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Proposed Agenda:
- Convention
- Peter K. Open Office(?)
- Steve's Workshop 12/10/05
- web site/digest
- html mail
1. Convention: Michael reports that we're getting
a 15% discount on AV after the disaster last
year. The convention is not much different. There's
a new liturgy commission, so.... We need to get
tech requests early and word to hymns need to
be in powerpoint, not images of hymnal pages!
Material needs to be in an appropriate format,
so people should consult with us early on. Annoucnements
should be in by Wednesday before convention to
be run on the computer - to Jan and John.
If we want a presence, Ken Boccino has volunteered
to help, so has Dennis...Steve. What are we going
to do - Steve will bring some stuff from his
workshop, we can run the web workshop stuff and
Russ has some Article Manager stuff.
2. Open office: www.openoffice.org - this is
a substitute for word, publisher, powerpoint,
excel, access free. It's coming out of the old
Star, Sun Microsystems, program. Peter suggests
that we investigate it and see what we think.
Rob Harwood has been using it for a while. He
says that conversions from other formats are
not perfect. The presentation package is tricky.
3. Steve has 8 sign ups for 12/10 and several
who will help. He's planning to start with his
security concern. He has a lot of stuff, but
he's planning to keep it to 2 hours. Russ said
that St. James went to cable for telecommunications
and made the final decision based on budgetary
reasons. Look forward based on the outcome to
have one, two or maybe even 3 modules at Creative
Congregations
4. Website/digest - We've had a number of outages.
The ones since he was here were a result of their
implementation of load balancer installation.
The e-mail script is still having a problem with
on-line registration. They're working on it.
We've got a better communications link with CPG
than we had before. The bad news is that their
timing was at a critical time for us. Dennis
recommends that we suggest to CPG that they have
a quiet period where no system changes are made
during a critical time.
The web page itself has had a lot of good comments
around the diocese. The old nuisance complaints
are gone. Michael is doing a great job of keeping
the top page up and current. John and Russ are
doing a lot of tweeking to make it better.
List - bottom line - things have calmed down
and there are a lot more people on the list and
that is working. Part of the difficulty came
because people have multiple e-mails and gave
us work e-mails. The digests have started going
out - in plain text from a plain text system,
so that you can copy and paste from the e-mail
into a bulletin. Feedback on the digest is positive.
Russ is doing this as a volunteer - this went
from one volunteer to another, not a staff person.
John is doing the web site as a volunteer. The
diocese can't operate at the level it should
with 16 staff people.
5. Voice Article - Due by Monday - Steve will
write one on his workshop.
Journal Report? Does someone have time to write
a report for convention - Jan will write one
for Tech.
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