Minutes:            GDCCC GENERAL BOARD MEETING

Date:                November 8, 2005

Meeting Place: Moody-Williams Printing Company

 

The President, Art Thompson, called the meeting to order at 7:32 p.m.  There were 6 officers, 2 directors and 8 representatives present.

 

Handouts:  

·         Minutes from 10/06/05 GDCCC Board Meeting

·         Draft of the proposed Digital Projection Division rules

·         2006 Schedule

 

Officers’ Report:

·         Secretary: The minutes from the October 6, 2005 meeting were reviewed and approved.

·         Treasurer: We have over $16,000… still waiting for the seminar and DISP income/outgo to finalize.

 

Directors’ Report:

·         Prints – The final 2005 competition was last night.  EOY will be judged this Sunday.

·         2¼ Slides – (Joanne wasn’t present) Next competition Monday, November 14th in Toledo.

·         Color Slide – (Clint wasn’t present) Next competition Monday, November 14th in Toledo.

·         Nature Slide – Next competition is Thursday, November 17th at Motor City, not Avon.  Oakwood will be judging.

·         Website – Dennis Sauve is working on a forum and a gallery program.  It’s possible to have the web site “accept”, resize and save files in different sizes than what’s received, which could be useable for DISP, DPD and web display, but would be a re-save of a jpeg file, which could impact image quality….

·         DPD

-          At last Thursday’s test competition, Jerry Skiba brought his SPYDER II hardware and software and demonstrated calibration of a projector.  Judy and Joe showed images in several different sizes and resolutions, and lead the discussion until time for the competition.

-          The board voted unanimously to add a new division called DPD (Digital Projection Division).

-          Susan Browne proposed that we standardize on:

o        The same maximum size for both horizontal and vertical dimensions

o        100 DPI

o        jpeg compression ration 10 to 12

 

The motion was approved with one “no” vote.

-          Dennis Sauve was asked if he would be the new DPD Director.  He accepted and the Board approved.

-          A draft of the proposed Digital Projection Division rules was distributed and board members were asked to review them by the next meeting so that we can discuss the new rules, make any agreed to changes, and vote to accept them.

-          The DPD Committee will research laptop computers, digital projectors, projection software, calibration software, etc. and will make recommendations to the Board at the December meeting.

-          Mike Florian asked to have the GDCCC calendar show the DPD submission deadline dates as well as the judging dates.

 

Old Business:

·         Honors Committee – Only one form has been received from the clubs.  Ron Genaw and Bill Buchanan said they didn’t remember getting the form for Photo Guild.

·         Banquet – The GDCCC 2005 EOY Banquet will be held on January 28th.  Cost will be $25 per person.  Contact Muriel Berry for tickets. (Tickets were handed out to the club reps.)

·         Print Division “mat” rules change from October 6 meeting -- Larry Diggs asked about the timing for the Print Division matting rules change.  He wasn’t at the October 6 meeting and some of his club’s members have already submitted prints with matting for the next several meetings.  Will they have to withdraw and modify their entries?…. Judy said that Loretta had suggested an alternative solution that would let the individual club Print Directors carry the extra matting instead of the GDCCC Print Director – Starting with the 2006 EOY Print competition, have the club Print Directors bring all of their club’s EOY entries to the judging site and then take them back when they leave.  They would then be responsible for delivering their club’s winning EOY prints to the banquet, for putting them on the display racks, and for taking them home after the banquet was over.  Skip Moody moved that we rescind the Print Rules change from the October 6, 2005 meeting and that we implement Loretta’s recommended EOY Print handling for 2006.  Anita seconded.  The motion was approved.

·         Election of officers – The officer positions that are up for election this year are 2nd VP, Secretary and the 2 Directors-at-Large.  Clubs should ask their members for volunteers (especially for Secretary!!).

 

New Business:

·         2006 Schedule – Please review the draft handout.  We’ll need to add DPD competitions…. possibly on Nature Slide nights?

 

Next Meeting:  Wednesday, December 7th

 

Meeting adjourned at 8:56p.m.

Recorded by John Kroll