Minutes:            GDCCC GENERAL BOARD MEETING

Date:                September 7, 2006

Meeting Place:  Judy Yaker’s home

 

President, Art Thompson, called the meeting to order at 7:32 pm. There were 5 officers, 4 directors, and 5 representatives present.

 

Handouts:

·         Minutes fromApril 25, 2006 Board meeting

·         Constitution, By-Laws, Honors and Rules document

 

Officers’ Report:

·         Secretary:   The minutes from the April 25, 2006 meeting were reviewed and approved.

·         Treasurer:   We have $12,760.61.  Ribbons have been ordered.

 

Directors’ Report:

·         Prints:

The next competition will be September 20 at Shutterbug.  Shutterbug moved to Adams Butzell Rec Center (see the map on the GDCCC web site)

·         Nature Slide:

The next competition will be September 25 at Motor City.

·         Color Slide:

The next competition will be September 28 at West Oakland.

·         2¼ Slide:

Turn in slides by November 15 (can be delivered at CS or NS competitions)

·         Digital Projection:

The next competition will be September 11 at PPS

·         Website:

Minutes, constitution and maps have been updated

 

Old Business:

·         For the recommendation that we combine CS and NS competitions, Anita will plan the 2007 schedule with CS and NS combined and will change the judging time to 7:30 PM for the combined CS/NS competition.  DP and Print competition judging will still start at 8:00 PM.

·         DISP – John Kroll asked when the DISP presentation of slides and prints would be.  Only PPS had specific dates in the DISP forms.  No one was able to provide dates.  Ron Genaw is currently at the PSA Conference.  NOTE: Next year’s September Board Meeting should NOT be held during the PSA Conference….

 

New Business:

·         Tom Callen (WO VP) presented a survey of WO members that showed that the majority would like to have digital manipulation restricted for the Digital Nature Division.  Discussion included the PSA rules for Digital Nature, what forms of digital manipulation should be allowed (contrast, cropping, brightness, flipping, colors, converting a color image to monochrome…), which should be restricted (addition of individual elements, removal of individual elements), which needed more discussion (eliminating specular highlights, adding a light to an eye, removing a blade of grass or a branch or a power line), possible names for a new “Creative/Manipulated/Digital Art” category (we need a better word…), and whether manipulation should be restricted for MG and CG categories, too.

·         Dennis Sauve proposed that we limit the use of digital borders to 1 color, 5 pixels wide for Digital Nature.

·         John Kroll will prepare an initial draft of the Digital Projection changes that were discussed during the meeting and distribute it to Board members via Email.  We will then be able to continue the discussion via Email before the next Board meeting and hopefully be able to have fairly solid wording ready before the next Board meeting.

·         Reminder: The Honors nominations and nomination of officers processes need to be started in September.

 

Next meeting:    Tuesday, October 24, 2006 (at Judy Yaker’s home).

 

Meeting adjourned at 9:30 pm.

Recorded by John Kroll