June 12, 2007 7:00 pm
President
Attendees at this Volunteer meeting included: George Fuller,
Julia Fogel, Beth Korn, Oscar Groff, Bob Nelson,
The first order of business was a vote to approve the March minutes of the Volunteer meeting. A motion to approve the minutes as submitted was made by Beth Korn and seconded by George Fuller. Acceptance of the minutes was unanimous.
Volunteers: There are six new volunteers for the Roswell Seniornet organization. They are:
Marilyn Blatt, Bill Butrick, Lois Dean, Barry Ferrill, Greg Harris and Frank Padua.
Their participation and community spirit were commended.
Treasurer’s report:
Summer ‘07 Registration: Registration for the summer session stands at 28 as compared to the sixty seven, (67), enrollees in the Spring session. We anticipate an increase in summer enrollment with what has traditionally become a last minute spurt of registrations.
Course Coordinator
and SeniorNet open position opportunities:
Course coordinators are needed for the Ebay and Family Tree
Maker courses. As of this writing,
Course Offerings:
Additionally, Emory shared that Ancestry.com now offers military records as part of their services at an additional charge
Coordinator Reports:
Curriculum: Julia Fogel:
Julia reported that the feedback summaries have been released and are largely favorable with some comments related to some students being unable to clearly hear the instructor up front when seated at the computers at the back of the room.
While there have been some potential student requests for a
Vista course, a number of issues remain to be addressed relative to needed
equipment upgrades, resolution of
Julia is scheduling a “debugging” Memoir Workshop pilot program for the fall with the winter session being the first official course offering.
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A digital camera course and PowerPoint course are still in development. Additionally, a three session course on Google Search capabilities is in the planning phase for spring 2008.
Tech/Webmaster:
Web pages are up to date. A new printer has been installed in the first row of the classroom. Netscape 8.0 is installed on all classroom computers and all UPS power supplies have been equipped with new batteries courtesy of George Fuller. In addition, the current plan is to incorporate IE 7.0 as the browser on the Lab’s computers in December 2007.
Course Manuals:
George Fuller
Summer Manuals are available and are in the file cabinets.
Lab report:
John reports that the eight lab sessions held during the spring session had an average of 2.8 students per week with the highest attendance being six students and a grand total of twenty five attendees. Attendance is typically high during the first four weeks and trickles down to one or none by the seventh and eighth lab sessions.
Summer Staffing:
Staffing is complete. John has submitted his resignation as course coordinator/ staffing and a replacement is being sought. We thank John for his untiring efforts over the years that he has served in this position, to assure that course offerings were adequately staffed with volunteer coaches. John, you will be missed.
Disks and Badges: Bob
Nelson
All materials required are at the ready and in the cabinets.
Publicity: Lois Dean
Lois has done an admirable job replacing Fred Wooten gaining placements of our course offerings in the local print media.
SeniorNet Officer
Nominations for 2008
Bob Nelson accepted the leadership of the Nominating committee to propose a slate of officers who will assume the leadership of the Roswell SeniorNet beginning in January of 2008. Elections will be held at the September 2007 meeting allowing a number of months for the effective transition of power to the newly elected team.
Having concluded all the reports and new business agenda
items,
Respectfully submitted by
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