The Newsletter of the RockComp Computer Club

ROCKCOMP COMPUTER CLUB

The following questionnaire was passed out at a general meeting in January. The responses are summarized in italics after the question

COMPUTER CLUB QUESTIONNAIRE
 

1.  What do you enjoy most about the Computer
Speakers
 open labs in the evenings
 also informational offerings on new devices & procedures
and learning about "user groups."
Meeting other members
 new friends and sharing ideas!

I think you all do a great job!!!

2.    What are your ideas to make improvements?_
More working together, rebuild the computer lab,
 speakers should always use "mic",
have presenters with current updates in technology,
 have "Chuck" do more presentations on Wednesdays,
 review the web site from start to finish,
 too many repeat speakers with same topics year after year,
 have more user group sessions,
  have something for us old people who don't know much about computers.
 Review bylaws.
 

3.    What type of class's would you be interested in signing up for?
Jim Lettenmaier and Dave Anderson. 
 Dave said he could help with some class's on e-mail
 office, word (Microsoft) and assist with internet.

 One person wrote they were willing to do a presentation
 on database, word processing and genealogy.  No name.

4.    Is there any class you could teach or assist in teaching?

Dave Anderson, Jim Lettenmaier, and Gene Lingenfelter

5.    Could you or do you know of someone who could present an educational program at our Wed. Meetings?
Overall suggestions for presentations and class's are:

Internet security 

    Pat return from SOS again.            

   Speaker on 32 or 64 bit. 

   How to import and export to and from a program. 

   More questions and answer time. 

   Panel with 3 or 4 members at a head table to accept questions or have a topic. 
 i.e. trouble shooting. 

   Speaker from another park?
Speaker /class on wireless
 Skype
 larger tablets I-Pad
 Kindles
 Photo editing
 Face book   

    Smart phones
 manipulating pictures (Jeanne is helping this one).
    Take pictures at the pot luck and post them on the web.
    Class on Photoshop element
 video editing, making home movies
 copying audio tapes to cd's.
    Class on quicken. 
 New features in Windows 7
 Word and Excel.
    How to create a Power point.
    How to prepare old computer for disposal or gifting.

6.    Please check any of the following. I am willing to be:

An officer :           President            V. President _Secretary _Treasure                      Trustee

I am willing to be on a Committee. yes                  no.

Other suggestions:

We hope you consider these question seriously, we all know working together will make our club better. Thank you.

The Executive Committee

Signature:                                                             (Optional)

The RockComp bulletin Board has been discontinued due to lack of usage. The upkeep of the BBS demands too much of my time to warrant keeping it when it is used so little. There were only three entries during the past three months and they were all in regard to the amending of the By-Laws. Members can always post a message in the club's weekly newsletter. Just e mail me the message and I will include it in the next newsletter. Also, remember that we have a Special Announcement page on our web site. Again, just communicate to me the message.

The News page has been updated to reflect currently known speakers and activities. Check it often for updates.

The Activities page has been updated to reflect current scheduled classes. Check it often.

RockComp Computer Club Business Meeting February 1st, 2012

President Winston Hoegh called the monthly meeting to order at 9:30AM with members standing and pledging allegiance to the American flag.
Attendance was good and a quorum was declared.

Reading of the Minutes: Secretary, Karen Thoftne read the minutes of the Jan. 4th, 2012 Business Meeting. President Winston Hoegh asked if there were comments. Ruth Fisher inquired about the term President vs Vice President or Acting President. President Winston Hoegh gave the explanation for using the term President. President Winston Hoegh asked for other questions, being none, the minutes were approved as read.
President Winston Hoegh and Chuck Rickards then explained the meeting minutes are on the RockComp web site the Friday following the Clubs Business meeting as well as several previous minutes archived there.

Reading of the Treasures Report: Treasure, Dale Fosjord reported the previous balance as $2313.57, income from memberships $270.00 and income from coffee donations $33.50, total income $303.50 expenses to Mediacom (2 Mos Mediacom-3 Years Domain) for $139.15, balance on hand is $2477.92. Ralph Hattery made a motion to accept the treasure's report. The motion was seconded by Howard Mallory . Motion carried.

Old Business:

Potluck: President Winston Hoegh announce the annual RockComp potluck will be February 23rd in the Rock Shadows main hall starting at 4pm. Also, please bring a dish to pass, your partner/spouse, a table setting, and door prize if you want to be included in the door prizes. The Club will be giving away $20.00 cash prizes (10) and a membership for 2012--2013. Please come for good food and fellowship!

Questionnaire: It was announced the results from the Questionnaire will be posted on the RockComp web site, if additional copies of the Questionnaire are needed please see Karen. Thank you all for taking time to give us good feedback.

Presenters for February:

Feb 8th: Lyle Norris Video Editing
Feb 15th : Abby Stokes " Is this thing on?"
Feb 22nd: Chuck Rickard Q &A Windows 7
Feb 29th: Attorney General's Identity Theft

AZACC (Arizona Alliance of Computer Clubs) This report was given by Gene Lingenfelter. Gene shared information about his attendance last Sat. at the AZACC meeting where H/P gave great door prizes.
He also shared AZACC was promoting attendance at the Computer Technology Conference is March 22-25 Radisson Fort McDowell Resort, Scottsdale, AZ. Gene had brochures with information regarding the conference.
Gene and other members shared information about Genealogy with a web site FamilySearch.org.
Katy Gertz is willing to return to our Club to meet with folks who are interested in Genealogy. If interested let Gene know.
Penny Swanson added a site called PAF (Personal Ancestry File) may also be helpful.

NEW BUSINESS:

Election of Officers: President Winston Hough thanked the 2012 Nomination Committee for their work. The committee was Lois Jung, Sandy Wentz, and Hugh Neiderffer. All of the officers were up for re-election and one trustee as well for the 2012/2013 year.
President Winston Hough asked Lois Jung and Trustee Jeanne Frey to come forward for the election of the President.
Jeanne declared the office of President open, nomination chair announced Winston Hough as nominee, Winston was asked to stand, Jeanne asked for more nominations three times, hearing none, nominations closed, all were in favor by an AYE vote, none opposed.

President Winston Hough declared each other office open then asked Lois to announce each nominee. Nominations were held one at a time.

Vice President: Gary Nelson (absent)
Secretary: Karen Thoftne
Treasure: Pat Mueller
Trustee: Dale Fosjord

The Nomination Chair announce each nominee, each nominee stood, more nominations were called for three times, none submitted for any position, nominations for each position closed, all were in favor for each position, none opposed.

Announcements and general discussion:

President Winston Hough announce the Board had decided to eliminate the Bulletin Board from the RockComp web site due to low usage and has a fair amount of up keep on Chucks part.
Information on the Bulletin Board can now be incorporated in the Newsletter which has unlimited space.

Jeanne Frey announce she would have a sign up sheet next week regarding class's in Photography and some work on restoration of old photo's. She making plans to do this on Tues. mornings and it would be a "users group." If interested please sign up next week. More information to follow.

President Winston Hough announced additional open lab on Mondays with the help of Sandy Wentz monitoring from 1 till 3pm. Thanks, Sandy.

Other lab times are:
Tuesday evening--6:30PM to 8:30PM------- Penny Swanson
Thursday evening--6:30PM to 8:30PM-----Don Hamilton/Chuck

Thank you everyone!

Winston will speak with Don Cook and set up a class on Garmin users, there will be a $2.00 charge, more to come.

Winston asked for other business, with none, Lois Jung made a motion to adjourn, 2nd by Eldon Johnson, motion carried at 10:10.

Respectfully submitted
Karen Thoftne
Recording Secretary.
02/01/2012

Chuck