Paul Passed
Acceptance of the report moved by Dave, seconded by George Passed

Membership Report
There are 34 members. 20 members and one visitor attended the February meeting. In the Georgian Room.

Newsletter Report
Don is still looking for articles for the Newsletter

Anniversary Committee
No Report.

Webmaster
Paul reported that he has restructured “What’s New” on the web site.
The BUG courses have a separate link.
The number of hits increases every month.
Paul wants to know if there are broken links. The Kawartha Club’s link is gone.

Vintage SIG
No Report

PC SIG
The presentations at the February meeting on old cameras was very interesting.
March: Spreadsheets and databases. We could show the club data base.
Explain how files are moved from one data base to another – delimited or tab delimited
April - PDA's - pros and cons.
Mike says we could show a web site with Dreamweaver even without being on the internet.
Alva was not successful in contacting a school computer group.

Digital Imaging SIG Report
There were 12 members present.
Ken assisted by Mike gave a demonstration of some of the controls of the digital camera. Settings that appear to be the same as those of non digital cameras do not work the same way. We were shown examples of the result of different settings.
Elizabeth presented some examples of the use of Adobe Photoshop 3, from a disk prepared by Henry’s called Digital Darkroom. Some members showed their pictures.

Video SIG
There was a meeting in January. They watched a short film edited by Sean.
There will be a meeting next Thursday. The group plans to video Paul’s scout group activities.

Business Arising From Minutes
We are still asked t to write a short report on the benefits of being on the executive.
A reminder that the April meeting will be on Monday, April 3rd.
A number of members attended the room at the library set up during Winterfest . Due to the location being removed from the main activities and the fact that the library was not listed as a site, there wasn't much activity.
Mike reported that Victorian Village has no internet access in its public rooms.

There was a question as to weather the notice for our meetings was still being sent to the Examiner.
The Barrie Advance published a booklet on activities and several clubs are advertised. It would be worthwhile finding out how much they charge for an ad.
It was suggested we might work with tech store to advertise our activities. There are a number in the Malls such as The Source, Radio Shack, Japan Camera etc. Also Staples has two locations in Barrie.

An LCD monitor would be an improvement over our old one. It would work outdoors at our Summer presentation.

Ken said there was equipment left over from CAVE which we could have. Paul agreed to look at it. There is a Blue Screen which would be useful for the Video Group.

New Business

None

Motion to Adjourn
Motion to adjourn at 9.20 pm moved by Dave and seconded by George. Passed