Snippets from Previous Meetings
November 28, 2003
President's Report
Barry Robinson presented his President's Report for 2003, which outlined AMUG's activities over the past year. [Acceptance of Report - moved: Barry/seconded: Lea] A copy of Barry's report is appended at the end of the minutes and sent to members via e-mail.
Treasurer's Report
In Dave Morrow's absence, Barry presented the Treasurer's Report, which covered AMUG's income, expenditure and bank balance for the past year.
[Acceptance of Report - moved: Barry/seconded: Tony]
A copy of Dave's report was appended at the end of the minutes which were e-mailed out to members. Barry proposed that the AMUG sub remain the same, and that the sub continue to cover the connection fee to Mactropolis. [Seconded: Sheryl]
Election of President & Committee
Barry indicated that he wished to resign as President, but agreed to continue after others indicated that they would be prepared to take responsibility for locking the clubrooms when required. Barry was nominated for re-election by Tony, seconded by Sheryl, and declared re-elected.
Dave (in absentia) and Tony were re-elected unopposed for the respective offices of Treasurer and Secretary.
Barry proposed that the present committee be retained, unless any wished to resign or others wished to join. All present were in agreement with Barry's proposal. [Seconded: Robin]
The committee, unless there are further volunteers, are:
- President: Barry Robinson
- Secretary: Tony Climo
- Treasurer: Dave Morrow
- Committee: Kim Robertson (when able), Colin Marsden, Sheryl Roberts, Lea Hullett, Robin Linder.
Members
Our AMUG e-mail contact list includes many who are no longer (or have never been) financial members of the group. As no cost is incurred in e-mail distribution, it was decided that if they wished, contact with them would be maintained by to continuing to send the meeting minutes to them.
For Sale
Sheryl, as usual, has a variety of used hardware available, ranging from iMacs and iBooks to older machines (eg a 6100 Performa, suitable for basic computing and/or e-mailing). She also has various peripherals available: printers, modems, scanners, etc.
Contact: Phone 03 689 4824.
Questions And Answers
Colin had a query about e-mailing between cellphones and computers: he was able to send from cellphone to computer, but wanted to know how to send vice versa. ÊIt was suggested that he visit Telecom's website (or phone their helpline), as they have an application named Deduce which enable this.
Sheryl asked if other members had experienced problems with their computers or keyboards in cold conditions. MagnumMac had suggested that a brief blast from a hairdryer would help when the temperature dropped.
Sessions
MacBASICS:
Several members contributed to a general discussion covering a variety of basic aspects, including printer cleaning, using AppleWorks templates, customising the AppleWorks button bar, changing font sizes and using Styles in AppleWorks. Many tips concerning these features are easily forgotten, and it is useful to be reminded of them.
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Tony gave a brief outline of his recent use of a new Olympus digital camera when visiting the Chatham Islands, and presented a slide show of images taken on his trip:
The slide show was presented using by dropping a folder of images onto the MacOS X System Preferences Screen Effects. The cross-fade, zoom in/out ("Ken Burns") effects make an attractive show, although with limited controls for timing.
As usual at our Annual meeting, members shared an enjoyable and tasty supper. Thanks to all for their contributions.
REMINDER
Next AMUG Evening meeting will be on Friday January 30, 2004
Next AMUG Daytime Meeting will be in 2004
[Committee Meeting on Mactropolis: Tuesday January 20 at 9:00pm
Happy MacComputing and MacChristmas..... Try not to spend too much of the Festive Season glued to your monitor!
Regards to all....
Secretary: Tony Climo, Aoraki MacIntosh Users Group