Minutes: GDCCC GENERAL BOARD MEETING

Date: May 12, 2004

Meeting Place: Moody-William Printing Company

The President, Art Thompson, called the meeting to order at 7:40 p.m. There were 5 officers, 2 directors and 5 representatives present.

Handouts:

o Minutes 3/30/04 GDCCC Meeting

o Hunt’s Photo, Video and definitely Digital – Club specials sale sheet

Officers’ Report:

· Secretary: The minutes from the March 30, 2004 meeting were reviewed and approved.

· Treasurer: No change since last meeting $10,651.72. We are looking at changing banks to one with fee free checking. Loretta Williams and Art Thompson to make change.

Directors’ Report:

· Print – 5/13 print competition at Livonia is the last competition until October.

· Color Slide –Next competition in September.

· Nature – No report.

· 2 ¼ Slides – Next competition in September.

There are still people entering in the wrong class. Directors need to make sure entries are correct to avoid disqualification.

· Website– is up to date. Clubs need to contact John Kroll with any upcoming events they are planning or give links for events on the club websites

Old Business:

· Study Group for Photoshop - Held first meeting with small group attending. They found the CDs to be very informative and easy to follow. We will begin the group in earnest this fall and will start at the beginning of the CDs to accommodate new attendees. We are checking on availability of Camera Mart for Saturday September 11 and September 25 for our next 2 meetings. The CD series is very user friendly and has a lot to offer to people at all levels of Photoshop usage.

· Historian: Joanne Snavely & Art Thompson will be meeting with John Kroll to get our Historical archiving project underway. Anyone interested in helping should contact Joanne.

· Updated Membership lists – Pontiac, Avon, Grosse Pointe, Windsor and West Oakland membership lists have been received. All other clubs, please email to Kathy Bolio at wbolio@bignet.net or bring a hard copy to the September GDCCC meeting.

· International Salon – The auditorium is being renovated at Oakwood Hospital, so we will need to rearrange some of the judging. Joanne Snavely is checking out what the possibilities for adjustment are.

· Virtual Salon – Dennis Sauvé has reviewed the software and found it would need to be massaged for GDCCC competition. There would need to be a test site to see how adjustments could be made. The project is too involved to allow for incorporation with this year’s International Salon. We will need to have precise determinations of how files are supposed to be sent to avoid problems with color spaces. Very possibly we could have this in place for next year. We will need to test across PC and MacIntosh formats due to differences in files. Dennis to work with John Kroll for setting up website & email for reception of entries. We will also need to set up a payment service such as PayPal. Bill Buchanan should have some more information on the process from the Florida virtual salon he participated in.

· Adray Photorama – May 14-16. Finalizing volunteers to work the Council booth letting people know about the clubs. Adray providing slide projector. Be sure to bring slides for showing.

New Business:

· Council competitions – It was determined that any club that entered a competition and did not win any ribbons could not claim that competition as a skip.

· Film & Equipment sales –

o F Stop Camera Shop at Grand River & Haggerty is having a sale on its slide film.

o Photorama – check the website for sales coming up in surrounding areas.

Next Meeting: Thursday, September 16, 2004

Meeting adjourned at 8:28 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Kathy Bolio, GDCCC Secretary